20 Interesting Historical Photos (part 1)
can we get the perfume machine back pls
Perfume machine’s still exist in some trucker stops, fun fact.
Miss New Zealand is dead on the ground and Miss Cuba is looking at her like, “stay down, bitch.”
Romania, respectfully, what the actual fuck.
Please please we must celebrate that the magnificent woman married to the explorer in that immense coat was a fashion illustrator for Vogue named DAGMAR
There were three locomotives used in the film: one as “The General”, one as “The Texas” and one for a spare. The spare engine had been originally intended to play The Texas, but the engine that ultimately got that role was found to be in better condition. The spare engine played the role of the Union engine up to the bridge scene, where it played The Texas as it crossed the bridge.
For the scene in which The Texas crashes through the bridge, Keaton spared no expense, using six cameras and thousands of local extras. It cost nearly $50,000 at the time and was the most expensive single shot of the entire silent movie era. The Texas itself remained in the river until WWII, when it was salvaged for scrap iron.
In the train crash a dummy was used as the engineer. The looks of shock on the faces of the Union officers were real, because the actors who played them were not told what was going to happen to that train.
The General (1926) dir. Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
Fun little thing about medieval medicine.
So there's this old German remedy for getting rid of boils. A mix of eggshells, egg whites, and sulfur rubbed into the boil while reciting the incantation and saying five Paternosters. And according to my prof's friend (a doctor), it's all very sensible. The eggshells abrade the skin so the sulfur can sink in and fry the boil. The egg white forms a flexible protective barrier. The incantation and prayers are important because you need to rub it in for a certain amount of time.
It's easy to take the magic words as superstition, but they're important.
The length of time it takes to say a paternoster was a typical method of reckoning time in the Middle Ages. It's likely that whoever wrote this remedy down was thinking of it both as a prayer and a timespan and that whoever read it would have understood it the same way.
I wonder if this shows up in other historical areas besides medicine?
I ask because I have a very Italian, very Catholic friend who was once describing how she makes pizzelles. They’re cooked in a specific press, similar to a waffle iron, long enough to get light and crispy but not burnt, and in her own words: “I don’t know the exact time it takes to cook them in seconds, but I usually do either two Hail Mary’s or an Our Father and a Glory Be.”
I would be extremely surprised if medieval people didn’t use prayers while cooking. You don’t want to roast an egg for too long, have it explode, and get hot yolk in your eye. :P
I know that church bells were definitely used as timekeepers.
Before oven thermometers existed, one way to check the temperature of your oven was to stick your hand inside and recite an Our Father. The length of time before you snatch your hand out was timed by how far you’d gotten in the prayer. The shorter the time, the hotter the oven. So you knew that if you wanted a hot oven to bake bread, you wanted your hand out by “kingdom” (for example) but to slow cook a stew, you might want the oven cool enough to get to “trespasses”.
Feeling bitter about bottles in today's episode of Antiques Freaks
@wellntruly FUCK YEAH SAWBONES
All the great tastes that taste great together AND as a cordial to fix up yer dropsy!!!
badassindistress asked:
amarguerite answered:
Oh yeah! I got some Fabric Facts to share, all gleaned from the work of fashion historian Hilary Davidson, who made a replica of Jane Austen’s silk pelisse:
-Britain’s big fabric, as in the one that ever county in Britain made, was wool
- the best linen in the Regency era was said to come from Ireland
-the machine for making net fabric, which is often seen as a sheer, decorative overskirt or a decorative sleeve, over a dress of silk of muslin, was invented in 1808. Before that, there was only handmade net.
-Britain didn’t just import muslin from India. Other popular fabrics include printed and plain cambrics, ginghams, seersuckers, calicoes, and chintzes.
-one of the most popular finished clothing imports from India is the Kashmir shawl. It cost between 50 and 100 pounds in England. (No wonder Lady Bertram was excited over William Price’s going to the East Indies and possibly getting her a shawl)
-later in the period, Britain had machine-made muslin, manufactured within England’s shores, but people didn’t like it as much. You could tell the difference between Indian and English muslin, because English muslin is perfectly smooth and straight. Indian muslin was slightly unevenly woven because it was made by hand, which gives the cloth more body.
-since Indian muslins were packed along spice cargos in East India merchantmen, the muslin smelled like cinnamon, cloves, and other spices. This meant that in 1795 a book of trade secrets came up with a spice mix to rub into your fabric to trick people into thinking its Indian muslin instead of English.
Archaeologists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have decoded and recreated millennia-old perfume worn by the ancient Egyptians, perhaps even the famed Queen of the Nile herself, Cleopatra.
The recipe for the scents was drawn from a series of ancient Greek texts that speak of two Mendesian and Metopian perfumes. Along with a sprinkling of other fragrant oils and natural ingredients, the base note of the two perfumes is myrrh, a tree resin obtained from a flowering plant grown in parts of Africa and Asia.
“The Mendesian is myrrh based and has a very pleasant smell like a light incense. The other perfume, Metopian, is much muskier and harsher and actually my preferred perfume,” Dr Jay Silverstein, an archaeologist from the University of Tyumen who worked on the project, told IFLScience.
“While someone like Cleopatra, a known aficionado of perfume who would have likely had hundreds of perfumes, the texts suggest that the Mendesian would have been one of her most valued,” he explained.
i’ve been crying laughing over this for the past 5 minutes
This honestly reminds me of a show on the history channel where they spent like 25 minutes wondering how the sides of all the pyramids seemed to be perfectly divisible by pi or something, and people where theorizing about aliens and some lost form of mathematics, but then at the end they interviewed a tiered looking paleontologist and he was just like “maybe they just used a wheel to do all their measurements.” and the whole show just immediately collapsed.
can you imagine being so far up your own ass with conspiracy theories that you forget about circles
Historical footage of the last T-Rex serving his country in WWl.
But isn’t that a Jeep? And the T-Rex is holding a…Browning M2? Which wasn’t used until 1933…
So I think this footage is actually of WW2.
I’m living for this historical accuracy
Many people think it’s historically inaccurate because the Tyrannosaur doesn’t have feathers, but a buzz cut is pretty standard for military personnel.
@poshtearex we need an authority on this
Totally accurate except that that Rex is a bit bigger so it’s actually a female Rex so she may have been pretending to be a male so she could fight. What an icon she is.
A real hero
Important history
They leave all the important things out of the history books 😑
everything about this is fucking hilarious. i’m sorry, random pompeii man, but your death was some looney tunes bullshit and the framing of this photograph isn’t helping.
