Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

littlestartopaz:

captoring:

librarianarchy:

I love when small children identify all quadripedal animals as “doggy!”

It always reminds me of the time Plato offered the definition of a human as any “featherless biped” and Diogenes busted into the Academy with a plucked chicken screaming, “BEHOLD A MAN!”

i love the implication you were there when it happened. good times right

@words-writ-in-starlight

But this sounds like EXACTLY the kind of shit Diogenes would pull.

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holy-crap-someone-finally:

equestrianrepublican:

maknbacn:

the-vashta-nerada:

bitterempress:

1800’s French Military Uniform

Today’s Military Uniforms

where did all the style go

where was the time when you could just

out-fab your opponents

do you really think it’s a good idea to take military advice from the French

REBLOGGING BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING OMFG

Historically the “style” died in 1914 because the French would wear bright blue and red uniforms and the British said “that’s a bad idea” and the French said “we look great” then they got sniped.

I visited a WWI battlefield a few years ago and Canadian soldiers used to wear these metal plates on their backs to show that they weren’t German but they reflected sunlight really well so when they tried to hide they were p much as bright as a goddamn lighthouse

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just-shower-thoughts:

The entire purpose of a bayonet is to bring a knife to a gun fight.

Redoubt 9, Battle of Yorktown.  AKA that one time Alexander Hamilton led an entire battalion of soldiers with nothing but bayonets against the fully armed British.  He had half the casualties as any of the battalions attacking with guns.

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thoodleoo:

yknow i get why we make such an effort not to use words like gay and lesbian and bisexual for historical figures because their societies didn’t necessarily have those exact ideas of sexuality and it’s an important thing to remember but at the same time i’m a little cautious about that argument 1. because it’s never used when we call people from history straight and 2. some of these people are really fucking gay. like. alexander the great, after hephaestion’s death, crucified hephaestion’s physician and destroyed the nation of the cossaeans as a sacrifice to hephaestion, whom he wanted to divinize. hadrian deified his male lover antinous and had so many images of him made and left around the empire that every time we find one we’re like oh what do you know, another fucking antinous bust. sappho wrote lines like “that laugh, it sets the heart in my chest to flutter” about women. like shit son that’s gay.

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theweirdwideweb:

Minnesota has the longest unbroken streak voting Democrat of any state (since 1976)—-but I particularly appreciate this electoral map from 84′:

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