There may or may not be a method to this madness.

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

Those posts that are like “Sparta was awesome they had this and that and” like, yes, Sparta was a pretty cool place to live, if you were a member of the ruling warrior caste. You know, the same ruling warrior caste who were all “members of the working class are legally required to receive a minimum of one (1) beating per year in order to remind them of their place, and also we encourage our children to literally hunt them for sport; on a completely unrelated note, we keep having violent rebellions and we can’t figure out why”.

@adorablegorilla replied:

They were still better than Athens all things considered

Ancient Greek city-states looking at Athens and going “well, at least we’re better than Athens” is the Classical equivalent of modern nations looking at the United States and going “well, at least we have a better human rights record than America”.

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hvvrtfulloflove-deactivated2021:

The European Roma institute for arts and culture just released a 253 pages book on the romani resistance during World War II, written by a collective of European historians

It is available for free here

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classicslesbianopinions:

lines of antigone that i live in my head rent-free:

• you have a hot heart for cold deeds (line 88)
  
• i know that i am dying. why not die for this? (line 460)
  

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biconachilles:

reading histories from the ancient world can be really fun because sometimes you get killer lines such as: “Thus Gaius [Caligula], after doing in three years, nine months, and twenty-eight days all that has been related, learned by actual experience that he was not a god” like fucking drag him Dio Cassius

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diaryofandnwoman:

The story of a national crime : being an appeal for justice to the Indians of Canada ; the wards of the nation, our allies in the Revolution

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So I just now learned about Stagecoach Mary and how have I never heard of this absolute LEGEND of a woman before

healthydoser:

fuzzynecromancer:

historyisntboring:

augustdementhe:

bai-xue-lives:

• She was born a slave and freed when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued (she was about 30)
• She was about six feet tall and 200 pounds and once she was free she decided she’d never take shit from anyone ever again
• When one of her close friends, a nun by the name of Mother Amadeus, became ill with pneumonia at her convent in Montana, Mary headed alone into the frontier to nurse Mother Amadeus back to health
• After Mother Amadeus recovered, she gave Mary a job as the foreman of the convent. She repaired buildings, took care of chickens, made the long and dangerous journeys into town for supplies, and did other odd jobs.
• She could drink most men under the table, and one saloon offered five bucks and a free shot of whiskey to any man who could take a punch to the face from Mary and remain standing. 
• She was once said by a local paper to have broken more noses than anyone else in Montana
• She was outspokenly Republican, which at this time was the liberal party in America, and would get into political debates with the more conservative townsfolk
• One time a man insulted her outside the saloon so hit him in the face with a rock, and only stopped when other cowboys held her back.
• On one supply run into town, her wagon overturned and the horses fled. Mary spent all night single-handedly fending off a pack of wolves with her guns before she righted the heavy wagon by herself and tracked down the spooked horses. The only thing lost in the accident was a jar of molasses.
• She lost her job at the convent when she got into a gunfight with a male employee who did not want to take orders from a black woman. She reportedly shot him in the ass, which angered the local bishop.
• After losing her convent job, Mary spent a brief time running a restaurant, where she welcomed and served all comers
• When a job for a mail carrier opened at the local US Post Office, Mary got the job because she managed to hitch six horses to a wagon faster than any of the male candidates
• She was sixty at the time
• This made her the first black woman mail carrier, and the second woman mail carrier in US history
• When the snows were too deep for the horses to manage the long and dangerous delivery routes, Mary would strap on snowshoes, put the bags of mail on her shoulders, and do it herself
• At one point she apparently had a pet eagle????
• She only retired from the mail route when she was about 70 years old, and instead made a quieter living by babysitting and running a laundry business in the town of Cascade
• She was a huge baseball fan and often gave the local team a big bouquet of flowers from her garden
• The people of Cascade loved Mary so much that they closed the schools annually on her birthday
• When a law was passed in Montana that forbade women from drinking in saloons, the mayor of Cascade granted Mary an exemption. 
• When her house burned down, the whole town got together to help her build a new one
• She continued drinking, fighting, and going to baseball games until she died of liver failure at 82 in 1914

Mary (far right) and the local baseball team

Anyway sorry for gushing I just now heard about her and I’m in love

I’ve heard of her, but godDAMN, if her story doesn’t bear repeating. ^w^

She has her own wikipedia page. Enjoy.

Fuck all these WWII retreads, where is HER movie?!

About as American as you can get!

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