#alice roberts

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ANCIENT EGYPT BY TRAIN (2023) — 1.01 Alexandria Site Director Mahmoud Abd El Rahman explains the preservation of the mosaics in the Villa of the Birds, Kom El Deka, Alexandria.

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Cameron Mackie

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Pandora’s Box (1929)

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Propaganda

Alice Roberts (Pandora's Box)—I dunno if she was a star per se but she did this groundbreaking lesbian role in a very groundbreaking 1920 movie and she won my heart while doing so. And his 1920's butch style is on pointtt

Lillian Gish (The Wind, Broken Blossoms)—Known as "The First Lady of American Cinema," Lillian Gish was an Academy Award nominated actress that actually began her career as a child actor onstage in theater plays. She was a prominent actress during the silent film era and her ethereal beauty made her one of the most popular actresses of the time/ She was a favorite leading lady of famous director D.W. Griffith, starring in several of his films, including the controversial Birth of a Nation. She was known to go to extremes in preparing for roles, such as sustaining permanent nerve damage in her fingers on one hand after filming a scene in Way Down East where she fainted on an ice floe and kept her hand partially submerged in the frigid water. Her screams during the famous closet scene of Broken Blossoms were supposedly so realistic and horrific that tale has it that bystanders outside the studio had to be stopped from rushing in to help. She is listed on AFI's list of the greatest female stars of classic American Cinema and was awarded several honors during her career.

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

3/3/2024 EDIT: there has been a lot of discussion on this poll that I'm currently examining. Please read the propaganda carefully and weigh your options before voting.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Lillian Gish propaganda:

"I love her just. So so much."

"Was in (arguably) the first movie ever and yeah it was a crap movie but still. Also watch her in Broken Blossoms, man can she ACT (and if an actress is good at her craft it does in fact make me more horny for her)"

"she's literally everything to me i'm not even kidding. quite LITERALLY called the First Lady of American Cinema, she was a damn pioneer of silent movies and acting. she wrote! she directed! she is exactly what i think a fairy would look like actually. she slayed in The Wind. i mean. look at Her"

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[bookymcbookface]

‘Ancestors: The Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials’, by Professor Alice Roberts

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steve’s appendix

Would I Lie to You? (2023): Series 16 Ep. 6

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[ancientegyptdaily]

ANCIENT EGYPT BY TRAIN (2023) — 1.01 Alexandria

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Alice Roberts

[littlehorrorshop]

Pandora’s Box (1929)

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Book mail~📚

Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages by Professor Alice Roberts. This is the Indie Exclusive Edition - signed by the author and with skeleton sprayed edges.

We can unlock secrets from bones preserved for centuries in tombs, graves and crypts.

The history of the Middle Ages is typically the story of the rich and powerful, there's barely a written note for most people's lives. Archaeology represents another way of interrogating our history. By using cutting-edge science to examine human remains and burials, it is possible to unearth details about how individuals lived and died that give us a new understanding of the past - one that is more intimate and inclusive than ever before.

The seven stories in Crypt are not comforting tales. We meet the patients at one of the earliest hospitals in England and the victims of the St Brice's Day Massacre. We see a society struggling to make sense of disease, disability and death, as incurable epidemics sweep through medieval Europe. We learn of a protracted battle between Church and State that led to the murder of Thomas Becket and the destruction of the most famous tomb in England. And we come face to face with the archers who went down with Henry VIII's favourite ship, the Mary Rose.

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84. Crypt, by Professor Alice Roberts

Owned?: No, library Page count: 301 My summary: So much of history has been lost, unrecorded, or simply not considered important enough to commemorate. But by digging up the literal bones of the past, we can gain a fresh new perspective on what it might have been like to live and die in history. From massacres to pandemics to shipwrecks, here is the history of medieval England in a group of skeletons. My rating: 4/5 My commentary:

When I was a child, I wanted to be an archaeologist. This was, of course, before I knew what being an archaeologist actually entailed. I was a kid who loved Horrible Histories books and historical fiction, but when push came to shove, I fell down more on the fiction side than the fact. Turns out archaeology isn't just finding cool bones in the ground 24/7! You gotta do hard work and know things and it's a highly competitive field! Anyway, I still have a passive interest in that sort of thing, and this book combines that with my more modern favourite part of history - social history! What can we learn about a person's life and death from their bones? Surprisingly, quite a lot!

I'll level with you, I don't know much about actual archaeology these days, but this book did a really good job at explaining it to me in a way that I would both understand and didn't feel like talking down to me. And the information is really interesting! I did actually know a little about it, like the archers found in the Mary Rose that we can identify as archers because of a specific deformation to their bones. There are the skeletons buried in a mass grave after the St Brice's Day massacre that give a little history on how exactly that came about (this isn't a period where we have a lot of solid information recorded, even when there are written documents about it). There's the bones of lepers from a leper's hospital that can enlighten us as to how they lived in the hospital and what kind of treatments were available to them. I honestly have nothing much to say other than read the book, it's really interesting, and to say exactly how would be to recap the entire thing here!

Next, happenings in a strange medieval town.

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Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

By Alice Roberts.

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Detectorists 2022 Special