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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

4 Mar

Milunka Savić was a Serbian war heroine who fought in the Balkan Wars and in WWI. Her brother got called to serve in the First Balkan War in 1912, but Milunka decided to take his place. Today, she is considered the most-decorated female combatant in the history of warfare. #WHM

"Milunka Savić decided she wanted a bit of this war lark, so she lopped her hair off and donned her brother’s clothes and headed off to the front. She was quickly thrown into combat, and it wasn’t long before she received her first medal.

It was on her 10th mission that her gender was finally revealed. She had been wounded before, but up until this point she had always avoided being hit in the chest. Bulgarian shrapnel put paid to this, and Milunka was taken to the field doctor.

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

3 Mar

American world traveler, adventuress, heiress and mystic, Aimée Crocker was dubbed the “Queen of Bohemia” in the 1910s by the world press for living an uninhibited, sexually liberated and aggressively non-conformist life in San Francisco, New York and Paris. #WHM2021

She spent the bulk of her fortune inherited from her father Edwin B. Crocker, a railroad tycoon and art collector, on traveling all over the world (lingering the longest in Hawaii, India, Japan and China) and partying with accomplished artists of her time.

She was famous for her collections of tattoos, pet snakes, pearls, husbands and lovers. Aimée was by all accounts, an Olympic-caliber sexual athlete; she married five times in five different decades of her life, each man being in his twenties.

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

3 Mar

The week already feels a bit shitty, so I thought I should summon Winston Churchill in his swimming costume to brighten up your day.

You're welcome

I just made everything worse, didn't I

Well, everyone... when it rains, it pours

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

24 Feb

On February 22 1943, Sophie Scholl - an anti-Nazi political activist, was guillotined by the Nazis in Munich's Stadelheim Prison. She was 21.

Follow the thread and read her last words before being taken away to be executed.

"It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.."

"It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go. But how many have to die on the battlefield these days, how many young, promising lives? What does my death matter if by our acts thousands are warned and alerted? Among the student body, there will certainly be a revolt."

At her trial, when asked why she had done what she did, Sophie said: "Somebody had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare to express themselves as we did. You know the war is lost. Why don't you have the courage to face it?"

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

24 Feb

Colorized by me: 🇨🇦 “Wait for Me, Daddy” - taken by Claude P. Dettloff on October 1, 1940, of The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles). While Dettloff was taking the photo, Warren "Whitey" Bernard ran away from his mother to his father, Private Jack Bernard.

The picture received extensive exposure and was used in war-bond drives. When Jack Bernard returned home Dettloff was on hand to photograph the family's reunion. Jack and Bernice Bernard eventually divorced.