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“Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.”

— Billie Holiday

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Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky - New Fairy Tale (1891)

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Lindholm Høje is an Iron Age and Viking Age burial site in Denmark. It contains over 700 graves. The graves are arranged chronologically. The oldest graves from the Iron Age around 400 AD are at the top of the hill. Further down are the younger the graves.

The graves are shaped differently depending on whether it contains a man or a woman. The graves containing men are shaped pointy like viking ships or as a triangle, while women’s graves are round or oval. The Iron Age graves was covered with a mound, and the Viking Age grave was a cremation grave. The stones surrounded the area with inside which the deceased was cremated. (Source)

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“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”

— Rumi (via thoughtkick)

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Covenanters and the American Revolution

Scottish Covenanters had a big impact on the colonisation of North America. During the persecutions of the 1660s - 1680s, many Scots migrated to the Thirteen Colonies, some via Scottish settlements in Ulster (the “Ulster Scots” or “Scots Irish”). The highest concentration of Covenanters was in the South. Some claim they’re the source of the term “redneck”, because some Covenanters signed their names to the National Covenant in blood, then wore the reddened bandages round their necks to show their loyalty.

Regardless of the term’s origins, it’s clear the Scots took their fierce Presbyterianism and ability to live rough to America, living in frontier settlements particularly in the Appalachians. Resistance to the authority of the Crown was seemingly in their blood, for when the colonies rose in rebellion in 1775 many of the descendants of the Covenanters were at the forefront (despite most Scottish colonists siding with the Loyalists). When campaigning in the South the British soon realised that Presbyterian communities were the most pro-rebel.

It’s fascinating to note that the “over-mountain men” who massacred British Loyalists at King’s Mountain were almost all descended from Covenanters, and went into battle shouting the same battle cry that had been popular in the 1640s - “The sword of Gideon, the sword of the Lord.” It is a grim irony that the slain commander of the Loyalists at Kings Mountain, Patrick Ferguson, was himself a Presbyterian from Edinburgh.

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“So many people are going to love you and it might be nice to meet your first love all intact, emotionally too. That’s an old-fashioned idea, isn’t it?”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via quotemadness)

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Sam Bartram standed 10 minutes alone on the pitch, not realising that the game had been abandoned due to heavy fog. December 25th, 1937

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Fog Fall.

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Excavating the ruins of Kuaua pueblo, Coronado State Monument, New Mexico Date: circa 1930s? Negative Number 045354 Kuaua was depopulated as a result of the Tiguex War, and again around the Espejo/Oñate era.