In the 1850s, before it was denuded by archaeologists and the tourism industry, 420 species of flowers and plants grew on the Roman Colosseum — and every single one is catalogued in amateur botanist Richard Deakin's Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855): https://t.co/OEtpMfAJtM

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Nocturnal happenings for this drawings by Simeon Solomon. These artworks represent non-biblical, subjects after dark, and were all created in the mid 1850s. ‘The Haunted House’ and ‘Christabel’ illustrate poems by Thomas Hood and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. …

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Qing era jingal crew, 1850s.

The jingal was in essence a big ass gun that needed a stand (a role often played by an unfortunate soldier) to aim and shoot. If loaded with pebbles and nails, it could be turned into a massive shotgun. They could take up to four minutes to reload!

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Born Thomas Couture French history & teacher exhibited historical & genre pictures at Salon de Paris won several medals Innovative technique garnered significant & drew Government & Church commissions for murals during late 1840s to 1850s

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Green Standard Army soldier, 1850s.
By the 1850s, the Green Standard Army was a joke. To prevent individual commanders from accumulating too much power, the government broke up unit cohesion with constant soldier transfers. To no one's surprise, operational efficiency was ass.

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Furukawa River, Hiroo, from the late 1850s series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

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I could imagine this being a architecture nightmare

Prompt: A Fairest house, Agateware, by Aleksi Briclot, 1850s, Trending On Pixiv, MentalRay

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Happy This handsome fellow is Altmuehlopterus - a Late Jurassic pterodactyloid pterosaur from Germany. It's been known to science since the 1850s with an almost complete skeleton known!

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George Whyte-Melville, by James Tissot - Published in Vanity Fair, 23 September 1871

He was a Scottish novelist much concerned with field sports, and also a poet. He took a break in the mid-1850s to serve as an officer of Turkish irregular cavalry in the Crimean War.

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Some enhanced recovered photos of beasts roaming around the English cities, circa 1850s.

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Some enhanced recovered photos of beasts roaming around the English cities, circa 1850s.

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I need to draw 1850s scout he is my favorite thing ever he's absolutely gorgeous man!!!!!

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A Morning in June (1850s) by William Mason Brown

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The Duke of Newcastle hunting wild boar in the lands of the Abkhazian Prince Mikhail Shervashidze (Chachba), 1850s.

Painting by Scottish artist and war correspondent William Simpson (1823-1899)

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