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Modern Knife Types / Blade Shapes

For sources: http://sword-site.com/thread/1111/diagrams-modern-knife-types

Sword-Site - The World’s Largest Sword Museum

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Traditional Chinese clothes, hanfu—how to wear hanfu of Song Dynasty style.  CR:  桑纈 and 龙家小傲

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This post has over 500+ notes now which is crazy.

Since I’m trying to dress better and more grown up and also since watching Kingsman: The Secret Service have I gotten more interested in dress shoes and as it is said in the movie “Oxfords not Brogues”. 

I’ve just compiled some diagrams I’ve seen on the first page of google so credit where credit is due none of these images are mine.

This is just a reference for me and for anyone else who is interested.

Update: Added detail of the different Brogues

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10 Free Online Resources to Improve Your Writing

by Sharon Crosby

It often seems that there are not enough online resources for writers. There are a lot of good books on the subject, but they cost a lot of money because the writing community is a relatively small niche. Here are 7 resources you can use whether you are a professional writer or a young content manager to improve your writing, to make your content more interesting or to get published. All the websites have something different to offer writers.

Writer’s Digest

Get your hands on lots of writing and research advice. The homepage is a little too crammed with links for most people’s liking, but once you get used to how the website works you can find plenty of tips and lots of pieces of advice on writing. The great thing is that there are lots of different types of help available on the website. If you want help with your spelling, sentence structure or use of words, then there are resources for that. If you want to be published, improve your blog traffic, or write for websites, then the Writer’s Digest will help you as well.

Positive Writer

This is probably one of the best-put-together blogs on the Internet. The formatting, setting and visuals are perfect for the type and style of blog the author has created. Get on this blog and read the advice given on how to become a good writer. Sign up for the RSS feed and read the new posts every week. So if you want to both get practical tips on writing and enjoy website navigation start reading this blog.

Guide to Grammar & Writing

However it is such a hard website to love because it is poorly constructed and has a terrible navigation system, it is crammed with very good information. It is like a gold nugget that has dropped in a muddy bog. If you really want to learn from it, then use the text-only functions to get rid of most of the old-fashioned design and read the sections and categories as if they were chapters in a book. If you can find a way of getting to the information you need, you will be far better off as a writer.

EssayMama Writing Guide

This guide has a wealth of information you can use for free, and there is plenty of advice for both budding and experienced writers. However it gives tips mostly on writing essays, all pieces of advice are general and can be used by anyone who deals with writing on regular basis. If you are writing for fun, for profit or for your education, then the Essay Mama writing guide can help you.

Pro Blogger

This is a blogging website that does have posts relating solely to writing, and the writer is clearly good at marketing his or her writing skills. Some of the posts are so enticing that you have to respect the fact that the blogger knows something about how to keep his or her readers—and that sort of advice can help you when you are writing. Check out the website and prepare to both love and hate the content (many posts will be worth your while reading).

Write to Done

This is a website with truly helpful articles about writing. It is worth a look when you have some free time. The paid functions are not worth your time. It is better if you use this website when you have an hour or so to kill and you want some easy-but-education reading.

Writing.com

This website is lauded by a minority of students, and it would have far more followers and users if it did not insist on making people sign up and buy memberships. Signing up for a paid membership is not worth your time and money, but the free content is worth reading if you want to improve your writing skills.

Grammar Monster

This is another website that part of you will want to hate and part of you will love. The grammar lessons it provides have been split into very small sections, which has over-simplified the process a little too much. On the other hand, if you need a simple grammar question answering, then all you have to do is look through the categories listed and find the one that is the most suitable. This website is perfect both for young and experienced writers.

SpellCheck Plus

If you are a writer, you will know there are no perfect spelling and grammar checking programs on this planet (paid or otherwise). Many of them are based on the Ginger database, and there are few that are able to improve your writing by a large degree. Many spelling and grammar checkers will miss things that you really need fixed. One of the most common things that spelling and grammar checkers miss are the misuse of words, and that is why SpellCheck Plus is on this article. It is one of the few spelling and grammar checkers that highlights possible misuse of words for you to check.

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Fan Bingbing - The Empress of China

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Photoshop required !

Works well together with this tutorial!

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You know what I love?  Names.  You know what I love more than just names?  Geographically accurate names.

