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Artist is D. D. Ike
Illustrations of history
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The highest respected officials swapped with the lowest, serving maids became masters and a king of misrule was crowned. Although originally intended to be confined only to the hallowed halls of churches, the common people took it upon themselves to celebrate. There were parades, comic performances, costumes, cross-dressing, bawdy songs and, of course, drinking to excess.
Sounds like a holiday for Lemmy
Credit to chronicle - medical history
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Contemporary depiction of enslaved men rising up and killing their oppressors aboard a slave ship, illustration published 1840
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Roman fisherman being slapped in the face with his own fish after intruding on Emperor Tiberius's private island
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Roman legionaries using their comrades' shields as a boost to assault a raised fortified position
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