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Juliette Gordon Low, (1860-1927) Savannah, Georgia. Founder of the Girls Scouts of the USA.
Edward Hughes, 1887
(via centuriespast)
106 One cannot grasp the world’s first novel, the “Gilgamesh”epic, without understanding some of its key Akkadian phrases.
- http://kabulpress.org/my/spip.php?article99927 (via allmesopotamia)
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Hundreds of wedding rings that were removed from those in Concentration Camps.
Those rings each represent a person.
(Source: rustybayonetliebgott, via sweet-peasorbet)
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Ashishishe, aka “Curly,” a Crow scout for the US Army, and one of the survivors of Little Big Horn who gave a famous account of the defeat of Custer’s battalion.
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“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” Nathan Hale
This sexy beast was an American spy during the Revolutionary war. Unfortunately, he was captured by the British and hanged on September 22, 1776 in New York City. He was only 21.
139 gardant: Liveblogging Middle English poetry
Ugh, the hyperbole in medieval romance is the best, I can’t stop laughing.
Reading Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle right now and omfg, this guy. Of course there’s the usual ridiculousness of him having the proportions of a giant, thighs like tree-posts, etc. But what kills me is the part…
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Nightwitches
Die NachtHexen
Ночные ведьмы
for those not in the know, night witches were russian lady bombers who bombed the shit out of german lines in WW2. Thing is though, they had the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world. The engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid flight to restart the props. the planes were also so noisy that to stop germans from hearing them combing and starting up their anti aircraft guns, they’d climb up to a certain height, coast down to german positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair, and get the fuck out of dodge.
their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured.
HOLY SHIT THIS IS RAD AS FUCK
HOLY SHIT
omg that is just so cool aaaa
Russians get shit done apparently.
That is the most badass thing I’ve ever read.
(Source: sovietico, via tea-and-anthropology)
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Ordinary people. The courage to say no.
The photo was taken in Hamburg in 1936, during the celebrations for the launch of a ship. In the crowd, one person refuses to raise his arm to give the Nazi salute. The man was August Landmesser. He had already been in trouble with the authorities, having been sentenced to two years hard labor for marrying a Jewish woman.
We know little else about August Landmesser, except that he had two children. By pure chance, one of his children recognized her father in this photo when it was published in a German newspaper in 1991. How proud she must have been in that moment.
I enjoy things like this immensely.
(via tea-and-anthropology)
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