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~ Tetradrachm of Kingdom of Parthia with bust of Orodes II.
Culture: Greek
Period: Late Hellenistic Period
Date: 57–37 B.C.
Mint: Kingdom of Parthia
Place of origin: Seleukeia-on-the-Tigris (Babylonia)
Medium: Silver
#ancient#ancient art#history#museum#archeology#archaeology#geek#parthia#parthian#Kingdom#babylon#Babylonia#coin#currency#money#numismatics#tetradrachm#Orodes II#late Hellenistic#Seleukeia-on-the-Tigris#silver#57 b.c.#37 b.c.
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Reblog if you want to get a video from me ❤️😍💞 trans love.
#trans moodboard#trans m#trans miles morales#trans march#trans muslimah#trans movies#trans mlnb#trans media#trans mpreg#trans mlw#trans#trans artist#trans geek#trans rights#trans genocide#trans lesbian#trans leo#trans headcanon#trans hc#trans history#trans jokes#trans joy#trans journey#trans youtuber#trans youth#trans yandere#trans is sexy#trans is beautiful#trans issues#trans uk
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Nokia 9000 Communicator (1996) | The first official 'smartphone' to hit the market with a laptop-like design, featuring LCD display screen of 640 x 200 pixels and full QWERTY keyboard.
#techcore#cybercore#90s#y2k#y2kcore#computercore#nostalgiacore#webcore#vintage tech#old tech#retro gadgets#retro tech#2000s web#vintage smartphone#nokia 9000#cyber y2k#90s aesthetic#tech geek#tech history#old cellphones#curators on tumblr#90s tech#digicore#y2k aesthetic#2000s internet#retro computing#alt text
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hc that jason has a shit ton of perfume collections, they're all very expensive too- (most of them are gifts from absolutely random people in new rome, that he reluctantly took, but he buys some too)
he probably had this collection habit wayy back at camp jupiter. new rome definitely has cool perfume shops you can't tell me otherwise. its supposed to be a replica of rome, and rome has pretty fragrance stores. the scent of perfume just soothes him, it's his version of a caffeine addiction lol. he just sniffs one out of his 1000 perfume bottles, when he feels overstimulated and bam. he feels better.
also mini hc that jason is an impulse spender sometimes. it doesn't happen very often because he's VERY used to restricting himself from buying stuff, considering how he thinks he's isn't worthy to have those things or something, but he likes buying artistic stuff. he LOVES thrift stores omg. he's the type to cry when he sees baby onesies or blankies in a thrift store bc of the potential tragedy behind it :((
I like this hc mostly because people think he's levelheaded and reasonable ALL the time but this adds a twist to his personality yk? he doesn't have to be perfect, he has that ‘mom’ shopping desire where he splurges on potted plants, ancient books, vintage collections (music boxes, cute mini souvenirs, you name it) and like historical paintings and spend lots of time organizing.
#stress shopper jason grace my beloved. this man buys nerdy stuff that he neatly stores in his shelves. mom core??#he's definitely not a minimalist intentionally tbh. He was just forced to be. if he wanted to he'd love to decorate his house w paintings#and has a mug collection#loves collecting ceramic plates and bowls w a vintage design too#this man secretly craves for colour and pop in his house. hes canonically a history geek after all#pjo#pjo fandom#pjo series#percy jackson#pjo hoo#jason grace#pjo hoo toa#hoo fandom#hoo#heros of olympus#heroes of olympus
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thrilled that nerds ryan bergara and shane madej make a living being extremely nerdy. absolutely phenomenal
#ghost files#mystery files#puppet history#ryan bergara#shane madej#shane and ryan#watcher#watcher entertainment#ghoul boys#ryan and shane#the geek rambles
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History time:
Mr. Dalrymple, the eminent surgeon in episode 3 of S2 of Good Omens, appears to be inspired by Robert Knox, an Edinburgh surgeon famous because of his connection to the Burke and Hare murders in the 1820s.
He became an anatomist at the Edinburgh College of Surgeons in Newington and quickly developed a reputation as a lecturer that guaranteed him a steady flow of students, but as with Dalrymple in the show, the shortage of available cadavers was a constant and persistent problem in the city.
Since it gets a bit grisly, I'll pop it behind a thingie.
