#virginia hall

[soundlessdragon]

Me as a young child: spent years self-training to be a spy with ninja sneaking skills and inventing and breaking secret codes and crazy pain tolerance so no secrets would be spilled even under torture.

Me as an adult: trusts anybody way too easily and has almost zero natural intuition (the most important part of being a spy irl) and cannot lie with a straight face.

#recently finished a book about a highly successful WWII spy in France #A Woman of No Importance #Virginia Hall #good book #about me

[jurakan]

Lady spy????

Also, fun fact for you, cheesy grits are delicious

I *think* you're referring to the lady con artist, which @ms-ninja-crab already called dibs on and got the post on Cassie Chadwick. But you know what? I didn't have notes on this but we're going to do it anyhow! Today You Learned about the Limping Lady, Virginia Hall.

Virginia Hall was a promising young woman with a talent for languages who traveled throughout Europe. In 1933, she tripped and accidentally shot herself in the leg, and below the kneecap it had to be amputated. She got a wooden prosthetic. She named it "Cuthbert." After that she tried to find work as a diplomat, but struggled because, for whatever reason, people did not want to hire an amputee.

Then World War II broke out.

Virginia started work as an ambulance driver, but eventually at a cocktail party she met someone with British intelligence, who, impressed with her skills in language, her knowledge of the French countryside, and how much smack she talked about Adolf Hitler, recommended her to go to the newly-created Special Operations Executive.

In 1941 she was their first female field agent in France. And she was good. Not only did she accurately report Nazi troop movements through radio, but ALSO recruiting resistance agents in France. She had systems for relaying when there was a dead drop with information that needed to be picked up, and she embedded coded messages in newspaper articles.

Nazis did eventually pick up on her and the Gestapo labeled her "the most dangerous of Allied spies." Supposedly Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief declared, "I would give anything to get my hands on that limping Canadian bitch" (she wasn't actually Canadian, but whatevs). When they started putting up wanted posters for a limping American woman, she decided to bail.

When she was at a safe house, she radio'd her bosses in London to let them know of her progress--she was doing fine, but Cuthbert (what she named her leg, remember?) was giving her trouble. The people in the office didn't know or remember what 'Cuthbert' referred to, so they told her that if this guy was impeding her progress too much she might have to kill him.

Virginia Hall did make it home A-okay. But she wasn't finished. She signed up with the Office of Strategic Service in the US, which was a precursor to the modern CIA. She also went behind enemy lines before D-Day, pretending to be an elderly peasant, and sabotaging the German army. Her work broke down supplies and capture hundreds of Nazi soldiers. Hall was also hired by the CIA once it DID form. She helped set up resistance in European countries against the threat of the Soviet Union.

Virginia Hall was the only woman to receive the Distinguished Service Cross in World War II, and when she died in 1982, most of her family had no idea about her work during the war. She was actually given permission to talk about her work sometime after World War II ended, but she apparently didn't brag about it. That wasn't her style.

#Fun Fact Friday #Virginia Hall #spies #World War II #Today You Learned #secret agents #CIA

[amerasdreams]

No way! There is actually a movie about my heroes, the women of the SOE!

#a call to spy #ww2 #spies #netflix #noor inayat khan #Virginia hall #vera atkins #soe #i always thought it would be a good movie #during college for a class i wrote abour Noor #article is on medium #i read other books #recently about virginia #and others

[misteri-inspiegabili-irrisolti]

#Spia americana #Vincere la Seconda Guerra Mondiale #Seconda Guerra Mondiale in pillole #Virginia Hall #Agente segreto degli Alleati #Missioni dietro le linee nemiche #Donna con gamba protesica #Spia più pericolosa di Francia #Servizi segreti britannico e statunitense #Elemento chiave per il trionfo alleato #Reti di spionaggio #Sfuggita alla morte #Salvato innumerevoli vite #Croce di merito statunitense #Decorata per i servizi di spia #guerra fredda #spia

[fatchance]

A rose is.

