““He [Cicero] needed no further reason to dislike Cleopatra: intelligent women who had better libraries than he did offended him on three counts.””
— –Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: a Life
fun military trivia: during the battle of the bulge in 1944, the germans took english-speaking soldiers, dressed them in american uniforms, and infiltrated them behind american lines in order to wreak havoc. to help them out, the infiltrators were issued fake american documents, including identification passes. the problem, however, was that they copied the documents too well. for whatever reason, all american identification passes had a typo on them, where “identification” was spelled as “indentification.” however, whoever prepared the german fakes decided to correct the typo, providing american soldiers with a foolproof way of checking if a document was real. for once, american stupidity saved the day.
If anyone ever wondered why Jaskier wished Valdo Marx dead.
The Witcher tv series + The Witcher book quotes.
Show some respect, people.
THANK YOU
The story of Balto is interesting. He led a team of sled dogs across the Alaskan wilderness in the dead of winter with diphtheria antitoxins to stop an outbreak in Nenana Alaska. Diphtheria is a deadly infectious disease that could wipe out a third of a town’s population. It is mostly unknown to the public today because of vaccines. Balto’s body is preserved in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
He’s a big hero of mine!
Let’s not forget Togo! Who, at 12 years old during the serum run, lead his team 200 miles through much more dangerous conditions during the first leg of the journey before Balto ran the last 55-mile stretch.
Togo and Balto didn’t bust their asses for dying children for you to turn around and not vaccinate your damn kids
every word out of guillermo del toro’s mouth is the most hardcore thing i’ve ever heard and he says it all so casually like he doesn’t even realize how much of a gothic visionary he is
“Since childhood, I’ve been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing”
I STILL THINK ABOUT THIS EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE
The mystery of icon-preserving bees
For a decade, a beekeeper near Athens, has kept a tradition: every spring, he slips icons of Christ, the Holy Virgin and different saints in his beehives, in order to bless his bees and his yearly honey production. And every year, the very same mysterious phenomenon occurs: bees make their honeycomb cells around the pious images, meticulously avoiding covering them.
why did they give this line to the villain
To make it seem like a bad thing to young girls
instead this just made young girls gay for Glenn Close
because your employer telling you not to have a personal life is abusive and ffs tumblr can you put your skulls together and crowd source a few brain cells for one goddamn second.
if it wasnt coming from her employer itd probably be a good line
i’ve been spending some more time on my bio notes and the sunlight was just divine today…
Hi just a little reminder that being productive doesn‘t just mean studying or working. Feeding your body good food is productive. Working on your mental health is productive. Cuddling your pet? Productive! Going for a walk while breathing in fresh air and getting some sun on your skin is productive. Calling someone you miss is productive. Sleeping? Also productive! One of the definitions of „productive“ is literally „yielding results, benefits, or profits“ (Merriam-Webster). Things that benefit you as a person — short-term or long-term — are productive and you should never ever feel bad or guilty if you need to shift your focus more towards those things on some days. You’re a person first and a machine... well never.