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(Current popular names all over the world)

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The following information was found here

Names From The Ancient World

Eastern

Egypt

Greece

Rome

Africa

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Medieval European Names Medieval English Names

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Anglo-Saxon/Old English Names

Dithematic Names (Name with two elements)

Monothematic Names (Single element names & bynames)

Religion (Gods; Goddesses; Calendar)

Rulers

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CELTIC

Ireland  [Celtic-Male Origin | Celtic-Female Origin | More]

Scotland  [Naming Patterns | Celtic Origin | Biblical Origin | More]

Wales  [Naming Practices | Biblical Origin | Welsh Surnames | More]

Brittany  [Male | Female | Surnames | More]

Old Celtic  [Male | Female | Religion | Cornwall | Isle of Man | More]

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Modern English First Names

The Central Stock of English First Names

Linknames (feminine forms of Biblical, Celtic, germanic, Greek, Latin and Modern male names)

Saints (calendar of saints, patron saints)

Modern Coinages Placenames | Blended | Combined | Borrowed Words | Unisex

Surname Adaptations (English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and Foreign surnames used as first names)

Themed Names (twins, mulit-births, colors, creatures dates, etc)

More

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Western European Names

France | Naming Practices | Medieval | More

Italy | Latin | Medieval | More

Germany | Naming Practices | Medieval | More

Austria | First Names | Surnames | Rulers

Switzerland | First Names | Surnames

Netherlands | Naming Practices | Friesland | More

Belgium | Naming Practices | Walloon | More

Spain | Catalonia | Aragon | Asturias | Galicia | More

Portugal | Biblical Origin | Latin Origin | More

Basque | Male | Female | Surnames

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Eastern European Names

Poland | Slavonic Origin | Various | More

Hungary | Pronunciation etc | Names | More

Czech-Slovak | Czech | Slovak | Czechoslovakia | More

Albania | Male | Female | Surnames

Bulgaria | First Names | Surnames | More

Romania | Male | Female | Surnames

Former Yugoslavia Former Yugoslavia | Bosnia-Hercegovina | Croatia | Macedonia | Montenegro | Serbia | Slovenia

Greece | Greek Origin | Latin Origin | Surnames | More

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Scandinavian Names

Old Norse | Male | Female | Name Elements | More

Norway | Norse Origin | Germanic Origin | Surnames | More

Sweden | Norse Origin | Germanic Origin | Surnames | More

Denmark | Norse Origin | Various Origin | Surnames | More

Iceland | Norse Origin | Various Origin | Surnames | More

Faroe Islands | Norse Origin | Foreign Origin | Surnames

Finland | Pronunciation | Religion | Finnish | Compounds | More

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Former Soviet Union Names

Russia | Naming Practices | Slavic Origin | Surnames | More

Europe and the Caucasus  Ukraine | Belarus | Moldavia | Georgia | Armenia | Azerbaijan | Caucasus

Baltic States Estonia | Latvia | Lithuania | Finland

Asian Republics Kazakhstan | Tajikistan | Turkmenistan | Uzbekistan | Kirghizistan 

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African Names

Northern Africa | Gen. Names Morocco | Algeria | Tunisia | Libya | Egypt | Western Sahara 

Eastern Africa | Gen. Names Sudan | Ethiopia | Eritrea | Somalia | Djibouti | Uganda | Burundi | Rwanda | Kenya | Tanzania | Swahili 

Central Africa | Gen. Names Chad | Central African Republic | Cameroon | Equatorial Guinea | Gabon | Congo | Democratic Republic of Congo 

Western Africa | Gen. Names Mauritania | Mali | Burkina Fasu | Senegal | Gambia | Guinea-Bissau | Guinea | Sierra Leone | Liberia | Ivory Coast | Ghana | Togo | Benin | Niger | Nigeria 

Southern Africa | Gen. Names Angola | Zambia | Zimbabwe | Malawi | Mozambique | Namibia | Botswana | South Africa | Lesotho | Swaziland

African Islands Madagascar | Comoro Islands | Mauritius | Cape Verde Islands | Seychelles | Sao Tome and Principe 

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Northern Native American Names

Native names used in modern America

Various Native American Nations

Algonquin [Cheyenne, Shawnee, Mohican/Mahican]

Apache [Mimbreno, Warm Springs, White Mountain, Bedonkohe, Chiricahua]

Iroquois [Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onundagas, Seneca, Tuscaroa]

Ojibwa [Ojibway, Potawatomi, Chippewa]

Cherokee | Choctaw | Creek | Crow | Hopi | Kiowa | Miwok | Navajo | Nez Perce | Omaha | Osage | Seminole | Sioux | Yakima

Inuit

Southern and Central Native American Names

Aztec [History, Male, Female, Religion, Calendars, Rulers]

Inca [Male, Female, Religion, Calendars]

Maya [History, Male, Female, Religion, Calendars]

Amazonian [Names from tribes living in the rain forests]

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India

Hindu Names Male Names [A | B | C - K | L- Z] | Female | More

Hindu Gods

Sikh

Others

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Middle and Near Eastern 

Arab/Muslim Male | Female | More

East Iran | Turkey | Kurds | Pakistan | Bangladesh | Afghanistan

Jewish Names Biblical | Yiddish | Modern | Various | Surnames

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China  Info | Male | Female  

Japan  Info | Male | Female

Korea  Info | Male | Female

Mongolia

Himalayan  Nepal | Bhutan | Tibet

Indochina  Burma | Thailand | Vietnam | Cambodia | Laos

South East Asia  Indonesia | Malaysia | Brunei | The Philippines

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Pacific 

Polynesia Maori | Samoa | Tonga | French Polynesia | Fiji | Cook Islands | Easter Island | Hawai’i | Australia

Micronesia Federated States of Micronesia | Kirbati | Marashall Islands | Marianas Islands and Guam | Nauru | Belau

Melanesia Soloman Islands | Papua New Guinea | Vanuatu | Tuvalu

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Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.” 

