"Please. We both know I'm a phenomenal dancer"

francescadarimini: taxidermyextaordinaire: In 1731, King...

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:30:56 -0400

taxidermyextaordinaire:

In 1731, King Frederick I of Sweden gave a lion he had killed to a taxidermist who had never seen a lion before, and this was the result

i just laughed so hard i cried

barkingowlblog: My pup :) My friend has literally one of the...

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:37:19 -0400

barkingowlblog:

My pup :)

My friend has literally one of the cutest doggies I’ve seen.

If I were to come out...

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:30:57 -0400

I think I’d gather all close friends and family in my living room. In the center would sit a sizable ghetto blaster. After a few minutes of suspenseful silence, I’d walk up, press play, then turn and slowly exit, hip-thrusting to the melodious tones of the Beastie Boys’ “Girls”.

barkingowlblog: breakingbadamc: this is my own private...

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:46:57 -0400

barkingowlblog:

breakingbadamc:

this is my own private domicile.

Love this show

flavorpill: thegliitch: The Starks credits to owner Arya +...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:09:13 -0400

flavorpill:

thegliitch:

The Starks

credits to owner

Arya + Tony = best fake sibling pairing of all time

did-you-kno: Source

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:00:05 -0400

did-you-kno:

Source

Biggie Smalls (Thomas the tank engine remix)

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:38:41 -0400

Biggie Smalls (Thomas the tank engine remix):

Biggie Smalls puts the hood in Childhood. Songs used: Come on by Biggie Smalls. Thomas the tank engine theme song.

I can’t take credit for even finding this but it combines two very polar but very fun things. It needed to be shared with the world.

buzzfeedfood: You’ll never have to buy these 30 foods again.

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:17:41 -0400

buzzfeedfood:

You’ll never have to buy these 30 foods again.

odditiesoflife: The Mysterious Penitentes First described by...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:48:02 -0400

odditiesoflife:

The Mysterious Penitentes

First described by Charles Darwin in literature in 1839, penitentes are rare, unique snow formations found at high altitudes above 4,000 meters on the Andes mountains. They are called “penitentes” because the white spikes resemble processions of white-hooded monks. They take the form of tall thin blades of hardened snow, or ice, with the blades pointing towards the general direction of the sun. Penitentes range in size from several centimeters to over 5 meters tall.

They are rare because they only appear in the dry Andes Mountain region on the border of Argentina and Chile. It is believed their formation is due to strong winds. This was Darwin’s explanation and no one has come up with a better one for their existence in over 170 years.

lotrconfessions: Although I have trust in The Hobbit...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:25:51 -0400

lotrconfessions:

Although I have trust in The Hobbit production crew, I pray that the next two films are so mindblowing the critics who bashed the first film so terribly will have to eat their own words.

the-absolute-best-gifs: This post has been featured on a...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:29:37 -0400

the-absolute-best-gifs:

This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.

Just stumbled upon this Fandom Secret and it really articulated...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:19:58 -0400

Just stumbled upon this Fandom Secret and it really articulated something that I always felt was an inconsistency, or lacking but could never quiiiite put my finger on. Maybe it’s from spending all of college studying ancient cultures. Regardless of the reason, now that it’s been pointed out, I can’t unsee it. Anywhere. I’m doomed to be constantly plagued by this annoyance.

questionableadvice: ~ The College Freshman’s Don’t Book, by...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:11:13 -0400

questionableadvice:

~ The College Freshman’s Don’t Book, by George Fullerton Evans, 1910
via Internet Archive

obitoftheday: Obit of the Day: Started the Warsaw Ghetto...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:07:26 -0400

obitoftheday:

Obit of the Day: Started the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising officially began on April 19, 1943 but the foundation for the first urban rebellion against the Nazis was laid months earlier.

Having already deported or killed 300,000 Jews in the summer of 1942, the Jewish residents of the segregated ghetto would not sit idly by and allow the Nazis to simply ship more men, women, and children to death camps. Several resistance group came together to create the Jewish Combat Organization (or Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa in Polish).

Boruch Spiegel, just 23 at the time, joined the fight.

On January 18, 1943 as the Nazis came to round up another group of residents for deportation, members of the ZOB, armed with pistols, secretly joined the Jews who were rounded up. As they neared the gates of the ghetto, the armed fighters attacked the German soldiers. This allowed the deportees to to scatter. Although approximately 6,000 Jews were still taken from the ghetto, the resistance forced the Germans to halt all deportations beginning on January 21.

They would return.

On April 19, the day before Passover, the Germans marched to the ghetto with plans to liquidate it. But the resistance had learned of the Nazi plans and were ready. As the Germans approached the ghetto Mr. Spiegel was on guard duty and gave the signal to attack.

Armed with some guns taken from soldiers in January, some 750 members of ZOB hid in attics and bunkers and attacked the Germans. The army was forced, again, to retreat.