Graverobbing became so common that many of the graveyards in the city installed watchtowers to keep an eye on the graveyards and some of them had mortsafes put in place:
The coffins were locked in these cages to give the bodies time to get to the stage of decay that would render them useless to anatomists, then popped in a grave afterwards.
This is where Burke and Hare enter this story. They lived in the slums of the old town of Edinburgh and learned that the surgeons would provide money in exchange for fresh bodies, so rather than dig up the graves and risk the watchmen, they cut out the middleman and started murdering people for profit.
Robert Knox was their primary customer and he claimed to be oblivious to the crimes that were being committed, even though Burke and Hare were showing up with unsettling regularity with fresh corpses, but since they were killing the poor, no one was really paying much attention.
According to Mr. Knox, he thought the men were picking up corpses from the poor houses, though there is evidence that suggests he was aware of what was happening: one of the victims was a well-known boy with distinctive physical disabilities who would have been well-recognised. According to contemporary accounts, Knox had the young man's head, hands and feet removed, so no one would recognise him.
Since this could never be proven, he wasn't arrested for his part in the whole affair, but he was described as being "deficient in principle and heart" and public opinion spoke loud and clear. He left Edinburgh in disgrace and was eventually also debarred from teaching by the Royal College of Surgeons in England.
Eventually, laws were brought in to prevent grave robbery, but not before dozens of people were killed for profit.
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The Ancient Brick Strip Clubs of East Toronto
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Jason, Reyna, and Nico have one billion in-jokes about Mediterranean history between the bronze age to the renaissance that they find absolutely hilarious and no one else understands in the slightest. i know this in my heart to be true.
#pjo#riordanverse#jason grace#reyna ramírez-arellano#nico di angelo#im just saying. reyna and jason are canonically HUGE history nerds and nico is at least a huge mythology nerd#though also is heavily implied to *also* be a history nerd#dude's special interests are pirates and world mythology you KNOW he has one specific segment of history he's obsessed with#plus he canonically use to travel all around italy and knows a bunch of historical places and their contexts#those three all accidentally ended up best friends with each other and now they have a BFFs trio of geeking out over ancient rome#theyre in so deep with layered in-jokes that one will just shout a singular word and the other two will double-over laughing#and nobody can fathom how this is funny and no the explanation of the historical context is not helping
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if you're terrified for your country's elections next year because a lot of people seem to think the solution to the government handling an international conflict in an abysmal and deplorable way is to let a group of total monsters who would handle it MUCH worse AND also potentially doom huge swaths of oppressed people at home as well as our entire literal planet get into power, by ignoring the way our deeply flawed but also deeply entrenched system realistically works
clap your hands...?
(I cannot understand trying to stop heinous and unnecessary killing- which disgusts and saddens me, too! how could it not?! -by handing the election to people who want to do even more of that exact thing. the math isn't mathing, as they say)
#us politics#current events#we all have to make our own choices and there are no good ones and that's horrible. but. there are choices I feel are willfully ignorant#and reflect a certain degree of security and privilege that not all of us have#if you do not vote dem. the republicans are going to win. it's awful and I don't like it either but#that is realistically what's going on here#(I've been trying not to talk about the Israel/Hamas war much because holy shit do I not have the full story as History Geek BloggerTM)#(but my basic stance is that both governments involved are horrible and see civilians as pieces on a game board)#(and the US should send no aid to either of them that isn't humanitarian in nature)
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People joke about the plot point in Back to the Future where Doc hits his head and the idea for the flux capacitor occurs to him but honestly, I've always interpreted it less as "hitting his head magically gave him a vision of something to invent" and more "he had a weird moment of clarity about an idea he'd been mulling over for a while"
Partially because, yes, it makes more sense, but also. He's a nuclear physicist in 1955. He would have been finishing his graduate degree at Caltech in the 1930s, at the same time that Richard Chace Tolman (of Tolman's Paradox fame) was a professor there. Do you know one of the big questions physicists were seriously throwing around during that point in time? You can't tell me that Doc wasn't already thinking constantly about how to make time travel work -- with his colleagues before he became more of a recluse, and then later on his own time -- considering it was one of the biggest questions in theoretical physics (and I imagine his interests always swung pretty heavily that direction given, well. Doc).