#photographers on tumblr #rose #pink #Margaret Moore Hall Bicentennial Rose Garden #Norfolk Botanical Garden #Norfolk #Virginia

[crosseyedcricketart]

my favorite MET Gala 2024 looks part 1 | theme: "The Garden of Time"

#the met gala #met gala #met gala 2024 #chloe malle #virginia smith #nicole phelps #jonathan groff #ben simmons #maleah joi moon #amy fine collins #rebecca hall #will welch #sabrina harrison #samantha barry #donald glover #rauw alejandro #eva chen #alia bhatt #aya nakamura #bobby digi olisa #laurie cumbo #lena waithe #bruna marquezine #jeff goldblum #hannah bagshawe #eddie redmayne #tory burch #harris reed #sebastian stan #charlie xcx

[spawksstuff]

The Cowboy and the Poet According to De's Characters

He was an old time cowboy Don't you understand His eyes were sharp as razor blades His face was leather tanned

His toes were pointed inward From a hangin' on a horse He was an old philosopher of course

He was so thin I swear You could have used him for a whip He had to drink a beer To keep his breeches on his hips

I knew I had to ask him About the mysteries of life He spat between his boots And he replied

"It's faster horses

Younger women

Older whiskey

More money

He smiled and all his teeth Were covered with tobacco stains

He said, "It don't do men no good To pray for peace and rain" "Peace and rain is just a way to say prosperity And buffalo chips is all it means to me"

I told him I was a poet I was lookin' for the truth I do not care for horses Whiskey, women, or the loot I said I was a writer My soul was all on fire He looked at me And he said, "You are a liar"

"Son, it's faster horses

Younger women

Older whiskey

More money

Well, I was disillusioned If I say the least I grabbed him by the collar And I jerked him to his feet There was somethin' cold And shiny laying by my head So I started to believe The things he said

Well, my poet days're over And I'm back to bein' me As I enjoy the peace and comfort of reality

If my boy ever asks me What it is that I have learned I think that I will readily affirm

"Son, it's faster horses

Younger women

Older whiskey

More money"

#deforest kelley #the world according to de's characters #tom t hall #de has a wonderful smile #fun fact #the only love interest older than de #was virginia grey (iris millar) #'course in real life carolyn was older than de #black spurs #stagecoach west #death valley days #you are there #bonaza #o henry #laramie #wanted dead or alive #rawhide #life of st paul #gunfight at comanche creek #fear in the night #calico bait #21 beacon #trackdown #gunfight at ok coral #science fiction theater #a man called shenandoah #apache uprising #town tamer #gunfight at ok corral #TAG ALL THE STUFF

[hanakogames]

Happy Friday the 13th! Good luck to all witches!

Not only that, but it's an October Friday the 13th, the spookiest of all.

Not only that, but it's also currently moon-dark (peak New Moon is technically on the 14th but close enough) which is a rare conjunction and means, among other things, that today is going to be the highest difficulty day to play Nethack for many, many years.

(Magical Diary does not, however, change the game based on the date. That's in-game only.)

#magical diary #friday the 13th #nethack #magical diary: horse hall #witches #virginia danson

[amarriageoftrueminds]

Really, how hard was it for the directors to hire an American blonde actress to play the comics version of Peggy Carter??? Why hire a British actress who acts ao snobby irl??? Why couldn't they keep Peggy's comic version appearance and make her the awesome American rebel that she is? Why make Peggy a snobby British woman who acts like she's better than everyone else, and she's possibly a Hydra spy? I. Just. Don't. Get. It. 😕

There are several possible reasons...

Could be Christopher Markus having an English wife who looks exactly like Hayley Atwell, and wanting to do a creepy Matthew-Vaughn style 'putting his wife in a movie she doesn't belong in' roleplay. Could be Joss Whedon's sad Colonial/Upper Class English fetish. Could be that the director was involved with Indiana Jones movies where the trope of the sexy Nazi babe is a standard, and he isn't as creatively original as Steven Spielberg. Could be someone higher up the chain has a Mary Poppins kink and insisted on swapping in the bossy nannyish English love interest over all the other American love interests Steve has had in the comics (including brunettes!)

