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YOU ARE THE REASON
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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i hate people who know highways. “i’m heading south on I-65” okay man. i’m moving my rook to c2
Do you hate them or do they frustrate you? Cause hate is a strong word to use
i hate them also i’m done with my worksheet now. is the first session free
FLOOFLE TAIL
When a cat approaches you with their tail high and erect like that it means they like you and are happy to see you. I just thought it was cute we were seeing lots of evidence of kitty happiness and the kitty really likes whoever was behind the camera
A scale model showing how mangrove forests protect coasts from wave erosion.
But y’all just wanna cut the trees huh!
Nature knows what it’s doing. Why do we keep interfering with it?
the japanese dub of ragnarok is one of my favorite things
Uh… nani?
Still my favorite story from the Lord of the Rings set: Viggo Mortensen bonded so much with the horse he rode in the movies that after filming was over he bought it from its owner. If that doesn’t warm your heart I don’t know what could.
don’t forget that he also bought arwen’s horse for her stunt rider when she couldn’t afford it awww
#also don’t forget that for the rohirrim they put a call out for locals #bring a horse show us you can ride it and get a part in the battle scenes #and one women went out roped a wild horse and rode for a few days to set #and got to be a rider of rohan
also sort of relevant viggo also bought the horse that costarred with him in the movie hidalgo and subsequently took the horse (tj) with him to the red carpet premier.
Also most of the Riders of Rohan are actually women because when they put out that call mostly women showed up with their horses and the costume team just stuck beards on them.
if this isn’t the best post i don’t
So you’re saying the entire Rohan army could have killed the Witch-King of Angmar.
Witch King: No living man can kill me!
several thousand riders of Rohan: *rip their fake beards off*
Witch King: Oh fuck…
*screeches* We aRE NO MEN
who is this brilliant man
His name is Jacque Fresco. He’s a futurist and social engineer. He lectures his views on sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural-resource management, and the role of science in society, while being entirely self-taught.
He’s also the founder of the Venus Project, an organization that advocates a resource-based economy. The project combines Fresco’s versions of sustainable development, natural resource management, energy efficiency, and advanced automation in a global socioeconomic system based on social cooperation and scientific methodology.
As you can tell he’s a pretty badass dude.
BYE when kim kardashian was pregnant she had a body double who wore a prosthetic pregnant belly and tried on kims clothing so kim could make outfits since she was too tired to try on all her outfits
The spread of the black death.
Poland, tell us your secret.
Poland is the old new Madagascar.
If I remember correctly, Poland’s secret is that the jews where being blamed all over europe (as usual) as scapegoats for the black plague. Poland was the only place that accepted Jewish refugees, so pretty much all of them moved there.
Now, one of the major causes of getting the plague was poor hygiene. This proved very effective for the plague because everyone threw their poop into the streets because there were no sewers, and literally no one bathed because it was against their religion. Unless they were jewish, who actually bathed relatively often. When all the jews moved to Poland, they brought bathing with them, and so the plague had little effect there.
Milan survived by quarantining its city and burning down the house of anyone showing early symptoms, with the entire family inside it.
I reblogged this tons of times, but the Milan info is new.
Damn Italy, you scary.
Poland: “Hey, feeling a bit down? Have a quick wash! There, you see? All better”
Milan: “Aw, feeling a bit sick are we? BURN MOTHERFUCKER, BURN!!!!!”
Also, this might have something to do with it: from what I understand, O blood type is uncommonly… common in Poland. Something to do with large families in small villages and a LOT of intermarriage. The black plague was caused by a bacterium that produced, in its waste in the human body, wastes that very closely mimic the “B” marker sugars on red blood cells that keep the body from attacking its own immune system. Anyone who has a B blood type had an immune system that was naturally desensitized to the presence of the bacterium, and therefore was more prone to developing the disease. Anyone who had an O type was doubly lucky because the O blood type means the total absence of ANY markers, A or B, meaning that their bodys’ immune system would react quickly and violently against the invaders, while someone with an A may show symptoms and recover more slowly, while someone with B would have just died. Because O is a recessive blood type, it shows in higher numbers when more people who carry the recessive genes marry other people who also carry the recessive gene. Poland, which has a nearly 700 year history of being conquered by or partnering with every other nation in the surrounding area, was primarily an agricultural country, focused around smaller, farming communities where people were legally tied to, and required to work, “their” land, and so historically never “spread” their genes across a large area. The economy was, and had been, unstable for a very long period of time leading up to the plague, the government had been ineffective and had very little reach in comparison to the armies of the other countries around for a very very long time, and so its people largely remained in small communities where multiple generations of cross-familial inbreeding could have allowed for this more recessive gene to show up more frequently. Thus, there could be a higher percentage of O blood types in any region of the country, guaranteeing less spread of the illness and moving slower when it did manage to travel. Combine this with the fact that there were very few large, urban centers where the disease would thrive, and with the above facts, and you’ve got a lovely recipe for avoiding the plague.
Interestingly enough, as a result from the plague, the entirety of Europe now has a higher percentage of people with O blood type than any other region of the world.
WHY IS THIS ALL SO COOL
When Tumblr teaches you more about the plague than 12 years of school ever did.
Just to throw a nod in, as a medieval historian, this is all credible, and is the leading theory as to the plagues effectiveness at this point. So. Enjoy your new knowledge!
And parents said teh internet is not educational.
Also also, you can see that it hit the coasts of Poland but not further inland. Poland’s economy at the time was so shit that they couldn’t afford to keep up the roads. There used to be a Roman-built highway called the Amber Road that ran from Aquileia in Italy, through the middle of Poland, and all the way up to where Lithuania is now on the Baltic Sea.
I say “used to be” because during this time, Poland was so poor and disorganized that the Amber Road fell into disrepair, and it was the best route to the interior of Poland. In all fairness, it wasn’t entirely Poland’s fault. With improvements in sailing technology, the amber and furs that used to be traded along the road were now either carried along the coast and throughout Europe by the Hansa, the powerful Germanic trading alliance that controlled trade in the Baltic and North Seas, or via the Volga and to the Black Sea by the Russians. Nobody needed the Amber Road for international trade anymore, so it fell into disuse and disrepair.
It was later restored, and sections of it have been built into a major highway in Poland now. But at the time of the plague, nobody was traveling along it, so nobody carried the plague to all those little Polish towns in the interior.
me after studying 12 years of french in school:
