#queen bess

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The Rival Queens: Mary Queen of Scots Defying Queen Elizabeth.

[headlesshorsemanxiii]

Oh, to be as dashing and smooth as Edmund fucking Blackadder. . .

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RIP Old Bess- Joseph Salutes You

Except for Jonathan, all the Jojos would have been under her reign from the 50′s to if the original continuity had continued into 2020′s. Joseph probably even had memories of watching Old Bess being crowned. And again if he lived long enough into the old continuity I think he would have outlived her since he would be 102 currently. But yeah, I think as the probably the last Joestar to live in England he would take this passing solemnly. 

[auraeseer]

Gonna fly now . . .

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Forgotten Women Friday #25

Bessie Coleman- 1892-1926- United States

“Queen of Flight”

Bessie Coleman was born in 1892 in rural Texas as the tenth of thirteen children. Her parents were sharecroppers and her father was mostly Cherokee and her mother was African American. Although Bessie had to walk four miles every day to a segregated school house, she quickly proved to be a brilliant student, especially in math. She went on to study at Langston University, but had to return home after one semester due to running out of money. At the age of 23, Bessie moved to Chicago to live with her brothers. It was here that she heard stories from pilots returning from World War I and she became fascinated with the idea of flying. Unfortunately, no American flight schools at the time admitted women or black people.  

Undeterred, Bessie moved to Paris, where women and black people were allowed to learn to fly, in 1920. Just a year later in 1921, Coleman became the first woman of African American and Native American descent to earn an aviation pilot's license and the first person of African American and Native American descent to earn an international aviation license (two years before Amelia Earhart earned her own international license). When she returned to the United States a few months later, she was immediately a media sensation. After returning to Europe for another two years to learn more advanced flying skills, Bessie returned to the U.S. to launch a career in exhibition and stunt flying, which earned her the nickname “Queen Bess.” Her first appearance at an American airshow was in September 1922 at an event honoring veterans of the all-black 369th Infantry Regiment of World War I. After amazing the crowds with figure eight loops and barrel rolls, the newspapers called her "the world's greatest woman flier." When she was asked about why she loved flying so much, Bessie replied, “The air is the only place free from prejudices.” 

Unfortunately, Coleman did not live long enough to realize her dream of opening a school for black aviators. On April 30, 1926, in Jacksonville, Florida, Bessie was a passenger in a plane that unexpectedly dove and spun and Bessie, who was not wearing a seatbelt because she was examining the terrain in preparation for a parachute jump the next day, was thrown from the plane at 2,000 feet and died immediately upon impact. The pilot also died when the plane crashed into the ground and burst into flames. Despite dying at a young age, Bessie’s life and accomplishments influenced generations of African Americans to come. After 10,000 people attended her funeral in Chicago, the Bessie Coleman Aero Club was established and it trained amazing African American pilots like the Tuskegee Airmen.  In 1934, Lieutenant William J. Powell said, “Because of Bessie Coleman, we have overcome that which was worse than racial barriers. We have overcome the barriers within ourselves and dared to dream." In 2006, Bessie Coleman was officially inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Her legacy, of black Americans flying to new heights, remains just as important today, when 90% of pilots in the U.S. are white. 

[interpretingtexas]

Bessie Coleman World’s First Licensed Black and Native American Pilot

Bessie Coleman.

Early Life  Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas in 1892. She helped support her family all through high school, but was able to attend only one semester of college due to financial difficulties. She then moved up to Chicago to live her brother and attended beauty school. She would work as a manicurist and operate a chili parlor before deciding to follow her dream to learn how to fly.

Learning to Fly When she learned that no American flying school would accept African Americans, she went to France and studied at the Ecole d'Aviation des Freres Caudon. She earned her pilot’s license in 1921, the first African-American and person of Native American descent to do so. She quickly realized that to make a living flying, she would have to learn how to do “barnstorming” or stunt flying. After some additional training, she returned to the US to begin performing.

Bessie Coleman and her plane, 1922. She most often flew a Curtiss JN-4D "Jenny". Public Domain. [source]

“Brave Bess” Audiences quickly dubbed Coleman “Brave Bess” and “Queen Bess” for her death defying stunts. Coleman was keenly aware of her position as an ambassador for African-Americans. On at least one occasion, she refused to perform unless African-Americans were allowed to use the same entrance as whites. During her travels, she often gave talks to groups of African Americans to inspire them to take up aviation.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.         I knew we had no aviators, neither men nor women, and I knew the Race needed to be represented along this most important line, so I thought it my duty to risk my life to learn aviation and to encourage flying among men and women of our Race who are so far behind the White race in this modern study.

-Bessie Coleman

An Untimely Death Coleman’s ultimate dream was to open a flying school for African-Americans, but it was not to be. She died in 1926 when she and her mechanic and publicity agent, William Wills were testing an airplane prior to a show and it malfunctioned, crashing to the ground and killing both Coleman and Wills. Despite her brief career, Coleman was an inspiration to a generation of pilots and has been honored with her own stamp and a Google doodle for her birthday.

You can find the episode @missedinhistory did on her here.

[therealasr]

I will have one mistress here, and no master.

Elizabeth I Aesthetic

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ELIZABETH THE FIRST (QUEEN OF ENGLAND) (17 November 1558 – 24 March 1603)

Elizabeth was born at Greenwich Palace and was named after both her grandmothers, Elizabeth of York and Elizabeth Howard. She was the second child of Henry VIII of England born in wedlock to survive infancy. Her mother was Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn. At birth, Elizabeth was the heir presumptive to the throne of England. Her older half-sister, Mary, had lost her position as a legitimate heir when Henry annulled his marriage to Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon, to marry Anne, with the intent to sire a male heir and ensure the Tudor succession. She was baptised on 10 September; Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, the Marquess of Exeter, the Duchess of Norfolk and the Dowager Marchioness of Dorset stood as her godparents.

Elizabeth was two years and eight months old when her mother was beheaded on 19 May 1536, four months after Catherine of Aragon's death from natural causes. Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and deprived of her place in the royal succession. Eleven days after Anne Boleyn's execution, Henry married Jane Seymour, who died shortly after the birth of their son, Prince Edward, in 1537. From his birth, Edward was undisputed heir apparent to the throne. Elizabeth was placed in his household and carried the chrisom, or baptismal cloth, at his christening.

Elizabeth's first governess (or Lady Mistress), Margaret Bryan, wrote that she was "as toward a child and as gentle of conditions as ever I knew any in my life". By the autumn of 1537, Elizabeth was in the care of Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy, who remained her Lady Mistress until her retirement in late 1545 or early 1546. Catherine Champernowne, better known by her later, married name of Catherine "Kat" Ashley, was appointed as Elizabeth's governess in 1537, and she remained Elizabeth's friend until her death in 1565, when Blanche Parry succeeded her as Chief Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber. Champernowne taught Elizabeth four languages: French, Flemish, Italian and Spanish. By the time William Grindal became her tutor in 1544, Elizabeth could write English, Latin, and Italian. Under Grindal, a talented and skilful tutor, she also progressed in French and Greek. After Grindal died in 1548, Elizabeth received her education under Roger Ascham, a sympathetic teacher who believed that learning should be engaging.

By the time her formal education ended in 1550, Elizabeth was one of the best educated women of her generation. At the end of her life, Elizabeth was also believed to speak Welsh, Cornish, Scottish and Irish in addition to the languages mentioned above. The Venetian ambassador stated in 1603 that she "possessed [these] languages so thoroughly that each appeared to be her native tongue". Historian Mark Stoyle suggests that she was probably taught Cornish by William Killigrew, Groom of the Privy Chamber and later Chamberlain of the Exchequer.