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So beautiful and yet so sad. The Hobbit, Films, Gandalf, Favorite Movies, Movies, Scenes, Fandoms, Cinema, Nerd
So beautiful and yet so sad.
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Give him a Noble… This Man, Man, In This Moment, Humor, Heartwarming
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This incredible photo marks the end of Matador Torero Alvaro Munera’s career. He collapsed in remorse mid-fight when he realized he was having to prompt this otherwise gentle beast to fight. He went on to become an avid opponent of bullfights. Even grievously wounded by picadors, the bull did not attack this man. Fight, Matador, Fotografie, Fotografia, Historia, Fotos, Beast, Innocent
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This incredible photo marks the end of Matador Torero Alvaro Munera’s career. He collapsed in remorse mid-fight when he realized he was having to prompt this otherwise gentle beast to fight. He went on to become an avid opponent of bullfights. Even grievously wounded by picadors, the bull did not attack this man.
"One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break. It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity." -- Amelia Earhart Portraits, Celebrities, Amelia Earhart Plane, Amelia Earhart, Ella Fitzgerald, Amelia, Amelie, Extraordinary Women
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"One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break. It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity." -- Amelia Earhart
The "Polish Schindler": Physician Eugene Lazowski discovered injecting healthy patients with dead bacteria could cause them to test positive for epidemic typhus without experiencing any symptoms. He & a friend worked secretly to inject thousands of Poles , deliberately creating the appearance of an epidemic. Fearful of contagious illness, Nazi's quarantined the villages rather than sending them to concentration camps. World History, Ww2, World War Ii, Historical Photos, History Nerd, Interesting History, Wwii, World War Two
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The "Polish Schindler": Physician Eugene Lazowski discovered injecting healthy patients with dead bacteria could cause them to test positive for epidemic typhus without experiencing any symptoms. He & a friend worked secretly to inject thousands of Poles , deliberately creating the appearance of an epidemic. Fearful of contagious illness, Nazi's quarantined the villages rather than sending them to concentration camps.
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Keshia Thomas - shielded a klansman from an angry mob. "She put herself at physical risk to protect someone who, in my opinion, would not have done the same for her," he said. "Who does that in this world?" Glow, Art, Junkyard, Thomas, White Man, Black History, Bbc News, Old Girl
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Keshia Thomas - shielded a klansman from an angry mob. "She put herself at physical risk to protect someone who, in my opinion, would not have done the same for her," he said. "Who does that in this world?"
Moses Roper (1815-1891) was a mulatto slave who wrote one of the first major books about life as a slave in the United States titled Narrative of the Adventures of Moses Roper and the Escape from American Slavery African Americans, Vintage, Native American Indians, South, West Indian, African Diaspora, American Indian Culture
Moses Roper (1815-1891) was a mulatto slave who wrote one of the first major books about life as a slave in the United States titled Narrative of the Adventures of Moses Roper and the Escape from American Slavery
Brittany Wenger could just have prayed! Get off your knees and do something real for humanity! Strong Women, Education, Home Schooling, Teaching, Computer Science, Change, Homeschooling
Brittany Wenger could just have prayed! Get off your knees and do something real for humanity!
Great going Madame Prime Minister! Wise Words, Truth, Common Sense, Words Of Wisdom, Sexism
Great going Madame Prime Minister!
Alice Paul went on a hunger strike where she was force fed raw eggs (down her nose) until she vomited blood. She was then put into a sanitorium with the hopes of being declared insane. Her doctor's reply said, “Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.” Suffrage passed 3 years later. Portrait, Women, Feminist, Human, Herrin
Alice Paul went on a hunger strike where she was force fed raw eggs (down her nose) until she vomited blood. She was then put into a sanitorium with the hopes of being declared insane. Her doctor's reply said, “Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.” Suffrage passed 3 years later.
Marie Curie in 1903 at the time she was awarded her Nobel prize in Chemistry History, Marie Curie, Famous Women, Women Leaders, Amazing Women, Famous People, Mare
Is this the greatest meeting of minds ever? Einstein and Curie among SEVENTEEN nobel prize winners at historic conference
Marie Curie in 1903 at the time she was awarded her Nobel prize in Chemistry
Jim Thorpe.  Notice the different socks? Somebody stole his shoes before his race. All he could find were two shoes of different sizes discarded in the trash can. One was too big so he wore extra socks. He ran his race like this, and got an Olympic gold medal, and set a world record.  He was treated this way because he was a Native American Indiana, Nike, Nike Outfits, American Athletes, American Indians, North American, American, Native American
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Jim Thorpe. Notice the different socks? Somebody stole his shoes before his race. All he could find were two shoes of different sizes discarded in the trash can. One was too big so he wore extra socks. He ran his race like this, and got an Olympic gold medal, and set a world record. He was treated this way because he was a Native American
Edith Louisa Cavell - Was a British nurse who is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from all sides during World War I, for which she was arrested. She was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Despite international pressure for mercy, she was shot by a German firing squad. Her execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage. She is well known for her statement that "patriotism is not enough. I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved." Edith Cavell, Famous Nurses, The Past, Great Women, Famous
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Edith Louisa Cavell - Was a British nurse who is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from all sides during World War I, for which she was arrested. She was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Despite international pressure for mercy, she was shot by a German firing squad. Her execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage. She is well known for her statement that "patriotism is not enough. I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved."
