“Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem apellant.”

“To pillaging, massacre, plunder, they give the false name “empire”; and, where they have made desolation, they name it peace!”

- Tacitus, Of the Life and Death of Julius Agricola, XXX

Tacitus here quotes the Caledonian chieftain Calgacus, describing the expansion of the Roman empire, immediately before the battle of Mons Graupius, circa AD 83.

(via ancientpeoples)

nonaraptor:

westerlies:

i get mras and mrsa confused

one’s a virulent plague upon the vulnerable members of society which is hard to treat and even harder to eradicate

the other one’s methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus

(Source: 0rient-express)

germannn:

Sophie Hunger | Walzer für Niemand

(Source: paddyjohnson)

so I was gonna post this:

and complain about how in the past five minutes I’ve gotten it at least seven times

and then as I tried to make this post I got this:

I think tumblr really has a problem here

inspiringdresses: Wedding Essemble, 1878, AmericanMet Museum While white is now de rigueur for bridal attire, the fashion for white wedding gowns originated only in the late 19th century and was not commonplace until the 20th century. This dress is a good example of the more practical 19th century practice of brides wearing colored gowns for weddings. The wedding dresses could then be worn again for other receptions and social events. A well-made and finely-detailed example of the period, this dress would have been described as a “cuirass” or “cuirass style” at the time it was made, a term that refers to the form-fitted bodice. A steel-boned corset helped to achieve the ideal figure for the cuirass style in the 1870s and 1880s.

inspiringdresses:

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Wedding Essemble, 1878, American
Met Museum

While white is now de rigueur for bridal attire, the fashion for white wedding gowns originated only in the late 19th century and was not commonplace until the 20th century. This dress is a good example of the more practical 19th century practice of brides wearing colored gowns for weddings. The wedding dresses could then be worn again for other receptions and social events. A well-made and finely-detailed example of the period, this dress would have been described as a “cuirass” or “cuirass style” at the time it was made, a term that refers to the form-fitted bodice. A steel-boned corset helped to achieve the ideal figure for the cuirass style in the 1870s and 1880s.

peashooter85:

Fine 18th century Russian hunting sword/flinlock pistol.