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I like tv shows like Oz, Twin Peaks, Breaking Bad, Justified, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Game of Thrones, Battlestar Galactica, Black Books, The Shield, The IT crowd, The Wire, Community, Supernatural, the Monty Pythons flying circus...
Currently reading A Song of ice and fire
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Parallèlement au système MBTI des types de personnalité, il existe un autre système appelé “l’ennéagramme”. Alors que le premier catégorise...
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noworseforwear a demandé : would you please ID the snakes on my last post? :3 thanks in advance sugarbutt
Snake ID
This seems to be one of those images that has been floating around the internet without any context. I have to ID this without...
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Suzaku 萌の朱雀 (1997)
Suzaku is a film by Naomi Kawase. Don’t quite recall how I came by this film, so when I first began...
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This is Rose Valland, one of the heroes of Nazi-Occupied France. An employee of the Louvre, she kept records of the art stolen by Nazi officers- what was taken, from where, and by who. She was instrumental in the postwar return of countless stolen pieces, and one of the most decorated women in French history.
“some historians think that michelangelo was drawing god in a human brain. very few people knew what one looked like at the time; but michelangelo had dissected cadavers and would have known. it even has the hint of a brain stem. if true this would have been a great “fuck you” to the pope whom he was not friendly with but also would have meant god was in a human brain, or created by man.”
Interesting.
also michelangelo painted a baby angel flipping off the pope
the blond one, you see his right hand? that’s called the fig and it’s an old world european gesture for ‘fuck you” because apparently Pope Juluis II was a total raging asshole and everyone hated him
but nobody ever noticed this little fucker because the ceiling was so high
and then thirty years later they called michelangelo back to paint the wall behind the altar and he wasted no time in painting the gates of hell behind the pope’s chair
what a badass
**RENAISSANCE PAPACY HIJACK**
Julius II was a baddass on his own right bro
If everybody hated him it was simly because he took nobody’s shit aw yeah France!??! The Empire!??! who gives a shit about ur armies I’m the fucking Pope
He both dismantled the micro-net of power built inside the church by Alexander I/Rodrigo Borgia and imposed himself between the game France and the Empire had been playing on the church’s italian lands for years
ps.: he did it not only by being a great politician but also by wearing a fucking armor and riding off to battle sometimes. Yeah the pope put on his silver armor and lead his swiss guard into battle. That’s how he rolled.
And he and Michelangelo had an extremely troublesome relationship but respected each other immensely as well; My guess is that Julius II was too smart to let petty fights counterbalance the immense glory that could be achieved for the church with Michelangelo’s work. Though maybe he did miss the fig idk I recall reading somewhere that Michelangelo had called him worse things to his face?
Hijacking a Michelangelo thread to talk about my favorite historical pope?
Amen, bro
We don’t have a lot of pictures of this fine man, but he’s been my favourite history crush for years and I’ve never needed a pretty face to go along with his kickass story.
Étienne Brûlé was Samuel de Champlain’s interpreter, and is considered to be Canada’s first coureur des bois. With Huron, Brûlé travelled throughout Ontario, seeing sights not seen by any Europeans before: Lake Nipissing, Georgian Bay, French River, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Michigan, and countless more.
This man is a great example of the handful of Europeans who weren’t just into Canada for a passage to China. Brûlé devoted his time to learning the Huron language, and when Champlain got nervous about his friendship with the Huron and sent him back to France, he just came back with the English.
Unfortunately, Brûlé was eventually killed by a tribe of Huron, after a miscommunication. He never left any personal records, but left a lasting legacy anyway, of the first runner of the woods, who loved running those woods more than anyone else.
Painting by F.S. Chaneller
“The idea that men are naturally more interested in sex than women is ubiquitous that it’s difficult to imagine that people ever believed differently. And yet for most of Western history, from ancient Greece to beginning of the nineteenth century, women were assumed to be the sex-crazed porn fiends of their day.”
“Their sexual passion was seen as a sign of their inferior morality, reason and intellect, and justified tight control by husbands and fathers. Men, who were not so consumed with lust and who had superior abilities of self-control, were the gender more naturally suited to holding positions of power and influence.”
“The story of how this stereotype became reversed is not a simple one to trace, nor did it happen evenly and all at once (…) Protestant ministers whose congregations were increasingly made up mainly of middle-class white women probably saw the wisdom in portraying their congregants as moral beings who were especially suited to answering the call of religion, rather than as besmirched seductresses whose fate was sealed in Eden.”
