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Historical Artifacts

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Just a community for everyone to share artifacts, reconstructions, or replicas for the historically-inclined to admire!

Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

Generally speaking, ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world

Illustrations of the past should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world

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

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[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Petition to replace every confederate statue with John Brown and other abolitionist heroes.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Nat Turner with a middle finger and a rifle raises

[–] Numberone@startrek.website 3 points 4 hours ago

No, I just did a little dive myself and you're right that there isn't much out there describing this. My only source was that it was mentioned in the podcast I mentioned. I'll edit my post to include error bars. Thanks for pointing this out.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 5 points 5 hours ago

#JohnBrownDidNothingWrong

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago
[–] Numberone@startrek.website 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

The podcast "American Carnage" is a great journey if you don't know anything about John Brown. They mention this sword in the podcast, it's got a hollow compartment in it that contains liquid mercury. The mercury flows forward when it's swung in a slash, changing the weight distribution of the blade to kill the enemies of abolition with greater prejudice. Based

Edit: My only source for this was the podcast I mentioned, so take it with a grain of salt. I hope it's true though. It's such an interesting idea for a sword.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

You sure about that? I can't find any reliable source saying as much.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Old John Brown left Kansas
Before the blood had dried
And as he rode his head did shine
Like the sun in mid-July

In a tiny farm house
By Brunswick Piano
He warmed his boots by the fireplace
And read aloud from Samuel

'David rose
To beat the Philistines
With five smooth stones
And a sling'