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Digital colorist, history buff, bestselling author, Forbes Under 30, loves dogs and coffee, etc. #actuallyautistic

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Marina Amaral

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We give you this compilation in the spirit that we first imagined it: as a bright and colourful journey through a great historical age, in the company of some of the most brilliant people who lived in it. Welcome to  A Woman’s World: Marina & Dan

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6 years

Archeologist spends over 35 years building enormous scale model of Ancient Rome. Scale 1:250. Most of it is based on the Forma Urbis, a huge marble topographical plan made during the empire of Septimius Severus.

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Lepa Radić, 17-year-old Yugoslav partisan who was sentenced to death for shooting at Nazis. When she was offered a way out of the gallows if she revealed the names of her comrades, she declined, saying they'd reveal themselves when they came to avenge her death.

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Head of Dionysus, the god of wine, uncovered last week in an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Aizanoi, Turkey.

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Olga Gutmann Benário Prestes foi uma militante comunista alemã de origem judaica. Chegou ao Brasil em 1934, quando se casou com Luís Carlos Prestes. Olga foi executada em 23 de abril de 1942, com 34 anos de idade, na câmara de gás do centro de eutanásia de Bernburg.

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Tráfico de pessoas aparentemente não causa tanta revolta quanto um especial de humor na Netflix.

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Pastores brasileiros são detidos em Portugal acusados de tráfico de pessoas

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This is how Ancient Greece really looked like. Here's a reconstruction of Curetes Street in ancient Ephesus.

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Sophie Scholl was guillotined by the nazis on this day in 1943, at age 21. She was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group.

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🇧🇷 Thread. 1) Nessa sequência de fotos restauradas, é possível compreender melhor como funcionava o sistema de classificação de prisioneiros nos campos de concentração.

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This is the first photo I restored from a series taken by Alberto Henschel in Brazil before the slavery-abolition law. These will not be sold as prints but I'll make the whole collection available in high-resolution (for free) in case you want to use it for educational purposes.

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The National Museum of Rio is currently being consumed by flames. Over 20 million historical items are being lost before our eyes. I am so sad that I'm crying while I watch this.

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Cristão ou não, essa imagem do Papa Francisco sozinho em uma Praça São Pedro deserta é muito impactante e comovente.

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French soldiers, World War I.

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I colorized this photo over two years ago, but it remains one of my favorites. Banana docks, New York, 1900s.

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Pencil store in Iran

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World War II, restored and colorized. (via Knobbly Productions on Youtube)

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4 years

That was an unexpected find and I swear I wasn't even doing such a specific search. It's Tsar Nicholas II. Swimming. Naked. At Tsarskoye Selo.

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In 1871, a woman from Quebec hired a hearse with the sole intention of riding around town smoking in the coffin-bed while enjoying the view.

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Colorized by me: Abraham Lincoln.

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I'm excited to finally show you my new collection of colorized photographs - #DDay75 | June 6, 1944. Enjoy it, send me your feedback and if you like it, please share/RT. Thank you.

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Aerial photograph looking south over Manhattan, circa 1931.

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Oldest surviving pair of Levis jeans, 1879. Found in a goldmine 136 years later.

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🇧🇷 Thread. 1) Marilyn Monroe uma vez respondeu durante uma entrevista para uma revista americana quando perguntada sobre seus cantores favoritos: "Minha pessoa favorita, e eu a amo como pessoa e como cantora, acho que ela é a melhor, é Ella Fitzgerald".

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Today marks the 76th anniversary of the death of Sophie Scholl. An anti-Nazi political activist, she was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the LMU with her brother, Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine.

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On September 12, 1940, a French teenager took his dog for a walk - a simple everyday event, but it was to lead to one of the most stunning archaeological discoveries of all time. Robot, the dog, ran into a hole created by a fallen tree. Ravidat threw some stones into the hole.

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A First World War soldier's bedroom has lain completely untouched in his former home since he died from injuries 102 years ago.

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The Veiled Virgin is a Carrara marble statue carved in Rome by Italian sculptor Giovanni Strazza, depicting the bust of a veiled Virgin Mary. The exact date of the statue's completion is unknown, but it was probably in the early 1850s.

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Color photography *did* exist before WWI. Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky began his journey to document early 20th-century Russia in 1909. These were NOT colorized. __ Thread

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Winston Churchill got a prescription for alcohol to get around American Prohibition:

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3D portrait of Chopin created by artist Hadi Karimi, who uses photographs and death masks as references. Amazing.

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In 1959, Ronald McNair (then aged 9) refused to leave a segregated library in South Carolina without being allowed to check out his books. Police were called. In 1976, he got a Ph.D. degree from MIT. In 1986, he was one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

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Carolina Maria de Jesus e Ruth de Souza na Favela do Canindé. São Paulo, 1961.

