A Wee But Fierce Brit And All That Entails

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OUTLANDER (2026) 810 01 The Fiery Cross

For the last time, Jamie lit a fiery cross to summon the clans of Frasers Ridge to battle. A newly sewn flag for an independent America hung over the door of the Masons Lodge.

Solemnly, silently, the assembled men watched it burn before answering the call.

“Je suis prest,” said The Fraser, quietly. I am ready.

“TÙLACH ÀRD!” shouted The MacKenzies. High hill!

“Air adhart le sealbh agus lìon an làngaid!” shouted The Murray for Fraser. Forward with good fortune, fill the laggard!

“Fulaing le treuntachd!” shouted another man, for Fraser of Lovat. Endure with bravery!

“Aut pax aut bellum!” shouted The Gunns Either peace or war!

Drawing his sword, James Fraser shouted Lovat's "Caisteal Dhùnaidh!" For Castle Downie!

The Scottish men answered it, "Sluagh-ghairm!" Battle cry of the dead!

And they continued shouting with Jamie, his sword held high. It wasn't just his own life. Some of these men were going to die.

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 Slater’s bridge, Little Langdale, Lake District, England by Jason Connolly

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Gilded silver reliquary casket, England, early 14th century

from The British Museum

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Two Egyptian masks of Anubis, the masks were worn by priests during funerary rites and represented Anubis as protector and embalmer

New Kingdom; Ramesside period - Third Intermediate Period

Egyptian Museum Cairo JE 55620; Louvre N 4096

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One of the reasons I went for my free Covid vaccination today. I’ve had all the other vaccines since I was born. I wouldn’t have been here without them.

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Reblogging to say both my feckin arms hurt 😡

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Beeps, the ship's cat on the RRS Discovery, the research vessel on which Robert Falcon Scott set sail for Antarctica in 1904

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"Am I hideous, Jane?" "Very, sir: you always were, you know." "Humph! The wickedness has not been taken out of you, wherever you have sojourned." "Yet I have been with good people; far better than you: a hundred times better people; possessed of ideas and views you never entertained in your life: quite more refined and exalted." — Jane Eyre, Chapt. XXXVII. Charlotte Brontë

RUTH WILSON and TOBY STEPHENS as JANE EYRE and EDWARD FAIRFAX ROCHESTER in JANE EYRE (2006) dir. SUSANNA WHITE

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Keri Russell & Matthew Rhys photographed Tony Duran for Emmy Magazine, 2018

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Jessica Raine and Claire Foy as Jane Boleyn/Rochford and Anne Boleyn Wolf Hall (2015) — 'Master of Phantoms'

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Claire Foy as Anne Boleyn Wolf Hall (2015) | Episode six 'Masters of Phantoms'

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Double Shabti of Benermerut and His Mother, Ikhem

New Kingdom

ca. 1479–1425 B.C.

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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒, attend a reception marking Cancer Research UK’s 125th anniversary at St James's Palace in London | 2 JUNE 2026

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King with a Stubbled Beard

New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1280 B.C. From Western Thebes Now in the Walters Art Museum. 32.1

▫ A stubbled faced king is a rather peculiar sight in Ancient Egyptian art. Historians suggest the beard is a sign of mourning, growing out a beard is still common practices for mourning in varied cultures around the world until this very day.

French Egyptologist Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt demonstrated that the growth of the natural beard was reserved for times of mourning, specifically between the death of a person and funeral. On the day of the funeral ceremony, it is thought all male attendees shaved, and the official “time of mourning” was concluded. Based upon the features, it is generally agreed the 19th Dynasty king depicted is Seti I.

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