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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 !historyartifacts@lemmy.world

Photos of ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world

Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (11 children)

It’s interesting because Star Wars saber battles were very clearly inspired by Samurai duels, yet if you asked me which one looks like a Jedi holding a lightsaber I would point to all the pictures of the European swordsman.

[–] jettrscga@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

THEY'RE THE SAME THING

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