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Vocês se lembram dessa foto tirada pelo Alberto Henschel que eu restaurei e colorizei? Pois é, alguém achou que seria uma boa ideia transformar o rosto dessa mulher escravizada, violentada, explorada e subjugada em imagem ilustrativa de lata de cerveja.

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3 years

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

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🇧🇷 Thread. 1) Estabelecido pelas autoridades da SS Nazista na Polônia ocupada durante a primavera de 1940, Auschwitz serviu originalmente como um campo de concentração para prisioneiros poloneses.

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Young Fidel Castro playing basketball, 1940s.

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6 years

The most intelligent picture ever taken: Participants of the 5th Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics, 1927. They are, among others: Albert Einstein, Marie S. Curie (the only woman in the conference), and Niels Bohr. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners.

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6 years

Queen Elizabeth banknote evolution

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3 years

Colorized by me: You might not realize it, but you must definitely know this girl. She would become known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, and would hold a Guinness World Records as the best-selling fiction writer of all time. This is Agatha Christie!

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Colorized by me: Boy seated in the wreckage of a building after a bombing raid of London during World War II. Photo by Toni Frissell.

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3 years

Can we stop for a second to appreciate the fact that a dog basically made one of the most impressive archeological discoveries of all time

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So yes, someone reminded me of one of the best photos ever taken. I mean EVER. Archduke Franz Ferdinand posing like a mummy during a trip to Cairo in 1896.

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Colorized by me: Young Queen Elizabeth. If you like it, please RT. Thank you!

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1) In 2016, I colorized Czesława's photo and posted it on social media for the first time. She was just 14 when she was murdered behind the walls of Auschwitz concentration camp on 12 March, 1943. Her photo is haunting.

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This 2,500-year-old female mummy is known as the “Ice Maiden". It is one of few in existence with visible tattoos.

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The most intelligent picture ever taken: Participants of the 5th Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics, 1927. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners. Marie Curie, the only woman, had won in two separate scientific disciplines. (Original by @SolvayGroup )

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Theodore Roosevelt's diary the day his wife and his mother died, 1884.

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Skull of a girl with a ceramic flower wreath, 300-400 B.C. Patras Archaeological Museum, Greece.

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Menina que criou biblioteca em favela rebate Crivella sobre ocupação em áreas de risco: — Senhor Prefeito, eu convido o senhor a conhecer minha comunidade. Eu, com 12 anos, fiz mais pela minha comunidade do que o senhor em todo o seu mandato."

Menina que criou biblioteca em favela rebate prefeito sobre ocupação...

A declaração do prefeito Marcelo Crivella de que cidadãos ocupam áreas de risco "para gastar menos com cocô e xixi", em relação às consequências das fortes chuvas que atingem o Rio desde o último...

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A homeless man in Brazil was rushed to hospital. These 4 street dogs he has been looking after are waiting at the entrance of the hospital for him.

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I don’t know anything about it, but I’ve always loved this photo so much.

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1,500-year-old ceramic Maya figurine with removable helmet. El Perú-Waka', Petén, Guatemala.

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This is how Ancient Greece really looked like. Here's a reconstruction of Curetes Street in ancient Ephesus. Ps: A peristyle house on the corner of Curetes Street is known as the brothel, because in the excavations, a statue of Priapus with an oversize phallus was found there.

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Japanese anti-British propaganda poster, 1941.

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“Do sports!” Soviet poster, 1963.

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Left: the artist Eugen Stepanovich Kobytev the day he went to the front in 1941. Right: in 1945 when he returned.

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Italo Gismondi, an archeologist, spent over 35 years building an enormous scale model of Ancient Rome. Most of it is based on the Forma Urbis, a huge marble topographical plan made during the empire of Septimius Severus. The model was commissioned by Mussolini in 1933.

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The Statue of Liberty's face before it was installed, 1886. also mood

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This 2,500-year-old female mummy is known as the “Ice Maiden". It is one of few in existence with visible tattoos. A team of scientists concluded that she had breast cancer in her 20s. It is also believed that she smoked cannabis to try to dull the pain.

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Meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the "Godmother of rock and roll". Tharpe was a pioneer in her guitar technique: she was among the first popular recording artists to use heavy distortion on her electric guitar. "Can't no man play like me."

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Statue of David by Michelangelo, encased in bricks to prevent damage from bombs during World War II.

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The shoe below was recovered from a Roman fort in modern-day Germany, in 1907. It is about 2,000 years old.

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Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy riding on the first desegregated bus, 1956.

