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  1. A week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors succumb to the corrosive acid rain.

    theconversation.com/what-it-wo

    #dinosaurs #histroy #asteroid

  2. A grand abandoned palace, Poland.

    Over centuries it passed between aristocratic owners, each reshaping it to suit changing tastes.

    After a devastating fire in the 1800s, the palace was rebuilt in Neo-Renaissance style. Following World War Two it was taken over by the state and used as a school. The school closed around the early 2000s, leaving the palace abandoned.

    obsidianurbexphotography.com/r

    #Poland #Histroy #Palace #Abandoned #Urbex #UrbanExploration #LostPlace #AbandonedPlaces

  3. Excellent documentary on The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Soviet dissident.

    #documentary #histroy #literature #books

    youtube.com/watch?v=vw6QaYB4Obk

  4. A unique 3000-year-old hat made of horse hair.

    In 1953, when Donald John Mackay was out peat-cutting near Kirtomy in the old county of Sutherland with his 10-year-old daughter Babette, his spade brought up a curious mass of hair, bound into coils. Little did he know that he had just found Scotland’s earliest recognisable garment, a 3000-year-old hat made from horse hair

    nms.ac.uk/discover-catalogue/a #globalmuseum #hats #Scotland #histroy

  5. Until about 20 years ago, it was widely believed that civilization began with the Sumerians around 7,000 years ago. However, the discovery of Göbekli Tepe, located on the border between Syria and Turkey, has dramatically altered our understanding of ancient history. The oldest remains of Göbekli Tepe date back at least 12,000 years, pushing back the timeline of human civilization by several millennia #civilization #gobeklitepe #histroy

  6. @AnokheeTara @hastingsmothman I think most of my #Shakespeare knowledge comes from Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. I am a lover of #Histroy and #Walking too.