on my bday i plan to be extremely self-indulgent… and obnoxious …posting anything my little (one-year-older) heart desires, and i don’t want to be @ed so. forewarned is forearmed. sept. 20th is the day.
i’m also probably going to reblog myself a lot because i like attention; so…check it before ya wreck it.
A wise man will pay no attention to ordinary rumors. You may infer from it that my subjects are not very well pleased that my cause has come to no better conclusion. I shall have reason to doubt your faith and the integrity of your friendship when your words and professions so little agree.
Henry VIII to Cardinal Campeggio
[Henry VIII: October 1529, 17-31, Pages 2675-2688]
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4, 1524-1530.
(via autrenecherche)
quora person: any good that was accomplished during henry viii’s reign happened despite of him, not because of him, it was all down to his advisors.
me: oh…and the bad?
quora person: oh, all him. absolutely down to him. 100% him… a thousand and one percent him.
“Further, her father used her as a pawn in his political games. Twice, she was betrothed: at age four to George Neville -Edward IV’s peace offering to Warwick- and at age nine to the Dauphin of France. Jilted at age 16 -when Louis XI cut a better deal with Maximilian- the princess was left bereft when Edward IV unexpectedly died.”
“A pawn in [Edward IV’s] political games” sounds…really sanctimoniously judgy, considering almost every king tried to make foreign alliances through marriages with their sisters/daughters…?
– People who exercise a lot get knee injuries from overdoing it
– People who only exercise occasionally get knee injuries from being unprepared for the exertion
– People who don’t exercise get knee injuries from being out of shape
– Maybe knees just suck
In 1847 during the Irish potato famine, the Choctaw Nation of Native Americans donated $147 to assist with famine relief. The Irish built this monument of appreciation.
“In 1847, the Choctaw community collected $170 to send to the Irish victims of the Famine – a sum equivalent to approximately €4,000 in today’s money. This was despite the Choctaws having undergone their own hardship 16 years earlier when they were forced to move west of the Mississippi by the government of Andrew Jackson in a journey that became known as the “Trail of Tears”.
The “Four Marys” in Mary Queen of Scots (2013)
