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This is highly unrealistic. If I had drawing skills, I’d make an edit for how this scene would actually play out in real life. Hint: it would involve all of the cats trying to sit on the girl at once, the tea-kettle knocked over, and absolutely no reading being done because of cat-butt. Also, where might one find such petite cats? Only in anime, I think.

(Source: ransie, via bookporn)

fallschirmjager:

By the summer of 1944, a large number of Russian women were inducted into the Red Army due to a severe shortage of men. A number of women ended up in armor units, after being recruited from tank plants where they worked. They were already well trained as drivers, but some later rose in rank to command tank units. To the right is Guards Lieutenant Vera.P. Orlova who commanded the ISU-122 in the background with her husband Lieutenant Nikolai.N. Orlov who served as the vehicle driver. Their Guards self-propelled artillery regiment served with the 3rd Baltic Front in October 1944. Women made up 10% of Red Army strength by the end of the war, though the majority were used in non-combat roles.

Now that’s some sort of joint-spouse assignment, there. Just cram ya both into the same tank. 

(via womenatwar)

fuckyeahfeminists:

Charlotte Ray Became 1st Black Female Lawyer 140 Years Ago

Pioneering Black female lawyer Charlotte E. Ray achieved her historic feat 140 years ago today in 1872, becoming just the third woman ever admitted to practice law in the country at the time. Ray was also the first woman admitted to practice law in the nation’s capital and the first woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court.

The things that constantly amaze me in the study of history, especially women’s history, are those things that I never heard about in school. American public school seems to rely (in my anecdotal memory, admittedly) on tropes and unarguable narratives that are often simply untrue, and wipe out entire groups of experience. It didn’t fit into the narrative, apparently, to teach that the first woman to ever argue a case in front of the Supreme court was a black woman, or, moreover, that she was practicing law in the 1870s. Not, mind you, the 1970s. 

Amazing.

(via fuckyeahvictorians)

(via phantasmaphile)

And again. Though, I do believe this is better advice than the last one. I often open up Google Reader or Tumblr and give an audible, heart-wrenching sigh at the vast amount of information that I simply won’t be able to devote actual attention to.

questionableadvice:

~ Health and Beauty, by John V. Shoemaker, L.L.D., M.D.; 1908

Everything old is new again. Just fill in ‘internet’ for ‘telephone.’ (Or, I suppose, ‘texting.’ I’m already showing my age.)

questionableadvice:

~ New-York Tribune, November 6, 1910
via Library of Congress
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“In the good old days any matter of importance had to be written in a letter…”

An enterprising blogger went and looked up the history of Miss Cora Strayer, Private Detective…

Just because.

(Source: the-creep-show, via theeverydaygoth)

asthewheelturns:

Birgitte Trahelion by ~livska

I am loving these colors.

This is pretty darn good. Though I admittedly always imagined Birgitte as being a bit more stout.

wilwheaton:

According to Reddit, this was uploaded by George Takei.

Oooohhhhhhh my!

I must admit, I do love the Golden Girls. Thus, the thought of them as old, catty, sexually-active Jedi makes me giddy.