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A man begging for his wife's forgiveness inside the divorce court in Chicago, 1948.

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Open air church service in San Francisco during the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic.

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When past and present collide...

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Ethiopian female soldier preparing to fight against Benito Mussolini's fascist Italy in 1935

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Four seasons on an island in Finnland

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(If you like this one, please share it!) Colorized by me: African American boys on Easter morning. Southside, Chicago, Illinois. April 1941. 📸 Original by Russell Lee.

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In 1889, the editor of a British magazine asked single women to write and explain why they were not married. "Because I have other professions open to me in which the hours are shorter, the work more agreeable, and the pay possibly better." — Miss Florence Watts, 29 High Street

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Female inmates of San Quentin State Prison.

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This is probably the only photograph of nine reigning kings gathered in the same room ever taken. They were in London for the funeral of King Edward VII. Windsor Castle, 1910. 📷 Colorized for The Colour of Time. Read and see more in the book!

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I wish I could do with the other registration pics what I did with Czesalwa's. This is a powerful way to build empathy with all the people who perished during the Holocaust. Perhaps you should express to Auschwitz Memorial what seeing this photo in color changed for you.

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Marina Amaral ( @marinamaral2 ) a Brazilian artist, an expert in colorization of b&w pictures, created a colorized version of the registration image of Czesława Kwoka. 4/4

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Thread: 7 ancient ruins around the world, reconstructed. 1. The Parthenon

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Em sua carta de despedida, Olga escreveu: "Quero que me entendam bem: preparar-me para a morte não significa que me renda, mas sim saber fazer-lhe frente quando ela chegue. (...) Beijo-os pela última vez. Olga Benário Prestes”.

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Young Farrokh Bulsara, better known as Freddie Mercury.

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Anita Leocádia, sua filha, nasceu em 1936 em uma prisão de mulheres chamada Barnimstrasse, localizada em Berlim. Em novembro de 2019, ela lançou um livro que narra sua trajetória, de título "Viver É Tomar Partido". Anita tornou-se historiadora e professora na UFRJ.

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This is the second photo I restored for my series "Slavery in Brazil". It was taken by Alberto Henschel in Recife, circa 1869. The photos were taken a few years before the Lei Áurea, the slavery-abolition law. Brazil was the last country in the Western world to abolish slavery.

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🇧🇷Faz uns dias que me recolhi e tenho estado um pouco ausente das redes sociais. Queria dividir com vocês o motivo, mas já escrevi e deletei várias vezes. Ainda que tudo seja muito novo, acho importante falar.

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Colorized by me: On the beach at Atlantic City, NJ, circa 1900-1905.

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I'm obsessed with the graffiti found on the walls of Pompeii. Vico d' Eumachia, brothel: "Gaius Valerius Venustus, soldier of the 1st praetorian cohort, in the century of Rufus, screwer of women." Guys, you haven't changed a bit.

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“(...) The women photographed here are members of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS). This was the largest women’s service of the war, (...) This photo was taken in December 1939, at which time Norma Quaye (centre) was the only black woman in the service.” - @dgjones

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I’m seriously terrified of this ghost town in Turkey:

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11,000,000 people were killed in the Holocaust. It did not begin with killing, it began with the rhetoric of hate. #HolocaustMemorialDay

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A moment away from happiness.

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This dress has been reassembled from approximately 7,000 beads found in an undisturbed burial of a female contemporary of King Khufu. Although their string had disintegrated, a few beads still lay in their original pattern on and around the mummy, permitting the reconstruction.

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Machado de Assis, 1885. Foto original por Marc Ferrez.

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#OnThisDay in 1960 – Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.

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Marie Curie in her laboratory in Paris, 1912. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields.

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Philip of Macedon sent a message to the Spartan army in 345BCE: "You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city." The Spartans sent back a reply: "If".

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Princesa Isabel na infância. Data desconhecida.

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I am particularly sad about Luzia, the oldest human fossil found in Brazil. She lived in south-central Brazil some 12,000 years ago and was such an important historical artifact. I can't stand the fact that we lost her.

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Drawings of the moon made by Galileu Galilei after observing it through his telescope in 1609.

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The boys discovered what were to become known as the Lascaux cave paintings – estimated to be between 17,000 to 20,000 years old and excitedly described by experts as “the cradle of art”. Over 600 parietal wall paintings cover the interior walls and ceilings of the cave.

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Today is a good day to celebrate the best art restoration ever made.

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Today marks the 75th anniversary of the death of Sophie Scholl. An anti-Nazi political activist, she was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the LMU with her brother, Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine.

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2000 years-old sapphire ring, which presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula. It's very likely that it depicts his fourth wife, Caesonia.

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