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Mildly Interesting

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Try posting it here. Whole group is historical drawings.

https://lemmy.world/c/historyillustrations

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Thanks! Cross-posted there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Cool comm, subscribed :)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago

This definitely more than mildly interesting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I feel like key parts of history happened between 1889 & 1968.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The missing Vichy period is sus.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

If we're talking about Paris, it wasn't part of Vichy France, but was directly occupied by Germany.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it all right.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

"Je suis Charlie."

😔

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is there a hi-res version of this somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

There's the book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23282027-750-years-in-paris

Not sure if it qualifies, but might help with finding.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is very interesting. Would love to see versions of different cities.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Detroit would be a bit of a journey:

Empty - Small Shack - Huge Skyscraper - Dilapidated Ruin - Empty.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Did the government in 1855 enforce that everyone combine their buildings and have the same facade?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It was a great year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is that Mary Poppins at 1600?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It could be a reference to 1572. The so called St Barthelemy Massacre.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Good eye!

I don't see an umbrella, though; she might just be jumping to her death.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Ship of Theseus am I right