dreadpiratekhan:

dreadpiratekhan:

A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]

Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]

Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the U.S. [1907]

A 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]

Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]

Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]

Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]

Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961]   (freakin’ immaculate)

Now with more awesomesauce!

Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 - 1945]

The first basketball team from Smith college. [1902]

Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]

Afghani medical students. [1962]   (man, screw fundamentalism.)

A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]

and just to wrap up…

Nina Simone, one of the most talented vocalists of the 20th century.

wheeliewifee:

i-need-that-seat:

bpdpapi-deactivated20150616:

A few days ago in a parking lot in Lisbon wheelchair users and volunteers occupied all the available Non-Handicap spaces to make a point to able-bodied motorists what it is like to have “their” parking places unavailable to them.

On every wheelchair various notes were left like: “be right back”, “it only takes a moment”, “I’m get something here”, etc.

Via Mobility Van Videos by EJ Dulina

Reblogged this yesterday from a different source, but I think this photograph is more powerful.

I love this so much I’ll reblog it a million times!

refinery29:

Watch Michelle Obama’s inspiring speech at the Democratic National Convention

“Our motto is when they go low, we go high” was just one of about a billion amazing Michelle Obama-isms. See how she drops the mic when explaining why Trump is toast.

Gifs: PBS NewsHour

WATCH THE FULL SPEECH

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tattooedkira:

morethanjustgay:

sixpenceee:

Miep Gies, tiny, white-haired, gentle and courageous, is an unfamiliar name to most people, but without this remarkable woman, there would be no The Diary of Anne Frank. During the Nazi occupation of Holland the Austrian-born Dutch woman risked her life daily to hide Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis.

Gratitude to every brave person who tries to do the right thing in extremely difficult times

Miep Gies did a lot more than just hide the Frank family.

-She refused to join the Nazi party when a woman came to home to try and convince her
-She’d been friends with the Franks a long time before the war, going over for dinner at their home and sometimes going to the coffee mornings the Franks held 
-She agreed to help immediately when Otto told her he was thinking about finding a place to hide for his family
-She took Margot to the hiding place before the rest of the family arrived, which made her a criminal because Margot wasn’t wearing her star and was riding a bicycle it was illegal for her to own
-She and her husband put their apartment in their name after the Jewish owner went into hiding so that her things wouldn’t be taken away
-They both visited her several times while she was in hiding
-They also tried to find hiding places for other Jewish people they knew 
-When it became illegal for her to see Fritz Pfeffer as her dentist, she kept going to him anyway
-He asked her if she knew of a hiding place for him and it was she who mentioned him to Otto Frank and then helped him get to the hiding place
-She met with Fritz’ wife once a week to pass on letters from Fritz
-While the Franks, the van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer were in hiding, Miep would go to several different shops to get enough food for them
-She and the others who were helping to hide the families made a special effort on occasions such as birthdays to get presents and cheer them up
-She offered to take Anne to the doctor when Anne was having trouble with her eyes, despite the danger this would put her in
-Knowing how difficult it was for Anne not to have any new pretty clothes when she growing out of her old ones, Miep bought her a pair of red shoes that Anne loved
-She and her husband hid a boy called Karel in their home after he refused to sign the oath Dutch university students had been ordered to sign by the Germans
-They also took in a cat belonging to their Jewish neighbours after they were taken away
-She was the one who found Anne’s diary and a few other things, and kept them safe until after the war
-After the Franks, van Pels and Fritz were arrested, Miep went to the Gestapo headquarters and tried to pay the Nazis to release them
-After the war Otto Frank stayed with Miep and her husband for several years

She wrote about all of this in her excellent book Anne Frank Remembered

keelime-pies:

kangarohcreations:

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redrodent:

fuckyeahcomicsbaby:

A Tale of Nine Lives by Akimiya Jun

I’m not crying, you’re crying!!

Couldn’t find the reblog button though all the tears in my eyes

Damn it all.
;__;

These aren’t tears in my eyes….Nope…Dust…Totally dust or an eye lash..

DAMN IT ALL! I CRY LIKE A BITCH EVERY TIME!