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Aphra Behn was the first woman in the Britain known to have made her living as a writer and playwright, she was known for her frequent portrayals of men as being the less intelligent sex but still capable of nobility
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Three egyptian pyramids were built by a single pharaoh, Sneferu. Only one was (probably) used as a tomb (the Red Pyramid): the two others (the Bent pyramid and the Meidum pyramid) are thought be either rough drafts or failed tries. They're still standing today, because as some Umayyad caliphs found out millennia later, it takes as much effort to destroy a pyramid as it takes to build one
>>271008No
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>The Egyptian Feminist Union (Arabic: الاتحاد النسائي المصري), the first nationwide feminist movement in Egypt, is founded at the home of activist Huda Sha'arawi.
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Afghan Buddhist reliefs
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No. 282693
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plate from Torslunda
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This is Maria Carolina, sister of Marie Antoinette and queen of Naples and Sicily. Once she got married with her "very ugly" spanish husband (called simultaneously Ferdinand III and IV, then Ferdinand I) she did her best to establish a Habsburg foothold by removing the incompetent king's advisors and replacing all of them with her own, including her good friend sir John Action (who Ferdinand was furiously jealous of)
A freemason, she brought an era of enlightened absolutism on southern Italy. The death of Marie Antoinette at the hand of revolutionaries horrified her, to the point that she refused to even speak french, and eventually turned Naples into a police state. As nearly all european royalty she was an enemy of Napoleon, who still thought enough of her to call her "the only man in the Kingdom of Naples". She suffered several military defeats against him and her life ended in exile in Vienna. Like her mother she was very aware that the Habsburg family's influence was dwindling, and had 18 children (less than half survived to adulthood) to further establish themselves over Europe. This ended up going beyond her expectations, as her granddaughter Marie Louise married the very same Napoleon
If you look at the painting you'll notice, along with the incredible hair and gorgeous jewels and fan, the very elaborate stomacher, which is a triangular piece of clothing worn on the stomach. They're often so complex that, just like here, the artist struggles to depict them accurately
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No. 308164
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If anyone is interested in about the specific lives of women in history "The history chicks" started around 2011 (not good sound quality from the early episodes) and is still ongoing. There's also "What'sHerName" which is newer and I have only listened to a couple episodes so far. Both are a bit libfem, but not annoyingly so. If anyone can recommend other female focus history podcasts I would appreciate. I feel like learning individual stories about women throughout history broadened my view about how women acted during the past after being told that they were all 'submissive little wives who stayed home and sew before feminism ruined things' when I was young.
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>>271023The umayyads never tried destroying the pyramids now youre just making stuff up lmao
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No. 315858
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>A happy bat, found in a 13th-century manuscript