“By positioning themselves as naturally chaste and virtuous, Protestant women could make the case for themselves as worthy moral and intellectual equals. They could carve out a space for themselves to participate in political life as social reformers advocating for moral causes like charity for the poor and prohibition.”
“And in an era when men could legally rape their wives (an era which did not end in the US until 1993), women’s supposed passionlessness provided at least some limited grounds for them to abstain from unwanted sex with their husbands.”
“Womens’ supposed greater sex drive was an argument for their inferiority, but once the assumption became reversed, no one argued that mens’ lustfulness was a sign of a fundamental irrationality that should preclude them from business and politics. Rather than a handicap, a large sexual appetite was positive once it came to be seen as a characteristic of men.”
“But perhaps the longest-lasting consequence of the rise of the passionless woman was the ushering in of a sneakier type of sexism (…) Women are smarter, more responsible, more caring and upstanding; not like men, whose instincts are base and appetites carnal. Since men are utterly unfit for helping to raise their own children (as they are little more than children themselves), that job must fall to women.”
“The association of men with lust is as much an artifact of recent times as the association of girls with pink and boys with blue (less than 100 years ago, this system of gendered color-coding was also reversed). Yet even with all this switching-around, some things have stayed suspiciously the same.”
“When women were sexual, their proper place was in the home as caregivers and mothers. When women became passionless, their proper place was still in the home as caregivers and mothers. Isn’t it funny how that works?”
Henry Lincoln Johnson (1897-1929) was a sergeant of the 369th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters, during WWI. The first African-American regiment to be sent to Europe as part of the American Expeditionary Force, the 369th on the whole did some pretty badass stuff. During one battle, the regiment advanced ahead of its French counterparts on both flanks and risked being cut off; by the time the 369th managed to regroup and pull back, it had advanced fourteen kilometers ahead of the French through serious German resistance.
Sgt. Henry Lincoln Johnson became one of the regiment’s most celebrated members when he came under attack from an enemy patrol while on guard duty on May 14, 1918. Armed with only his rifle and a bolo knife (a machete-type knife originally used as a farming tool in the Philippines), many lesser men might have retreated or called for reinforcements. However, Sgt. Johnson wasn’t going to let something like a twenty-four man German Patrol get in his way.
Sgt. Johnson proceeded to single-handedly fight off the enemy patrol, despite serious injuries, and rescued his comrade (and fellow historical hottie) Pvt. Needham Roberts from capture, along with saving the lives of countless other soldiers in the process. This earned him the nickname “The Black Death” and earned him the first Croix de Guerre ever awarded to an American soldier by the French government.
Tragically, Sgt. Johnson died young and destitute in 1929 at a Veteran’s Hospital in New Lenox, Illinois with no official recognition from the US military. However, in 1996 he was posthumously awarded a Purple Heart by President Clinton and in 2003 a Distinguished Service Cross (the second highest award in the US Army) was presented to his son Herman A. Johnson—who was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen and something of a badass in his own right—on behalf of his father.
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Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a truly extraordinary woman.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/a267e436b5eda1885acf71d440d4465c/tumblr_mifwcaflht1r50k9co1_400.jpg)
Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a truly extraordinary woman.
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This is Inez Millholland, a suffragist from the 1920’s. On top of being super attractive, she literally gave her life for American suffrage. She had a type of anemia, where she suffered from depression, and extreme exhaustion. While she was on a speaking tour of the West, she decided to give a speech, while she was exhausted, and in need of medical attention. Her final public words were “Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?” She also lead the first suffrage parade in Washington D.C in March 1913 dressed in white while riding a white horse. She became a martyr for suffrage, and my #1 history crush!
Jean Moulin (1899-1943) was a leader of the French Resistance during World War II. In June 1943, he was arrested in a suburb of Lyon, interrogated and tortured by Gestapo leader Klaus Barbie in Lyon and Paris. He never revealed anything to his captors and subsequently died near Metz on a train to Germany. Many historians believe that Klaus Barbie personally beat Moulin to death.
Today, Moulin is the most recognizable face of the French Resistance and honoured as a national hero and martyr.
Ukichiro Nakaya born July 4, 1900
This stud studied snowflakes, living on mountains around Japan during his studies, and eventually created the first artificial snow crystal. He was also a profound artist of sumi-e later in life*
p.s Nakaya’s daughter, Fujiko Nakaya, followed her fathers footsteps, in a way, inventing the art form of fog sculpting. Fog, Snowflakes. heh
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George Takei at Rohwer Camp in Arkansas, where he and his family were imprisoned during World War II.
