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[peashooter85]

Honey, don’t forget the milk

In the year 1448 Robert Hungerford, Lord of Moleyns threatened the Paston family with his personal army, believing that the Paston estate in Norfolk, England belonged to him. The family head, Sir John Paston, was away on business in London, thus defense of the estate was left to his wife Margaret. In preparation for a siege, Margaret wrote the following letter to her husband,

Right worshipful husband,

I recommend me to you, and pray you to get some crossbows and wyndacs (used to cock a crossbow)  to bind them with, and quarrels (arrows or bolts), for your houses here be so low that there may none man shoot out with no long bow, though we had never so much need.

I suppose ye should have such things of Sir John Fastolf if ye would send to him ; and also I would ye should get two or three short poleaxes to keep within  doors, and as many jackets, and ye may.

Partrich and his fellowship are sore afraid that ye would enter again upon them and they have made great ordinance within the house, and it is told me they have made bars to bar the doors crosswise, and they have made wickets on every quarter of the house to shoot out at, both with bows and with hand-guns; and the holes that be made for hand-guns, they be scarce knee high from the plancher, and of such holes be made five, there can none man shoot out at them with no hand-bows.

I pray you that ye will vouchsafe to do buy for me one pound of almonds and one pound of sugar, and that ye will do buy some frieze (fabric) to make of your children’s gowns; ye shall have best cheap and best choice of Hays’s wife, as it is told me. And that ye will buy a yard of broad cloth of black for one hood for me of 44d. or four shillings a yard, for there is neither good cloth nor good frieze in this town. As for the children’s gowns, and 1 have them 1 will do them maken.

The Trinity have you in his keeping, and send you good speed in all your matters.

Margaret Paston.

The Paston letters can be read for free at archive.org

https://archive.org/stream/pastonletterssel00jone/pastonletterssel00jone_djvu.txt

[weirdlandtv]

Illustration by Polish artist Daniel Mróz (1917-1993) for Stanislaw Lem’s Cyberiada, 1965. (I featured another one a few days ago.)

[thoodleoo]

this is quite possibly one of my favorite pieces of art from the ancient world, and i know i say that a lot, but hear me out:

it’s a fresco of one of the most powerful scenes in all of latin literature, in which the trojan hero aeneas must escape from troy as it burns, leading his family with him

on his back he carries anchises, his aged and paralyzed father; at his side, he leads his young son ascanius. he carries troy’s past on his back as he leads troy’s future from the flames

this is important not just from a plot perspective but also because it shows aeneas’s character trait of devotion both to his fate and to his family, giving us a look at the tender side of the trojan warrior

for some reason though the artist decided to paint them as dogs

furries have been around for so long

also i’m not completely sure but i think dogneas’s doggy bone might be hanging out the front of his tunic

[ifitwerentforthatmeddlingkid]

I had to research Corn Flakes for my American Icons class and I came across what may be the funniest fucking image I have ever seen.

Edit, because people keep bringing this up: Corn Flakes were invented by Seventh-day Adventist Dr. J. R. Kellogg, who believed masturbation was bad and bland foods suppressed sexual urges. Grape Nuts were invented by C. W. Post, a former patient of Kellogg’s. The main idea of the ad is that eating Grape Nuts will help a man channel his sexual energy into more productive activities.

[historium]

Curl and Dry, 1935

[peashooter85]

Jonathan McPherson holds the double-barrel shotgun he carried to guard Martin Luther King Jr. when the civil rights leader rested in this Smithfield house.

[hyperprapor]

Improvized subgun, 9x18. Russia.

[terpsikeraunos]

I’m a motherfucking woman, baby, that’s right I’m just having fun with my ladies here tonight

Kesha, 2017

τάδε νῦν ἐταίραις ταὶς ἔμαις τέρπνα κάλως ἀείσω. Now these delightful things I will sing skillfully to my girlfriends.

Sappho, c. 7th century BCE

[archaicwonder]

Viking Bar, Weight and Hack ‘Hoard’ Group, 9th-11th Century AD

A large group of silver items comprising of: nine northern European coins, a gilded lion-head finial, a heater-shaped pendant with cross decoration and pelleted border, a crescentic pendant fragment, a cross pendant fragment, a Thor’s hammer amuletic pendant, a fragment of a flat rectangular pendant, four fragments of belt mounts, thirty-eight ingot bars fragments, two coiled hair ring fragments, a twisted torc fragment, two temple rings(?) fragments; seven bronze barrel-shaped weight with decoration, two bronze plain of polyhedral shape

[archaicwonder]

Scythian Acinaces Dagger, 6th-5th Century BC

An iron acinaces dagger with lozenge-section leaf-shaped blade, recurved lower guard, flat-section grip, antenna pommel; mounted on a custom-made stand. 43.5cm including stand (17 ¼")

[thoodleoo]

ancient roman artist 1: hey i got this commission today and i’m not really sure i understand it, can you help ancient roman artist 2: yeah, what’s up ancient roman artist 1: so they want a figurine of a woman riding a dick but that’s all they said ancient roman artist 2: oh, that’s easy, it’s like riding a horse, but instead it’s a giant dick. you know, with feet and everything ancient roman artist 1: are you sure that’s what this means ancient roman artist 2: i mean yeah what else could it be ancient roman artist 1: i guess you’re right but i’ll throw in a bonus dick just in case tho ancient roman artist 2: always a good idea

[peashooter85]

Incan copper war mace/axe, 16th century.

[barbucomedie]

Celtic Gold Dagger excavated from Hallstatt dated about the 6th Century BCE on display at the Naturhistorisches Museum

The rare golden objects in the Hallstatt graves are rather small where as the gold objects found in barrow graves elsewhere from this period are significantly larger. Gold seems to have been reserved for the political elite and the lack of larger objects suggests richer lords resided elsewhere.

[peashooter85]

Eastern European war hammer, early 17th century.

from Czerny’s International Auction House

[peashooter85]

Nepalese dagger, early 20th century.

from Auctions Imperial

[archaicwonder]

Samnite Bronze Helmet and Neckguard, C. 450 BC

This imposing helmet is a unique hybrid of the Samnite-Chalcidian type.

The Samnites were an Italic people living in Samnium (map) in south-central Italy who fought several wars with the Roman Republic. They formed a confederation, consisting of four tribes: the Hirpini, Caudini, Caraceni, and Pentri. They were allied with Rome against the Gauls in 354 BC, but later became enemies of the Romans and were soon involved in a series of three wars (343–341, 327–304, and 298–290 BC) against the Romans. Despite a spectacular victory over the Romans at the Battle of the Caudine Forks (321 BC), the Samnites were eventually subjugated.

What was known as a ‘Samnite Gladiator’ appeared in Rome shortly after the defeat of Samnium in the 4th century BC, apparently adopted from the victory celebrations of Rome’s allies in Campania. By arming low-status gladiators in the manner of a defeated foe, Romans mocked the Samnites and appropriated martial elements of their culture.

[citystompers1]

Godzilla for Hitachi Karaoke VHS