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No. 271013
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Aphra Behn was the first woman in the Britain known to have made her living as a writer and playwright, she was known for her frequent portrayals of men as being the less intelligent sex but still capable of nobility
No. 271023
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Three egyptian pyramids were built by a single pharaoh, Sneferu. Only one was (probably) used as a tomb (the Red Pyramid): the two others (the Bent pyramid and the Meidum pyramid) are thought be either rough drafts or failed tries. They're still standing today, because as some Umayyad caliphs found out millennia later, it takes as much effort to destroy a pyramid as it takes to build one
>>271008No
No. 281731
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>The Egyptian Feminist Union (Arabic: الاتحاد النسائي المصري), the first nationwide feminist movement in Egypt, is founded at the home of activist Huda Sha'arawi.
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No. 282579
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Afghan Buddhist reliefs
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No. 282693
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No. 282694
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plate from Torslunda
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No. 300388
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This is Maria Carolina, sister of Marie Antoinette and queen of Naples and Sicily. Once she got married with her "very ugly" spanish husband (called simultaneously Ferdinand III and IV, then Ferdinand I) she did her best to establish a Habsburg foothold by removing the incompetent king's advisors and replacing all of them with her own, including her good friend sir John Action (who Ferdinand was furiously jealous of)
A freemason, she brought an era of enlightened absolutism on southern Italy. The death of Marie Antoinette at the hand of revolutionaries horrified her, to the point that she refused to even speak french, and eventually turned Naples into a police state. As nearly all european royalty she was an enemy of Napoleon, who still thought enough of her to call her "the only man in the Kingdom of Naples". She suffered several military defeats against him and her life ended in exile in Vienna. Like her mother she was very aware that the Habsburg family's influence was dwindling, and had 18 children (less than half survived to adulthood) to further establish themselves over Europe. This ended up going beyond her expectations, as her granddaughter Marie Louise married the very same Napoleon
If you look at the painting you'll notice, along with the incredible hair and gorgeous jewels and fan, the very elaborate stomacher, which is a triangular piece of clothing worn on the stomach. They're often so complex that, just like here, the artist struggles to depict them accurately
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No. 307336
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No. 308164
File: 1689179253479.jpeg (11.66 KB, 225x225, download.jpeg)
If anyone is interested in about the specific lives of women in history "The history chicks" started around 2011 (not good sound quality from the early episodes) and is still ongoing. There's also "What'sHerName" which is newer and I have only listened to a couple episodes so far. Both are a bit libfem, but not annoyingly so. If anyone can recommend other female focus history podcasts I would appreciate. I feel like learning individual stories about women throughout history broadened my view about how women acted during the past after being told that they were all 'submissive little wives who stayed home and sew before feminism ruined things' when I was young.
No. 309244
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>>271023The umayyads never tried destroying the pyramids now youre just making stuff up lmao
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No. 310024
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No. 315858
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>A happy bat, found in a 13th-century manuscript
No. 356464
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>Eilev Bråtene
>A Norwegian storyteller born in 1828, Bø in Telemark. Described as a very short hunched man with round glasses in front of intelligent eyes. He used an axe as a walking stick, wore a rucksack that always had stuff hanging out of it and held various tinkering tools in his other hand that he used as a counterbalance. He hardly ever bathed, but was still welcomed by everyone as both young and old knew him as a captivating storyteller.
>According to himself, he had met both a Jutul (type of giant) and the hulder who tried to seduce him. He married a widow 24 years older than him, who was known for her physical strength. On the day of their wedding, she that carried him over a river they had to cross to get to the church, to the amusement of the locals.
>Some of his stories was documented by Ingebret Moltke Moe, son of Jørgen Moe who gathered stories that you might know like "Three Billy Goats Gruff" and "Chicken Little".
>Eilev Bråtene died in 1899 when the 70 year old lost his footing and fell into a river. The newspaper obituary described him as an (roughly translated) "old weirdo".
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No. 357523
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No. 363027
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A horreo
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No. 375257
File: 1714554708242.jpg (313.27 KB, 1010x989, illustrated police news from 1…)
Love how odd some of these news reports are.
No. 375258
File: 1714554739913.jpg (144.12 KB, 960x1440, WW1 trench raiders (Austro-Hun…)
No. 375259
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No. 375260
File: 1714555225633.jpg (60.57 KB, 471x651, Catholic Croatian women in Bos…)
“Tattooing of the hands was a widespread tradition among Catholic Croatian women in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Ottoman rule centuries ago. This tradition originates from the places once occupied by the Turks and its purpose was to prevent young, Catholic women being kidnapped and converted to Islam.”
"Turks kidnapped Christian children and sent them to Turkey to be janissaries and servants, Catholics thus wanted to protect their children and mark them forever, so that they would know to whom they belonged.
Later, the Turks used to use the right of the first wedding night, i.e. they would sleep with a newly married girl before her husband did. According to tradition, Catholics tattooed their girls in this way, so that they would be repulsive to Muslims and so that in case they were taken away, they would always know what they used to be.
Male and female children from 3 to 18 years of age were tattooed using natural materials such as honey, charcoal, saliva and breast milk. The themes were: the bandit's cross, Jelica's cross, etc. Tattooing was regular until 1938, and since then it has been declining."
No. 375263
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In ancient Greece the human population was aptly divided into three categories - 'those who are alive, those who are dead and those who are at sea' (as testified by a seafarer Anacharsis).
No. 375278
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>>375257I love all the Illustrated police news drawings of Victorian women being violent towards scrotes, unladylike or/and living their best lives.
No. 375330
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>>375282Love me some unintentionally based anti-suffrage political cartoons
No. 375336
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>>375278aw yess time to post henriette caillaux
she was the wife of the french finance minister and in 1914 there was a press campaign agianst her husband and herself. it ended in her taking a revolver out of her fur muff to shoot and kill the director of a newspaper who'd published her private corespondance ( she got away with it)
No. 375365
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>>375279>>375280Scrotes were really worried about bicycling women back then.
No. 375395
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I love this painting, Pollice Verso, because of how enthusiastic the Vestal Virgins are while watching kek. There's another famous painting where they look more dignified, but this one has more character. Obviously, this was made centuries after the Roman Empire's peak, and while there is some debate over how well the artist depicted certain aspects of Ancient Rome, it is accurate that the Vestals were able to attend gladiator games. The artist's depiction of the Vestals is probably referencing "A Reply to the Address of Symmachus" by Prudentius, which describes a Vestal as doing the 'converso pollice' gesture to express her desire to see a gladiator be dispatched. Now, Prudentius had meant his description as an unflattering depiction of the Vestals, but there was almost certainly a gesture of that nature. Other, arguably more reliable, sources have also made references to the 'pollice verso,' which translates to, 'with thumb turned.' We don't know exactly what it looked like; most art and even some movies (like Gladiator) depict it as a thumbs-down motion, but we don't know that for a fact. The thumb could have been pointed in any number of directions.
Sorry, deleted and reposted because of some minor typos that were bothering me.