first year studying history: these are great and important people who spent their lives doing amazing things, and we should treat them only with the utmost respect
third+ year studying history: lmao did you hear what my bff cicero did the other day in 63 BC? what a wild dude, tone it down buddy, you’re outta control
In 1943, a team of ingenious Italian doctors invented a deadly, contagious virus called Syndrome K to protect Jews from annihilation. On October 16 of that year, as Nazis closed in to liquidate Rome’s Jewish ghetto, many runaways hid in the 450-year-old Fatebenefratelli Hospital. There, anti-Fascist doctors including Adriano Ossicini, Vittorio Sacerdoti and Giovanni Borromeo created a gruesome, imaginary disease.
The doctors instructed “patients” to cough very loudly and told Nazis that the disease was extremely dangerous, disfiguring and molto contagioso. Soldiers were so alarmed by the list of symptoms and incessant coughing that they left without inspecting the patients. It’s estimated that a few dozen lives were saved by this brilliant scheme.
The doctors were later honored for their heroic actions, and Fatebenefratelli Hospital was declared a “House of Life” by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.
the fact that the first quarto version of hamlet was pirated is perhaps too much for me. because it implies some elizabeathan asshole sat at the back of an original performance of hamlet and, for four hours, took down everything he could hear. just rapid-fire writing in old ass english. but then also taking it upon themself to add a random subplot in which horatio and gertrude are also in a conspiracy to kill the king? and that ultimately this poor poor bastard’s efforts were FRUITLESS because it made the play look so bad that shakespeare’s contemporaries were like “we have to realease the real quarto or people are going to make fun of you.” i will never be able to stop thinking this
I don’t know who Megan Kelly is but I wanna piss her off
dis bitch
“Verifiable fact” 😭😂
I’d PISS ON HER tbh
btw Saint Nicholas, whom Santa Claus is based on, was a black guy
and we don’t know exactly what jesus looked like, but here’s an artistic reconstruction of an average 20-something male from his ethnic group at the time
DOES THIS LOOK FUCKING WHITE TO YOU
I want this post everywhere
jesus was represented more or less accurately as an ethnically jewish arab man up until the reign of pope alexander vi, in the late 15th century. since he was viciously persecuting roman jews during this time, alexander wanted to make them less sympathetic to the public, and did so in part by ordering that portrayals of jesus be based off of his son, cesare borgia.
the reason “jesus is white” is because someone purposefully attempted to alter the perception of history to benefit his goal of persecuting a targeted ethnic group.
And THIS is why lace was a worn primarily by royalty and aristocracy for so many centuries.. It was expensive and time-consuming to produce. Wearing it, and wearing LOTS of it was a blatant show of wealth and excessive consumption.
Mechanically-produced lace wasn’t really a thing until well into the 20th century, but there remains a wide gap between the quality of mass-produced and hand crafted
LOL! I’ve never attempted spool lace, but it’s farking gorgeous. There are tutorials on youtube that I’ve watched, and the sheer skill of the artists is amazing!
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