this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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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 [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dude’s casually picking up a 300 lb stone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Marble is relatively light - that might 'only' be 150 lbs or so!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Depending on how violent that stone breaking is gonna be, kinda like sitting on a tree limb you're currently cutting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's a lovely picture, but I wonder how closely the artist studied actual quarrying techniques from the time period...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

And their work conditions where still better than mine. No fumes. There's still dust, but in an open-space.

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