Follow this blog for history humor on your dash Martin Luther to the Church and Pope Leo X I’m doin’ this tonight, You’re probably gonna start a fight. But I know this is right. Hey Leo come on, I loved God endlessly, When you weren’t there for me. So now it’s time to leave and make some reform. I know that they can’t take no more It ain’t no lie I’m posting shit up on that door Leo, bye, bye, bye… Bye Bye I’m sick of this Church abuse Now let’s start thinking like Jon Hus You may hate me but it ain’t no lie, Leo, bye, bye, bye… Bye Bye Don’t really wanna make it tough, I just wanna tell you that I had enough. It might sound crazy, But it ain’t no lie, Leo, bye, bye, bye There’s only ninety-five Just keep the Bible alive So give me one good reason, Why this is wrong? I live for God you see, So why we gotta disagree? The Church would be better if your power was gone I know that they can’t take no more It ain’t no lie I’m posting shit up on that door Leo, bye, bye, bye… I’m sick of this Church abuse Let’s start thinking like Jon Hus So I’m leavin’ you behind
The role of the “Second” in European 17th Century rapier or pistol dueling was actually to discourage and stop the fight.
So there were rules as to who couldandcouldn’t be a second in a duel. No “heathens” could be a Second, as they would be too eager to see Christian blood spilled, and no Irishman could be, either, as they “love fighting too much.”
HERKYNA, (or Hercyna) was the Naiad Nymph of the stream Herkyna near Lebadeia in Boiotia (central Greece). She was a childhood companion of Persephone, and a goddess of the chthonian shrine of Trophonios.
Master of Affligem [Netherlandish. c. 1480 - c.1520] Philip the Fair and Joan the Mad. c. 1495 - 1506
Maximilian I was supported in his struggle against France by England and Spain; in the latter case, the alliance was to be consolidated with a marriage. Although the widower Maximilian initially wanted to marry a Spanish princess himself, the royal house of Spain expressed a preference for the younger generation. In 1496 there was a double wedding: the children of Ferdinand and Isabella, Joan (Juana) of Castile and Aragon and her brother Don John (Juan), Prince of Asturias, were married to Maximilian’s children Philip and Margaret of Austria.
The marriages were thus not part of some cleverly conceived Habsburg strategy for acquiring the Spanish throne but, rather, a means of strengthening an alliance: the Austrians and the Spanish were to join forces in order to drive the French out of Italy and each take a share of the peninsula for themselves. However, the double wedding was followed by a sequence of strokes of good fortune that favoured the Habsburg cause: not only did Margaret’s new husband Don John die but so did all the other Spanish royal heirs, putting Joanna and her husband Philip first in line for the throne. In 1500, furthermore, they consolidated their claim to the succession by producing a son, the future Emperor Charles V, so that when Philip became King of Castile in 1504, Spain and all its possessions fell into Habsburg hands.
Only a few years later, however, Philip died, after which Joanna is said to have lost her mind – thus going down into history as Joanna the Mad – and was in any case not capable of governing. In 1506 her young son Charles was named as Philip’s successor; his grandfather Maximilian took measures to guarantee that the young boy would indeed one day accede to the throne. So it was that in 1516, as a result of a sequence of accidents, Charles became king in Spain, Naples and Sicily, and the Spanish colonies.- Read more on habsburger.net.
Paul Delaroche [French. 1797 - 1856] Central portion of “L'Hémicycle des Beaux-arts” c.1841-42 - The center figure with the laurel wreaths is an allegory of the arts, the woman in green is an allegory of medieval art, the woman in red sitting next to her is an allegory of ancient Greek art, directly across from her is a male figure that is an allegory of ancient Roman art, and next to him is a woman in red who is an allegory of the Renaissance. The other figures from left to right are: Germain Pilon, Pierre Puget, Giambologna, Ictinos, Apelle, Phidias, Philibert Delorme, Baldassarre Peruzzi and Erwin von Steinbach.
So I got angry and decided more people need to know about this guy:
This, dear friends, is Wing Commander Ian Gleed, DFC, DSO, Croix de Guerre. He was a spitfire pilot in WWII in his early twenties and also pretty fucking gay.
He was around from the very start of WWII, fighting in France, the Battle of Britain, and eventually the North African Campaign, where he was tragically shot down over Tunisia.
Gleed published a memoir in I think 1942, before his departure for Tunisia, Arise to Conquer(I mean…really?) where his family were very surprised to discover passages about a girlfriend called Pam. When asked about this by his sister, Gleed told her he’d invented said girlfriend because readers ‘like a touch of romance’. Read, ‘the publisher was a bit worried by the implications my lack of girlfriend and circle of queer friends would have’.
Implications which no one knew where 100% true.
Ian was sadly KIA over Tunisia, but the truth was eventually revealed, decades later, by one of his boyfriends….
That blonde creature is Christopher Gotch, another spitfire pilot stationed at the same airfield as Gleed (Chris was also badass enough to age himself up on the RAF application form and get away with it, but that’s by-the-by). Chris talked about his relationship with Gleed in the 1990s. …
Now.
How do you proposition another man in that day and age? According to Christopher, you sneak into their room, kiss them straight up, make an invite to your own room, and then tear off like an absolute cad, which is exactly what Gleed did. Being in his right mind, Christopher said ‘alrighty then’, leading to an 8 month relationship complete with having to hide naked in a cupboard to avoid being caught by the Group Captain.
…the more you read about Ian Gleed the better it gets, so just do. He had the cat from Pinocchio painted on his damn spitfire punching swastikas for heaven’s sake, so everyone would say over the radio ‘here comes Figaro’:
So, if you need an LGBT+ hero to cheer you up, check out my darling boy Ian Gleed.
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Here is the full text of the speech given by United States Secretary of State George Marshall at Harvard University on June 5, 1947. The basis of the speech would lead to the Economic Recovery Act of 1948 better known as the Marshall Plan.
On This Day in History June 5, 1947: United States Secretary of State George Marshall gives a speech at Harvard University’s Commencement which highlighted the aims of what would eventually become the Economic Recovery Act of 1948 aka the Marshall Plan.
The Marshall Plan was a series of economic relief programs to rebuild and restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. The plan was submitted to the United States Congress who passed the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, and on April 3, 1948, United States President Harry Truman signed the act. In total more than $15-billion in aid was provided by the Marshall Plan.
For his efforts, George Marshall would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.
On This Day in History June 3, 2006: Based on the results of an Independence Referendum dated May 21, 2006, the state of Montenegro declared its independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. Montenegro was part of that union since 2003. Prior to that, Montenegro was part of the state of Yugoslavia.
![Master of Affligem [Netherlandish. c. 1480 - c.1520]Philip the Fair and Joan the Mad. c. 1495 - 1506](https://64.media.tumblr.com/8eda8ffc6737882d4ae30c8c348689fc/a12cf2d04ec0e714-34/s1280x1920/edd9320195c2b3dc795aaa567a18d4d1899613eb.png "Master of Affligem [Netherlandish. c. 1480 - c.1520]Philip the Fair and Joan the Mad. c. 1495 - 1506")
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