Emily Davison

ex fashion student

[Rock Sound @rocksound]

The Pretty Reckless, Download Festival 2026

LIVE REVIEW: There’s something so effortlessly cool about The Pretty Reckless, and seeing them live always feels like landing an invite to the grittiest and loudest rock and roll club in town.
Fronted by one of rock’s most staggeringly captivating leaders, that spirit is always going to be enthusiastically welcomed at Download Festival, but there’s something about the way Taylor Momsen and Co. power through today’s set that feels particularly sleek.
Perhaps that’s partly thanks to the buzz around upcoming album, ‘Dear God’, as new cuts ‘When I Wake Up’ and the relentlessly fiery ‘For I Am Death’ are delivered with extra vigour. Still, every part of today’s set feels freshly invigorated in some way.
The darkly seductive gothic swagger of ‘Make Me Wanna Die’ lands with an incredibly sharp bite, and a dedication of the wickedly euphoric ‘Witches Burn’ to all the ladies in the crowd get a roaring response.
A band whose DNA feels almost inseparable from that of a place like Donington Park, it feels apt that it’s The Pretty Reckless shredding solos onstage when the sun finally manages to break free from cloud. Squeezing the last drops of energy out of the crowd as people scramble to find their sun cream, the final evening of Download 2026 is off to a breathtaking start.

✏️ Maddy Howell
📷 Carla Mundy

[Emily Davison @DilbertDerr]

@DownloadFest shout out to the hero festival goer directing the traffic in east car park hadn't moved in two hours till this dude got out his vehicle sacrificing his own commute home to helps others 🙏🤣 👍 our of one car park Into another ... #sos

[Emily Davison @DilbertDerr]

@shesmisssunsine @archeohistories I had a lot of hair from birth at 2 it was shoulder length ,it's not impossible.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

She's known by many names: the Girl in the Glass Coffin, Sleeping Beauty, the World's Most Beautiful Mummy, and the Best Preserved Mummy in the World. In death, she's become something larger than life. Thousands of visitors each year flock to the Sicilian Catacombs just to catch a glimpse of her tiny body.

Nearly 100 years after her death, Rosalia has changed little. Still sealed inside her tiny glass coffin, Rosalia sleeps, her little head poking above a fading silk blanket. Tufts of blonde hair still flowed down her cheeks, and a silk bow was still tied firmly around her head. The only sign of time has passed is an oxidizing amulet of the Virgin Mary, which rests atop Rosalia's blanket. It's so faded that it's almost unrecognizable. This is Rosalia Lombardo, the famous child mummy.

In the 100 years since her death in 1920, Rosalia has become interwoven with Sicilian lore. They tell of a young child, born frail and weak, who endured more pain and sickness throughout her short life than most do in their lifetimes. Her premature death at age two left her father grief-stricken. Unable to lose his daughter, the father sought the help of embalmer Alfredo Salafia to preserve Rosalia for eternity. The result was nothing short of miraculous. Through Salafia's embalming process, Rosalia was perfectly preserved. Fitting to her new state of immortality, she was placed inside a glass coffin and interred inside the Capuchin Catacombs of Sicily.

Veritably, the truth about Rosalia's life has been lost to time. Some say she was the daughter of a wealthy Sicilian noble, a general in the Italian military named Mario Lombardo. The general, according to legend, wanted to preserve his only daughter for eternity and consequentially contacted Alfredo Salafia to embalm her. There are no known photographs of Rosalia alive nor any official documents confirming definitively who her parents were.

Embalmer Alfredo Salafia performed the procedure that would preserve Rosalia. For nearly a century, the exact formula remained a mystery, lost to the grave with Salafia. In 2009, a biological anthropologist named Dario Piombino-Mascali tracked down the eternal formula through Salafia's living descendants. The chemicals included formalin, zinc salt, alcohol, salicylic acid, and glycerin. The combination of alcohol and the climate conditions within the catacombs would have dried Rosalia's body, Glycerin would have allowed the body to mummify, and salicylic acid prevented the growth of mold. The magic ingredient was zinc, which gave the body rigidity, essentially turning it into wax.

