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Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world

Photos of ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world

Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why so high up? No backsplash?

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When you're under siege, you wouldn't want someone poking your anus. Though at that time there probably were some pretty good marksmen.

[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Very good point.