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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 1 points 4 hours ago

There were nit combs and the sort, but lice are extremely common in pre-modern populations of all sorts, high-class and low, clean and dirty alike.