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'Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars
What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from our Spitzer Space Telescope. Officially named Westerhout 40 (W40), the butterfly is a nebula — a giant cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars may form. The butterfly’s two “wings” are giant bubbles of hot, interstellar gas blowing from the hottest, most massive stars in this region.
Besides being beautiful, W40 exemplifies how the formation of stars results in the destruction of the very clouds that helped create them. Inside giant clouds of gas and dust in space, the force of gravity pulls material together into dense clumps. Sometimes these clumps reach a critical density that allows stars to form at their cores. Radiation and winds coming from the most massive stars in those clouds — combined with the material spewed into space when those stars eventually explode — sometimes form bubbles like those in W40. But these processes also disperse the gas and dust, breaking up dense clumps and reducing or halting new star formation.
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Be Glad You Don’t Have to Dust in Space!
Throw open the windows and break out the feather duster, because spring is here and it’s time to do a little cleaning! Fortunately, no one has to tidy up the dust in space — because there’s a lot of it — around 100 tons rain down on Earth alone every day! And there’s even more swirling around the solar system, our Milky Way galaxy, other galaxies and the spaces in between.
By studying the contents of the dust in your house — which can include skin cells, pet fur, furniture fibers, pollen, concrete particles and more — scientists learn a lot about your environment. In the same way, scientists can learn a lot by looking at space dust. Also called cosmic dust, a fleck of space dust is usually smaller than a grain of sand and is made of rock, ice, minerals or organic compounds. Scientists can study cosmic dust to learn about how it formed and how the universe recycles material.
“We are made of star-stuff,” Carl Sagan famously said. And it’s true! When a star dies, it sheds clouds of gas in strong stellar winds or in an explosion called a supernova. As the gas cools, minerals condense. Recent observations by our SOFIA mission suggest that in the wake of a supernova shockwave, dust may form more rapidly than scientists previously thought. These clouds of gas and dust created by the deaths of stars can sprawl across light-years and form new stars — like the Horsehead Nebula pictured above. Disks of dust and gas form around new stars and produce planets, moons, asteroids and comets. Here on Earth, some of that space dust eventually became included in living organisms — like us! Billions of years from now, our Sun will die too. The gas and dust it sheds will be recycled into new stars and planets and so on and so forth, in perpetuity!
Astronomers originally thought dust was a nuisance that got in the way of seeing the objects it surrounded. Dust scatters and absorbs light from stars and emits heat as infrared light. Once we started using infrared telescopes, we began to understand just how important dust is in the universe and how beautiful it can be. The picture of the Andromeda galaxy above was taken in the infrared by our Spitzer Space Telescope and reveals detailed spirals of dust that we can’t see in an optical image.
We also see plenty of dust right here in our solar system. Saturn’s rings are made of mostly ice particles and some dust, but scientists think that dust from meteorites may be darkening the rings over time. Jupiter also has faint dusty rings, although they’re hard to see — Voyager 1 only discovered them when it saw them backlit by the Sun. Astronomers think the rings formed when meteorite impacts on Jupiter’s moons released dust into orbit. The Juno spacecraft took the above picture in 2016 from inside the rings, looking out at the bright star Betelgeuse.
Copyright Josh Calcino, used with permission
And some space dust you can see from right here on Earth! In spring or autumn, right before sunrise or after sunset, you may be able to catch a glimpse of a hazy cone of light above the horizon created when the Sun’s rays are scattered by dust in the inner solar system. You can see an example in the image above, extending from above the tree on the horizon toward a spectacular view of the Milky Way. This phenomenon is called zodiacal light — and the dust that’s reflecting the sunlight probably comes from icy comets. Those comets were created by the same dusty disk that that formed our planets and eventually you and the dust under your couch!
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My parrot has a vague understanding of the word “no.” He knows to stop doing what he’s doing when he hears it, and he knows how to say it.
He knows it’s a word that is used when he’s doing something he shouldn’t be doing. However, being told “no” doesn’t make him stop doing it in future.
If he’s ever out of my sight or if I’m not paying attention, I know exactly when he’s doing something bad.
Because he says “no” to himself as he does it.
cowboy love story
this town……….is big enough for the two of us
𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 ✨✨
𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 <𝟑
𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮
𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝, 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦, 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞, 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲
𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞, 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥, 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭, 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬/𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜
𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥, 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥, 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜, 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲, 𝐢𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞
𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫, 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝, 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠
𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝, 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭
𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚𝐥, 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭
𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝, 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐟, 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐧
𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐮𝐧𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥, 𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞
𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐲, 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜, 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲
𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭, 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭, 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞, 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞
The House Seen from the Rose Garden 3 1924
Claude Monet
mother. friggin’. space. man. x
A ceramic jar filled with thousands of bronze coins was recently unearthed at the site of a 15th-century samurai’s residence just north of Tokyo [710x470]
Me? Exhausted.
