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I’m obsessed with Carmontelle’s exquisite portraits, so hard to pick favourites among those hundreds, but here are a few.
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You ever just... yell about #minecraft??
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1770-1780 Pink silk brocade robe (Robe a la francaise)
Sack back open gown of rose pink ribbed silk brocaded with scattered multicolored flower sprays and small cream flower sprigs, looped cream silk fringe trim, bodice with pendant self fabric bands to cross-over and pin under arms, center front eyelets forlacing, skirt knife pleated to bodice, interior linen waist tapes and loops for polonaise effect, homespun linen bodice and sleeve linings, hem deeply faced with soft cream China silk, (some seams unstitched, bodice alterations, center front waist repair.
(Augusta Auctions)
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Evening dress, 1840′s
From the Kent State University Museum on Facebook
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anyone else get embarrassed when their self indulgent daydreams are like too self-indulgent? like oh jeez the telepaths are going to judge me
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Marie Antoinette’s fashion in Marie Antoinette (2006) requested by anonymous
Costume Design by Milena Canonero
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Can’t get over how adorable these lil guys are
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Where’d all the time go?
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It is impossible to please all the world.
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• Bodice and Skirt.
Design House: Raudnitz Grange Bateliere Cie
Date: 1895-1901
Place of origin: France
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“king” “queen” whatever happened to “citizen” “comrade”
lift your head, citizen, your Phrygian cap is slipping
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John: What are you doing, Ringo, hailing a cab?
Ringo: *dancing(?)* I’m practicing up for when we get to Hawaii. This is the way they do the huuuuula
Paul: If thats the way they do it i’m sorry we’re going
George: LOOK OUT *blasts off*
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You see, I’ve never walked the streets of Paris. But I’m sure you could tell me something about that. Marie Antoinette, 1938. [gifs colorized using DeOldify]
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June 14 2020 - Students at Jefferson High School in Portland tore down the Thomas Jefferson statue in front of their school. Thomas Jefferson wrote “All men are created equal“ in the US declaration of Independence, but he was a life-long slave owner who enslaved over 600 people throughout his lifetime. [video]
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Three women in Marshall, Texas c. 1899
Photographed by Gabriele Munter
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Calm down there French baguette ✋✋
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– George Washington Punching a Tiger
Source: Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi (童絵解万国噺), pub. 1861
From the 1630s to the 1850s under the Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan had implemented a strict ‘closed country’ policy, sakoku (鎖国), where trade with other countries was severely limited (mostly Dutch & Chinese traders) and a majority of the country had never met a foreigner in their lives. The policy ended in 1854 when under the orders of President Millard Fillmore, Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrived & after a series of visits (and under “threat of force”) Japan signed the Kanagawa Treaty to establish a trade relationship with the U.S.
As the country was increasingly exposed to outside cultures like America, many artisans began to create historical (as well as historical fiction) accounts of some of the stories they had heard & from imported books they had read. One such book, telling a very different story of the American Revolution, is Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi (童絵解万国噺), written by Robun Kanagaki & published in 1861, with art by Yoshitora Utagawa