/r/ImaginaryHistory
Artwork of the past. Places, people and moments that are based on real or alternate history.
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/r/ImaginaryHistory
It was the ones with the very cool, somewhat Disney-esque (in a good way) images, all by the same artist, of historical scientists and mathematicians including Albert Einstein (of course), Blaise Pascal, Hypatia, a rather dashing Wernher von Braun, and many more. They were sort of fantastical, looking as much like wizards as scientists in many cases, but not quite as over-the-top as those "epic badass US Presidents" pieces; anyone know what I'm talking about, and where the whole set could now be found?
Thomas Morton and his merry men drinking and dancing around the May Pole in Merrymount Colony late 1620s
In March 1675 while being held captive by native Americans during King Philips War, Mary Rowlandson crossed the Paquaug River. She describes indigenous women felling trees to make rafts and elders, children and captives were carefully taken across and protected from the rushing icy waters. They made it to the other side, and encamped in the Nipmuc town of Paquaug.
During the Salem witch trials Tituba testified that the devil offered her pretty things to hurt people in Salem Village, a yellow bird being one of them.