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One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow you’re never going to match up and that everybody else’s life is going to be better and finer and fuller.
That everyone else attended some secret lesson in which how to live was taught and you had a dental appointment that day, or you were somehow not invited.
"Stephen Fry (via yeah-lemons)
Bernhard Strigel, Holy Family
Pop, pop, pop, watchin’ muthafuckas drop!
So nobody is going to mention Mary’s face. We’re just supposed to accept her half-dead smile as her head lolls to the side.
French Fuseé Hand Painted Pocket Watch by J. F. Valeri Leton, Late 18th - early 19th c.
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Seal belonging to Baruch the scribe
The following post is an inarticulate, incoherent mess but I’m too excited to really care. Also it should be noted that this isn’t a new discovery by any stretch of the imagination.
They found a bulla belonging to Berechiah, son of Neriah. Even if you aren’t religious, that’s fascinating. Baruch was the scribe/sidekick of the prophet Jeremiah, who witnessed the fall of Jerusalem.
Religiosity aside, these people actually existed and there is physical evidence. There really were two guys running around the city proclaiming its destruction, getting beaten up, thrown into cisterns, mocked, and things thrown at them. There really was a man named Jeremiah who believed himself to be a prophet, and he fostered a very lucrative friendship with a scribe named Baruch, whose brother was quartermaster to the king. Whether or not you believe the Bible is the infallible word of God or that God even exists, the book of Jeremiah is an account containing their own personal spin on events that actually happened. That clay bulla might have Baruch’s fingerprints on it. The words on the seal are words that he himself put there.
I don’t even know what the hell I’m trying to say anymore. I get like this over almost any artifact (speaking of which, they finished the Akkadian dictionary a while back and then there was this amazingly modern sounding letter from a douchebag college student to his mother), but Jeremiah and Baruch are my favorite Biblical figures so this is doubly exciting.
Words fail me.
Back to the point about Baruch’s fingerprints, if I was to ever be within six inches of that bulla I’d reach out a finger and it would be just like the scene from E.T.
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inkyparthia:
Awh Washington’s little boooys. He may not have had his own kids, but he had them :] And an entire nation.
Pfff Lafayette gets derpier every time I draw him; it’s not on purpose, I promise, it just kind of…happens. Must be because my creative subconscious has decided he must always have a BIG smile for his dearie dear General!
Is it wrong for me to want more Washington and Hamilton interaction in Season 2 of I Made America? :3
Oh God, those expressions.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llgxtx6pYZ1qb3m94o1_1280.jpg)
Awh Washington’s little boooys. He may not have had his own kids, but he had them :] And an entire nation.
Pfff Lafayette gets derpier every time I draw him; it’s not on purpose, I promise, it just kind of…happens. Must be because my creative subconscious has decided he must always have a BIG smile for his dearie dear General!
Is it wrong for me to want more Washington and Hamilton interaction in Season 2 of I Made America? :3
Oh God, those expressions.
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fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:
I’m not actually a history major, may the Beast forgive me, but I love history and do careful research on all my historical fiction. The above was said to me by my English professor. I weep.
My Tumblr: http://ladonnanera.tumblr.com/
Aaaaaagh.
The Brooklyn Bridge opened to the public on May 24, 1883.
Photographs of the work-in-progress bridge, like this one by Eugene de Salignac, are now available to the public through the New York City Municipal Archives. See more here.
(via awesomearchives)
