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  2. Wikipedia:Historical portraits and pictures - Wikipedia

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    Medieval miniature of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.Useful as a historical document, even if it tells us nothing about what he really looked like. While most historical cultures didn't produce actual portraits, many did produce other kinds of depictions of individual persons, such as depictions of rulers on ancient coins, miniatures in medieval bookpainting etc.

  3. 30 Color Photos Photographers Took 100 Years Ago That Still ...

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    I don't know about you, Pandas, but I love period dramas. They're like a window into the past: we can see how people looked and lived a hundred or even more years ago. However, they're often just ...

  4. Historical figure - Wikipedia

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    Historical figure brand is using famous historical person in branding, for instance Mozartkugel, Chopin (vodka) or Café Einstein. Historical figure is a person who lived in the past and whose deeds exerted a significant impact on other people’s lives and consciousness.

  5. Depiction of Jesus - Wikipedia

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    While some Christians thought Jesus should have the beautiful appearance of a young classical hero, [24] and the Gnostics tended to think he could change his appearance at will, for which they cited the Meeting at Emmaus as evidence, [25] others including the Church Fathers Justin (d. 165) and Tertullian (d. 220) believed, following Isaiah 53:2 ...

  6. Ancient Egyptian race controversy - Wikipedia

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    The authors specified that “some ancient Egyptians looked more Middle Eastern and others looked more Sudanese or Ethiopians of today, and some may even have looked like other groups in Africa”. The authors reached the view that “Egypt was a unique civilization with genetic and cultural ties linking it to other African cultures to its ...

  7. Ancient history - Wikipedia

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    Ancient history covers all continents inhabited by humans in the period 3000 BC – AD 500, ending with the expansion of Islam in late antiquity. [1] The three-age system periodises ancient history into the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, with recorded history generally considered to begin with the Bronze Age. The start and end of ...

  8. 30 Significant Historical Events That Were Grislier Than ...

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    Not really history, as both are still relevant, but they are a lot less so these days: ... Also, most people doing the work were far from qualified to do the work, they were just slightly better ...

  9. Historiography in the Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The method used allowed us to look at basic texts of the same genre in different historical periods and to explain their popularity or unpopularity. Grundmann worked mainly with sources on German history. A kind of "historiographical explosion" followed. The bibliography of works devoted to Gregory of Tours alone exceeds 800 titles. [186]