The next part of Black Hair In Depth will feature styles and ideas for designing characters and I will release it around February. If you would like to see certain styles, please shoot me a message!

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Page pack #1 

Page #9  ➝ S t y l e

Name, Myers Briggs personality type and age stats. 

About, interests and tags dividers. 

230px x 367px display photo. 

Preivew. || Code. 

Page #10 ➝ B l a n k  S p a c e  

Name, Myers Briggs personality type and age stats. 

Infinite links.

230px x 367px display photo.

Preview. || Code. 

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Information from this post received from financedegreecenter.com, all image credits and information go them. 

I think this is a question we’ve all been wondering about.

Did you know that organ trade is illegal in every country except Iran?

BODY PARTS THE LIVING CAN SELL

$337 per pint of blood.

$70 for ten inches of hair.

Men’s hair is reduced to an amino acid used in baking goods.

Women’s hair is turned into wigs and weaves.

Bone Marrow

The most valuable part of your body sells for a high of $23,000 per gram. You can donate bone marrow, but it’s illegal to sell it.

Eggs: $12,400 per IVF cycle in U.S.

Egg donation is legal, but some choose to avoid hospital fees and buy eggs illegally or abroad.

Surrogate Wombs: $20,000-30,000 in India, $80,000-150,000 in the U.S.

Kidneys

Make up 75% of the global organ trade due to diabetes, high blood pressure and heart problems.

Theoretically, your body is worth up to $45 million dollars (But that’s only if you could harvest every usable chemical and part from it.)

FROM THE DEAD

Corneas: $24,400 implanted

Hearts: Legal–$997,700, Illegal– $119,000

Livers: Legal–$557,100, Illegal–$157,100

Kidneys–From U.S. $262,900

China–$62,000

India–$15,000

Ligaments and Bones– A few thousand dollars, depending on which one.

Skin–$10 per square inch

Skeletons–$2,993-5,500

SOURCES OF BODY PARTS

Legal:

Donated by Family, Friends

Charities, non-profits

Illegal: 

Looted Graves

Crooked morticians

Paid donors (often very poor)

Executed prisoners

Live prisoners

Blood Farms

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ATTENTION ARTISTS

Side Burn Deluxe  is an INCREDIBLE resource for hairstyles of all shapes and sizes and colors! Each one is amazing and unique and this site is brilliant and awesome serIOUSLY take heed and make good use of this!

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Explosions by Herczeg & Kaehr

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I don't know if you've done this one already but I didn't see it sooo... that's not how weed/alchohol works. too many fanfictions have hallucinogenic weed and grown men getting drunk on like one beer.

HAHA TELL ME ABOUT IT. 

One gem I read in the past six months implied that you could develop symptoms of a massive narcotic overdose by eating a bunch of antibiotic pills. I understand the basic thought process here, but no. Just no. 

Fanfic authors who want to involve drugs/drug use/abuse in your stories, rejoice, for there is Erowid. This is the motherlode of Info About The Drugs. There’s stuff about the various types of process used to make some drugs, there’s info on how they work physiologically, but of MOST use to the casual writer is the massive amount of trip reports. Want to write a character tweaking their face off on meth? Erowid has you down. Want to write a character tripping balls? Erowid’s LSD section is HUGE. Want to know how weed actually makes you feel without, y’know, doing it yourself? Erowid. Datura? Salvia? Ecstasy? Various flavors of speed? Erowid. 

I relied heavily on this site’s links and resources while writing a poem about amateur meth production. It is a fucking goldmine and everyone should go read it, because it literally covers p. much any substance you could consider inserting in your body and what it then proceeds to do.

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9 Basic Principles fo Responsive Web Design

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Made mostly for a friend but maybe it’ll help others too c:

I’m by no means a professional this is just some advice I found useful and felt greatly improved my understanding of painting, light and color.

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Don’t you dare, for one minute, believe that my kindness makes me anything but insurmountable. I did not unzip my chest to every kind of hurt, and stagger back, wounded and alive, just to hear you call me weak for trying.

Ashe Vernon (aka latenightcornerstore), from her poem, Softness, in Words Dance 16. (via wordsdancemag)