#British emperor

[juergenfeytiat]

Das Dampfschiff „Kerman“, exFürth

Titelbild: Frachtdampfer „Kerman“, exFürth der Anglo-Persian Oil Company (ab 1954 British Petroleum, heute bp), undatiertes Foto (vermutlich aus dem Jahr 1915), Fotograf und Aufnahmeort unbekannt, eigene Sammlung Ein Bilderrätsel Dieses unscheinbare Foto habe ich neulich auf einem bekannten Marktplatz für Sammler erstanden. Es zeigt den Frachtdampfer „Kerman“. Der Name des Schiffes ist relativ…

[archivequinn]

Joseph Quinn for British GQ Gladiator 2

Photography by olloweg

[theroyalsandi]

Japanese Imperial Family and British Royal Family - Emperor Naruhito and his wife Empress Masako of Japan (R) greets by the Prince of Wales at their hotel, on behalf of the King, before the ceremonial welcome at Horse Guards Parade, for their state visit to the United Kingdom in London, England. | June 25, 2024

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall is an impressive masterpiece of military engineering built along steep ups and downs that cross space and history between England and Scotland.

The old wall, sculpted for almost 2000 years by wind and rain, climbs over hills, immerses itself in a moor to suddenly resurface among the blades of light of a wood, a karst presence that seems to absorb the energy of landscape to challenge its gravity and logic in a rollercoaster of harsh ups and downs that cross space and history.

Hadrian's Wall is no longer England but it is not yet Scotland, even if the land to the north seems wilder.

But perhaps it is just a state of mind of those who look at it, subtly altered by the emotion of treading the same stones on which the Roman legionaries walked.

In reality, unlike what many believe, the Wall is within English territory, even if it has helped define the borders of the two countries since the emperor from whom it takes its name ordered its construction in 122 AD to "separate the Romans from the barbarians," the hostile tribes of the Picts who populated today's Scotland, a tough nut to crack even for the Roman legions.

To build it in just six years, about fifteen thousand men were employed, three legions that faced the challenges of a terrain carefully chosen to exploit its advantages.

The result is an impressive masterpiece of military engineering, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, stretching from one coast of England to the other for eighty Roman miles, about one hundred and seventeen kilometers from Solway Firth to the west and Wallsend to the east.

It is one of the many place names linked to its existence and then extending southwards with ports and coastal fortifications.

For nearly three centuries, Hadrian's Wall was northernmost and most fortified boundary of the Roman limes, a gigantic defensive system that stretched for over five thousand kilometres — from the Atlantic coast of Great Britain to the Black Sea across Europe — then continuing through present-day Middle East to Red Sea and from there cutting across North Africa to the Atlantic.

The 117km long (80 Roman miles) Hadrian's Wall was punctuated by 14 main forts, 80 minor ones and 2 watchtowers every third of a mile.

In addition to the actual wall, mainly made of stone, about 5m high and up to 3m thick, becoming six metres thick in the earthen sections, the Wall was reinforced by a ditch bristling with pointed stakes, a military road that connected the forts and allowed any point to be reached quickly and by a deep embankment, the Vallum.

The forts, rectangular in plan, varied in size according to the importance of the garrison, a pattern repeated with slight differences along the entire limes that protected the borders of the empire.

A moat and a wall punctuated by towers protected the perimeter and each side had a gate protected by two massive towers.

Inside were the headquarters — the praetorium where the praefectus castrorum reside; barracks; a hospital; warehouses and latrines, generally under the walls, while the bathrooms were outside the fortifications.

In granary, food supplies were stored to face the harsh winters or possible sieges.

In the Vicus, the civilian settlement, lived the families of the soldiers, often auxiliaries who officially could not marry.

In these villages that grew spontaneously around the forts, merchants, artisans and prostitutes also lived, attracted by the soldiers' wages.

There were also temples dedicated to Roman, local and even oriental deities that reflected the different religions of soldiers from all over the empire because Romans were very tolerant as long as the social order and the emperor were not questioned.

🎥: © pindropandhop via IG

[norman-cipher]

Belos haters: Phillip Wittebane is the main antagonist of The Owl House is a genocidal fascist

Belos fans:

Jokes aside, I promise Lil bro Aint no one defending that British man. You ain't never going to survive in any other fandom, I promise 😭🙏

[weirdo-in-disguise101]

He's a 400 yo puritan who committed genocide

[colleybri]

I can’t wait for the world outside of the UK to get the new Wallace and Gromit family comedy adventure Vengeance Most Fowl on Netflix from January 3rd.

Norbot the Smart Gnome seriously getting off on being recharged is the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages and how the hell they got this past the censors I have absolutely no idea.

Except I do. Only the people with the filthiest little minds could possibly read something dirty into something so obviously innocent. And nobody wants to admit to be somebody with a filthy little mind now would they? 🤔 

[hippography]

Willoughby Emperor (2255). 

The property of Mr. George Burton. By Lord Risby out of Miss Willoughby. 

Winner of a First Prize at the Yorkshire Agricultural Society’s Show, 1905. 

Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 1907, The Horses of the British Empire, Vol. 1.

[wittebanged]

how does one goes from this

TO THIS

[vox-anglosphere]

Two cousins, both Emperors, in King Edward VII's funeral procession.

[multi-culti-girl]

If Denzel Washington and Joseph Quinn don't receive Oscars for their respective performances, it will be a massive injustice!

Sir Ridley Scott did it again. This film lived up to EVERY SINGLE ONE of my expectations. And yeah, I know he's technically a villain, but the Emperor Geta brainrot is officially real for me now, my gawddddd. I'm looking forward to the literary masterpieces that this character shall inspire.

In closing: RUN, don't walk, to see Gladiator II.

You shall be entertained. 🔱

[f-o-and-selfship-club]

[theroyalsandi]

Japanese Imperial Family and British Royal Family - King Charles III, (R), Japan's Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Queen Camilla (L), pose for a group photo ahead of the State Banquet during the State Visit to Britain of the Japanese Emperor and Empress at Buckingham Palace in London, England. The Japanese royal couple arrived in Britain for a three-day state visit hosted by King Charles III. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth) | June 25, 2024

[iocity]

*stares at you with big beautiful brown autism eyes*

So… how do you feel about british people?

[sitting-on-me-bum]

In more penguin news, this image provided by the British Antarctic Survey shows adult emperor penguins with their chick near the Halley research station in Antarctica.

Photograph: AP

[meshumo]

day 6 - underrated

i think melanie is funny