The Oath of Strasbourg, sworn on 14 February 842 by Louis the German of East Francia and Charles to Bald of West Francia to each other's armies to create an alliance against Lothair I. The oath contains one of the earliest written texts in French and German. Text and translation in comments.

埃苏丹闹麻了，土耳其一堆人上街

土耳其很神奇啊，历史上希腊文明 罗马文明 伊斯兰文明都在这里交融

Average Russian ideology

初中毕业偷了黑皮的车钥匙

想知道国内对台湾一些事情是怎么解释的？

The Oath of Strasbourg, sworn on 14 February 842 by Louis the German and Charles to Bald to each other's armies to create an alliance against Lothair I. The oath contains one of the earliest written texts of the French and German languages. Text and translation in comments. [500x1000]

The Uyuk Tarlak inscription, discovered in Tannu Tuva in 1888. It contains an old Turkic funerary inscription, likely from the 7th or 8th centuries, by a ruler of the Yenisei Kyrgyz people. Translation in comments. [1090x1152]

Excerpt from the Han dynasty civil case Su Jun v. Kou En, dated 3rd year of Jianwu (27-28 CE), recovered in 1974 from Juyan, China. The records for the case survived almost in full and provide a view into civil lawsuits of Han China. Translation of entire case in comments [687x1080]

Statue of Emperor Daowu, the founder of China's Xianbei-led Northern Wei dynasty in the position of a Buddha, Yungang grottoes, 453-495 CE. The statue is around 13.5 meters tall [1536x2048]

Outjerked

A real journal cover featured on a real chemistry journal

J-36 第二次试飞

China's J-36 Tailless Stealth Fighter Seen Flying For Second Time

Synbio people when they have too much time on their hands

不玩梗，认真思考如何进攻台湾

Least extreme biophysics phd

🇹🇼M60A3坦克升级

Taiwan upgraded M60 is spotted on road

中共在中东路事件中武装保卫苏联是不是叛国行为

Population comparison of the seven kingdoms at the beginning of Ei Sei's reign extrapolated from Han dynasty census: area is not everything, hence why the six kingdoms against Qin are not pushovers

🇺🇦无人机航拍哈尔科夫，基辅与利沃夫的乌克兰武装部队公墓

UA POV: A drone flew over the cemetery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kharkiv, Kyiv & Lviv

从俄国解密档案看孙中山联俄容共

Lithuanian soldiers enter Vilnius with celebration, 1939, after the city was transferred from occupied Poland to Lithuania by the USSR. Vilnius was Lithuania's claimed capital, but had been Polonized during the preceding centuries and during the interwar period was controlled by Poland. [1867x1308]

A time capsule inscription on a rock, 4th-3rd centuries BC, uncovered in Hebei, China, at the time part of the Kingdom of Zhongshan, written by two people to be read in the future. Translation in comments. [768x1024]

Hittite-language proclamation of King Anitta (r. c. 1740–25 BCE) of lost city Kuššara: Oldest known writing in any Indo-European language, Hittite belonging to the Anatolian branch thought to have split before the consequential Yamnaya culture spread late Proto-Indo-European far and wide [1477x1239]

Some interesting historical points: two actual songs from the Qin kingdom, one war song and one love song

登国十三年后，如何评价习近平的执政？