Historical babes

Submit your history crushes or historical babes (go on "submit your history crush")! The historical figures you submit must be born before 1955. Give us some facts with your submission (dates, nationality, why your history crush is famous, etc). My own posts about historical babes are in the tag #historical babe

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Welcome everyone!

I was @historical-babes but this blog took me too much time.

Here I will post some historical babes too but I won't put as many information in my posts, they'll be short.

Another difference from my previous blog is that here you can submit your history crush(es) the way you want. You can put the pictures you want and the facts you want in the post (+ your own comments). I just want you to at least give the dates of birth and death of your history crush(es) and the reason why they're famous. You can submit as many historical figures as you want. You can add hashtags if you want too.

My own posts are in the tag #historical babe

Enjoy!

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Unknown man (we only know he was an athlete), photographed by Frederick William Edwards, athlete and photographer from New Zealand.

Probably late 19th century, Bartlett's studio.

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Bertha Benz (1849-1944)

German automobile pioneer and inventor.

She was married to automobile inventor Karl Benz. Bertha was the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance (65 miles/105 km) and invented brake lining. She brought the Benz Patent-Motorwagen worldwide attention.

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Simon George of Cornwall (c. 1535-1540)

English country nobleman.

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George Edward Anderson (1860-1928), American photographer.

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Lord Byron (1788-1824)

English poet and politician, leading figure in the Romantic movement.

He is known for works such as Don Juan or Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and his participation in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.

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Napoleon II (1811-1832).

Duke of Reichstadt.

He was the son of Emperor Napoléon I and Empress Marie Louise, and had been Prince Imperial of France and King of Rome since birth.

He was disputed Emperor of the French for a few weeks in 1815.

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Hi there! Your blog is amazing! I wanted to know where did you get the idea of a history-centred blog? Thanks in advance!

I used to have an Instagram page called @historical.babes and I had a backup blog on Tumblr as well, but it took me too much time so I created @history-crushes because I enjoy posting historical babes and people's history crushes. 😊 I love history (I'm a history student) and I love learning about historical figures I didn't know about, and looking at pictures of pretty people is a bonus. 💖

Thank you by the way!

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Maude Fealy (1883-1971)

American stage and silent film actress.

She was successful as a playwright-performer and co-wrote various plays in the 1920's.

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Olympe de Gouges (born Marie Gouze)

Montauban, May 7 1748 - Paris, 3 November 1793

French playwright and women’s right activist. She also advocated for the abolition of slavery.

In the 1780s, she started to write political pamphlets. Among her political writings, she is mostly remembered for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, published in 1791.

Unfortunately, her connections with the Girondists and her critics against the Robespierre government caused her demise: she was sentenced to death and executed by guillotine in 1793. She was 45 years old.

In France, she is considered as one of the first feminists. Her avant-garde works are praised by current feminist movements.

As a French girl, I am very proud to introduce you this incredible woman.

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Maharani Gayatri Devi (1919-2009)

She was born in India and died in this country.

She was the third and last Maharani of Jaipur. Famous for her striking beauty, she was also involved in politics after the abolition of princely states.

All her life, she led actions to improve the education, the health, and the living conditions of women in her country. She was a successful Member of Parliament in India

She was in conflict with Indira Gandhi who wanted to be the only female political figure in the country. 

She retired of politics in 1976, and pursued her caritative works until her death in 2009.

I really wanted to present this woman because she looked like a fairytale princess (she had a happily married life with her husband Maraja Man Singh II) and did a lot of things for her country.

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Let’s talk about Joachim Murat’s hair. I just…

25-3-1767, Labastide-fortuniere France/13-10-1815 Pizzo Calabro, Italy, shot

Murat was one of Napoleon’s Marshals, the second one created. He was also Napoleon’s brother-in-law and King od Naples. He’s known also as Dandy King or King of the Braves. He was one of the best Cavalry General, he led the biggest charge ever in Eylau.

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Mary Ann Lincoln ( December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) was the wife of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and as such the First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865. Today, she is commonly known as Mary Todd Lincoln, though she did not use the name Todd after marrying.

She was born in Lexington of the Kentucky state of U.S. 

And she was also the White House coordinator! 

So, uh, yeah– She was pretty cool. But the death of her husband effected her really bad. Ngl, but her later life was pretty sad.

But imagine seeing your significant other die while you were sitting right next to him/her… 

Yeah.. anyways, thanks for reading. I tried my best to explain despite being a shy dude… yep, thanks for reading my submission!

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Leopold Staff (1878-1957)

Polish poet.

He is considered to be one of the greatest artists of European modernism.

He represented classicism and symbolism in the poetry of Young Poland, notably through philosophical poems.

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Lewis Powell, 1844-1865

He was part of the plot to assassinate Lincoln, and was personally tasked with assassinating the then Secretary of State William Seward, which he would have done if not for the fact the Seward has been in a horrific carriage accident days before and was wearing a metal splint on his jaw that deflected most of Powells knife blows. He was arrested, trialed along with all the the other conspirators and executed at age 21.

Disclaimer: absolutely zero endorsement of the mans Confederate beliefs, i just think its really funny he looks like a model for the Gap and if not for the old timey shackles this photo could have been taken yesterday.

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Temple Lea Houston (1860-1905), lawyer and son of Texas revolutionary Sam Houston. His courtroom speeches were rousing and resulted in droves of visitors attending to hear him speak. Most notable of these speeches was the Soiled Dove Plea, which resulted in the acquitting of sex worker Minnie Stacey. Houston became embroiled in a rivalry with Al Jennings after killing his brother Ed and injuring John.