My dissertation? s u b m i t t e d
Kevin should also probably have an actual slide to look at.
Madeleine RENAUD
Fun Fact 23
Japan’s national anthem is said to be the oldest in the world with its lyrics based on a poem written during the Heian period (794–1185).
this is one of those extraordinary exercises in which you see what you hear, and you hear what you see
an everlasting masterpiece
A Few of Louis XIV’s Favourite Things
1. Louis XIV’s favourite colour was blue, especially a dark and vivid blue. This blue was the colour of the costume de sacre, worn by French kings during their coronation ceremony. Another name for this colour is ‘royal blue’.
2. You know what figs, melons, peaches, asparagus, peas, st. nectaire cheese, and oysters have in common? They were some of Louis’ favourite foods. If any of these foods were present at his table, they would be gone within minutes.
3. Louis loved the smell of citrus fruits, and this all came down to his favourite perfume ‘orange blossom’. In his earlier years, he wore an array of different perfumes. In his older years, however, he could only tolerate ‘orange blossom’.
4. Even though he was at war with the Dutch, that didn’t stop Louis from having a keen interest a certain flower; the tulip. Tulips were his favourite flower; however, they were not planted in his gardens until after the Treaty of Nijmegen was signed in 1678.
5. Louis’ favourite opera was “Atys” by Jean-Baptiste Lully. That’s how it got the alias “the king’s opera”. It was said that Louis would hum some of the arias out loud.
6. I bet most of you have heard about Niccolo Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’, but you haven’t heard the fact that it was Louis’ favourite book. In his memoirs, Louis stated that this book was his ‘favourite nightcap’, meaning it was his favourite thing to soothe him before going to bed at night.
When Gaius Julius Caesar got abducted by pirates in 78 BC he doubled the ransom demand because he thought he was worth it.
That’s the kind of self esteem I aim for.
I don’t know why the ancient Greeks have the reputation of being really classy and sophisticated because they are the same people who prosecuted a roof tile for falling on someone’s head
Fun Fact 285
Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States, was the first president to be born a United States citizen. Despite this, he is the only president who spoke English as his second language, seeing as he was of Dutch ancestry.
HISTORY SIDE OF TUMBLR
Please prove your existence and teach me about history, I would thank you with my life.
Fun Fact
Aristaeus is the Greek god of bee keeping
sometimes I think about how people in europe (and esp france and spain) didn’t fucking bathe back in the middle ages to avoid sexual thoughts and I just. Imagine aph france and spain never living down how absolutely revolting they used to smell. Humans at least had to bathe when it became a medical problem or an emergency but nations don’t really have medical issues like that? So theoretically they can get away with being way nastier for way longer. Imagine russia, whose people did bathe, visiting frace with his delegates and being like wtf? are you dying? what’s wrong with you? Imagine germany one day admitting to italy that he sometimes feels awkward interacting with france because he’s so suave and crisp and clean and germany feels like he always smells a little of sweat and dirt. Italy just chokes on his coffee and is like omg don’t even worry about it he’s absolutely the last person alive that could possibly judge you for how you smell holy shit
can you give us more lafayette facts???? id like to know more about him and you seem to know what youre talking about
Ahh thank you!! I’ve loved him for years so I have a strangely large amount of knowledge about him and I’m happy to share it! <333
(Read Lafayette Facts Part One) (Read Lafayette Facts Part Two)
(Read Eliza Schuyler Facts Part One) (Read Eliza Schuyler Facts Part Two)
Lafayette Fun Facts: American Revolution Part Two 1778-1781
Lafayette returned home to France on February 12, 1779
He was greeted as a hero!!!
But King Louis XVI still put him under house arrest to show other nobles they couldn’t just disobey his orders
Lafayette did not abide by the house arrest lmao
He frequently met with Benjamin Franklin and became a diplomat for both France and America
He also sought the command of the French forces that were to set sail for America
But command was given to Rochambeau, who’d been fighting in wars since before Lafayette was born!
Lafayette was heartbroken and embarrassed that he, who knew the American army so well, was not given command of the French Army in America
While he was home he was with his wife, Adrienne, and they mourned the loss of their first child, Henriette, who had died in Spring 1777
He also got a portrait of Washington done based off of an American one he already had
He was seriously obsessed with getting portraits of Washington
He absolutely idolized the man
In Spring 1780 Lafayette set sail for American again
He had gone to the King’s Court in his American uniform to prove a point: that he’d been denied a place in the French Army, so he was taking up his one in the American Army again
America was super excited to have Lafayette back!
