Colorized by me: The Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia with Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaievich of Russia (second from left) in a formal portrait, circa 1906.
May 8, 1913, 12.30 p.m. “…I am in Tatiana’s room. Tatiana and Olga are here… I am sitting and digging in my nose with my left hand. Olga wanted to slap me but I ran away from her swinish hand…” – Extract from a letter written by Anastasia to her father.
Anastasia did not survive
Anastasia did not survive
Anastasia did not survive
Anastasia did not survive
Anastasia did not survive
Anastasia did not survive
Anastasia did not survive
Anastasia did not survive
Anastasia did not survive
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"When the statue was first erected its copper exterior caught the sunlight, but within a couple of decades the metal had oxidized and Libertas had adopted her now familiar shade of green"
Letter from Labayu (ruler of Shechem) to the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III or his son Akhenaten. 14th century BCE.
"When an ant is struck, does it not fight back and bite the hand of the man that struck it?"
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"Say to the king, my lord: Message of Lab'ayu, your servant. I fall at the feet of the king, my lord.
As to your having written me, "Guard the men who seized the city;" how am I to guard (such) men? It was in war (nukurtu) the city was seized.
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When I had sworn my peace—and when I swore the magnate swore with me—the city, along with my god, was seized. He has slandered me: gl (and) (ši-ir-ti) (I am slandered) before the king, my lord.
The Ghent Altarpiece, completed by Jan van Eyck in 1432, has been stolen 7 times, which makes it the most stolen work of art in history.
It's almost been destroyed in a fire, was nearly burned by rioting Calvinists, it’s been forged, pillaged, dismembered, censored, stolen by Napoleon, hunted in the first world war, sold by a renegade cleric, then stolen repeatedly during the Second World War…."
🇧🇷 Desde que recebi o meu diagnóstico, percebi a importância de uma fonte confiável, que divulgue informações sérias, com base científica, para compreender esse universo. Na internet existe um mundo de desinformação. /1
Com isso, entendi também que seria importante usar a minha voz e alcance para apoiar instituições que tratam o tema com a seriedade necessária. Quando surgiu o convite da @andreawerner_ - em quem confio de olhos fechados, sabendo da profundidade e seriedade do trabalho dela /2
- para integrar o grupo de diretoras do Instituto Lagarta Vira Pupa - nem hesitei.
O Instituto Lagarta Vira Pupa, que atualmente tem 10 diretoras, sendo nove mães de pessoas com deficiência e duas mulheres com deficiência, tem como papel prover suporte emocional, jurídico e /3
#OnThisDay in 1794, Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom, Virginia, performs the 1st successful Cesarean section operation in the US - on his wife.
Desperate to save her child, Elizabeth begged her husband to perform the Caesarian section. Dr. Bennett assembled a crude operating table from two boards supported by barrels, and gave his wife laudanum to make her sleepy.
Dr. Bennett cut his wife's abdomen with a single sweep of his knife and extracted his infant daughter, Maria.
He then removed both of Elizabeth's ovaries, saying he'd "not be subjected to such an ordeal again."