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Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let’s Unpack That.
As someone who originally trained as a social historian of the Medieval Period, I have some things to add in support…
Mabel Hampton (1902-1989)
Lesbian activist, dancer and philanthropist.
click on the image to see more images and read about her life.
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The forgotten people of China
Many people are unaware of the “other” people indigenous to China. There’s 56 recognised ethnic groups in China. Mandarin speaking Han people make up the largest ethnic group in China. However there are still people of other ethnic groups with their own customs, cultures, languages and dress. Each culture is unique in it’s own way, some completely breaking out of the stereotype of Chinese culture.
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So there was this portuguese diplomat called Aristides de Sousa de Mendes that no one knows about and that saved thousands of lives in the Nazi time.
Sousa Mendes was married to his cousin and had 14 children he was like very rich and important and had a heart from the size of the world. He was working in Paris and he disobeyed the orders from his president and signed Visas to refugees. To be more precise he worked day and night without barely eating and without sleeping to sign hundreds of visas and never stopped again. In just a few months Sousa Mendes issued an estimated 30,000 visas to Jews and other persecuted minorities. According to him he would grant visas to everyone in need, at whatever cost to himself. He befriend a jew rabi who helped him in his mission. (and his wife too helped him a lot, they had 14 children!!! awww, love~).
Do you think he stayed in Paris? No. He went travelling to where people needed visas.
Cit Wikipedia: “Working feverishly with Rabbi Kruger, the two remaining Sousa Mendes sons and their mother, and a few refugees, the consul formed an assembly line that processed visas all through that day and well into the night. They made whatever changes were necessary to the usual procedure: the consul signing with just his surname, not registering the visas or collecting fees, and stamping visas on pieces of paper. The sense of urgency was heightened even more when Marshal Philippe Pétain announced that day that France would sign a peace agreement with Germany. The assembly line kept working all through the following day. A delegate of the House of Habsburg, after having to wait his turn in the seemingly endless line, left with 19 visas for the imperial family of the Archduke, who later returned in person to obtain an additional stack of visas for Austrian refugees.
On into June 19, the assembly line marched on through stacks and stacks of visas, even as the city was bombed by German planes. At this point, Sousa Mendes rushed to the consulate at Bayonne, near the Spanish border where his visas were being honored for the crowds rushing out of the country. Finding that consulate overwhelmed, he took over responsibility from his subordinate there, Consul Machado, and set up a second assembly line to process thousands more exit documents.”
Then he went to Hendaye and Irun. He even used his own car to transport refugees! This act of extreme kindness cost him everything. His president Salazar removed him from his position, forbid him to practice his job(lawyer) and did the same with ALL his family, forbidding his children to attend college, his brother was fired and Salazar left him in misery removing all his money and houses and ordering that no one in Portugal show him any charity, not even friends or family or they would be severely punished.
So the only ones who helped him were a local Jewish refugee agency — which had begun to feed the family and pay their rent upon discovering the situation — the children moved to other countries in search of opportunities they were now denied in Portugal, though all accounts by them indicate they never blamed their father or regretted his decision. His wife, Angelina, died in 1948 (he really loved her since their childhood and he never discriminated her by her gender treating her as his equal). Stripped of his pension, he died in poverty on April 3, 1954, still in disgrace with his government.
He died completely alone despised by his colleagues, friends and family like he had done something really wrong. He had a stroke before and had a frail health and STAYED COMPLETELY ALONE UNTIL HIS DEATH. None of his children came back to see him and only a niece went to visit him sometimes.
This man who saved thousands of lives and risked his own life and the life of his own family to do it, this man with a heart of the size of the world was FORGOTTEN. Everyone knows who Schindler was and even made a movie about him, a guy who saved 1.200 people, BUT Aristides saved more than 30.000 people AND NO ONE, NO ONE KNOWS WHO HE WAS.
So if you´re still reading this, please spread Aristides Love, reblog, because even though he is dead, he deserves the support he didnt have while he was alive, for being a hero for humanity!
I may be mistaken, but I do not believe I’ve seen a Bob Woodward or a Carl Bernstein post yet. How can you not love these two? Exposing the Watergate Scandal and lookin’ fine.