None of which justify forcing the (in my opinion) quite sexless Captain America story into a compulsorily-heterosexual shaped hole. That story was built to be a Band of Brothers tale, not Casablanca. It needed to be that.

Which is why CATWS works better, emotionally speaking, than CATFA. Because CATFA expects you to expend emotional energy on the potential-straight-romance-lost plot... when a lifelong best friend whom Steve went to war for just died for him. A film can only carry so much emotion before it collapses under its own weight.

CATWS didn't have that problem. In fact, it would've been even more moving if they'd cut the pointless Peggy schmaltz scene for another Bucky or Steve-and-Bucky-in-flashback scene, as the original script intended. Or better yet, had another 'Steve actually calls out the other white woman for her actions' scene!

#toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #antipeggy #antisteggy #cynthia glass #p*ggy meta #mcu critical #steggy is hydra trash party #meta #mcu meta #other notes: I've never been able to substantiate it but I've always suspected that comics peggy... #was inspired by real-life american spy heroine virginia hall who (like her) was undercover in nazi-occupied france #virginia had a peg leg = peggy from virginia #I've never been able to prove it but it seemed like too much of a coincidence! #and the entire reason WHY peggy's surname is carter is because the carter family are important in virginia's history #calling an english character (of the wrong class) carter is an ignorant nonsensical choice #it's also dumb that they label 'appreciating steve BEFORE serum' as the ultimate sign of a special relationship... #but then pair steve off with a character who barely knew him at all before serum in the comics... #when OTHER comics had pre-serum steve given a whole ass fiancee?? #they REALLY wanted cynthia glass in it 🙄 #yet each man queues the thing he loves

[athletic-collection]

Peyton Hall

#wrestling #west virginia mountaineers #peyton hall

[everythingloureed]

November 5, 1974, in Huntington, West Virginia. Hall & Oates opened. I can’t imagine they were able to fill many seats.

#lou reed #1974 #west virginia #hall & oates #daryl hall and john oates #poster #advertisement #flyer

[itsrose416]

old city hall, richmond va

#mine #my photos #photography #alternative #alt aesthetic #richmond #richmond va #va #virginia #city hall #dmv #architecture #architectdesign #old architecture #alt photography #my photo #my photography #women photographers #beautiful photos #castle #old city hall #alt girl #lil peep #🏰

[zanderism]

the still of the bar | beckley, wv

#zander’s photos #west virginia #southern west virginia #appalachian gothic #liminal spaces #Midwestern gothic #rural gothic #regional gothic #pool hall #pool table #bar

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Halle, Belgium

New growth on a tree is surrounded by bluebells, also known as wild hyacinth, as they bloom in the Hallerbos forest in Halle

Photograph: Virginia Mayo/AP

#virginia mayo #photographer #ap #halle #belgium #tree #bluebells #landscape #hallerbos forest #wild hyacinth #flower photography #nature

[mudwerks]

(via Dancing Queen: 1942 | Shorpy)

September 1942. "Local dance hall in Richwood, Nicholas County, West Virginia. Photos document U.S. Department of Agriculture efforts to recruit adolescents and adults as farm labor to relieve manpower shortage for harvesting New York State crops." 4x5 inch acetate negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

#dance hall #juke box #1942 #vintage #Richwood #Nicholas County #West Virginia #recruit farm labor #John Collier #Farm Security Administration #shorpy #boys and girls

[rosemeriwether]

Sitting at Stratford

Trying to find a place to sit. The leaves were the best spot.

#happy halloweeeeeeen #halloween #rose speaks #meri mumbles #stratford hall #historic house #history #steampunk girl #Halloween costume #historic architecture #virginia #virginia is for lovers