(While he was gone he missed one of his close friend’s, Alexander Hamilton, engagement!!)
Lafayette at first acted as a go-between for Washington and Rochambeau, but he proved to be too forthright (this is a theme for him) for the job and ended up accidentally insulting Rochambeau
They all thought they would be attacking New York City once the French Fleet arrived
That plan started to look less and less likely, and they turned their attention to the southern theatre of the war
Washington gave Lafayette command of some 1, 200 men, mostly light infantry, with the order to take them to Yorktown and harass Cornwallis
Lafayette did an excellent job of it!!
Eventually he was told to really keep Cornwallis busy as the American and French forces secretly descended upon Yorktown, where Cornwallis was camped out
Cornwallis was soon trapped, and the Siege of Yorktown began
Lafayette was the commander of the charges on Redoubts 9 and 10
Hamilton was under his command, and led the charge of Redoubt 9
They won the redoubts in under 20 minutes!!!
This was a crucial part of the battle
And Lafayette emerged from it a true hero
Two days after this, Cornwallis surrendered
Lafayette, at the age of 24, had helped lead the American Army to victory
This forever endeared him to the American people, who at times over the course of Lafayette’s life, appreciated him more than the French
After this battle, Lafayette went back north with Washington before heading home, his service to America as a major general done
He embarked on his next mission: helping America and France become and remain great allies!
Thank you for reading!!! If you want more on Lafayette post-American Revolution let me know and I’d be happy to do a post on it! I’m always happy to talk about anything in early American history! <333
can you give us more lafayette facts???? id like to know more about him and you seem to know what youre talking about
Ahh thank you!! I’ve loved him for years so I have a strangely large amount of knowledge about him and I’m happy to share it! <333
(Read Lafayette Facts Part One) (Read Lafayette Facts Part Two)
(Read Eliza Schuyler Facts Part One) (Read Eliza Schuyler Facts Part Two)
Lafayette Fun Facts: American Revolution Part Two 1778-1781
Lafayette returned home to France on February 12, 1779
He was greeted as a hero!!!
But King Louis XVI still put him under house arrest to show other nobles they couldn’t just disobey his orders
Lafayette did not abide by the house arrest lmao
He frequently met with Benjamin Franklin and became a diplomat for both France and America
He also sought the command of the French forces that were to set sail for America
But command was given to Rochambeau, who’d been fighting in wars since before Lafayette was born!
Lafayette was heartbroken and embarrassed that he, who knew the American army so well, was not given command of the French Army in America
While he was home he was with his wife, Adrienne, and they mourned the loss of their first child, Henriette, who had died in Spring 1777
He also got a portrait of Washington done based off of an American one he already had
He was seriously obsessed with getting portraits of Washington
He absolutely idolized the man
In Spring 1780 Lafayette set sail for American again
He had gone to the King’s Court in his American uniform to prove a point: that he’d been denied a place in the French Army, so he was taking up his one in the American Army again
America was super excited to have Lafayette back!
(While he was gone he missed one of his close friend’s, Alexander Hamilton, engagement!!)
Lafayette at first acted as a go-between for Washington and Rochambeau, but he proved to be too forthright (this is a theme for him) for the job and ended up accidentally insulting Rochambeau
They all thought they would be attacking New York City once the French Fleet arrived
That plan started to look less and less likely, and they turned their attention to the southern theatre of the war
Washington gave Lafayette command of some 1, 200 men, mostly light infantry, with the order to take them to Yorktown and harass Cornwallis
Lafayette did an excellent job of it!!
Eventually he was told to really keep Cornwallis busy as the American and French forces secretly descended upon Yorktown, where Cornwallis was camped out
Cornwallis was soon trapped, and the Siege of Yorktown began
Lafayette was the commander of the charges on Redoubts 9 and 10
Hamilton was under his command, and led the charge of Redoubt 9
They won the redoubts in under 20 minutes!!!
This was a crucial part of the battle
And Lafayette emerged from it a true hero
Two days after this, Cornwallis surrendered
Lafayette, at the age of 24, had helped lead the American Army to victory
This forever endeared him to the American people, who at times over the course of Lafayette’s life, appreciated him more than the French
After this battle, Lafayette went back north with Washington before heading home, his service to America as a major general done
He embarked on his next mission: helping America and France become and remain great allies!
