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Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to [email protected]

Photos of ruins should go to [email protected]

Photos of the past should go to [email protected]

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[–] PugJesus 4 points 2 months ago

You can see a Roman depiction of a slinger auxiliary with that rock-cradle thing on the Column of Trajan

Not sure what the reason is, but I imagine there must be some advantage. Speed of reloading, maybe?