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POIROT 2.02 | The Veiled Lady

#Happy Pride

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1850s Tumblr Dashboard Simulator

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It really makes me sick to see people giving money to penny weeklies when Franklin's expedition STILL has not been found 😭 There are good men out there trapped in unimaginable temperatures and literally all that's needed is a little more funding for another rescue mission yet all you guys seem to care about are your vulgar little stories...

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the franklin expedition is dead as hell

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Disgraceful thing to say but I'd expect nothing less from a M*lville fan

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Sorry for posting so much about Tom Gradgrind/James Harthouse from Hard Times lately. It turns out that I was getting arsenic poisoning from my wallpaper? Anyway I took a seaside stroll and I'm normal now. Check your walls y'all

#whyyy did i assume they were committing unlawful actions together like where did i even get that from lol #hard times isn't even that good by dickens standards tbh

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Just painted this

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RIP Napoleon... you may have been unable to conquer Alexander's Russia but you sure as hell conquered Alexander's bed

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HERITAGE POST

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How does this have less than 100k notes you could literally not avoid this post back in the 20s lol

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poets just aren't dying young in mysterious water-related incidents like they used to :/

#as useless and degenerate as i find 'the living poets' and i'm glad we're finally moving on from them #i have to agree with op in this respect

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I finally got a daguerreotype of myself ^_^ Porcelain urn for scaling

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i think i hauve consumption

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They found oil in the ground??? WTF. THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORSTTTT. FUCK MY LIFE FOR REAL THIS TIME

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I swear this website has 0 reading comprehension skills. Darwin NEVER claimed we "evolved" from apes like if one of you guys actually bothered to open his new book you'll see all his arguments are backed up by evidence. He actually makes a lot of sense

#sure there's nuance like i don't fully agree with all of it #but his general theory of natural selection seems pretty sound imo

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Of course these are the finalists lmao this website is so predictable. Anyway vote Heathcliff if you dont i'm going to assume you're a phrenologist

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It's not problematic to acknowledge the fact that Heathcliff was a brute like he literally killed dogs in case you forgot. Anyway #rochestersweep

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I love the implication here that Rochester never did anything cruel either. He literally locked his wife in the attic and lied to Jane about it 😭 like that was a pretty significant thing that happened

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And? God forbid women do anything

#why'd you have to pit two bad bitches against each other #anyway i'm not attracted to men but still went with rochester #bc in terms of living quarters thornfield hall > wuthering heights easily

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Not the Russian tsar dying immediately after hartgrind became canon

#i know dickens hasn't technically confirmed it yet but like. SOMETHING was strongly implied ok #see: my previous post #dickensposting

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LORD HELP ME. THE BODY LANGUAGE. THE WAY THEY'RE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER. AHHHHHH

#this installment!!! im-- #dickensposting #i can't fucking cope #dickens wants to KILL us he wants us DEAD....

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Hi guys sorry I haven't been posting lately it's been so difficult getting to California 💀 I'm finally here now though just need to find a pickaxe and soon I'll be digging! :-) wish me luck lol

#gold #gold rush #gold rush grind #california #adventure

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The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

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love the word lackluster. well it sucks because it’s not shiny

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How to Play the Ancient Egyptian game of Senet

from Triple S Games

Senet board, Egypt, circa 2500 BC

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this is so fucking funny to me. who wants to join the ancient athenian evil dining club with me

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they love me because I be saying shit like alas and perchance

#dandyposting

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a Jeeves and Wooster novel is a like a Rube Goldberg machine. and Bertie is the marble bouncing around and hitting all the obstacles

#real #jeeves and wooster

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I've got my eye on you... 1833 fashion plate detail, Victoria & Albert Museum collection.

#Eighteen-Thirties Thursday #second best day of the week

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“Apocryphal engraving of Leendert Hasenbosch’s skeleton from an edition of The Just Vengeance of Heaven Exemplify'd (ca. 1740). The East India Company never recorded discovering the Dutchman’s bones.”

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Carte de visite of one Scotsman inspecting another's pocket watch, circa 1865. The men are identified on the back as Pat Small and Tom MacDougal.

#kilt #highland attire

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The Architect Charles-Victor Famin, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1836.

#Eighteen-Thirties Thursday #second best day of the week

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I hope you guys are ready for

#Eighteen-Thirties Thursday #second best day of the week

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The Magic Lantern by Auguste Edouart ca. 1835, made with cut paper and ink wash.

Description by the Met Museum:

One of the most proficient silhouette artists of the nineteenth century, Auguste Edouart discovered his skill at paper cutting only after resigning his post in Napoleon's defeated army and moving to England. He delighted in showing off his abilities by representing a range of ages and social types, as in this complex composition featuring three generations of one family, together with their servants and pet dog. A "Galantee" showman performs a magic lantern show-in which images painted on glass are projected onto a screen through an illuminated lens-while an old man with a wooden leg provides musical accompaniment on a barrel organ. The cut figures are set within an elaborate curtained interior painted in sepia.

Although the figures are silhouettes, they are unmistakably Romantic.

#Eighteen-Thirties Thursday #second best day of the week

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I must admit that “shit-ass” is not a word I ever thought I’d see in a 19th century letter… but here we are.

“This is kind of a shit-ass of a letter, but I just wanted to let you know I was alive.”

- Gilbert Patterson to Jack, June 16, 1896.

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Surely I'm not the only person out there who likes Italian dressing on my cheeseburgers.

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Knitted Jacket

1580s-1610s

Italy

LACMA (Accession Number: AC1995.1.1)