Those are lovely!
This type of recreation is really cool. Illustrations and 3D digital models are cool, but remaking clothes, objects and even food is another level.
The man who sold the Eiffel Tower:
ETA
And the beat goes on it’s still turnin’ since the world was burnin’… or however that all goes.
Sound familiar, maybe sorta kinda?
Organised and carried out the theft of the Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen from Castle Visegrád ago and smuggled it across the Danube to Austria and Elizabeth of Luxembourg, 585 years ago.
Merneith - Regent of Egypt during the First Dynasty, ca. 2965 BCE, after her husband King Djet passed and while their son King Den grew up. Djet was only the fourth king of a newly-unified Egypt.
Sobekneferu - Ruled as the last king of the 12th Dynasty after her brother, Amenemhat IV died without an heir. Part of a statue shows her wearing a king’s kilt over a queen’s gown, with a king’s dagger in the belt. She used feminized forms of the traditional kings’ titles - The Female Horus, Lady of the Two Lands, ('steada Lord of the Two Lands) ferinstance.
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt: Cooney, Kara: 9781426220883: Amazon.com: Books
Hatshepsut - I wish more ancient historians and art historians discussed and emphasized the sweeping changes and innovations in art which took place during Hatshepsut’s reign.
Amazon.com : Hatshepsut from Queen to Pharaoh edited by Catharine H. Roehrig, with Reneé Dreyfus and Cathleen A. Keller
Academic catalogue accompanying the acclaimed exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Bonus: Edited by women, and most of the contributed papers were written by women.
Hatshepsut by Evelyn Wells | eBay
An older (1969) but still fascinating work by a woman journalist
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
Ah, thanks, this reminds me. I’ve been meaning to post this. They’re only up to L now, though:
Chinggis Khan gets all the press; not nearly enough of it focusses on his great strategist Subodei.
If he and RFK Jr were to ever invite you to a picnic, you would be wise to decline.
General Brock gets all the fame, not one in ten thousand has heard of Macdonnell.
Eh, I’ll just bring a packet of
and go easy on the dihydrogen monoxide.