jgj33

Historian, mom, UW Graduate student, culinarian, book fiend, art lover, map nerd, gardener, cyclist, general outdoorsy type.

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"According to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the development of love and compassion. The more concerned we are with the happiness of others, the more we increase our own well-being. Friendliness and warmth towards others allow us to relax and help us to dispel any sense of fear or insecurity so we can overcome whatever obstacles we face."

---The Dalai Lama

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Leap Castle, Ireland

photo via rust

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Hozier (Grammy rehearsals)

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Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show backstage interview with Hozier

[oldbookillustrations]

Notre-Dame tower from rue Puits aux oies.

Joseph Pike, from Bruges: a sketch-book, London, 1922.

(Source: archive.org)

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Interesting map of Gaelic-speaking regions

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Sore Losers

The British tried to surrender to the French at the end of the American Revolution. French General Rochambeau refused British Brigadier General O’Hara’s sword and instead pointed him towards George Washington to offer surrender.

[renamonkalou]

"Clarity"

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Johannes Itten (Swiss: 1888 -1967), Concerto Grosso,1959. Oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm.

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Marianne von Werefkin

City in Lithuania (Stadt in Litauen), c. 1913

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Map of the North Pole - Gerardus Mercator

Inventio Fortunata (also Inventio Fortunate, Inventio Fortunat or Inventio Fortunatae), “Fortunate, or fortune-making, discovery”, is a lost book, probably dating from the 14th century, containing a description of the North Pole as a magnetic island (the Rupes Nigra) surrounded by a giant whirlpool and four continents. No direct extracts from the document have been discovered, but its influence on the Western idea of the geography of the Arctic region persisted for several centuries.

[bobbygio]

Secrets

by Douglas Hale

[irisharchaeology]

Chariot and horses depicted on the Aheeny High Cross, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. It dates from the 9th/10th centuries AD

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[dereinsamewanderer]

"Pep, The Cat-Murdering Dog" was a black Labrador Retriever admitted to Eastern State Penitentiary in 1924. Prison folklore states that Governor G.Pinchot used his executive powers to sentence Pep to Life Without Parole for killing his wife’s cat. But the Governor told a different story. He said Pep had been sent to act as a mascot for the prisoners. Pep was much loved, and lived among the inmates for about a decade. The truth may never be known..

«Tutta l’America è un manicomio»: «La mia fortuna è stata quella di aver trascorso tutto il periodo del mio soggiorno americano in manicomio. Oggi è l’unico posto ove si possa vivere negli Stati Uniti» (Ezra Pound 10 luglio 1958)

“All of America is a lunatic asylum … My luck was that I had spent the whole period of my U.S.stay in asylum. Today this is the only place where you can live in the United States “ (Ezra Pound July 10, 1958)

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I love history so much

[beanantea]

Apparently some vegans are telling people not to eat honey to support bees. STOP. STOP NOW. DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW BEES WORK? Buy honey (local if possible) -> support beekeepers -> support bees. I swear people don’t even think this stuff out.  Beekeepers provide bees with an environment in which they can live, and are encouraged to thrive. Bees then have a big huge giant person who can deal with any threats to the hive.  Yes, honey is a winter food supply for bees, but beekeepers (unless they’re dicks, in which case they’d be shooting themselves in the foot) will NEVER take too much honey from a hive, and will always ensure that bees have enough food. Think about it, you’re not going to starve a source of income/hobby, are you? So now. Support beekeepers. Support bees. buzz.

[katwaterflame]

I had to reblog just for “DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW BEES WORK?" because it made me realize that some people really don’t!

[slenbee]

Reblogging for my bee brethren!