Post iconic pictures/paintings from your country's history. Images that everyone in your country would recognize...

Post iconic pictures/paintings from your country's history. Images that everyone in your country would recognize. Feel free to give context.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Schumann?wprov=sfla1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_May_3,_1791_(painting)
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AVE IMPÉRIO

This has avoided a civil war

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Is that Pedro II?

Yes

everyone here knows this gaycunt

what does it relate to? could you say some more about this?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Schumann?wprov=sfla1

fausto was the one handing the bottle

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what's going on there? the one dude has a nice cape

>tfw no more westward expansion

We should keep expanding west until we end up back where we started desu

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_May_3,_1791_(painting)

the migration of the serbs by paja jovanović

apparently during the great turkish war (1683-1699) the turks became so bad that serbian patriarch arsenios III picked up like half of serbian nation that moved to hungary during 1690. little do 99% of the serbs know that there are multiple versions of the painting, that the painting itself was created as a propaganda tool in the struggle of the church to keep the cement plant in beočin during late 19th century (against serbian socialists, not against austro-hungarian or catholic institutions), and that the great migration is pretty much invented.

backstory? i don't recognize that one.

>King Stanisław August Poniatowski said the new constitution was "founded principally on those of England and the United States of America, but avoiding the faults and errors of both, and adapted as much as possible to the local and particular circumstances of the country."[76]
Sounds nice.

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lol yes haha, although I don't think that worked out well desu..

Well, the picture isn't really related to the civil war avoided but is the most famous pic of them
The Coppi vs Bartali rivalry is probably the most famous in cycling history, and cycling was HUGE back then in Italy
In the summer of 1948 there was the failed assassination of the politician Palmiro Togliatti, with Italy trying to recover from the devastation of WWII people are in an uproar, but at the same time there's the Coppi-Bartali rivalry at the Tour de France (Bartali won), the state and the media begin to give great emphasis to the cycling news and the people's attention moves on the bicycle race forgetting political tensions
The picture is from 4 years later with Bartali on a climb without water (no water on an alpine climb in july is like a ko punch for a cyclist) and Coppi giving him a bottle of water even if they are fighting for the victory (that time Coppi won)

Italians even change sides during Cycling matches

Brazilian Expeditionary Force

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tiddy

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But seriously this. Kek

It's the origin of the teddy bear. President Roosevelt, a prolific hunter, refused to shoot a bear that was chained to a tree. Someone made a toy bear to commemorate this and "Teddy's bears" became famous.

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Teddy was such a bro but also a lunatic

I really like the work he did towards the public land system and conservation. He was definitely a cool guy, though I think he fucked up a lot too and never gets called out for it.

Context?

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The Death of General Wolfe in 1759 at the battle on the Plains of Abraham (Québec) during The 7 years War (called the French & Indian War in the USA). General Wolfe died but before doing so led his army to victory. Basically it's the moment when what we now call Canada became British instead of French.

Truly an iconic piece of Australian Culture.

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What's going on here?

Its Goon of Fortune mate, the great Australian pastime.

Is it drinking out of a clothesline? Do you spin it and whoever it lands on drinks?

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Wow the General Wolf was a true badass.

Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks:

As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the sun and moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; emperor of emperors; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary knight, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ; trustee chosen by God Himself; the hope and comfort of Muslims; confounder and great defender of Christians - I command you, the Zaporogian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks.

--Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV

The Cossacks' reply came as a stream of invective and vulgar rhymes, parodying the Sultan's titles

Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!

O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil's kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck thy mother.

Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother!

So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won't even be herding pigs for the Christians. Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!

- Koshovyi otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian Host.

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He was, as was General Brock, another famous hero in Canada that fell in battle (War of 1812). Along with Arthur Currie (WWI) they make up Canada's most well known military leaders.

Best banter

>50 B.C.
>lorica segmentata

shit fucking painting m8

Even Asterix is more accurate

more or less yeah, but you also have to swear and yell a lot while you do it.

Fuck is that?

I hope you guys are the next superpower

Heath Ledger playing rapper R. Kelly

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Is this Prague Spring or something? What is this?

wrong one

yes it is

I don't honestly know what that is. Wasn't it just a rebellion against the Soviets?

I don't want to botch description of something that important so I'm using wiki:
>The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and continued until 21 August 1968 when the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw Pact invaded the country to halt the reforms.

>reminder the pic was a month after the battle and was 100% a staged photo op

Literally everything about the US is a lie.

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Sic semper tyrannis

beat me