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rljd:
I have a ritual where if my phone isn’t showing enough bars I wave it around, hoping its gyroscopes and clockworks will tell it something is happening and it will re-establish contact with the satellites in space and refresh my facebook comments.
or I just point it at a window, impatiently.
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This amazing lady is Agustina Raimuna María Zaragoza y Domènech, known as Agustina de Aragón (1786-1857), the “Spanish Joan of Arc.” She was a brilliant young woman who fought for Spain in the Spanish War of Independence. This picture is her most famous moment, when she fired on French troops at point-blank range at the Siege of Zaragoza after the Spanish troops abandoned their posts. Her bravery inspired the troops to rally, and despite the eventual French victory in that battle, she became iconic from then on.
Agustina had hung around the Army barracks since she was 13, both because she was interested in war and because of a certain artillery gunner named Joan Roca Vila-Seca. They married for love and had a son, Eugenio, but she left Joan when the war for independence (known in English as the Peninsular War) broke out.
She was the Duke of Wellington’s only female officer and was eventually ranked a Captain. One of the commanders at the Battle of Vitòria, Agustina inarguably helped liberate Spain from France, and she survived all her wars – though her son, sadly, did not. She died at the old age of 71 in Ceuta, and is known in mythology, folklore, artwork, and most of all, history, as the heroine of Zaragoza.
Crushworthy? I think so.
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A spectacular new video for the California-based folk-pop group Yellow Red Sparks tells the epic story of a woman who dies, quite literally, of a broken heart. What happens to the man who rejected her is another story all together.
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“What’s the most fun you’ve ever had together?”
“Probably that time we swam to the Navy Yard.”
“When was that?”
“I don’t know. Sometime in the 1940’s.”—————————
After the photo, I asked if they had any grandchildren. The one in the pink said: “I’m still an unclaimed treasure.”
(Boston, MA)
BEST FRIENDS.
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