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Happy Birthday, Mr. Presley 🥳

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Unstoppable force VS immovable object aka poor BF trying (and failing) to convince me not to hug historical figures I feel bad for (in this case Baldwin IV)

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𝘓𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘥𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘱𝘴 (Morton Roberts, 1959)

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Palestinian lady collects gas bombs fired by Israeli army. She grows flowers in these bombs.

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Baldwin IV of Jerusalem: "The Leper King"

Baldwin IV, more commonly known as the "Leper King", was King of Jerusalem from 1174 until his untimely death in 1185. He was admired for his willpower and dedication to the Latin Kingdom, even while suffering from the damaging effects of leprosy, which would eventually leave him blind and unable to use either his hands or feet.

Baldwin would develop the first symptoms of leprosy - an infection caused by slow-growing bacteria called Mycobacterium leprae - but a diagnosis was avoided at the time due to the stigma of the disease. He would eventually be diagnosed after his accession to the throne on the death of his father, King Amalric.

Count Raymond III of Tripoli would rule the kingdom in Baldwin's name until he reached the age of majority in 1176. Soon after he became King, Baldwin planned an invasion of Egypt, which would quite quickly fall through due to the uncooperativeness of his vassals. Saladin would in turn attack Baldwin's kingdom in 1177, but would be repelled by the king and the nobleman Raynald of Châtillon at Montgisard, earning Baldwin much fame.

The young king would master horse riding despite gradually losing sensation in his extremities and was able to fight in battles until his later years.

Leprosy excluded Baldwin from ever marrying. He hoped to abdicate (renounce one's throne) when his sister, Sibylla, married William of Montferrat in 1176, but William would die not long after.

In 1180, to prevent a coup (seizure of power from a government) by Count Raymond III of Tripoli and Prince Bohemond III of Antioch, Baldwin married Sibylla to Guy of Lusignan. Guy was disliked by much of the nobility, and would impair his relationship with Baldwin. The internal discord that would follow forced Baldwin to remain king, as only he was able to quiet the arguing among the nobility.

Baldwin would again repel Saladin in 1182, but by then leprosy had taken his ability to see, walk, or use his hands in 1183. He disinherited Guy and had Sibylla's son, Baldwin V, crowned co-king before having himself taken to lift Saladin's siege of Kerak. Baldwin failed to have Sibylla's marriage to Guy annulled and Guy's fief of Ascalon confiscated.

In early 1185, he arranged for Raymond to rule as regent for Sibylla's son and died before May 16.

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When I try and show my boyfriend a funny history meme but he gets too distracted by the godawful Ulysses S. Grant impersonator in the background so he starts lecturing me about what a proper Civil War kit should look like and I just want to kiss him So Bad

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Farha (2021) is a movie about the Palestinian Nakba that’s just been put on Netflix, it’s a portrayal of the violence experienced by Palestinians during Israel’s creation from the perspective of a 14 year old girl - to my knowledge, this is the first film about the story of the Nakba on Netflix. (If you don’t know the history of the Nakba - this post can explain it quickly)

The movie is being received with a lot of praise from Palestinians online, however, the movie is currently being review bombed by zionists and condemned by the Israeli press and there have been threats towards showing of the film by Israel’s finance minister, this is the IMDb review page as of posting this:

If you would like to help support this film and Palestinian history being portrayed, please leave a positive review, and if you have Netflix, watch the film. The story of the Nakba has one that has long been silenced and it’s so rare to see it even acknowledged in media, my family survived it, many others didn’t, what they all experienced was real, and it’s about time there has been recognition of it.

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From the 1920s!

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In case you guys were curious, this is what it looks like when the google search engine gets sick of you simping for reading about your fav historical figures:

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Can you imagine actually crying over long-dead celebrities/historical figures?? because that is totally NOT something I would do hahahaha!

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not to minimize the gravity of war, but i need more people to know about:

Bicycle Warfare

bicycles have several advantages over horses & fuel-powered vehicles, with the result that bicycle infantry has in fact played a significant role in 20th century warfare...

it turns out that warfare sometimes involves battalions of bicycle-riding soldiers. (and while i personally am sick of war films, I'm willing to make an exception here because there really needs to be a movie about this.)

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Elvis Presley's Military Letters

In the days before the military was purely volunteer based, many celebrities were drafted just like other young men. One such celebrity was none other than Elvis Presley.

Inducted at the height of his fame in 1958, his induction caused a widespread public relations headache. Heartbroken fans wrote letters to the President himself, the draft board, and anyone else they thought had the power to bring their idol home. The following letter to First Lady Mamie Eisenhower was forwarded to the army:

Sacramento, Calif.

4 - 10 - 1958

Dear Mamie,

Will you please, please be so sweet and kind as to ask Ike to please bring Elvis Presley back to as from the Army.

We need him in our entertainment world to make us all laugh. The theatres need him to help fill their many empty seats... Also did you know Elvis has been paying $500,000 income taxes. We feel the huge taxes he has been paying could help our defense effort far more than his stay in the Army. Please ask Ike to bring Elvis back to us soon. We wish Ike would pass a law real soon to exempt all entertainers who pay large sums of income taxes.

Thanking you for being the sweet gracious lady you are and asking God to bless you and Ike in every way every day. We are gratefully yours.

Mr - Mrs Laurence Erickson

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Although many wanted Elvis out of the Army, many wanted him to stay in. When a gossip columnist reported in 1959 that Presley had been considered for early release based on supposed "good behavior", thousands of anger-filled letters flooded Congress.

"What is this 'good behavior' thing in the Army?" demanded a William J.F. Clark, from Brooklyn. "I have the impression that such premature release for 'good behavior' applied only to felons in prison... My son... was inducted prior to Mr. Presley - and has not been offered any such early discharge."

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~ Erika

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🕊 RIP - Patrick Swayze 🕊

Patrick Wayne Swayze was born on August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas, to Yvonne Helen "Patsy" Swayze, a choreographer, and Jesse Wayne Swayze, a chemical plant engineer draftsman.

His mother owned a dance school in Houston, where Patrick was a student. He graduated from Waltrip High School in Houston, and attended San Jacinto college in Pasadena, Texas.

He would eventually marry actress and dancer Lisa Niemi on June 12, 1975.

He first danced professionally as Prince Charming in Disney on Parade.

After a short stint as Danny Zuko in the original Broadway production of Grease, he made his film debut with a role on Skatetown U.S.A. (1979). He made his T.V. debut in 1981 on M*A*S*H (1972), as a soldier diagnosed with leukemia.

After many supporting roles in films and television shows, Swayze landed his breakthrough role as dance instructor Johnny Castle in the hit film Dirty Dancing (1987), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. He would go on to receive a second nomination for his role as Sam Wheat in Ghost (1990), the highest-grossing film of 1990.

Unfortunately, however, he didn't capitalize on its success. His following films, including City of Joy (1992), Tall Tale (1995), Black Dog (1998), and Waking Up in Reno (2002), would not fare well with the public.

In December 2003, he returned to Broadway as a replacement for the lead role of Billy Flynn in the revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical, Chicago. The production also went on tour in several cities of the U.S.

In January 2008, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He fought the illness for well over a year and was able to continue working, but died on September 14, 2009.

His most well-known movies include Donnie Darko (2001), Point Break (1991), 11:14 (2003), The Outsiders (1983), Dirty Dancing (1987), Ghost (1990), Keeping Mum (2005), Road House (1989), City of Joy (1992).

REST IN PEACE, PATRICK WAYNE SWAYZE

AUGUST 18, 1952 - SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

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Reading an article about Jewish and Muslim settlement in Sweden, and this is honestly too funny