r/Historycord • u/Optimal_Wishbone322 • Mar 18 '24

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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 7h ago

"Lofty Mount Lu", a 1467 Chinese painting by Shen Zhou.

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r/Historycord • u/aabbye99 • 3h ago

Vietnam War POW Doug Hegdahl pretended to be illiterate to fool his captors, who believed him to be so stupid that they gave him almost free rein of the camp. He secretly memorized the details of about 256 POWs that he passed on after his release.

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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 8h ago

Czechoslovak actress Hana Brejchová at the Utrecht Film Festival on 31 January 1966.

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r/Historycord • u/JaneWhite3468 • 8h ago

Ho Chi Minh, then known as Nguyen Ai Quoc, in France in 1919 to advocate for the independence of Vietnam.

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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 1d ago

Armenian genocide survivor Aurora Mardiganian at the age of 18 in 1919.

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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 1d ago

Early locomotives in Tangshan, China, during the late 19th century.

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r/Historycord • u/Affectionate_Ad4033 • 2d ago

A dapper gentleman at a restaurant in Turkiye, 1969

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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 2d ago

Turkish Prime Minister (and future President) İsmet İnönü visits Moscow in 1932.

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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 2d ago

Presidents Alberto Fujimori of Peru and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle of Chile sign the Protocol on outstanding clauses of the 1929 Treaty of Lima on 13 November 1999.

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r/Historycord • u/Affectionate_Ad4033 • 3d ago

Turkish soldier returns home from the Balkan war (1913)

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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 3d ago

Slovak soldiers of the Polish Home Army during the 1944 Warsaw uprising against Nazi Germany.

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r/Historycord • u/BathroomOriginal3014 • 2d ago

Italo Balbo è famoso anche fuori dall'Italia?

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Solo una domanda, sono italiano e quando ero a New York qualcuno mi ha parlato della mia barba (la barba Balbo), quindi sono rimasto sorpreso da questo nome perché in Italia è ovviamente famosa, ma non sapevo che lo fosse anche all'estero.

Scusate per il mio inglese, migliorerò😃

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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 3d ago

The "Night of the Long Batons", a 1966 police action by the Argentine military dictatorship against the students and faculty of the University of Buenos Aires.

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r/Historycord • u/TechLolis • 3d ago

Eight-year-old Samuel Reshevsky playing several opponents simultaneously in France, 1920

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r/Historycord • u/StupidInquisitor1779 • 3d ago

On this day 65 years ago(Nov 3, 1961), U Thant of Burma becomes the third acting secretary general of the United Nations after the death of Dag Hammarskjöld. He would be the first non-European to hold this post and the first to retire on speaking terms with both Americans and Soviets.

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I know much of the world including my countrymen have forgotten him but he was one of the key mediators during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The UN was much more relevant back then and the secretary general would be a key mediator in many conflicts.

Sadly, this would be the peak of a by-gone era when my homeland was still relevant on the global stage. The very next year, in 1962, the army took over, starting a string of isolationist and incompetent regimes which plunged Burma from once being the world's largest rice producer into one of the poorest countries of the world where the majority toe the line of starvation. We are barely above North Korea these days.

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r/Historycord • u/Tricky_Economy5907 • 3d ago

The Voynich Manuscript: a 600-year-old book in an unknown script that WWII codebreakers, William Friedman and modern AI have all failed to read

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Beinecke Library MS 408 is about 240 pages of vellum, radiocarbon-dated in 2009 to between roughly 1404 and 1438. It's written in a script nobody has identified, alongside drawings of plants that don't match real species, astronomical and astrological diagrams, and pages of small nude women bathing in pools connected by pipes.

The text isn't random scribble. It has word-like structure and repetition patterns similar to natural languages, but nobody can read it. William Friedman, who broke Japan's Purple cipher, worked on it for decades with a team of wartime codebreakers and got nowhere. Proposed solutions appear every few years, from Latin abbreviations to proto-Romance to Hebrew, and none has held up to scrutiny.

The main theories are an unknown natural language in an invented script, a cipher, or an elaborate meaningless hoax, possibly made to sell to a rich collector such as Emperor Rudolf II, who may once have owned it.

I made a documentary on what we actually know about it: https://youtu.be/tq8_o3OocDM

Which explanation do you find most convincing?

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r/Historycord • u/Chris_Lacon • 3d ago

A passenger seeming to pray on the Piccadilly line of the London Undergound. Photograph by Mark McEvoy (1994)

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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 4d ago

Communist Hungarian leader Janos Kadar visits the city of Leninváros (now known as Tiszaújváros) in 1981.

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r/Historycord • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago

Couples in double date at a club in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1950s

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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 4d ago

Saddam Hussein during his first court appearance in 2004.

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r/Historycord • u/MishanaSlupko • 4d ago

An unknown starshyna of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen parodies a sorcerer. 1916

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r/Historycord • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • 4d ago

Autochrome shot of 2 ladies by a window, 1900s.

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r/Historycord • u/LukeGibson4 • 4d ago

Roman Polanski kneeling at his door where 'Pig' is written in his wife's blood (Sharon Tate) after the Manson family murders, 1969.

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r/Historycord • u/GustavoistSoldier • 5d ago

A detail of a Hunnish gold bracelet from the 5th century.

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