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Jaguarina, real name Ella Hattan, dressed in armor, and holding her broadsword and helmet. One of the greatest swordswomen of the Victorian era, Hattan defeated more than sixty men (half of them fencing masters) on foot and horseback, mostly with the broadsword. She was also proficient with the foil, rapier, dagger, Bowie knife, and in pugilism, having more than once having had fought off a male attacker in the street. She also carried scars on her body as a result of her many contests. She was one of the greatest female martial artists.

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SAMAN BAKAYOKO photographed by Juliet Lloyd for Lloyd Magazine

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Kate Bush - Running up the steps of Anor Londo

#kate bush

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Winslow Homer - Summer Night, 1890 // Joseph Marius Jean Avy - Bal Blanc, 1903. // Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis filming The Great Race (1965) // Two men dancing in Harlem, 1920s.

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At Last Sir Gareth Overcame the Red Knight, from Arthur and His Knights by Thomas Mackenzie (1925)

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this is what we could have had…

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Two boys practicing their swordplay, Harlem, 1939–1940.

Photo: Aaron Siskind via Smithsonian American Art Museum

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joan crawford as hamlet in 1929

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21-year-old Japanese model Minori on the street in Harajuku. He’s wearing a vintage equestrian-inspired look with a white lace cravat, red gloves, and heeled faux crocodile boots from Zara. Full Look

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ORLANDO (1992) dir. Sally Potter

#princespiration #orlando #tilda swinton

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Ernst Seger (1868-1939), Les Amants - 1920.

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So what, none of you punks were gonna tell me Don Cheadle out here all kingly dapper af looking like some kind of aristocratic bamf? WITH A SWORD?? I had to stroll up on this all unexpected???

I was looking for suit pictures, I wasn’t out here trying to thirst after the man, but here we are now, and I hope all of you are happy.