"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."  Stephen Hawking Science Nature, Oxford, Inventions, Stephen Hawking, Stephen, Mathematician, Scientist, Science
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"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road." Stephen Hawking
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Cecelia Payne: The woman who discovered what the universe is largely made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Every high school kid knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity Charles Darwin discovered evolution, & Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know. High School, Astronomy, Isaac Newton, Astronomer, Albert Einstein, Infamous, Discovery
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Cecelia Payne: The woman who discovered what the universe is largely made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Every high school kid knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity Charles Darwin discovered evolution, & Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.
If these people had spent all their free time exercising dieting, and obsessing over how they looked instead of creating, inventing, ruling nations and inspiring millions, we would to this day still be living in literal and intellectual darkness. A human worth is so much more than the number on the scale or the dress size. Fitness Diet, Self Esteem, Health Inspiration, Intellectual, Nerd Problems, Body Shaming, Worth, Mind Body
If these people had spent all their free time exercising dieting, and obsessing over how they looked instead of creating, inventing, ruling nations and inspiring millions, we would to this day still be living in literal and intellectual darkness. A human worth is so much more than the number on the scale or the dress size.
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The truly inspiring story of the Chinese rubbish collector who saved and raised THIRTY abandoned babies. Andreas Gursky, Beautiful People, Albert Camus, Ember, Identity
China's most incredible mother: Staggering story of the woman who saved 30 abandoned babies after finding them dumped in the street with the trash
The truly inspiring story of the Chinese rubbish collector who saved and raised THIRTY abandoned babies.
“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right again.” -Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth, Sojourners, History Facts, African
“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right again.” -Sojourner Truth
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.   -Martin Luther King, Jr Bob Marley, Black Power, King Jr, Martin Luther King Jr, Angela Davis, Luther, Black Man, Martin Luther King, Heroes
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -Martin Luther King, Jr
Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985)[1] was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. Dieselpunk, Thug Life, Medical, Medical History, Consideration, Black History Month
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Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985)[1] was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s.
Martin Bormann, Jr. (1930 - Present) seen in uniform in 1939. This is the eldest son of Martin Bormann, Hitler's private secretary. Martin was a godson of Adolf Hitler. He has spent much of his life repenting for his father’s horrific actions, becoming a Catholic priest and serving as a missionary in the Belgian Congo. He has also joined with Jewish groups to make a pilgrimage to Auschwitz and traveled to Israel to meet Holocaust survivors. War, The Third Reich, World War I
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Martin Bormann, Jr. (1930 - Present) seen in uniform in 1939. This is the eldest son of Martin Bormann, Hitler's private secretary. Martin was a godson of Adolf Hitler. He has spent much of his life repenting for his father’s horrific actions, becoming a Catholic priest and serving as a missionary in the Belgian Congo. He has also joined with Jewish groups to make a pilgrimage to Auschwitz and traveled to Israel to meet Holocaust survivors.
Born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia, on March 21, 1856, Henry Ossian Flipper was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1873. Over the next four years he overcame harassment, isolation, and insults to become West Point’s first African American graduate and the first African American commissioned officer in the regular U.S. Army. Second Lieutenant, West Point, Black History Facts, Buffalo Soldier, Israel History, Prejudice
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Born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia, on March 21, 1856, Henry Ossian Flipper was appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1873. Over the next four years he overcame harassment, isolation, and insults to become West Point’s first African American graduate and the first African American commissioned officer in the regular U.S. Army.
This is Rose Valland, one of the heroes of Nazi-Occupied France. An employee of the Louvre, she kept records of the art stolen by Nazi officers—what was taken, from where, and by whom. She was instrumental in the postwar return of countless stolen pieces, and one of the most decorated women in French history. Man Ray, Photography, Paris, Saint Etienne, Artists, Monument Men, Louvre, Woman
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This is Rose Valland, one of the heroes of Nazi-Occupied France. An employee of the Louvre, she kept records of the art stolen by Nazi officers—what was taken, from where, and by whom. She was instrumental in the postwar return of countless stolen pieces, and one of the most decorated women in French history.
Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper Persona, Donna, Female Engineer, People Of Interest
Who Invented Windshield Wipers? Mary Anderson
Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper