At least as far back as the ancient civilizations, skywatchers have noticed that specific star formations look like ladles or dippers–devices used for drinking. Drinking from ladles was especially common among rural people and fieldhands. A ladle or dipper – image from Amazon The constellation of the Big Dipper looks almost exactly like the above…
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Paintings that Depict The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad by Charles T. Webber “The Underground Railroad, also called Fugitives Arriving at Levi Coffin’s Indiana Farm, a Busy Station of the Underground Railroad, is the best known of artist Charles T. Webber‘s paintings. The painting shows a large family of escaped Southern slaves being received in the Northern winter by a group of white…