Revival History

🕯️ 1979 — HOW THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION CHANGED DAILY LIFE One revolution. One new government. And a transformation that reshaped Iranian society for generations. 📍 A NATION AT A TURNING POINT In 1979, Iran experienced one of the most significant political changes in its modern history. After years of growing opposition to the monarchy of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a revolution led to the establishment of the Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The change affected politics, education, culture, and everyday life across the country. 📚 ROOTS OF A NEW VISION Long before the revolution, Khomeini had developed strong views about the role of religion in public life. He believed that society should be guided by Islamic principles and that government institutions should reflect those values. His ideas gained support among many Iranians who wanted political and social change. 🏛️ REBUILDING THE STATE Following the revolution, new policies were introduced throughout government institu...

Statue of Heracles (Hercules) and his son Telephos The statue group of Heracles (Hercules) and his son Telephos, exhibited at the Eskişehir Eti Archaeology Museum, is an important Roman-era artifact from the ancient Phrygia region (near Seyitgazi/Nakoleia). It dates from the Roman Imperial period (generally around the 2nd century AD), possibly a copy or adaptation of a Hellenistic original. Heracles, son of Zeus, is a demigod hero. He is known for completing the famous 12 labors (recognized by the Nemean lion skin, club, etc.). Telephos is Heracles' son. His mother is Auge (priestess of Athena), daughter of Aleos, king of Tegea. The king, believing that the child his daughter would give birth to would endanger the kingdom due to a prophecy, ordered the baby to be abandoned. Telephos was abandoned on a mountain and raised by being suckled by a deer.  Heracles finds and rescues his son (or in some versions, events unfold involving Heracles himself). It is exhibited at the Türkiye...

On September 17, 1862, the Battle of Antietam raged near Sharpsburg, Maryland , leaving nearly 23,000 men dead or wounded in a single day . As the sun set on that horrific battlefield, the Union Army's medical supplies were utterly exhausted. Into this chaos arrived Clara Barton, a former Patent Office clerk who had fought for permission to bring aid to the front lines . She arrived by wagon with critical supplies that she had gathered herself, finding surgeons with nothing left to work with. Dr. James Dunn, a Union surgeon, later wrote that she was the "true heroine of the age—the angel of the battle-field" . Barton worked through the night, using her lanterns and bandages to assist in operations and feed the wounded . In perhaps the most astonishing moment of her night, a bullet passed through her dress sleeve, killing the soldier she was treating. She simply kept working. What historians often skip is her sheer grit in getting there. She had to command a team of mutino...

📌 In Greek mythology, Priapus was a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. Priapus is marked by his oversized, permanent erection, which gave rise to the medical term priapism. He became a popular figure in Roman erotic art and Latin literature, and is the subject of the often humorously obscene collection of verse called the Priapeia.

🇬🇧 The Oldest Recorded Romantic Kiss Happened in the Middle East. Humanity’s earliest record of kissing dates back about 4,500 years in the ancient Middle East, 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers. Scientists have highlighted evidence that suggests kissing was practised in some of the earliest Mesopotamian societies and documented in ancient texts from 2500BC that have been largely overlooked. In an article, researchers also cited evidence that kissing may have contributed to the spread of orally transmitted diseases such as cold sores. Although research had suggested that friendly or familial kissing was a common behaviour between humans across time and geography, romantic-sexual kissing was not thought to be culturally universal.

God Dionysos riding on a panther. Floor mosaic. Hellenistic Period, ca. 120—80 BC. Delos, Greece, House of the Masks.⁣ Dionysus, or Bacchus, was regarded by Greeks and Romans alike as the god of wine and vineyards. In his more extended meaning he represents the blessings of the autumn. It is he who causes the fruits to ripen for the use of man ; it is likewise he who dispenses to mankind all the advantages of civilization and refinement, and of well-ordered political affairs.⁣ ⁣ Thebes was described as the birthplace of the god. His mother was Semele, the daughter of Cadmus, whom Zeus, the great god of heaven, honored with his love.⁣ ⁣ Dionysus, after growing up amidst the solitude of the forest and strengthening himself by his contests with its wild beasts, at length planted the vine. Both the god and his attendants soon became intoxicated with its juice ; after which, crowned with wreaths of laurel and ivy, and accompanied by a crowd of nymphs, satyrs, and fauns, he ranged the woods,...