#history

[blumineck]

"The problem with trying to be historically accurate, is that history doesn't care"

So much of the time we think of historical cultures as being very uniform, but people have always been weird, and our expectations of past behaviour don't always match the reality!

[assassin1513]

🌛🤎⚜️🤎Moon Bronze🤎⚜️🤎🌜

[hacash]

the terror's historical accuracy game's so good, they were referencing historical events before anyone actually knew they happened

[tinagodiva]

Castel Nuovo, Naples

[opencommunion]

"Israel wanted to force Lebanon to compel Hezbollah to hand over the Israeli soldiers unconditionally. The working hypothesis was classically colonial in the most banal sense: Hit the Lebanese state and people as hard as possible and they, 'who, like all Arabs, only understand the language of force,' would turn against Hezbollah in order to halt the massacre. This seemed even more likely when, in the words of a radio commentator, 'There is a Christian majority [sic] in Lebanon, which hates Muslims, and Hezbollah in particular.' This mixture of factual ignorance and misunderstanding of human behavior is staggering.

To launch an all-out attack on the whole Lebanese people, destroy a significant part of Lebanon’s infrastructure (Beirut’s port and international airport, hundreds of roads and bridges, a major electric power station, etc.), provoke the exodus of almost 1 million refugees in a matter of days, destroy dozens of villages and the southern districts of the capital, and massacre several hundred civilians, including civilians fleeing combat zones on Israeli army orders—to commit all these crimes in the belief that Lebanese resentment would turn against the Hezbollah militias, and not the Israeli army, is to engage in a particularly bad case of ideological blindness.

When it became clear that achieving the first stated objective—freeing two prisoners of war—was impossible, a new one was announced: the destruction of Hezbollah. But very soon, despite the tons of bombs showered on Lebanon, the Islamic Resistance continued to stand firm and gave no signs of caving in or being crushed. Day by day, the number of rockets hitting the north of Israel grew, including strikes against Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city. Twice, Israeli authorities cried victory before the outcome was certain. They announced the death of Hassan Nasrallah, described as 'buried under the ruins of his bunker,' and then they announced the destruction of the organization’s operational command. In reality, the massive bombings throughout Lebanon’s entire territory failed even to put a dent in Hezbollah’s operational capacities, with the possible exception of its long-range missiles, as a significant number was said to have been destroyed by Israeli aviation on the second week of the conflict. As a result, the official objective was revised for the third time—and on this occasion, narrowed down. Specifically, it became limited to preventing missiles or other rockets from continuing to hit Israeli towns and villages. But Hezbollah was able to continue to pound the north of Israel until the last day of the war. Finally, after failing to achieve the set of objectives described above, the government decided to continue its war with the sole purpose of restoring the Israeli army’s deterrent capacities, shaken by the Hezbollah combatants’ effective resistance to the offensive. Starting then, Israel launched a no-holds-barred onslaught, launching hundreds of tons of bombs, including phosphorous bombs and cluster bombs, and destroying entire villages, to show the world that Israel remained a formidable military power. In this respect above all others, the Israeli war concluded as a fiasco."

Gilbert Achcar and Michel Warschawski, The 33-Day War: Israel’s War on Hezbollah in Lebanon and Its Consequences (2007)

[undr]

Claude Renaud, Paris 1963

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe on a train to Alberta in Jasper, Canada, August 1953.

[cookiewishesyou]

On this September 23, 2024, Cookie wishes you a happy 177th anniversary of the discovery of Neptune by astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams, and Johann Gottfried Galle (1846)!

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

We’re going to keep on printing at the Pink Pony Club.

The electrotype (copy of a woodcut) of the horse was made in the 1890s and is from the Lewis Winter Collection. “Pink Pony Club” was typeset in 24 point Caslon metal type. This was letterpress printed with pink rubber base ink using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. Yes, these prints are available in our Museum Store!

[qsycomplainsalot]

[humanoidhistory]

Cosmonaut Aleksandr Viktorenko walks in space, 1990. Fellow spaceman Aleksandr Serebrov can be seen in the visor.

[melomancy]

Kate Bush, 1978

[memories-of-ancients]

Star shaped tile with Quranic inscriptions, Iran, mid 13th century

from The Art Institute of Chicago

[jstor]

In a post-truth world, where emotional appeal sometimes drowns out factual accuracy, the humanities are our compass. They help us question the narratives we’re presented with, cultivate empathy, and dig deeper into the layers of truth behind media, politics, and culture.

By embracing literature, history, and the arts, we enhance our critical thinking and foster a connection to the human stories that shape our collective experience. 💭

Check out our latest blog post on how the humanities equip us to navigate the complexities of a world filled with conflicting truths.

[tinagodiva]

Good morning everyone. ❤️

[john-william-waterhouse-art]

-The Awakening of Adonis-