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Lucas Cranach, the Elder, Portrait of Magdalena of Saxony, Wife of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, 1520 https://t.co/VOaKpbRLkB

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2022-05-11

Happy to share this painting from 3 years ago that I made for the Dark Ages Board Game.

Gero the Great, Count of Eastern Saxony (Germany), one of the playable historical characters you can choose to compete with for European dominion!

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2022-04-21

Journey of the Barong Tagalog, Addendum Part 15.7: 19th Century German Artist Illustrations of Life in the Philippines

The illustration here is titled Tagalen mit Kampfhähnen [Tagalogs with Fighting Cocks] published in 1864 from Gustav Spiess, the Merchant Delegate of Saxony.

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2022-03-30

When Augustus II of Poland dies in 1733, the question of succession comes up. The Sejm elects the French candidate Stanislaus Leszczyński (Louis XV’s father-in-law), but he is overthrown by the eastern powers in favor of Augustus of Saxony—the Maidan Revolution!

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2022-03-09

trying to find out if this macoto takahashi art is of an actual historical figure or just a made up 16th century princess of saxony... kinda looks like a mix of these three

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2022-02-25

Potoo - King Saxony Bird of Paradise

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2022-02-11

Born on this day: Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony (1805-1877)

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2022-01-28

"A Augusta Imperatrice de toutes les Prusses"
Lithograph by Faustin

"De cette roche Sans tréve comme le remord Entends-tu la plainte..."

History of the Franco-Prussian war 1870/1871

Augusta Princess of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach (1811-1890) Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia

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2022-01-20

Lucas Cranach, the Elder, Portrait of Magdalena of Saxony, Wife of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, 1520 https://t.co/VOaKpbRLkB

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2021-12-16

Friedrich Christian (1722-63), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, 1751 https://t.co/klQOqaeTng

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2021-12-10

Identical twins Elisabeth Ludovika (Queen of Prussia) and Amalie Auguste of Bavaria (Queen of Saxony), 1820s

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2021-11-14

Born in 1722: (1722-63), Elector of Saxony

Portrait by (1707-62), 1755

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2021-09-05

Not only did the Royal Bavarian army retain, like the kingdoms of Saxony and Württemberg, its own troops, War Ministry and military justice system, but it was also excluded from the Empire-wide regimental re-numbering of the army regiments

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2021-08-23

Smaugust 2021 - King of Saxony
Dipping into those wonderful Birds of Paradise. This fellow being the King of Saxony.

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2021-08-05

Lucas Cranach, the Elder, Portrait of Magdalena of Saxony, Wife of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg, 1520 https://t.co/VOaKpbRLkB

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2021-07-31