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If you do ninety-nine things correct, and one thing incorrect, people will ignore the ninety-nine, and spread the one mistake.
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nomadfawzi: Who knows this great man? He was Somalia’s Renaissance man — Somalia’s Leonardo da Vinci, since his expertise spanned in numerous subject areas — a polymath. He was a scholar, a writer, a nomad, a linguist, a historian, an astrologist, a meteorologist, and a mathematician. He was one of the most influential figures that the Somali people ever had. Get to know him. His name is Muse Xaaji Ismail “Galaal”, and he “was a researcher, scientist, historian, writer and poet whose most important lasting legacy is the role he played in the creation of the modern written Somali alphabet and written Somali text and in preserving numerous accounts of Somali cultural and heritage, which would otherwise have been lost forever.” Zoom

nomadfawzi:

Who knows this great man?
He was Somalia’s Renaissance man — Somalia’s Leonardo da Vinci, since his expertise spanned in numerous subject areas — a polymath. 
He was a scholar, a writer, a nomad, a linguist, a historian, an astrologist, a meteorologist, and a mathematician. He was one of the most influential figures that the Somali people ever had. Get to know him.

His name is Muse Xaaji Ismail “Galaal”, and he “was a researcher, scientist, historian, writer and poet whose most important lasting legacy is the role he played in the creation of the modern written Somali alphabet and written Somali text and in preserving numerous accounts of Somali cultural and heritage, which would otherwise have been lost forever.”

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“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” — Niccolò Machiavelli

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Hitler’s food tester opens up about screening meals in the ‘Wolf’s Lair’ after 68 years of secrecy
They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed the truth about her wartime role: Adolf Hitler’s food taster.

Woelk, then in her mid-twenties, spent two and a half years as one of 15 young women who sampled Hitler’s food to make sure it wasn’t poisoned before it was served to the Nazi leader in his “Wolf’s Lair,” the heavily guarded command center in what is now Poland, where he spent much of his time in the final years of World War II.

“He was a vegetarian. He never ate any meat during the entire time I was there,” Woelk said of the Nazi leader. “And Hitler was so paranoid that the British would poison him — that’s why he had 15 girls taste the food before he ate it himself.” (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber; AP Photo/US Army Signal Corps from Eva Braun’s album)

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This one’s for the torn down
The experts at the fall
Common friends get up now
You’re not alone at all

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I am a Book Hoarder

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Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 04 - Ending Theme

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“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.

I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…

I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’

‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’

What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!

I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”
― J.K. Rowling

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headlikeanorange: A golden eagle (Earth Unplugged - BBC Earth)

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A golden eagle (Earth Unplugged - BBC Earth)

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Remix by André Allen Anjos.
Commissioned by Bastille.
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