Because of the near-perfect nature of Rosalia's body, some skeptics claimed that the real body was replaced with a realistic wax replica. Such a theory became one of the topics of a History Channel documentary in the 2000s. In it, x-ray equipment was brought to the catacombs, and Rosalia's coffin was x-rayed for the first time in its existence. They discovered not only a skeletal structure but that her organs were still intact. Her brain was perfectly visible, only having shrunk 50% due to the mummification process. In 2009, a National Geographic documentary had an MRI performed on the body, producing the first 3D images of Rosalia both inside and out. The MRI confirmed all of her organs were perfectly intact. It also showed her arms at her sides. Nobody has ever looked underneath the blanket that covers Rosalia's body since she was sealed inside her coffin 90 years ago.

Rosalia's perfect mummy exemplifies humans' fascination with death. As the innocence of the young toddler is forever frozen in time, the quality of her beauty captures the imagination of generation after generation. Her corpse receives more visitors than any other mummy in the Catacombs. Many artists have used Rosalia as an inspiration over the years.

#archaeohistories

[Creepy.org @creepydotorg]

How the hell did this come out in 2006?

[Emily Davison @DilbertDerr]

This guy looks rough.

Album cover artwork !

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

The Great Tit usually eats insects and seeds. But when winter comes and there isn’t much food they break skulls of other birds and small mammals to eat their brain

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Three bears (in her dreams, anyway).

[Emily Davison @DilbertDerr]

Need to get myself done venga-esque harms for download 🖤

[Vengaboys @vengaboys]

Cheers to the weekend partypeople!! Open up and be free!! 👅🍓 Get your milkshake flavored Vengabeer at our partyshop on https://t.co/cWvU5mRzNT 😍🎉 @Get_genderfluid

[Emily Davison @DilbertDerr]

Everyone deserves their own believes, you just don't have to comment on them. I agree with both and I find things they've both done and said I disagree with . There's truth in each. Do I still enjoy their work as creatives and artists? Yes ! The world is too woke!

[Metro @MetroUK]

David Tennant takes ‘classy’ swipe at JK Rowling over Harry Potter series https://t.co/7tocpOEu89

[Emily Davison @DilbertDerr]

@Zendaya_Updated @voguemagazine @BritishVogue @vogueaustralia I'd love a copy of the US one 💕

[Isle of Wight Festival @IsleOfWightFest]

Tickets to #IOW2024 are on sale NOW 🚨

Start your summer with us ☀️
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[Vogue Philippines @vogueph]

Apo Maria “Whang-Od” Oggay symbolizes the strength and beauty of the Filipino spirit.

Heralded as the last mambabatok of her generation, she has imprinted the symbols of the Kalinga tribe signifying strength, bravery & beauty on the skin.

Read more on https://t.co/2F1mJ5iQWG.

[Emily Davison @DilbertDerr]

@vogueph Wish I'd known about this issue sooner would love a copy for my collection. This woman is so cool!

[Emily Davison @DilbertDerr]

R13 Kicks Off an '80s Goth Runway Show With Stephen Sprouse-Inspired Trump Shade https://t.co/X8drF4vWAm via @chantalfdez

[Weed World @WeedWorldUK]

The Torabi Sisters; When someone is helped with cannabis, they are often compelled to share what they’ve learned with others.

Read more by clicking the link!

Written by @SharonLetts

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[Emily Davison @DilbertDerr]

What a luxury item! I cried because of a mug 💖💖💖

[Owen Warner @_OwenWarner]

So wholesome 🥺🥺 #ImACeleb

[Emily Davison @DilbertDerr]

@TPROfficial Taylor, Ben, Mark and Jamie you rocked last night 🖤 in Birmingham

[Emily Davison @DilbertDerr]

Here here

[Elijah Wood @elijahwood]

You Are All Welcome Here

@LOTRonPrime @DonMarshall72 #RingsOfPower

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