Historical Figures - Blog Posts

First, I was excited because she literally ended the Hundred Years' war.

Then, I was really mad because she was burned at the stake for that.

And now I'm fine again, because it were the English who killed her and not the French.

And she was declared a martyr, beatified and canonized later.

Just went on an emotional roller-coaster ride learning about Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc)

Historic Black and White Pictures Restored in Color

Women Delivering Ice, 1918

Times Square, 1947

Portrait Used to Design the Penny. President Lincoln Meets General McClellan – Antietam, Maryland ca September 1862

Marilyn Monroe, 1957

Newspaper boy Ned Parfett sells copies of the evening paper bearing news of Titanic’s sinking the night before. (April 16, 1912)

Easter Eggs for Hitler, c 1944-1945 

Sergeant George Camblair practicing with a gas mask in a smokescreen – Fort Belvoir, Virginia, 1942

Helen Keller meeting Charlie Chaplin in 1919

Painting WWII Propaganda Posters, Port Washington, New York – 8 July 1942

Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge ca 1935