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Pain heals Chicks dig scars Glory lasts forever #DailyAffirmation https://www.instagram.com/p/B3jYWUilM_w/?igshid=1qktmshg2zngy

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Pain heals Chicks dig scars Glory lasts forever #DailyAffirmation https://www.instagram.com/p/B0bkXKfgogD/?igshid=fxladvixe3ae

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'I go back to the loss of a real good friend The sixteen summers I shared with him, Now only the good die young... Stops me in my tracks.' #DA https://www.instagram.com/p/BnjYo75h49-/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rggsl6zudnj2

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#DailyAffirmation #DASunset https://www.instagram.com/p/BnaN6tfAE8j/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hy48k8drcybm

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YOU CAN BET YOUR SWEET ASS ITS THE #DAILYAFFIRMATION https://www.instagram.com/p/BnT_Iwfg7bE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=f73j0cd9r75m

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7 minutes of bliss. https://www.instagram.com/p/BnT6zjOgr9R/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rinfypz5x3s0

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Poetry Rounduuuup

April is National Poetry Month A time to exalt in sweet words Tumblr’s got poets straight out the wazoo So here’s some cool links for you nerds

Uut Poetry (@uutpoetry)

Uut Poetry is a…magazine? Of surrealist poetry. It’s really nicely curated and designed and you’ll get the whole deal if you read the manifesto-esque about page.

The Academy of American Poets (@poetsorg)

This is the official blog of The Academy of American Poets. Nice lil’ images with lines from all sorts of poets. Good follow for the casual appreciator.

Lang Leav (@langleav)

Lang Leav is an OG Tumblr poet and she has a book now. So.

Forgetlings (@forgetlings​)

This is Daniel Stephensen, who posts his own poetry, other people’s poetry, some things that aren’t poetry, etc.

James Andrew Crosby (@jamesandrewcrosby​)

For fans of poems written on things. Visual poems, if you will. Voems? No—just Visual Poems.

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How to love a horse:

- Clean up after it. - Don’t stop for anything. - If you stop cleaning it will END. - You can pet your horse sometimes, but not for too long. - Take a picture of it. - Put it away when you’re done.

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Scully + wet hair 

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MASSIVE MILK ASS

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She was the first woman to...

…travel around the world in a damned Zeppelin.

Lady Hay Drummond-Hay (September 12, 1895—February 12, 1946) was a star journalist who became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, and she did it in a damned Zeppelin. She went on to report from war zones like Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and Manchuria (now part of China), fell into a tumultuous romance with a fellow reporter, and was eventually captured by the Japanese during WWII.

…swim the English Channel.

Gertrude Ederle (October 23, 1905 – November 30, 2003) was a competitive swimmer, Olympic champion, and at one time held five world records. If there was a world record for coolest nickname she would’ve held six, because hers was “Queen of the Waves.” When Ederle set out to become the first woman to swim the English channel, she used motorcycle goggles and sealed the edges with wax to keep the salt water out of her eyes. Due to unfavorable and violent wind conditions twelve hours into her 14 hour and 34 minute journey, her trainer shouted at her to get out of the water and into his boat. She reportedly popped her head up from the water to simply ask “what for?” 

…travel around the world in less than 80 days.

Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864—January 27, 1922) asked her editor at the New York World if she could take a stab at turning the story Around the World in 80 Days from fiction to fact. Using railways and steamships, Bly chuggah-chuggahed and toot-tooted the nearly 25,000 mile trip in just 72 days, meeting Jules Verne and buying a monkey along the way. If her name sounds familiar but these stories don’t, it’s probably because you’ve heard about how she once faked a mental illness so she could write an exposé on psychiatric asylums. Or maybe it’s because of her famed coverage of the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913. Or maybe it’s because you’re a big fan of farming and industrialist patents and heard she invented a novel milk can and a stacking garbage can. Nellie Bly did a lot in her short 57 years. 

Follow these Tumblrs for more Women’s History:

Stuff You Missed in History Class (@missedinhistory) is not exclusively about women, but hoo boy, it turns out most history classes aren’t great at teaching us about women’s history. You’ll learn a lot here. 

The New-York Historical Society (@nyhistory) has been pulling articles, artifacts, and documents deep from the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library this Women’s History Month.