"Mentori Mori: The Fresh Maker"

  Gigi. 24. Museum Assistant. This is my blog, which is a little all over the place. I primarily focus on history, with a focus on 19th century history, 1818- 1850's being my speciality. I like studying sad professors, eye stabbing colonels, precious...

[parakavka]

[ungezieferwerden]

@anarchoclintonism

[00807x]

forgive me father for I have sinned in all the coolest and most glamorous ways possible

[cslewiscarroll]

[charminglyantiquated]

hey guys can you help me find that old portrait of a girl holding a little painting of a naked dude and cracking up about it?? I want to say it’s by Rembrandt but that’s probably not right

[runwildwithme]

It’s “Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image” by Gerard van Honthorst!!

[charminglyantiquated]

It’s the best painting that exists

[lesmiserablesfashions]

Dress c. 1830 [x]

[mustardtigress]

cool sunflower

[ykana]

[thegravelbro]

a mass exodus from chicken village

[assbaka]

what tragedy befell these gentle folk…

[dobrodosao-deactivated20190618]

@mia7437 this is a Gallus thing right?

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

@gallusrostromegalus yea

[gallusrostromegalus]

This is not a mournful exodus, but a merry parade to celebrate the great shoveling!  These are a happy people, celebrating thier loving human who probably went out there at the ass crack of dawn in knee-deep snow to make a little path for them.

[centuries-and-continents]

Vincenzo Vela c. 1861-1862

Italy Grateful to France (detail)

[letthemhavepie]

Just countries doing gal pal things, totally just gal pals

[historium]

A snowball fight in Tallahassee, Florida during the Great Blizzard of 1899. February 13, 1899

[letthemhavepie]

That looks on the steps on the Capitol? 

[joncarling-deactivated20190604]

Traveling Witch

[thecheshiresmiles]

everytime I hear about children of the corn I think about the guy I met at comic con who actually lived in the town they filmed that movie at, and on the farm where they filmed in the corn. he was a teenager at the time and him and his friends would get drunk on moonshine and rustle the corn and let the air out of the tires of the production team’s trailers and shit. and now there’s Wikipedia pages about how the children of the corn set was haunted and they thought they angered god but it was really just drunk hillbillies

[superiorhomo]

I don’t like adding to posts but I also have a funny story like this, so I was watching the movie the Blair witch which takes place in burkettsville maryland, which to me is so funny because that is were my grandfather lives and the town is literally just old people and cows with their main street consisting of a post office. Well anyway he told me that after it came out people were coming in like bus loads to the town to find the witch and my grandfather lives up in the Mountain area and people were up in his property trying to find the witch and it made him angry so he went out and hung up stick people and stacked rocks and it freaked the people out so they started thinking something was out there when really it was my 80 year old Italian grandpa who wanted people out of his woods.

[ginathethundergoddess]

We had ghost hunters come to a historic house in my town to film and if you think every high school kid in town respectfully stayed at home that night instead of going to fuck up that filming you’re dead wrong.

[animentality]

this is comforting, actually, sometimes paranormal things are just a bunch of bored people dicking around in the woods.

[kalyayev-deactivated20180228]

New favorite cryptid: locals

[vintage-katie]

My forever mood is Judge Aquilina tossing aside Larry Nassar’s letter like the actual trash that it is

[brahlamri]

العفو يشفي أفضل من العقاب أحيانا

[brittlebodies]

St. Sebastian tended by the Holy Irene (detail), Nicolas Régnier, 1650

[glumshoe]

2018 fashion prediction

the return of crackows 

[lloerwyn-deactivated20201104]

And you can wear them in battle too:

[glumshoe]

and we will

[vodkacheesefries]

Other than aeshetics, was there a purpose for these weird ass pointy shoes

[themaybug]

not really, it seems :’) they were impractical and so associated with wealth because it was difficult to do labor in them. gotta show off your mad long shoe points so the neighbors think you’re cool

[vodkacheesefries]

“Did you see William’s shoes today, Mary?”

“Verily, they were pointy”

[yesterdaysprint]

Los Angeles Herald, California, December 20, 1908

[fullmetalwindbreaker]

don’t force your dogs to be steampunk

[powerburial]

it wasmt steampunk in 1908 it was just regular

[cair--paravel]

Perspective view of the Siege of Constantinople by the French in 1837. The layering of the paper sheets employs linear perspective to create a three dimensional perspective of the battle. In the nineteenth century peepshows were a popular form of mass media through which world news and imperial politics were conveyed to local audiences.

[windypoplarsroom]

Charles Codman

“The Bathing Pool” (1830)