The Germans’ new plan was to simply burn the ghetto down, building by building. The organized resistance collapsed within days. But it would take until May 16, 1943 for the Germans to completely take control of the ghetto. The Jews of Warsaw had held the German army at bay for 28 days. (For perspective, Poland fell to the Nazis after 26 days in September 1939.)

The Jewish fighters did not win, though. Seven thousand were killed during the Uprising. Seven thousand more were captured and sent to Treblinka where they were immediately gassed. The remaining 42,000 residents of the ghetto were rounded up and deported to various concentration camps. The ghetto was razed and Warsaw’s Jews were gone.

Mr. Spiegel, and 60 other fighters, managed to escape Warsaw through sewage tunnels and joined the Polish resistance. Spiegel, who would see his father die of malnutrition in the ghetto and also lose his mother, two sisters, and a brother, would fight the Germans until the end of the war in 1945. This included another uprising throughout the entire city of Warsaw in 1944.

Mr. Spiegel, who married fellow ZOB fighter Chaike Belchatowska, was one of three resistance members remaining at the time of his death of May 7, 2013 at the age of 93. According to his son-in-law, Eugene Orenstein, a retired professor of Jewish history, there are only two members of the Ghetto Uprising still living: Mr. Simka Rotem and Mrs. Pnina Greenspan, both of whom live in Israel.

Sources: NY Times, Denver Post, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

(Image of Boruch Spiegel, taken prior to the September 1939 invasion of Poland when he was 19 years old, is courtesy of the LA Times)

Obit of the Day has also created a new Holocaust page. Take some time to check it out.

buzzfeed: BREAKING: you can make your own Nutella.

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:06:38 -0400

buzzfeed:

BREAKING: you can make your own Nutella.

neil-gaiman: jupiterstarr: Abandoned Amusement Park in New...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:50 -0400

neil-gaiman:

jupiterstarr:

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

they say New orleans is haunted… this has proved the theory 100%

I was sending photos like this to everyone when I started writing Nightmare in Silver. There is something uniquely disturbing about abandoned Amusement Parks.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:01 -0400

the-absolute-best-gifs:

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fuckyeahhistorycrushes: See this man and his magnificent...

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:03:14 -0400

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

See this man and his magnificent turban? This is Giovanni Batista Belzoni! He was a six-foot-seven strongman with a travelling circus until he ended up in Egypt to show off his engineering skills to the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan. Yep, he wasn’t just muscles. He’d worked out a hydrolics system that would raise the waters of a little river known as THE NILE! The job didn’t pan out ,but did that bum out the Great Belzoni and his chameleon-collecting, cross-dressing wife, Sarah? No it did not! Instead they set off down the nile, fell in love with Egypt and became archeologists.

Have you ever seen the statue of Ramses II in the British Museum? You know how it got there. Let me give you a hint. 130 men, a pully and log system and all of engineering skills that sit under that fancy headwear. He also had to fight off some gun-toting frenchmen who also wanted the giant statute! There is a reason “The Young Memnon” isn’t in a French Museum. In fact a fair slab of the stuff found in the British museum is all there thanks to him.

You know the Pyramid of Khafre? Guess who was the first European inside that baby in thousands of years? Was it the french who wanted to blow the entrance open with dynomite? Was it the English who kept taking credit for Belzoni’s awesome discoveries? Or was it a giant bearded Italian strongman who used nothing but his enginuity (and a battering ram). And he made sure Henry Salt couldn’t take all the credit like he did for some of Belzoni’s other finds, the Italian wrote BELZONI WAS HERE in giant undesputible letters on the wall. Most historians frown on him for this, but then again most historians weren’t the first inside a freakin’ pyramid.

He was also the first inside the Tomb of Seti I, also known as KV17. Go look it up. We’ll wait. Yep. See that Egyptian splendor. All found by Belzoni.

To sum up. Imagine Indianna Jones as an Goliathian Italian Strongman who blew his way into tombs with battering rams and had brawls with other archeologists who tried to touch his stuff. That’s Belzoni.

Photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:59:45 -0400

Adventures in Essay Marking

Wed, 22 May 2013 05:41:43 -0400

Student: 'My interests is greetings. A lot of people said 'you have a good manner to me'
Student: 'I like the actor, Bruce Willis, although he's about 60 years old'
Student: (On Computers) 'Computers produce electromagnetism while showing lights on the screen... It is completely, extremely harmful to people's health'
Student: 'When the weekend is coming, I throb'
Student: 'Violate games can cause violation'
Student: I think I'm natural born sportsman. Just a joke. lol.
Student: My hobbies are watching car blog or pocket knife and watching wallet
Student: My hobby is playing and making legos. When I do that I can feel many feelings'
Student: 'Many people said to them "Do Exercise". But if they are not good at sports... I think they have to decide the time to play the computer'