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Marina Amaral

28 Dec, 7 tweets, 2 min read

Demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station during Influenza Pandemic, Washington DC, USA, 1918.

(Colorized for The World Aflame).

Also available on Amazon US:

waterstones.com/book/the-world…

Original via Universal History Archive/Getty.

Lasting from February 1918 to April 1920, the pandemic infected 500 million people – about a third of the world's population at the time – in four successive waves.

The death toll is typically estimated to have been somewhere between 17 million and 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million.

Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_f…

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Marina Amaral

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28 Dec

Letter sent by Beethoven to a little girl in 1812:

“Do not only practice art, but get at the very heart of it; this it deserves, for only art and science raise men to the God-head.

If, my dear Emilie, you at any time wish to know something, write without hesitation to me... /1

The true artist is not proud, he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal; and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun... /2

I would, perhaps, rather come to you and your people, than to many rich folk who display inward poverty.

If one day I should come to [your town], I will come to you, to your house; I know no other excellencies in man than those which causes him to rank among better men; /3

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27 Dec

Colorized by me: Paris street in the June Days Uprising, Rue Saint-Maur, June 25, 1848.

The June Days uprising was an uprising staged by French workers from 22 to 26 June 1848.

Original via Musée d'Orsay.

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Colorized by me: Dreamland Park, Coney Island, New York, 1905.

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(Thread) Japanese tattooing, or irezumi (入れ墨), is said to have originated in the Jomon Period (10,000 BCE-300 CE).

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The museum's collection was put together by Fukushi Masaichi, a Japanese pathologist who even offered to pay for and finish the tattoos for the owners if they agreed to donate their skins upon death.