So like. Obviously it's comedic. The Back to the Future movies are comedies. But also. Love to think about time travel as an idea he was toying around with ever since he was young that then one day landed on his doorstep in the form of a very bewildered teenager.
#every once and a while my history of science brain latches onto doc#even though 'mid-century theoretical nuclear physics' is so not my era OR field. it still compels me#i am capable of being a geek about any era of science is the thing#f: your future is whatever you make it
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Some other artifacts from Ephesus.
What's so significant about this location is the fact that it was home to many different, great civilizations including ancient greeks, imperial romans and early christians, and it is said to be founded by Amazonians. It was first built in 10th century BC, but recent excavations stretched the timeline all the way back to 6000 BC. The intricate works made out of stone, ivory, clay, marble, copper and gold carry the fingerprints of so many different cultures. It's hard not to feel amazed by such a big piece of human history while walking around.
Tiny cups with powder are make-up containers. Just imagine the greek or roman woman who use these to have her make-up done, and go out to see the play in the great theatre nearby, which had the capacity of 20k people! Right below them are surgical tools, crafted in great detail.
Tiny egyptian priest statute is a bonus and was a lovely surprise to see here. It was naturally a low-light environment so the photos aren't excellent, but I did my best.
#ancient statues#ancient history#ancient greece#ancient egypt#ancient rome#ancient civilizations#ephesus#ancient artifacts#ancient art#statues#photography#archaeology#amazonian#history#fun history#photography blog#history geek#history nerd
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#IFTTT#Flickr#old#family#history#modern#vintage#magazine#advertising#geek#tech#suburban#memories#suburbia#retro#nostalgia#1940s#americana#ww1#populuxe#housewife#generation#thepast#thefuture#oldfashioned#retrotech#americanhistory#popularscience#popularmechanics#tommorowland
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Headcanon that Jason Grace takes his Roman history obsession to the next level, to the point where he has totally read illegal/restricted books in camp Jupiter before. Yk how there are restricted libraries? Camp Jupiter totally has tons of those only elite members can access. Jason totally exploits his position just for more history info.
Yk how annabeth said in Mark of Athena, that Jason looks like he knows way TOO much but simply doesn't tell anyone? Well he does. he has dark af secrets and tea, he'd literally be looking for an opportunity to spill all of it 👀 he has certainly read very um. Questionable things.
(another hc that annabeth is literally the only one he spills these stuff to bc she is legit the only one who gets the art of history, also, she totally bribed him for information, we know that canonically they both DID have nerdy discussions w e/o. Annabeth said in moa that Jason had described the exteriors of new Rome in perfect detail to her and how Reyna was supposed to look like, in the lost hero, those two spent hours researching about the Roman/Greek forms of gods by interrogating clovis + Piper noted how well they both debated about the Athena parthenos without any blame or hostility, just perfectly fitting their collective pieces of research information together. Ugh this friendship was such a wasted potential. It's literally no wonder that annabeth cried till she was sick for Jason's death. They weren't close friends or anything, but they intellectually respected eachother in a very healthy way, it was refreshing to read about tbh.
Jason and annabeth are the OG nerd friends fr.
#We were DEPRIVED of jason and annabeth being geeks for history. They're both so dam smart omg#Jason takes his history way too seriously#Also he has totally watched true crime films and podcasts#pjo hoo#pjo#pjo fandom#jason grace#pjo series#pjo hoo toa#annabeth chase#percy jackson#leo valdez#piper mclean#nico di angelo#frank zhang#hazel levesque
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shane jumping ship like violet jessop leaped from the britannic’s lifeboat in that one episode of puppet history
#he’s not wrong#watcher entertainment#shane madej#puppet history#all hail the watcher#also really funny that he refused to call twitter “x” till the very end#the geek rambles
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My trans ass is an art of cock 🍆🍑🍑 Reblog if you wanna get my private stories on Snapchat
#trans geek#trans hc#trans headcanon#trans genocide#trans history#trans m#trans march#trans media#trans lesbian#trans miles morales#trans love#trans rights#trans artist#trans main character#trans man#transgender#transmasc#trans male#trans masc#trans youth#hotel transylvania#transbeauty#trans boy#trans beauty#trans umbrella#transunity#trans hrt#trans healthcare#trans is beautiful#trans is sexy
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