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Alexandra Chudina took 2nd place in the javelin athletics competition at the 15th Olympic Summer Games in Helsinki, Finland, 1952

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The skeleton of a young girl, about 14 years old, was found in a room [in Pompeii] holding an eleven-month-old baby in her arms. The infant was adorned with bronze ornaments, which shows it belonged to the higher classes. The girl cannot be the mother, since she was still in her prepubertal phase. Moreover she clearly did not belong to the upper class. An analysis of her teeth reveals that she had been severely ill or undernourished in the first year of her life. Various molars displayed abscesses and shortly before her death a few teeth had been extracted. Her shoulder muscles bore traces of unremitting physical effort caused by lifting heavy weights. Most probably, Bisel concludes, she was a slave girl who was given the care of the baby by her master, unfit for other tasks, as she was worn down by hard labor.

another one for the ‘incredibly haunting archeological find descriptions’ files ["child slaves at work in roman antiquity," christian laes]

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Daughters of Sparta.

Clytemnestra, Penelope and Helen before the Trojan War.

(If Paris and Agamemnon have no haters that means I’m DEAD)

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Marcel-André Bouraine, 1886-1948

Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons, ca.1925, bronze, 33×90×17 cm

Private Collection

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a woman gave me this note today after seeing my 777 tattoo

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Mummy portrait: A young woman in a crimson tunic and a rich array of jewellery.

Roman Period, ca. 110-130 AD. From Hawara, Faiyum.

Now in the National Museum of Scotland. A.1951.160

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Boston Bisexual Women's Network (October/November 1999)

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Three butch friends of mine finishing the basement of my first house around 1996. They worked for beer, and not even anything fancy.

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Breakfast with an old friend. AKA the hammer wielding butch on the left of the “Three butches”photo. It had been over 10 years since we’d seen each other. Too long my friend.