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Jason Porath
@jasonporath
Writes screenplays, novels, & history books. Illustration, animation, VFX. Rejected Princesses, Apple, DreamWorks, now Disney TV animation. Contains multitudes.
Jan 14, 2019 • 21 tweets • 10 min read
They're making a Cleopatra movie? Ethnicity/casting debates aside, whyyyy? There's been a million Cleopatra movies and there are so many more interesting African and Middle Eastern women to cover. Like: Shajar al-Durr, who defeated Louis IX, ended the seventh crusade, and ransomed Louis IX back to France for 30% of France's GDP. rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/sha…
Sep 13, 2017 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
1/ World War II saw one of the bravest women (and most unlikely spies) to ever live: honest-to-god Indian princess Noor Inayat Khan. 2/ For four months, she worked as the Allies' *only* radio operator in occupied Paris. The average lifespan for that job was mere weeks.
Sep 7, 2017 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
In 1986, a 22-year-old flight attendant named Neerja Bhanot fended off a group of armed hijackers on Pan Am flight 73. When the attackers boarded the plane, she shouted a secret command to the pilots, allowing them to escape.