#primary source

[insideslooklike]

gerard mentioning “killing the head cheerleader just to get a fucking hard on” three times during a thirty minute set (x)

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Louis Mountbatten and The Romanovs

"These old family photograph albums bring back memories of all the happy times we had together in that almost unbelievable world before the Revolution."

"We used to see each other quite often either in Germany, or in Russia. I loved my Russian family and I loved Russia too"

"Olga, Marie, Anastasia and Tatiana were all very beautiful. I remember I had always secretly hoped to marry Marie."

"Yet anyone less like an autocrat than my uncle Nicky would be hard to imagine…he was a very, very kind-hearted simple charming man."

"He was never happier than when he was outside playing with his children. I remember he would purchase us all chocolate-ices, and after, settle down with a long book to read quietly in peace"

"And now, all that was finished. All the happy memories were things of the past…"

Lord Louis "Dickie" Mountbatten

[newhistorybooks]

Reading Mahboob Qirvanian’s autobiography, at times, brings tears to the eye, and breaks the heart. We are used to the slave narratives from the Americas and Western Europe, but here for the first time is a narrative of an enslaved African, coming from the world of the Persian Gulf. With this intervention, Mirzai has made an immense contribution to global scholarship and to the field of the slave narrative.

[honeybirdhistoria]

18th Century Terms of Endearment

Nathanael Greene to his wife, Catharine Greene

"My dear angel" "My sweet angel" “My second self"

Lafayette to his wife, Adrienne de Lafayette

"My dear heart" / "Mon cher Coeur"

Lafayette to Thomas Jefferson

"My dear friend"

Mercy Otis Warren to her friend, Hannah Winthrop

"Honoria"

Hannah Winthrop to her friend, Mercy Otis Warren

"Philomela"

Mercy Otis Warren to her friend, Abigail Adams

"My amiable friend" "My beloved friend" "My much esteemed friend"

Grace Galloway to her daughter, Elizabeth Galloway

"My ever dearest daughter"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his wife, Constanze Mozart

"Dearest, most treasured little wife of my heart" "Dearest little wife of my heart" "My love"

[une-sanz-pluis]

Breaking News: Adorable Knight In Full Armour Found Sleeping In Grass, Uses Stone as Pillow

(Thomas Walsingham, The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham, trans. David Preest, ed. James G. Clark (The Boydell Press 2005))

[howifeltabouthim]

. . . a perfect sympathy of taste in literature, music, and all the elegant accomplishments of a refined life between the young couple, forms the basis of the ardent attachment which happily exists between them.

Mrs. Matthew Hall, on Princess Louise and the Marquess of Lorne

[overheard-in-imperia]

My battalion (of clerks, Platinum Battalion) got put in charge of protecting Ram day 3... she still gets flashbacks if I ask her "Do you feel protected?" Actual quote from me during the event. She really wanted to get away from us. We did not let her. - LegoFriend

I did hear about this... the logistics clerks taking RAM to protect alone made a lot of Desert high-command go "hey, so, RAM is definitely not on our side, right?" which was simply not true, but interesting to see hehehe...

RAM was valuable to Imperia to keep safe, I understand ! Even if they didn't like it!