prokopetz: tangledbea: pinkwitchfairy: In Tangled and Tangled: The Series, Rapunzel is the sole heir to the crown as the only child of her father, Kind Frederic. Rapunzel’s position as a future queen seems to have raised many questions in the fandom. Because I’m a history enthusiast, I wanted to make some points clear for all fans and fanfiction writers.…

smoothcorner:

I just wanted to make something as a small, brief reminder for anyone, that is non-Mexican, who is celebrating May 5th.

If you want to participate and have fun in another culture/societies events and holidays, know what you’re participating in and why it’s being celebrated. And always be respectful of the people. A culture is not a cake that you get to slice up and only enjoy bits of it. Ya gotta have the whole thing to experience it all!

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful, safe Cinco de Mayo.

skunkbear:

Here’s a fun story: the ghost island of 1831! It was given various names by the many men who claimed it – “Julia,” “Ferdinandea,” “Graham Island.” When it disappeared, those men mostly forgot about it. 

But Charles Lyell, a good friend and colleague of Charles Darwin, was really excited about the island. He saw this underwater volcano as evidence of this theory of geologic uniformitarianism (the idea that the forces we see at work in the world today have always been shaping the world) and wrote about it the second volume of his major work. It was called Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth’s surface, by reference to causes now in operation.

You can learn more about lava (and see this story fully animated) in Skunk Bear’s latest video: THE LAVA AFFAIR.

pengychan: feministworldproblems: Anne Frank was denied asylum in the US. Just lke hundred thousand more jews trying to flee from Nazi-Germany. People with dreams and ambitions are still being denied asylum, are dying on the sea, in the desert, in wars or being deported because people don’t see them as humans, but just as foreigners…

Language

naamahdarling: ischemgeek: naamahdarling: twilight-blossom: naamahdarling: (This post is going around.  Since I pretty much like the post, I’m making my own post rather than introducing this in the responses there, but I do want to link to it for context.) A really cool and classy trans lady I corresponded with for a while on a…

Im curious about the history of the stigma against Jewish people? I’m Irish and while I know about ww2 and all the only religions I’ve been taught about are Catholicism and Protestantism Sorry, what I’m trying to ask is how did the stigma against Jewish people start/why did it start in the west? I don’t know anything about it really but I’ve been reading a lot about it lately and I’d really like to know more, I’m sorry if this comes across as offensive or rude, I’m really not trying to be 😰

roachpatrol: spaceshipoftheseus: jumpingjacktrash: roachpatrol: it’s always a very brave and good act to admit ignorance and ask for information! don’t let people shame you for it, it’s worse to stay quiet and uneducated.  there’s a whole lot of theories on why jews are marginalized, from ‘well, those jews are assholes,’ to ‘well, everyone but us…

ALAN TURING DID NOT CRACK ENIGMA

flo-nelja: refrigeratorbucky: IT WAS MARIAN REJWESKI, A POLISH MATHEMATICIAN WHO BROKE THE CODE. HE MADE WHAT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BREAKTHROUGHS IN CRYTPOLOGY  AND IN THE SECOND WORLD WAS BY USING THE THEORY OF PERMUTATIONS AND GROUPS. JERZY RÓŻYCKI WAS ANOTHER POLISH MATHEMATICIAN WHO INVENTED THE “CLOCK” METHOD AND WITH  HENRYK ZYGALSKI, ANOTHER POLISH MATHEMATICIAN WHO CAME…

kila9nishika: television-and-tea: fandomsandfeminism: Things that ACTUALLY EXISTED FOR REAL IN EUROPEAN HISTORY: Non-white people, mostly those of North African and Middle Eastern heritage who were immigrants, merchants, missionaries, mercenaries  advisors, and scholars; female leaders, including the famed Warrior Queen Boudicca; and queer folk, seriously, Shakespeare wrote sonnets for dudes. Things that did NOT actually exist for real in…

TL;DR: Women tended to marry between 20 and 32. Read why below!

thescarletqueen: thursdayplaid: zennihilation: thursdayplaid: zennihilation: othercat2: thursdayplaid: aufanficfanatic said: Isn’t it like, 14 or something? I dunno man, educate me.  I’m so glad you asked @aufanficfanatic because I have so much to say! In upper classes the children were considered the property of the family, so they married whenever the parents wanted them too. There…

anexperimentallife: gothartwin: thenerdofsparta: khaleesijade: simaraknows: gilbertbielschmidt: seduce me with ur history knowledge  vikings made their woman handle the finances because they thought math is witchcraft The idea that unicorns are only able tamed and captured by virgins originated as a medieval joke. The idea was that it took a mythical creature to catch a mythical…