History Photographed is a social media community founded and operated by Eric Damier, the Founder of Moments in History.
The community was born in 2013, with the primary goal of sharing the most iconic and needle-moving moments in history, and a secondary goal of mobilizing and uniting a global family of history lovers.
History Photographed has since grown to command the second largest collective followings of any History community globally, with a combined 15m+ history lovers spread across our Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and mailing lists.
A key driver of this success is the fact that history is one of the most accessible topics of conversation globally, because photos of historical events do not discriminate. We use this accessibility to educate, spark conversation, and arouse the collective interests of our audience.
Moments in History is the next evolution of the History Photographed ecosystem. It is a metaverse project that will expand our history ecosystem, capitalizing on the enormous potential of Web 3.0, the blockchain, and the content creator economy. We are intoxicated by the community-building potential offered by NFTs and digital asset ownership.
However, Moments In History isn’t just an NFT project. It is a family. It’s a community of like-minded, passionate, innovative, and curious individuals, united by their shared love of history, and the ways in which our lives have been forged by the events of the past.
Our long-term goal is to collaborate with iconic businesses, projects and people that wish to enter the metaverse, allowing them to digitize and commercialize their IP in new ways.
We are dedicated to democratizing history – to giving unique, immersive historical experiences to people around the world, not just to those that can visit museums.
People with conviction over their ideas and the fortitude to see them through. Figures of mystique and awe that have stood the test of time.
Every owner of A Last Supper NFT gains access to a world of perks, benefits, giveaways, and more. Step Inside!
“The Greatest” “The People’s Champion” “The Louisville Lip”
Boxer, activist, entertainer, spoken-word poet and philanthropist.
Professional boxing record of 61 fights, 56 wins, 37 knock-outs and 5 losses. Gladiator in many of history’s most famous fights, including The Fight of The Century, The Thrilla in Manila, and the Rumble in the Jungle.
King was the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He led marches for desegregation, the right to vote, labor rights, and other basic civil rights. Most of these rights were successfully enacted into the law of the United States with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through unwavering nonviolent resistance.
Tesla was born in what is now Croatia on a summer night in 1856, during what he claimed was a lightning storm – which led the midwife to say, “He will be a child of the storm,” and his mother to counter prophetically, “No, of the light.” As a student, Tesla displayed such remarkable abilities to calculate mathematical problems that teachers accused him of cheating.
Read MoreGalileo, was an astronomer, physicist, and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa, in modern-day Italy.
Galileo has been called the “father of observational astronomy”, the “father of modern physics”, the “father of the scientific method”, and the “father of modern science”.
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter best known for her uncompromising and brilliantly colored self-portraits that deal with such themes as identity, the human body, and death. Although she denied the connection, she is often identified as a Surrealist. She was also known for her tumultuous relationship with muralist Diego Rivera.
Read More“The King”
Elvis Aaron Presley was an iconic American singer and actor. Dubbed the “King of Rock and Roll”, he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century.
His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, led him to both great success and initial controversy.
Best known for his WW2 wartime leadership as Prime Minister, Churchill was a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history.
Churchill remains popular in the UK and Western world, where he is seen as a victorious wartime leader who played an important role in defending Europe’s liberal democracy against the spread of fascism.
Cleopatra was an ancient Egyptian queen recognized for her political and military influence in a period where women often had no place at these tables.
She was part of a dynasty of Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy, who served as general under Alexander the Great during his conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C. Well-educated and clever, Cleopatra could speak various languages and served as the dominant ruler in all three of her co-regencies. Her romantic liaisons and military alliances with the Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, as well as her supposed exotic beauty and powers of seduction, earned her an enduring place in history and popular myth.
Honored by the United States Congress her as “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”
Supercharged the civil rights movement in 1955 with her defiant rejection of a bus driver’s order vacate a row of four seats in the “colored” section in favor of a white passenger.
Read MoreJoan of Arc is the modern-day name of a teenage woman who, driven by voices she heard, fought to drive the English out of France and crown Charles VII as the French king.
For her efforts, Joan was sainted and immortalized in French history as an iconic heroine.
Alexander the Great was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father King Philip II to the throne at the age of 20, and spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Western Asia and Northeastern Africa. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India.
He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered to be one of history’s greatest and most successful military commanders.
Monroe is an iconic Hollywood actresses, singer and model, overcoming a difficult childhood to become one of the most enduring figures in the history of the entertainment industry.
Despite being a top-billed actress for only a decade, her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2020) by the time of her death in 1962.
She was one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, and was emblematic of the era’s sexual revolution.