Georgi

[Andrzej @PopmusicPL]

Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind🎶🎤

[Andrzej @PopmusicPL]

Keane - Somewhere Only We Know🎶🎤

[Georgi @georgi055]

@_karhide Es imperdonable.

[Georgi @georgi055]

@UnderSecPD @JMilei 🙌🧡

[Georgi @georgi055]

Me es imposible abrirme a musica nueva.

[Ofendidito 🇪🇸©™️ @ofendidito__]

Cuando murió Freddie Mercury, el único que parecía tener un poco de altura para actuar de solista de Queen era George Michael.
Escuchad esto con los ojos cerrados.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

She was twelve years old when she crossed the English Channel to become a queen.

Isabella of France arrived in England in January 1308 to marry King Edward II. Her father was Philip IV, one of the most formidable monarchs in Europe. Her husband was Edward I's son, tall and physically impressive, and expected to continue a dynasty.

What she could not have known, at twelve, was that the marriage was already over before it began.

At the wedding feast in Boulogne, Edward II paid more attention to Piers Gaveston, his Gascon companion, than to his new bride. He seated Gaveston above the French royal uncles. He gave Gaveston the jewels that Isabella's father had sent as wedding gifts.

Gaveston was not simply a friend. The barons called him "the king's brother" with contempt. Chroniclers described an attachment so consuming that it hollowed out every other relationship Edward held. Whether the bond was sexual, scholars still debate. What is not debated is its effect on the queen.

Isabella was sidelined from the first year of her marriage.

The barons eventually moved. In 1312, they captured Gaveston and executed him without the king's consent. Edward was devastated. Isabella, by then a young woman of sixteen, bore her husband four children over the following years, including the future Edward III. The marriage had the appearance of function.

It had almost nothing else.

By the late 1310s, a new favorite had emerged: Hugh Despenser the Younger. Where Gaveston had been flamboyant and reckless, Despenser was something colder. He accumulated land, crushed rivals, and moved systematically against the queen.

Isabella's household was reduced. Her English-born ladies were dismissed and replaced with women loyal to Despenser. Her revenues were cut. At one point, her lands were confiscated outright on the pretext of her French connections, following a border dispute with France.

She was a queen in title. In practice, she had been stripped down to a ward.

In 1325, Edward sent her to France to negotiate a settlement with her brother, Charles IV. It was meant to be a diplomatic mission.

Isabella did not come back.

She arrived at the French court, reported the conditions of her life in England, and made her position clear. She would not return while Despenser remained at court. She took a lover, Roger Mortimer, an exiled English baron. Together they raised a small army.

In September 1326, they invaded England. Edward's support collapsed almost immediately. Despenser was captured and executed. Edward II was deposed in January 1327, the first English king removed from the throne in over a century, and died in custody at Berkeley Castle that September.

The confiscation of her lands is the detail that tends to get buried under the drama of Gaveston and Mortimer. Edward did not merely neglect her. He used the machinery of royal administration to take from her what she was legally owed. That is not a personal failure. That is policy.

#archaeohistories

[Medieval History Buff @Medievalhtybuff]

#OTD (5th September) 1548 Catherine Parr died less than a week after giving birth to her only child, produced during her fourth marriage, to Thomas Seymour.

[Georgi @georgi055]

Hermosa la luna de hoy.

[Georgi @georgi055]

@YennyMonroy @ItsLuWithAT98 Si, lo del casamiento fue imperdonable…

[Georgi @georgi055]

Y que los lunes cuando entres se escuchen solo conversaciones de: futbol, economía o chisme barrial.

[deficit capilar @deficitcapilar]

ese es el tipo de gimnasio al que NO hay que ir
tenes que buscar uno con las maquinas hechas pelota, un profe de 50 años hiperactivo con pinta de albañil, y gente que no esté pelotudeando con el celular (usualmente incluye un viejo de 70 años que levanta 200kg en prensa)

[Georgi @georgi055]

@SharonMarieTate el lomazo natural que tenes que tener para ir vestida toda de blanco, caminando, con esos zuecos y salir mejor que de revista. Diosa mal.

[Georgi @georgi055]

@irupele El contraste entre esa casa con toques de hogar y el antro con olor a cigarrillo donde vivía carrie donde el baño siempre parecía sucio… esta escena la escribió su enemigo

[Georgi @georgi055]

Muy sano todo

[Linaa @linabca87]

If you are a 28-year-old man, which woman would you want to spend the rest of your life with?

[Georgi @georgi055]

@narizdechanch0 Señores... hasta aqui llegamos. Fue un placer.

[Georgi @georgi055]

Farmear aura era pagar en efectivo. Nos quitaron el alma.

[Matias @M_Gedigian]

Pocas personas más pelotudas que las que se quedan 20 minutos tratando de pagar el subte con QR

[TheKidFromDerqui @VitusMonacus]

@Mileinnials "El éxito es que tu amigos se pongan contentos cuando te vean llegar".

[Georgi @georgi055]

Tipazo 🧡

[Eric H. Cline @digkabri]

Teaching Mesopotamia, part one, in class today…