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Here to bless your timeline is Vodka the flying cocker spaniel, with his pilot pawrents Alexander and Evelyn de Seversky.

(Picture from https://metroairportnews.com/alexander-de-seversky-and-the-renaissance-of-american-airpower/)

#a good boy #vodka #cockerspaniel #aviation history #aviation #alexander de seversky #evelyn de seversky #Seversky #de Seversky #adorbs #historical puppers #too cute

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I have a bunch of historical figure playlists, and yes. This is what they're like.

i can never be trusted to make character playlists because the songs i put on them can range from 'yes this is a song whose vibes and lyrics accurately describe my character' to 'this is something my character would listen to' to 'this has nothing to do with my character but i heard it while thinking of them and now they're linked in my mind' to 'this song may or may not have something to do with my character but i've mapped out a complete animatic for it, featuring things that may or may not even happen to them in canon'

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she’s distant! she’s incoherent! she’s sensitive! she uses escapism as a coping mechanism! she’s me!!!

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Nobody: ...

Still nobody: ...

Me: BILLY MITCHELL WAS THE ALEXANDER SUVOROV OF AIR POWER. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE AND TSAR PAUL CAN FIGHT ME.

#this is why i shouldn't be allowed to do comparative history #billy mitchell #alexander suvorov #air power history #history of russia #i'm a dork

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"How could my heart allow me to submit to so great a sacrifice? -- To save my own life!-- No! --I panted only for the glory of ending my existence with that of the being whom I loved above all others on earth."

Colonel Carlos Beneski, aide-de-camp to Agustín de Iturbide. From A Narrative of the Last Moments of the Life of Don Augustin de Iturbide, Ex-emperor of Mexico. 1825. p. 11.

#independencia de mexico #mexican history #Agustín de Iturbide #1st Mexican Empire #Primer Imperio Mexicano #carlos beneski #love

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I was today years old when I realized that Rufus Sewell would make an IDEAL Tadeusz Kościuszko.

#tadeusz kosciuszko #kosciuszko uprising #rufus sewell #hot dang

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THAT ONE SEMINAR WHERE WE READ THE ODYSSEY AND I COULDN'T STOP COMPARING ODYSSEUS TO THE BAD@$$ UNION SPY/SABOTEUR JAMES J. ANDREWS WHO HIJACKED A TRAIN IN GEORGIA IN 1862.

The professor was initially annoyed, but ended up letting me make my essay a comparative analysis of Andrews and Odysseus. I'm still proud of that paper, btw.

#im in this picture and i dont like it #great locomotive chase #andrews raid of 1862 #adhd things

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My aesthetic every day! Come to think of it, I definitely owe Suvorov one for putting up with this photo shoot. (He hates mirrors, and by extension, front-facing cameras.

Today’s aesthetic: really enthusiastic historians talking about people who’ve been dead for centuries with disconcerting familiarity, like they personally knew the historical figure in question and possibly still owe them money.

#justhistorianthings #coffee with the boys #quarantine life #stephen f austin #alexander suvorov #manuel mier y terán #daniel morgan #sir john franklin #honestly don't care if I'm eccentric or insane at this point

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Me: Oh, shoot, is that the last of the Wheat Thins?

The disembodied voice of Lieutenant John Irving: What's left number 1,402 tins preserved meats, 1,163 tins preserved vegetables, 911 preserved soup, 1,182 potatoes. If we reduce to three-quarter rations, we'll reach the end of our provisions midwinter next year, if we're stuck in again with no game.

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This talented and handsome gentleman is turning 231 today, let's show him some love!

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fmi02

https://relatosehistorias.mx/nuestras-historias/quien-fue-el-general-manuel-de-mier-y-teran

#manuel mier y terán #independencia de mexico #historia de méxico #mexican history #feliz cumpleaños #history nerd #historical birthdays #i adore him

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...and executed by firing squad on February 14th, 1831.

Therefore, IMO, Guerrero is still the only man worth crying over on Valentine's Day.

Vicente Guerrero, the first black president in North America, became the 2nd president of Mexico in 1829. 

#vicente guerrero #Mexico #Black History Month #historia de méxico #historian problems #valentine's day #honestly I initally thought this snuff box was a phone case and was all I WANT ONE

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J O H N   I R V I N G

(February 8th, 1815 - ??)

“So let us consider that all sorrows are meant by God to give us a distaste to this life, and a greater desire to be removed to that world where there will be no more tears or sorrows, no more partings of dear brothers and friends, but where all will be eternal, fixed, and everlasting.”

John Irving was born on February 18th, 1815, at his family home at No. 106 Princes Street in the New Town area of Edinburgh. His father, also named John, was a Writer to the Signet and a close childhood friend of famous Scottish author, Sir Walter Scott. His mother, Agnes Clerk Hay, was the eldest daughter of Colonel Lewis Hay and could claim ancestry from two well-established Scottish clans. Born to a wealthy and respected family, John—a middle child of six surviving siblings—had a life of great opportunity, but also many personal sorrows and tragedies.

Keep reading

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Oh fuck, not another cursed political cartoon. This time in the 1844 election, the Democrats and Whigs are trying to cross their respective bridges to the Presidential Chair. The Whigs are taking The People’s Bridge TM (adapted to swift travelling), while the Dems are taking Loco Foco Bridge (all persons are forbid going over this bridge faster than a slow walk). To break this down for you, since this one is somehow even wilder and harder to read than the last one:

Henry Clay (going on a cute lil stroll with his running mate and apparent bf Theodore Frelinghuysen): :)

James K. Polk (flailing off the broken bridge with his hip and trendy Annexation Texas backpack): :/

Thomas Hart Benton (careening off the bridge with his huge backpack of “mint drops,” which were not delicious candies but a slang term for the gold bullion Benton advocated for instead of bank notes after the Panic of 1837 but now we’re getting really sidetracked): Alas! We were loaded too heavy. I forgot the old bridge was rotten.

George M. Dallas (actively getting crushed by Benton and also a two by four): :(

Martin Van Buren (actively drowning): I do believe that I shall never get out. I am stuck fast in the mud like a stationary buoy.

Andrew Jackson (still an emaciated Snow Miser in Where’s Waldo glasses, but now going absolutely feral and testing the limits of the human spine): *freakish cat noises, probably*

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So perfect that the same man has played both Cassian Andor and Guadalupe Victoria. Because heck yes, rebellions are built on hope.

HOPE

#Cassian Andor #Guadalupe Victoria #Diego Luna #star wars #Mexican Independence #independencia de mexico #mi insurgente perfecto

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Me, in a past life as an 11 year old boy in 1804 Washington D.C.: sees this ad for "Suwarrow boots" and immediately decides that I NEEEED THEM. Like Napoleonic Era Air Jordans.

#historic newspapers #Суворов #Suvorov #historic fashion #fashion history #boots #i want them #i need them #i need these #shut up and take my money #gosh-awful transliteration

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It's a lot late, but this was my little baby gingerbread half star fort!

The palisades, cannon, and abatis are cinnamon stick-based. Plus an allspice cannonball stack.

( @glorioustidalwavedefendor overestimated my culinary-military-engineering abilities when they suggested sugar art abatis, lol. Eventually...when I do an all-out gingerbread Alamo.... 😉)

Holiday mood: wandering through the grocery store, muttering about how to go about making an abatis for a gingerbread fort.

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Holiday mood: wandering through the grocery store, muttering about how to go about making an abatis for a gingerbread fort.

#maybe I can rough up some cinnamon sticks... #its going to be a star fort #because it's christmassy