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August 6: Dracula

“She is steered mighty strangely, for she doesn't mind the hand on the wheel; changes about with every puff of wind. We'll hear more of her before this time tomorrow.”

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Giant mosaic called "Tree of Life" on the floor of the palace built by the Umayyad Caliph Hisham bin Abdulmalik in Jericho, Palestine.

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@atlas-caeruleus OP here on my history blog! 'Norse' is starting to be considered antiquated, or perhaps rather 'imprecise', by actual nordic scholars, because it actually means just 'Norwegian' in its traditional sense, and nowadays has come to refer to a misunderstanding that all the Nordic realms that participated in viking raids at the time were a monoculture. Which we have plenty of evidence (Icelandic Sagas, runestones, plenty of namedropping, and material culture) that they weren't!

The term used by professionals in these countries (like me in Denmark, but also in Sweden, Norway, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland), which is the term 'Nordic' (nordisk), refers to the region, with the implicit understanding that it was made up of separate countries with separate rulers, languages, and cultures already then.

The 'ancient norse language' also isn't real. It's just Medieval Icelandic, as used by Snorri Sturlufsson for the Eddas. Do not trust a scholar who claims to speak "ancient norse", they're either trying to seem more 'nordic' than they actually are (MANY of these 'scholars' are USAmerican), or they clearly don't know what they're on about. I'm not necessarily angry, but it's like a theme park version of my cultural heritage, and honestly it gets a little... tiresome.

Fun fact: Unlike most other ancient pantheons, the Nordic Gods have exactly zero instances of direct familial incest

#nordic vs norse #stop using norse it is imprecise and misleading #ancient norse language isnt real #its just medieval icelandic #the admiral's homebrew

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Danish is the same! The word for a cat's purr and the verb 'to spin', specifically meaning to spin thread or yarn, are the same word!

"Spinde"

He sits on my lap while I spin, he does the little jiggle

#reblog #the archive hobgoblin #danish #cats

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i love you, Two Catfish as Street Musicians in the Kashina district, ca 1855 of an unidentified artist, you go so hard

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Omg babe I forgot you were tumblr famous!

A professor gave us an extra credit option: take a picture of yourself outside, doing something that you would not usually do. We were told not to take it too seriously. Here is my entry:

I maintain that sticking my head in the mailbox is not something I do on a regular basis.

#head in a mailbox #look it's archaeology bae

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After many, many hours of blood, sweat, and tears the Lahaina built 1988 HAWAIIAN CHIEFTAIN floated again! We are excited to see the new horizons and familiar seas this ship will explore once again!

by - Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-op.

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between-joust refreshment

#funny #knight #full plate armour

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And how exactly am I supposed to pick just one when you put me on there THREE TIMES??

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It legitimately amazes me how all the “We can never let the Holocaust happen again” crowd can look at something like this and still claim that the Israeli government isn’t committing any war crimes.

Absolutely horrific stuff.

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Israeli air strikes flattened Al-Farooq Mosque in #Rafah and destroyed several homes.

At least 97 people were killed by Israel in the last 24 hours.

600,000 children living in #Rafah camps without food or medicine and under extremely perilous conditions.

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ITS MARCH YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

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Sexism in the History Field

I've been debating whether I should make a post about my experiences with this for a while. On the one hand I don't want to discourage anyone, and on the other the evidence is just damning at this point. So I'll do it.

Two years ago, I finished my MA degree in history from the most prestigious university in my country (I mean, we only have four, so it's no Harvard), and I did absolutely everything right. I worked at a museum connected to the National Museum during my studies, and did a semester as a museum intern there. As you can't actually study museology in my country, it was the closest I could come to doing so.

Now, two years later, I'm out of work. For a year and a half I worked as a sexton, because that was what I could get, and now they've hired someone to replace me rather than make my contract permanent. Recently, I took a serious look at the employment status of every one of my co-students that I knew had graduated and still am in contact with, and guess what:

Out of more than 60 people, only about 15 are employed in the field. And they. Are all. Men.

Archive positions? 1, a man. Museum work? 9, all of them men. University work for various unis? 5. All men.

Now, not all of the lads I studied with ended up in the field, and not all of them have work. But NONE of the ladies or genderqueer people I studied with have found work in the field, and some of us are struggling to find work at all. Perhaps it has some correlation to the fact that the major museums also mostly hired male student workers, but that's only more damning.

Currently I'm trying to rectify this by publishing articles in various historical zines to expand my resume, but I feel the need to warn about this:

If you are a woman or feminine presenting person in the field of history, you WILL have to work harder than your masculine presenting peers to get employment. Maybe to an extent where you lose hope completely. There can be lucky breaks, of course, but we sure as hell don't get them as often as the gents.

I'll be out of a job per April 1st (yeah, it feels like a joke...), and while I'm in a country where student debt isn't mandatory, and I don't have any, and there's a system in place to support me financially for a time, this is definitely not what I expected, and not a situation I want to be in. And I am not alone.

#the archive hobgoblin #the admiral's homebrew #the admiral's adulting antics #sexism in the field of history #history field #museums #academia

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Rest in Peace Captain Diego, may you sit on Nelson's chair frequently in heaven, thus annoying the shit out of him 🐈‍⬛️⚓️

Do you remember Diego the ship's cat of the HMS Unicorn? Unfortunately it was announced on 9 February that he died suddenly. He was often referred to as 'The Captain' as he liked to sit in the Captain's Cabin behind the desk, as you can see there. RIP Diego

#naval history #ship's cat #diego #hms unicorn #age of sail #nelson mention #i really dont like nelson does it show? #anyway all cats like to sit on exactly the chairs that humans are about to use #so i imagine Diego would enjoy this also

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