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Aidan Gillen as Salazar Slytherin.

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DREAMCAST | DURMSTRANG EDITION

Predrag Bjelac  as Igor Karkaroff: Headmaster of Durmstrang Institute Kiera Knightley as Freja Haga: Professor of Care of Magical Creatures Gary Oldman as Wilhelm Axelsson:  Professor of Transfiguration Jude Law as Alexander Gyllenstierna: Professor of Dark Arts

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voldemort: let me be your ruler

death eaters: (ruler)

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Now, there are a few things you should know about Slytherin – and a few you should forget...

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Harry Potter locations

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Luke Pasqualino as Sirius Black and Avan Jogia as Regulus Black

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Piece for the Society of Killustrators Assignment No. 27: Bones Under Parking Lot Belonged to Richard III

I forgot about doing this, and then missed the deadline, but I’ll get in on the next one.

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THE MAGIC BEGINS - Day 16: Favourite scenery/locations [1/2] D U R M S T R A N G  I N S T I T U T E

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fake tv-show poster and synopsis : The Founders (HBO Production of course!) 3 seasons | 10-12 episodes by season it’s enough imo

~and sorry for my awful english

season 1: It’s a time of great persecutions and violence for the wizards. Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, members of two of the greatest families in the wizard world, are friends (not the best ones but good friends, with mutual respect and good times). After seeing for the umpteenth time a young witch burning, Godric have the idea to create a school to teach and protect them. They hear about a witch in Wales, Helga Hufflepuff, who educates young wizards from her village: some orphans because of the murders or the ones disowned by their muggles parents. The two men ask her help and advices, despite the fact that she educates muggle-born disgusts Salazar. She says she knows the perfect place for a school, far from muggles eyes: Scotland, where lives Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga’s best friend and brightest witch of the Age. Even if the difficulties are strong, Rowena joins them… (of course the function of this season is to introduce the medieval atmosphere, the violence, the differents organisations, the characters, their backstories and their aspirations) season 2: First days of school. Everything is perfect during months… until the High Magical Authorities, the Old Council, starts to take a dim view of the potential power of this school and decide to discredit it whatever the ways ; until love -and sex- appear between the four Founders ; until Salazar starts rejecting any “mudbloods”; until Rowena gets pregnant ; until Godric has to use one of the Unforgiveable curses despite is values ; until Helga finds one of the students dead and mutilated in the forest. The dissensions are more and more violent, and the future of the school uncertain. Salazar Slytherin decides to hide a Chamber of Secrets with a ‘beast’ inside it, and leaves the school. Determinate to ruin it, he joins the Old Council. Aware of this, the three others Founders ask support from their Families’ allies… (this season is the pivotal one, ‘cause, yeah it’s the second one but everything changes at this point: friendship becomes hate or love, the separation, the deads, the betrayal, the revelations… HBO knows how to do it) season 3: The years pass and the difficulties remain. The war between the Council scares away some students and parents, leaving Godric, Helga, Rowena and her daughter Helena alone to protect the ones remaining. But fearing death, Helena runs away with her mother’s diadem, hoping powers and protection from it. Rowena begs one of Slytherin House’s student, who is in love with Helena, to bring her back. At the same moment, the Council, less and less powerful, expels Salazar, frightened by his extremist positions. He leaves them happily, knowing their end is imminent. At Hogwarts, Rowena learns that the sudent (the bloody baron) killed her daughter and killed himself after. The witch falls into depression and madness, leaving Helga and Godric alone to defend the school against the Council and Salazar’s ambition… (okay, this season is the tragic and last one, with blood and death everywhere. I picture Rowena as the first one to die and Helga as the last survivor of the Four Founders, being so the first woman as principal.)

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The Russian Cartier Tiaras,

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wow!

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GOODNESS. It was empty in the 1870s ;-;

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[thealexandriaarchives]

Korean Soaps are a thing of Beauty.

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The spread of the black death.

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Poland

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Poland, tell us your secret.

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Poland is the old new Madagascar. 

[lazuli43]

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. 

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I reblogged this tons of times, but the Milan info is new.

Damn Italy, you scary.

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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!!!!!”

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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. 

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WHY IS THIS ALL SO COOL

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When Tumblr teaches you more about the plague than 12 years of school ever did.

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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!

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ALSO I saw a really interesting documentary once about research that’s being done into connections between resistence to the plague and resistence to HIV. Like, there was this little village in Scotland (or northern England, I forget) where a huge percentage of the population (of the little village, so not big enough to show on this map) survived the plague despite the fact that people were dying in droves all around them and they didn’t have the advantages of extra cleanliness or pyromania. A statistically significant number of the residents even survived after contracting the disease. So the researchers found descendants of said plague survivors who were still living in the village and exposed their blood to HIV (or something like that, it’s been years since I saw this documentary). Anyway they found a statistically significant correlation between resistence to the plague and resistence to HIV, and they’re using that to further research into finding either a vaccine for HIV or a cure.

All because people noticed shit like pockets of people who didn’t die from the plague and wondered why. HISTORY MATTERS!

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History Meme. 3/5 Places → Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks. It is in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.

Archaeologists believe it was built anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first stones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, whilst another theory suggests that bluestones may have been raised at the site as early as 3000 BC.

The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. The site and its surroundings were added to the UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites in 1986 in a co-listing with Avebury Henge. [+more]