The Monica Bird

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fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

that’s a young JRR Tolkien ^ I gotta say that besides being the genius  writer of the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit and the the Silmarillion, a poet, philologist , war veteran and university professor, he was a pretty attractive guy.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

[TW] Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1652) was an Italian Baroque painter and a completely kickass lady. One of her best known paintings is the gory Giuditta che decapita Oloferne, (Judith Beheading Holofernes), which she painted when she was nineteen years old during the trial of her rapist, Agostino Tassi. The trial was a grueling and humiliating ordeal for Artemisia, who had to undergo a gynecological exam and torture with thumbscrews to determine if she was telling the truth. Tassi was eventually found guilty, but never faced punishment for his crimes. It’s clear from her painting what Artemisia’s feelings on the subject were.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Zelda Fitzgerald at 17.

(1900-1948). Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, face of the Jazz Age, and the prototype that every flapper modeled themselves after. She was gorgeous!

mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

Sir Sandford Fleming. This Scottish-Canadian boyfriend was an inventor of timezones, explorer, engineer, and wearer of fabulous furs. 

For more proof, check out this studly Canadian Heritage Moment.

Submitted by JSFMacL3

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

I was shocked when I realized John Hancock hadn’t been submitted yet! He was the richest man in Boston during the Revolution and ran one of the most successful shipping companies in the colonies. There are even rumors that he was a smuggler and he was considered one of the most wanted men in New England by George III himself. He lived in a baller mansion and just threw huge parties for all of the Bostonians because he could. Hancock also married one of the foxiest ladies, Dorothy Quincy, and was madly and passionately in love with her. He was the President of the Continental Congress and hung out with all our favorites like the Adams cousins, G. Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other notable Fathers. He continued to give tear jerking speeches until gout killed him far before his time was ready.

OH! And did I mention he was GORGEOUS?! He was one of the most wooed about gentlemen in Boston. Even his Founding buddies frequently commented on Hancock’s dashing good looks. He should be every woman’s colonial fantasy.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

The man himself said it best “Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.”

H.L. Mencken

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Civilization is a method of living and an attitude of equal respect for all people.

Jane Addams

Photo credit: Wikipedia
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fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Frédéric Chopin was a Polish virtuoso, teacher and composer during the Romantic period. He was never able to marry the woman he fell in love with, Marie, and wrote many songs for her. When he lived in Paris, he carried on a relationship with the french woman George Sand. His friend, Franz Liszt, called him (correctly) a genius. Chopin is best known for his piano works; his music is technically demanding and yet focuses on depth and expression as well. Later in life, when he was dying of TB, he wasn’t looking so good, but in his younger days? Oh baby. And have you heard his nocturnes? Swoon.

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Julia Margaret Cameron
No, she’s not really the traditional ‘looker,’ but this lady could really look, if you’ll excuse the pun. She took up photography at the ripe age of 48, given a camera as a present, and became something of a master of the close-cut portrait. She did all the dirty work of the art herself - developing, working with the black silver nitrate that stained everything - and though her work didn’t win wide recognition in her own time (the Royal Photographic Society refused to take her seriously), it experienced something of a rediscovery in the late 1940s.

Some of the great geniuses of the Victorian age recognized her skill, however, and her willing subjects included Lord Tennyson, Thomas Carlyle and the astronomer Sir John Herschel. Given that Victorian England was a time when women were mostly expected to shut up and wear corsets, this lady deserves some admiration and a bit of love.

Here’s some of her work:

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Anton Chekhov

A Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: “Medicine is my lawful wife”, he once said, “and literature is my mistress.”

mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

Unknown Japanese man, 19th century. 

Submitted by thepeacockskirt

deviantart:

Narnia by *rhads

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Empress Elisabeth Of Austria.

Over the past year or so, I’ve developed a huge girl crush on this lovely lady. It’s such a shame that her life was so tragic.

I might own the entire DVD collection about her, yes. Maybe.

iheartchaos:

Well I’m inspired for the day.