Let Us Rise --
"I'm never worried to walk the wire -- I won't do anything just half-assed!"
The demented rebloggings of a history nerd who has become a major Sherlock fangirl.
There may occasionally be large amounts of slash/NSFW material, and things that may offend you. Don't like? Don't follow. I won't hold it against you.
Notice: The art you see here will inevitably belong to someone else, as I cannot art worth crap. I will try to credit the original, but if I cannot, please know that I am not stealing other people's art, nor do I claim it as my own.
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Photoset reblogged from That's it. That's all there is.
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Photoset reblogged from The Other Side of the Hill
Art and Architecture-The Łazienki Palace, also known as the Palace on the Water. It is built on an artificial island located in the Warsaw Royal Baths Park. The original building was completed in 1689, but between 1764 and 1795 it was remodeled into private quarters for Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. During World War II, the Germans made preparations to blow up the building but never carried them out.
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Photo reblogged from Fuck Yeah, History Major Heraldic Beast
Yeah, Poland just had the reeeeally bad luck of being between two huge empires — Russia and Prussia/Germany.
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Photo reblogged from FUCK YEAH HISTORY CRUSHES
Mordechai Anielewicz (1919-1943). He was the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He took his own life along with his girlfriend, Mira Fuchrer, and 80 other insurgents in order not to be killed by the Nazis.
