Posted May 16, 2013 at 1:47am in supernatural supernatural spoilers spoilers 8x23 i honestly don't know how many different ways I can tag for spoilers anymore
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Shameless Middle-Earth Denizen: dreadelion: What if people told European history like they told Native...
What if people told European history like they told Native American history?
The first immigrants to Europe arrived thousands of years ago from central Asia. Most pre-contact Europeans lived together in small villages. Because the continent was very crowded, their lives were ruled by strict hierarchies within the family and outside it to control resources. Europe was highly multi-ethnic, and most tribes were ruled by hereditary leaders who commanded the majority “commoners.” These groups were engaged in near constant warfare.
Pre-contact Europeans wore clothing made of natural materials such as animal skin and plant and animal-based textiles. Women wore long dresses and covered their hair, and men wore tunics and leggings. Both men and women liked to wear jewelry made from precious stones and metals as a sign of status. Before contact, Europeans had very poor diets. Most people were farmers and grew wheat and vegetables and raised cows and sheep to eat. They rarely washed themselves, and had many diseases because they often let their animals live with them. Religion infused every part of Europeans’ lives.
Europeans believed in one supreme deity, a father figure, who they believed was made of three parts, and they particularly worshiped the deity’s son. They claimed that their god had given humans domination over the earth. They built elaborate temples to him and performed ceremonies in which they ate crackers and drank wine and believed it was the body and blood of their god, who would provide them with entrance into a wondrous afterlife called heaven when they died. Many wars were fought over disagreements about the details of this religion, each group believing their interpretation was the right one that should be spread across the land.
Now imagine that is part of a textbook that has entire chapters on the Mississippian polities of the 1200s and a detailed account of the diplomatic situation of the southeastern provinces in the 1400s and 1500s, an enormous section that goes through the history of the rise of the Triple Alliance in Mexico and goes through the rule of each tlatoani and their policies, the heritage of Teotihuacan and its legacy in later Mesoamerican politics, elaborate descriptions of the trade routes that connected and drove various nations in North America. Long explanations of the rise of various religious movements such as the calumet ceremony and Midewiwin, and how they affected political agendas and artistic trends. Pages and pages and pages going through the past thousand years of American history century by century.
And these three paragraphs are the only mention of European history before the year 1500.
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This is how I’d play chess
I HAVE NEVER LOVED A VIDEO SO DEARLY
HOLY SHIT
everything sounds so regal with the British accenent
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i made sum pancakes
oh my god are you shitting me
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Posted May 9, 2013 at 9:21am in I simply cannot even express an opinion right now I am tlhat amazed
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if cas needs the angel tablet to save him from naomi and its currently ripped out of his stomach is he just going to have to carry it around forever now and cuddle it like a teddy bear or what
London, 1601. A Conversation with Shakespeare
- BURBAGE: Hey, Will, I've been looking over this "to be or not to be" stuff, and I think we have a problem.
- SHAKESPEARE: Really? What?
- BURBAGE: Well, you know lines 78-80?
- SHAKESPEARE: You mean where I call death "the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns"? What's wrong with that?
- BURBAGE: You do realize we have a ghost in this play, right?
- SHAKESPEARE: ...
- BURBAGE: ...
- SHAKESPEARE: Ehh, let's just keep it in. Maybe no one will notice.
Posted May 1, 2013 at 11:47pm in ahahahaha plot hole shakespeare hamlet HOW DID I NEVER NNOTICE
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These are… actually pretty inspiring.
Cool.
Forever reblog.
“you are never taller than when you stand up for yourself”
thats just awesome
“You’re the result of 4 billion years of evolutionary success; F***ING ACT LIKE IT.”
My fave right there.
((I can’t help loving courage wolf or whatever this meme is called.))
It’s Courage Wolf. What, are you 12.9?
Take back what’s yours. LOL. Just the pep talk I needed.
okay, not always, but sometimes this is what I need.
Some Courage Wolves I’ve seen were horrible, because the maker confused courage with sheer aggression, but these are GOODIES.
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Posted May 1, 2013 at 7:11pm in the devil wears prada game of thrones house tyrell takes no bullshit
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Posted April 30, 2013 at 10:04pm in supernatural so do the writers just feel the need to point this out or what castiel
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