For 600 years, the only way to reach these monasteries was to climb into a net and let monks haul you, by hand, hundreds of metres into the sky…

The place is Meteora, which means suspended in the air, where enormous pillars of sandstone rise straight out of the plain of… pic.twitter.com/nGgr4t2SoX

— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) May 28, 2026

He survived pogroms, fled the Russian Revolution, escaped Nazi-occupied France, and lost his beloved wife. And through all of it, Marc Chagall kept painting.
Born in 1887 in Vitebsk, Belarus, Chagall grew up in a Hasidic Jewish family in a small shtetl. That world, with its… pic.twitter.com/djTbJXKgJA

— j wall ✡ (@jwhaifa) May 26, 2026

The Black Death arrived in England in 1348. Within two years, somewhere between a third and a half of the population was dead.

The peasants who survived noticed something within a generation.

There was nobody left to work the fields. The labour shortage was so severe that… pic.twitter.com/Fm7OllhRrV

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) May 23, 2026