And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Early 1500's how the Americas were conquered by the Spaniards. The natives were so freaked out they didn't quite get the story straight. This is "kinda" how it went, kinda.
Early 1500's how the Americas were conquered by the Spaniards. The natives were so freaked out they didn't quite get the story straight. This is "kinda" how it went, kinda.
ReplyDeleteIt might be a interior illustration from Verne's Robur the Conqueror
ReplyDeleteHe shoulda used a McGuire rig
ReplyDeleteAhhhh, so THAT'S how I got home Saturday night.
ReplyDeleteDespite anti-GMO protests Green New Dealers developed plants that would make ships (and pigs) fly.
ReplyDeleteThey look like plants, but they are propellors.
DeleteI think it is the flying island of Laputa from the third part of Gulliver's Travels, written by Swift.
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Further review....I agree with RickT
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Probably an illustration from a story about Frank Reade, Jr. More info can be found here: https://www.lileks.com/misc/frankreade/index.html
ReplyDeleteJules Verne novel illustration. “Robur the Conqueror”.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the lightning pirates in Stardust.
ReplyDeleteWhat's with all the chimney sweep brushes?
ReplyDeleteYou’re all wrong. It’s depicting Columbus discovering Hawaii?
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