theancientwayoflife:

~ Seated statue of Jupiter (so-called Jupiter Verospi).

Dating: A.D. 80-100 (Spinola)/A.D. 3rd century (others scholars)

Medium: Marble

Provenience: Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Gallery of the Busts, 77 (Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio-Clementino, Sala dei busti, 77)

• From the source: Only the upper part of the body is ancient, up to the legs; the arms, some parts of the face and of the hair and the rest of the body were integrated in the 18th century.

jealousseaa:

Brain Damage (1988)

strangememories:

Madhouse (1974)

kaijuno:

ultrafacts:

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philosophybitmaps:

“There is no single truth about anyone’s life, but as many truths as there are observers.” – Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 9 December 1984, Mexican revolutionary fighter Amelio Robles Ávila died in his home town of Xochipala, Guerrero, aged 95. Assigned female at birth, Ávila joined the turbulent events of the revolution in 1912, and his first mission was to extort funds from oil companies to fund the revolutionary movement. He fought in the revolutionary army of Emiliano Zapata and reached the rank of colonel. He was famous for shooting his pistol with his right hand while holding a cigar in his left. In 1924 he declared his identity as male, and was recognised as such by the military, and was later recognised as the first transgender veteran in the Mexican army. Unlike some women who dressed as men during the revolution and later returned to stereotypically female roles, Amelio forged a male birth certificate, and insisted he be recognised as male for his next 7 decades – sometimes using the pistol he wore around his waist to warn those who misgendered him. More information in Spanish about him is here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/42625542?seq=1
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workingclasshistory:

On this day, 19 November 1915, Joe Hill, Swedish-American Industrial Workers of the World union member and songwriter was executed by firing squad for a murder he did not commit. During his life, Hill wrote many songs such as ‘There is Power in a Union’, ‘Casey Jones - the Union Scab’ and ‘The Preacher and the Slave’ (where the saying 'pie in the sky’ comes from). In his final letter to IWW leader Bill Haywood he wrote: “Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize.”
We have made available this extensive work on Hill’s life in our online store: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/joe-hill-the-iww-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-workingclass-counterculture https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1268267143358433/?type=3

kropotkindersurprise:

A rich person attempts to litter. [video]