There are countless social media sites out there for the picking.
And as sure as you'll be able to pick up 87,000 pictures of One Direction in very slightly different poses, you can also find yourself some pretty awesome history posts too. This week, I wanted to share some of the fascinating, emotional and occasionally creepy history posts that I've found on Pinterest.
One in a billion....
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| From The Meta Picture via Erin McGuire |
Not just the Egyptians..
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| From The Meta Picture via Eizabeth Hough |
A US soldier mocks Hitler...
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| From Flickr.com via Talyn McFarlane |
Tallest man and shortest man in the world, with an average lady...
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| From Buzzfeed.com via Hailea Reign |
Graffiti in the Tower on London...
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| From Flickr.com via Charlie Haynes |
Intolerable Cruelty: In 1901 a woman in Poiters, France was found having been confined to her room for 24 years by her mother...
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| From imigur.com via Bridgette LaShae |
Damage to the Ribcage from Corset in 19thc London...
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| From fuckyeahforensics on Tumblr, via Bridgette LaShae |
Horses are for sissies....
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| From Buzzfeed.com via Erika Cucci |
Native American mother and child...
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| From Nikon David via Melanie Adamd |
St.Valentius (Wasselden, Germany). The town's church hold's the world's largest collection of fully articulated and bejewelled skeletons...
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| From Buzzfeed via NoGames216 |
Plan of Nippur. Perhaps one of the most ancient urban images at reduced scale. From the mid-2nd millennium BC
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| From Hilprecht Collection, Friedrich Schiller Universitat, Jena. History of Cartography, Vol.I, fig 6.7, via Marcy Ganow |
The Fallen of Mount Everest...
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| From Buzzfeed.com, via Carmen Elliott |
"Llullaillaco Maiden": a 15 year old girl who was sacrificed during the Inca Empire. It is thought as a mix of religious rite and social control. She was chosen a year prior to her death, fed a ritualistic diet to help her gain weight, drugged and left at the shine at the Volcano Llullaillaco where she died of exposure. Her body was preserved at 82 ft for 500 years and she is thought to be the best preserved Andean mummy ever found...
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| From TheLadyGoogle via Rebecca Lacey |
1900s Mother and Child...
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| from Flickr.com via Meredith Moran Coronato |
Daredevil...
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| Via Kris DayVincent |
I hope that you've enjoyed this instalment. Needless to say, we've barely even scratched the surface of what you can find on Pinterest, so why not take a look for yourself and share your favourite posts in the comments?
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