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theanimalblog:

Point Lobos. Photo by raawrz

pynapel:

aboutmaleprivilege:

Male privilege is the sexualization of Breast Cancer awareness.

THIS

it reminds me of what Randall Munroe said:

“The frustrating thing about the “Save the Boobies” campaign and similar things (like the “Booberday” meme going around G+) is that they get it exactly backward. Often, the point of breast cancer treatment is to destroy some or all of the boobies in order to save the woman.

Saying that we should work to cure this disease because it threatens breasts is really upsetting. For starters, it suggests that women are worth saving because they’re attached to breasts, rather than the other way around. But worse, it tells any woman who’s had a mastectomy to try to save her life that she’s lost the thing that made people care about her survival. What a punch in the stomach.”

(Source: all-about-male-privilege, via the-rogstar)

theanimalblog:

by: emalbertson

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

This hot piece of engineer is none other than Nikola Tesla. An underrated inventor, he created the basis for all modern electrical engineering. However, he was constantly screwed over by his colleagues and ended up dying penniless and in debt, kept company only by a white pigeon he claimed visited him every day. Sad, I know.

Not only did Tesla have 300 patents for inventions in his lifetime, but he was a smokin’ fox. Though he never married, he apparently had women constantly fawning over him and claiming to be madly in love with them. And can you blame them? He was once described by a diplomat as having a “distinguished sweetness, sincerity, modesty, refinement, generosity, and force.”

What a cutie.

human-in-a-cyborg-uniform:

jokerofish:

theblackship:

its-a-duckpond:

lesserkeystudios:

jethroq:

killsmedead:

fullofwhoa:

killsmedead:

froggyphevoli:

thestarkidpaige:

newly-poly-nyc:

ilovecharts:

A pie chart of Voldemort’s soul, assuming that every time he made a horcrux his soul was split precisely in half.

Numbers are rounded down.

-returningtodust

…Harry had more of Voldemort’s soul in him than Voldemort himself had.

Whoa.  That’s crazy.

This is super cool! Props to whoever made it!

I read “Diary” as “Dairy” and pictured him filled with cheese curds.

Relevant to my interests.

EDIT: Also, *damn*, Ginny basically got the worst Horcrux. She had way more of Voldemort in her than   Harry  ever did.

Reblogging for that edit because… I never considered that.

Which probably also explains why the diary was so powerfull and had so much of his personality.

I always believed that the Diary should have affected Ginny much MORE in the long run than it did. This chart just proves it.

I’m sorry I all I saw was “Ginny had more of Voldemort in her than Harry ever did”

You can always count on harry potter fans to turn someone from intresting to smutty in 10 posts or less.

hahahaha. no but back on topic, i never considered the fact that each time it was a 50/50 split. this is interesting. i’m seeing this in a whole new light now. o_O

(Source: ilovecharts, via other-world-woman)

haripota:

”Hold mi purs”

Submission: you-kn0w-what.tumblr.com

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fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Could we get a Birthday Post for Lord Castlereagh?

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (18th June 1769 - 12th August 1822)

Lord Castlereagh was an Anglo-Irish politician who as War Secretary and Foreign Secretary, steered England through the Napoleonic Wars, the Congress of Vienna and the Concert of Europe. His vision of a united Europe helped prevent a large scale war until WWI almost a hundred years later. He was also responsible for the Act of Union in 1801, accomplished when he was just 30 years old.

In addition to being accomplished, he was a Regency gallant, handsome and had an “intense, rather melancholy stare”, a great favourite among the ladies.

Coincidentally, his birthday is on the same day the Americans declared war on England in 1812, starting what became known as the War of 1812. Castlereagh was Foreign Secretary at the time, so he probably didn’t appreciate much the American’s choice of dates.

In 1822, Castlereagh committed suicide by slitting his own throat with a penknife. He is buried in Westminster Abbey near his mentor, Pitt the Younger.

For shaping the history of Europe and leading England through one of the most devastating wars since the 30 Years War, I think he deserves a birthday post.

Happy Birthday Castlereagh!

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an IrishSenator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured  for what the Nobel Committee described as “inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.” Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).

Image taken from Google and caption from Wikipedia. 

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Bessie Coleman

(1892-1926)
Aviatrix

Known to an admiring public as “Queen Bess,” Bessie Coleman was the first black woman ever to fly an airplane and the first African American to earn an international pilot’s license. During her brief yet distinguished career as a performance flier, she appeared at air shows and exhibitions across the United States, earning wide recognition for her aerial skill, her dramatic flair and her tenacity. But the thrill of stunt flying and the admiration of cheering crowds were only part of Coleman’s dream. Forced for a time to work as a laundress and manicurist to make ends meet, Coleman never lost sight of her childhood vow to one day “amount to something.”

As a professional aviatrix, Coleman would often be criticized by the press for her opportunistic nature and the flamboyant style she brought to her exhibition flying. However, she also quickly gained a reputation as a skilled and daring pilot who would stop at nothing to complete a difficult stunt. Unfortunately, Coleman would not live long enough to fulfill her greatest dream — establishing a school for young, black aviators — but her pioneering achievements served as an inspiration for a generation of African American men and women. “Because of Bessie Coleman,” wrote Lieutenant William J. Powell in Black Wings, “we have overcome that which was worse than racial barriers. We have overcome the barriers within ourselves and dared to dream.”

Read more of Caroline B. D. Smith’s article here.

Photo: Bessie Coleman around the time of her French visit, c.1922 (Smithsonian Institution, Neg. ID #: 99-15415, scraped from this site.)

laurenmoran:

no but seriously.

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fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975): She was not only an extremely talented singer, dancer, and actress; she also served as a spy for France in WWII. Unable to have children of her own, she adopted 12 children from around the world and lived with them in a castle in France. She was married to men four times and also had several notable female lovers, including French writer Colette as well as Frida Kahlo.

She also used her influence to support the Civil Rights Movement, refusing to perform for segregated audiences and speaking at the 1963 March on Washington with MLK Jr.