History Meme | 1/4 Assassinations: Giuliano de Medici
The most infamous Renaissance murder was the assault on Giuliano and Lorenzo de’Medici. Giuliano was murdered in Florence Cathedral, in front of an audience of 10,000, on Easter Sunday. The Pazzi family believed a public assassination would proclaim their undisputed power over Florence, and strike fear into the friends of the Medici. Giuliano’s assassins stabbed with such frenzy that one wounded himself in the leg by mistake. But the man assigned to kill Lorenzo hesitated a fraction too long and Lorenzo escaped with a minor neck wound. Lorenzo survived and the Pazzi were doomed. Strung up by the people of Florence, they were flung from the windows of the Palazzo Vecchioand left to swing in the hot Tuscan sun. (x)
History Meme | 2/10 Moments: The Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil
The Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil refers to the escape of the Braganza royal family and its court of nearly 15,000 from Lisbon on November 29, 1807. The Braganza royal family departed for Brazil just days before Napoleonic forces captured Lisbon on December 1. The Portuguese crown remained in Brazil from 1808 until the Liberal Revolution of 1820 led to the return of John VI of Portugal on April 26, 1821. For thirteen years, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, functioned as the capital of the Kingdom of Portugal in what some historians call a “metropolitan reversal” (i.e., a colony exercising governance over the entirety of the Portuguese empire.) Among the important measures taken by John VI in his years in Brazil were incentives for commerce and industry; the permission to print newspapers and books; the creation of two medical schools; military academies; and the first Bank of Brazil (Banco do Brasil). In Rio de Janeiro he also created a powder factory, a Botanical Garden, an art academy (Escola Nacional de Belas Artes) and an opera house (Teatro São João). All these measures greatly advanced the independence of Brazil in relation to Portugal. (x)
History Meme | 2/8 Objects: 1920’s Dresses
1920’s Dresses were lighter and brighter and shorter than ever before. Fashion designers played with fabric colors, textures and patterns to create totally new styles of dress. Evening dresses, coats and jackets were often trimmed with fur. Hemlines rose for most of the decade but dropped slightly toward the end. Shoes and stockings assumed a greater prominence now that they were more visible. Silk stockings in all the colors of the rainbow, often with patterns, were designed to match the coordinated outfits of stylish women. (x)
I love Percabeth and I love blanket forts so I figured I would combine the two.
The Wall - Game of Thrones by ChristianGerth
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My son may be a King, but I am no Queen… only a mother who would keep her children safe, however she could.
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Brave. Sansa took a deep breath. I am a Stark, yes, I can be brave.
They were all looking at her, the way they had looked at her that day in the yard when Ser Boros Blount had torn her clothes off. It had been the Imp who saved her from a beating that day, the same man who was waiting for her now. He is not so bad as the rest of them, she told herself. “I’ll go.”
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