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Since I’m oh so Lucky to share a birthday with him :3 I would love to talk about how I’ve had a crazy crush on the Japanese novelist and short story writer Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) since I was 13! I find his writing, with it’s relatable themes and characters and often sardonic humor, as well as photos of him (physical appearance) crazily attractive and have been motivated solely by him to learn Japanese in order to read more of his works that have yet to be translate into copies. Despite what he thought of himself as a writer, I find him to have been incredibly talented, especially at such a young range of age! I truly wish he could see just how famous and loved he is as writer in both his own country and even other parts of the world. I just adore him so so much. And, please enjoy this photo I chose as it is one of my many favorite photos of him (I’m also so obsessed with Dazai I even write references of his into my own stories and one day I may post things about that on my own page heehehehe).

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I have to admit that Mozart has started to grow on me. He has such kissable lips and delicate hands that could caress your face as he hums in your ear. His eyes are sharp enough to seduce you with a single gaze before he pulls you in with his music.

It's bad enough that I have one of his compositions on my PC. I've also dedicated an entire HOUR to designing a character for a project that was made with his likeness in mind. I've held this crush for him for so long, and I'm glad I could tell others about it on this blog.

Classical composers are dreamy... (I need help.)

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alexandra kollontai, a russian revolutionary and the first woman ambassador

have you seen her??? now you have <3

what a woman what an amazing woman...

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Submitting Raoul Wallenberg(1912 - disappeared 1945),Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of thousands during the later stages of WW2.

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Don  Victor Peñasco (1887-1912), Spanish multimillionaire noted for his elegant suits

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Franciszek Krudowski (1860–1945) - Polish painter. (Painted by Jan Styka). He painted mainly portraits and religious scenes.

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Thomas Riley Marshall looks so friendly. I think he’s really cute! He was Woodrow Wilson’s vice president, and a real progressive pro-worker’s rights guy. He was also known for his sense of humor (he was so fond of telling jokes that Wilson apparently moved his office so he wouldn’t bother anyone). One of his more famous quips was “A woman had two sons. One was lost at sea and the other became Vice President. Neither was heard from again.”

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Shout out to you still being around, I think you were around when I had an active euro history blog in like 2010/2011. Am I remembering that right? Good for you

Yes! This blog started in 2010, so that sounds right! Haha, old dead people are hot and I can't quit...

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I actually have many history crushes, but I want to focus on the "uncredited hero" of the cold war. I want to shout out to Vasili arkhipov, a Russian officer of the navy, for stopping a potential annihilation of humanity by nuclear arsenal conflict, through saying "no" of launching nukes.

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Christopher Head (1869-1912), barrister, insurance broker, Mayor of Chelsea, art collector and Titanic victim

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Victor Penasco (1887-1912), a Spanish millionaire whose suits attracted attention on Titanic before his death as a hero in a tuxedo

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Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826): a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and musical critic best known for his operas, particularly Der Freischütz (The Marksman), and often called the first true Romantic. He is known as the creator of Romantische Oper (German Romantic Opera), incorporating elements of poetry, history, folk music, folklore, and dramatic storytelling in his works, greatly developing the leitmotif technique. He advocated for the international recognition of German music and influenced the styles of many other famous composers, most notably Wagner and Mendelssohn. He was fascinated by non-Western music, and was the first Western composer to use an Asian tune in his compositions. His works also helped elevate the status of the clarinet to that of a solo instrument. Weber was also known for being one of the first conductors to conduct without a piano or violin and popularised the use of the baton. He loved his work and audiences often remarked on how excited he became during performances. And he also just looked really pretty!

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Tamara Wiszniewska (1919-1981) - Polish actress

Tamara Wiszniewska was born on December 19, 1919 in Dubno, Poland (now a region in western Ukraine) on the banks of the Ikva River. It was here that she spent her younger years during which she picked up dancing, which eventually led her to her career in film. In her 1981 obituary in the Democrat & Chronicle, it was reported that Tamara, at age 15, “Was a ballet dancer, when German film director Paul Wegener discovered her and gave her a role in the historical film, August der Starke (August the Strong)” which premiered in 1936. This German/Polish co-production is a biographical look into the life of Augustus II, ruler of Saxony and Poland-Lithuania from 1694-1733. Although Tamara played only a small role it marked her debut and eventual rise to fame within the Polish film industry.

Following her appearance in August der Starke, Tamara appeared in thirteen other films between 1936 and 1939, including Trójka Hultajska (The Trio Hultajska, 1937), Ordynat Michorowski (Ordinate Michorowski, 1937), and Kobiety nad Przepaścią (Women Over the Precipice, 1938). Wladyslaw (Walter) Mikosz, Tamara’s future husband, produced two of these films. In an interview, Tamara and Walter’s daughter, Irene, states that, "The two met because of their film careers, and were married [late that same year] in 1937".

