I'm a 19 year old female from Florida who's into different kinds of shit including but not limited to Once Upon a Time, Homestuck, Sherlock, Doctor Who um, books when I have time, music, stories. I don't even know anymore. That's why I have a sorry-ass blog.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
My history crush is Nathan Hale.
He was born in Connecticut and graduated with honors from Yale in 1773 at the age of eighteen.
While at Yale, he had a small but close-knit group of friends, and belonged to a prestigious literary fraternity. He and his friends referred to each other using nicknames from Greek mythology. (Nathan was “Pythias.”)
After graduation, he became a schoolteacher, and taught night classes to local girls, believing that they deserved a good education as much as the boys did.
When the American Revolution broke out, Nathan joined the Continental Army, eventually achieving the rank of captain. He was described by his fellow soldiers as energetic, articulate, and compassionate. If a member of his unit was sick or injured, Nathan would sit up with them during the night and pray for them.
When General Washington elected to send a spy behind enemy lines, Nathan was the only volunteer. He was captured by the British forces and sentenced to death by hanging.
Before his execution, he wrote letters to his family and friends, but the British officer in charge of the camp where he was imprisoned confiscated and destroyed them. Nathan also asked for a Bible from the officer in charge, but this was also denied. However, a soldier he had befriended later sent a message, at Nathan’s request, to the Hale family.
Nathan Hale was executed for treason and espionage on September 22nd, 1775. He had turned twenty-one two months earlier. Witnesses, including the kind British soldier, reported that he had conducted himself with dignity and honor in his final hours.
His eloquent last words were “my only regret is that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Although no likenesses made of him during his lifetime exist, he was described as having fair hair and blue eyes, slightly taller than average, with a slender, agile build.
Intelligent, well-spoken, friendly, kind, religious, and extremely brave. What more could you ask for?
fucKING FINALLY HOLY SHIT
Need to learn about the six wives of Henry VIII? Watch this, and you’ll be able to sing about them. In your sleep.
Bonnie and Clyde, two tragic (and handsome) young lovers who were with each other until the gruesome bullet-ridden end. Bonnie Parker was a poet, and Clyde Barrow was fiercely loyal to her, never leaving her side and even carrying her when a bullet wound had paralyzed her leg, rendering her unable to walk for an entire year before they were killed.
Mathilde Kschessinska
b. 1872, Russian prima ballerina assoluta, 1st girlfriend of Nicholas II, lived to the age of 99.
Lewis Payne (April 22, 1844 – July 7, 1865) was one of the co-conspirators executed for his role in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and for his attempt of the life of Secretary of State William Seward. Payne injured Seward in a knife attack but failed to kill him. He was later captured by Union troops when he attempted to rejoin his co-conspirators at a Washington DC boardinghouse. After a military tribunal found him guilty of conspiracy and attempted murder, he was executed by hanging along with three of his co-conspirators at the Washington Navy Yard on July 7, 1865. Despite being an attempted murderer, he had amazing bone structure and was really very handsome!
He looks too modern for the 1800s. Good lookin’ man.
This attractive young man is Claus von Stauffenberg. He tried to kill Hitler. (Tom Cruise does him no justice in Valkyrie.)
Manfred von Richtofen
AKA: Red Baron. German fighter pilot known for successfully having 80 victories in combat which is the current world record. Interestingly enough, there is still controversy over who shot the bullet that took down this really good looking pilot.
The handsome Hunkpapa Sioux Chief Yellow Shirt in 1898.
I normally haven’t found any historical figures attractive, but this statue of Augustus, aka, Octavian, I find pretty hot. The first Roman emperor and adopted by his great uncle, Julius Caesar, he was known to be shrewd and cold, but also brilliant and had a forte in politics
June 03 1906 - April 12 1975
When she couldn’t get pass that racism that she was treated with in the U.S she moved to France were her fame began. An entertainer, singer and actress she not only entertained France she helped them in World War II by being a spy and collecting information. She ended up receiving a French military honor the Croix de guerre.
With the looks that she has coupled with the moves she displays in her famous number the Danse Banane She is my historical lesbian crush!
Vera Renczi
A Romanian serial killer who poisoned 35 individuals including her husbands, lovers and one son with arsenic during the 1920s. but shes so Beautiful …
Roald Dahl, British author, 1916-1990.
Unidentified US Army soldier in Vietnam- 1965
Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna, revolutionary, communist, leader and look at that picture. Look at him.
Erich Alfred Hartmann (19 April 1922 – 20 September 1993), nicknamed “Bubi” (the hypocoristic form of “young boy”) by his comrades and “The Black Devil” by his Soviet enemies, was a German World War II fighter pilot and is the highest-scoring fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. Although he had refused to enter the Nazi Party – much under influence of his father, who still was a vehement anti-Nazi, he had scored large successes in the air war against the USSR.
He claimed 352 aerial victories (of which 345 were won against the Soviet Air Force, and 260 of which were fighters) in 1,404 combat missions. He engaged in aerial combat 825 times while serving with the Luftwaffe.
During the course of his career, Hartmann was forced to crash-land his damaged fighter 14 times. This was due to damage received from parts of enemy aircraft he had just shot down or mechanical failure. Hartmann was never shot down or forced to land due to fire from enemy aircraft.
A talented badass with a killer smile.
