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Flyboy Extraordinaire ✨️

Your favorite pilot, Alfred F. Jones, here to keep the skies clear for ya!

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TIL that Harvard professor Tom Lehrer was asked at the age of 84 by rapper 2 Chainz if he could sample his 60-year old song. Lehrer replied, “I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?”

via ift.tt

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Inside out muscle dog = amigurumi crochet textile effect

Odogaron- you can buy him as a sticker here. May turn him into a charm eventually!

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You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended

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Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (43-38673) in the mud after the right landing gear collapsed during a landing accident at Erding, Germany

Date: July 28, 1945

history on this bomber: "Accepted by USAAF August 31, 1944. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY August 31, 1944. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA September 5, 1944. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH Sep 15, 1944. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*L], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 0ctober 28, 1944. {first combat mission October 30, 1944). (63 missions). Converted for trooping, stripped of all armament and turrets, capable of carrying thirty passengers on benches installed in the waist and bomb bay. 384th Bomb Group, Istres (Station 195), Marseille, France. Participated in the Green Project which was the USAAF solution to expedite the return of troops to USA (code #54). It called for the round-the-clock airlift of troops from Istres, France, to Casablanca, French Morocco, the initial leg of their journey home. From Casablanca, Air Transport Command's aircraft completed the journey and flew the troops to the United States. A secondary task of the Green Project included flying French citizens who had been in exile during the war on the return leg from NAS Port Lyautey, French Morocco to Istres. The Green Project operated from June 15, 1945 to September 10, 1945. Landing accident at Erding (R-91), Germany July 28, 1945. The right landing gear collapsed and ground looped into the mud. Salvaged 0ctober 4, 1945"

- information from American Air Museum in Britain: UPL 60868

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An Ornate agate sword hilt with inlayed gold disks. From tomb 81 (Mycenae's chamber tombs excavated by the Greek archaeologist Christos Tsountas 1887-1898).

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Since I talk about the difference between history as a hobby and as professional research reasonably often, here are books I think you should read if you want to think more about how history is created:

Time’s Monster: How History Makes History by Priya Satia

Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-century Europe by Hayden White

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

The Past is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal

Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by Ann Laura Stoler

Dust: The Archive and Cultural History by Carolyn Steedman

If other people have books they would consider key, please add them. It might be good to start a longer list.

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Soviet Soldier feeding Polar Bear condensed sweet milk

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love when im watching a documentary and im like "yep thats an egyptologist alright"

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Tiny

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frequently kind and suddenly cruel

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Arthur Kirkland, cca 1953.

The colonies have grown teeth. The empire weighs less than the coat he wears. He does not speak of loss. He only reads of it.

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I miss this garbage can 🥹

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alfred still top anyway 💘

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Oooohhhh I wanna put him in a blender

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Three Keepers of Fate, beholders of Past, Present, and Future and all that lies within.

Finally getting around to posting this (💔) but made these as gifts and also because my mind thinks of these three an almost diabolical amount.

Matheryn- belongs to me

Dmitri- @ironicorange

Iskandar- @gremlins-hotel

Thank you for partaking in the d&d brainrot with me and for letting me draw yalls mega hotties ✨️

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notes on an edit i made in 2013

notes on a gifset i posted in 2025

we used to be a country