Life for the Mikoszs was happy for a time. Tamara continued to pursue her acting career through 1938 and 1939 and had welcomed a new born daughter into the world alongside her husband, Wladyslaw. Unfortunately, these happy times did not last long as the Mikosz family experienced the rise of Nazi Germany and their occupation of Poland in 1939 during World War II. The following excerpt from an interview with Tamara in a 1974 Times Union tells how drastically their lives were changed:

"I always played a rich spoiled girl who had lovely clothes, and for a short time I lived that kind of life too. It was a short, beautiful life that ended when the Germans took over Poland in 1939. We were wealthy and the toast of the town then. We’d go to Prague and Vienna just to see an opera or to play in the casinos. When the Germans came, my intuition told me I should have something on me to exchange. I sewed my jewelry into my clothes. Later, it bought us passes to freedom and bread so we were never hungry."

The German occupation of Poland during World War II brought then “beautiful” life of the Mikosz family to an end. Gone were their illustrious careers in film and the rewards that such a life had brought to them. In a later interview, Irene mentioned that her mother "was preparing to sign a contract for a film career in Hollywood, but Hitler’s invasion of Poland derailed the plans". Sadly, Tamara’s last appearance on the silver screen was in 1939 prior to the invasion of Hitler’s Germany; she never again starred in any films.

Although her dreams had been crushed, Tamara and her family did not lose hope. They made the best of their current situation, and were able to survive by selling the fruits of their labors that they harvested during their days in the film industry; their lives had been consumed with a fight to survive rather than a dream to thrive. However, not being ones to live quiet lives, the Mikoszs volunteered for the Polish Underground, the exiled Polish government that fought to resist German occupation of Poland during World War II. As civilians with backgrounds in film, Tamara and Walter were most likely engaged in spreading Polish nationalistic and anti-German propaganda. Such efforts of the civilian branch of the Polish Underground was in support of what Jan Kamieński refers to as "small sabotage" in his book, Hidden in the Enemy's Sight: Resisting the Third Reich from Within: "In contrast of major sabotage, the idea of small sabotage was to remind the German occupiers of an enduring Polish presence, to ensure that they felt a constant sense of unease and generally undermine their self-confidence". While attending to these duties within the Underground, the Mikosz family was separated and shipped off to separate countries: Tamara and her daughter, Irene, to Czechoslovakia (where Tamara’s parents had been sent) and Walter to Bavaria. The family was not reunited until 1945, when they were sent to the same refugee camp in Bavaria. The Mikoszs remained in the Bavarian refugee camp until the year 1950, in which they emigrated to the United States of America. Tamara and Walter lived quiet lives in Rochester, NY after arriving from a war-torn Europe, and did so until they passed away.

Although they have long since passed away from this Earth, the stories of the Polish film star, Tamara, and her film-producer husband, Wladyslaw Mikosz, will live on so long as there are people around to tell it.

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Jadwiga Andrzejewska (1915–1977), Polish actress. She was very popular in the 1930s.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay was a poet whose work was definitional to the glamour of Roaring Twenties America. She was born in 1892 and when she was just seven, her mother divorced her father and took her and her sisters to live in Maine. The Millay household was one of strong, intelligent, independent women and the bond they shared is one of the most fascinating I've ever read about.

Millay wrote poetry from a young age, and when she was twenty, her poem Renascence got the attention of a wealthy woman who decided to sponsor her way through college. She went to Vassar and was nearly prevented from walking at her graduation for breaking curfew one to many times, but her classmates all rallied to defend her and the headmaster relented.

People could not stop falling in love with this woman. In her Vassar years, many women fell head over heels for her. She also had many affairs with men. When she did marry, in 1923, she and her husband loved each other dearly, but neither gave up the relationships they had on the side, they "lived like a pair of old bachelors."

Her poetry is beautiful and aside from being the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, she was also such an evocative wordsmith. Themes of love, death, and nature are prevalent throughout, but she has a unique twist on them. I really appreciate the way that women are depicted in her work as whole beings with wants and needs outside of being a chaste object of desire for a male narrator.

And also she's very beautiful. I could only attach one picture here but she really is very good to look at.

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Konstantin "Koča" Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Константин "Коча" Поповић; 14 March 1908 – 20 October 1992) was a Serbian and Yugoslav politician and communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, 1937–1939 and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division of the Yugoslav Partisans. He is on occasion referred to as "the man who saved the Yugoslav Partisans", because it was he who anticipated the weakest point in the Axis lines on the Zelengora–Kalinovik axis, and devised the plan for breaking through it during the Battle of Sutjeska, thus saving Josip Broz Tito, his headquarters and the rest of the resistance movement. After the war, he served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People's Army, before moving to the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs and spent the final years of his political career as Vice President of Yugoslavia.

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Audie Leon Murphy, US Army. Most decorated US soldier in WW2. He was turned away from every other branch for being too short.

When he came back, he became a Hollywood star for a while, even starring in a biopic about his life called “To Hell & Back”. I was married in the home he shared with his sisters at the end of his life.

The salad bar on his chest there? He won them all during the war, serving in Europe.