Just some photos from the Lions tour of New Zealand - the only Lions series win in history - on the 55th anniversary of the decisive 4th test, 14 August 1971

u/Brooklyn_University — 6 days ago

Reconstructions of Sacsayhuamán, The citadel securing the Inca capital, Cuzco (modern Peru), from its construction to the Spanish siege of 1536.

u/Brooklyn_University — 6 days ago
▲ 685 r/holdfastgame+1 crossposts

The Battle of St. Louis, May 26, 1780: Captain Fernando de Leyba, Spanish Lieutenant Governor of Upper Louisiana, rallies the defense of Fort Don Carlos against a British/Loyalist/First Nations assault (Mitchell Nolte)

u/Brooklyn_University — 4 days ago
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Calling all Alpha Legion players; rock up to your next tournament wearing these bad boys and make a statement: "I AM Alpharius"

u/Brooklyn_University — 10 days ago

Point/Counterpoint: "Bloodbath". Nazi propaganda depicting Britain manipulating France to take the plunge into WWII alone. French riposte depicting Stalin manipulating Hitler into invading Poland, taking the prize afterwards, and setting off to invade Finland (1939/40)

u/Brooklyn_University — 17 days ago

Italian take on the "hotline" between Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow and John F. Kennedy in Washington DC, May 1962 (six months before the Cuban Missile Crisis)

u/Brooklyn_University — 26 days ago

Design concept proposed by Sir Frederick William Trench, MP (architects Philip and Matthew Cotes Wyatt) for the Pyramid of London commemorating victory in the Napoleonic Wars, 1815. For budgetary as well as aesthetic reasons this was a non-starter, so Trafalgar Square got Nelson's Column instead.

u/Brooklyn_University — 1 month ago
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What might have been; design concept proposed by Sir Frederick William Trench, MP, for the Pyramid of London commemorating victory in the Napoleonic Wars. For budgetary as well as aesthetic reasons this was a non-starter, so Trafalgar Square got Nelson's Column instead.

u/Brooklyn_University — 1 month ago