Thank you for reading!!! If you want more on Lafayette post-American Revolution let me know and I’d be happy to do a post on it! I’m always happy to talk about anything in early American history! <333
History Fun Fact
George Washington was a red head. However, he put white powder in his hair because he felt his hair was unattractive, and socially red heads where looked down upon. He did not wear a wig.
More Top Moments in Early American History
- James Madison “accidentally” buys prostitutes for foreign ambassadors
- Jefferson eating a tomato like an apple at a dinner and everyone rushing off to find a doctor because Americans thought tomatoes were poisonous
- Washington and Lafayette falling asleep under a tree after Monmouth
- Washington cursing out Charles Lee after his retreat
- James Armistead Lafayette, who was a badass spy during the revolution and gave Lafayette vital information which led to the victory at Yorktown. Lafayette freed him and James was so grateful he took Lafayette’s last name
- Lafayette being given an alligator as a gift and, not knowing what to do with it, regifting it to John Quincy Adams
- the Constitutional Convention going out and getting turnt two days before the signing of the Constitution, and some of the additional charges being a broken chair, cups, and chamber pots
- John Hancock being smol
- Alexander Hamilton’s argument against hanging John Andrè basically being “he’s too pretty”
- Aaron Burr sleeping through Valentine’s Day
- Lafayette naming his ONLY son after George Washington
- Ben Franklin and John Adams once having to share a room with one bed and falling asleep arguing whether or not they should sleep with the window open or closed
- Ben Franklin taking “air baths” which consisted of him sitting naked in a bathtub for hours a day
- Aaron Burr having a knife hidden in the handle of his umbrella, and then LOSING said umbrella
- John Adams’ kid Charles once ran naked across Harvard Yard
- Alexander Hamilton losing his check book and having to write the bank of New York for a new one, while also requesting his account balance which he didn’t know, which he wrote in the check book, which he lost
- Aaron Burr hitting his head on the same pipe twice jfc he’s such a mess
- Thomas Jefferson getting a terrible headache for two days after behaving awkwardly in front of a girl
- John Adams naming his dog Satan
- Alexander Hamilton’s letters to his totally hetero bro™ John Laurens being censored by his descendants
- George Washington running for the House of Burgesses and getting his constituents totally smashed so they would vote for him
was barron von steuben gay? a while ago someone told me he was and he was kicked out of the army because of it
Here, I made a presentation that includes this. But yes! He was gay!
Baron von Steuben was one of the first cases of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.“
Benjamin Franklin learned of a "brilliant Prussian” military genius, Lt. Gen. Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, who had a string of successes across Germanic Europe. There was a problem- he’d been asked to depart many of those states and countries because of his “affections for members of his own sex,”.
Then in 1777 von Steuben literally escaped imprisonment in what is now Germany and traveled to Paris. There, Franklin was interviewing candidates to assist Washington back in the colonies when his fellow Colonial representative Silas Deane brought von Steuben to his residence for an interview.
During the process, Franklin discovered von Steuben’s reputation for having “affections” with males and the issue became pressing, as members of the French clergy demanded the French court, as in other countries, take action against this sodomite, whom they considered a pedophile.
Those allegations were fueled by von Steuben’s close ties to Prince Henry and Frederick the Great, also “widely rumored to be homosexual.”
Franklin decided von Steuben’s expertise was more important to the colonies than his sexuality. Along with Franklin and Deane, and personal friends of the baron: Pierre Beaumarchais, author of the “Figaro” plays and an arms dealer who supplied arms for the ship von Steuben eventually sailed on, and Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain, the minister of war under Louis XVI. What the letter didn’t mention was that he was about to be arrested and appear before judges in France.
“It has come to me from different sources that M. de Steuben is accused of having taken familiarities with young boys, which the laws forbid and punish severely. I have even been informed that that is the reason why M. de Steuben was obliged to leave Hechingen and that the clergy of your country intend to prosecute him by law as soon as he may establish himself anywhere.”
Washington rewarded von Steuben with a house at Valley Forge, which he shared with his aide-de-camps Capt. William North and Gen. Benjamin Walker. Walker lived with him through the remainder of his life, and von Steuben, who neither married nor denied any of the allegations of homosexuality, left his estate to North and Walker. His last will and testament has been described as a love letter to Walk and has been purported to describe their “extraordinarily intense emotional relationship,”.
Adding to that were the constant rumors about his sexuality, which by 1790, reached one of the revolution’s first families, the Adamses of Massachusetts.
Charles, the son of John and Abigail Adams- was what today would be called the black sheep of the family. His biggest problem was alcoholism but, as revealed in letters among the various members of the family, the Adamses had other concerns.
“There are references to [Charles’] alleged proclivity for consorting with men whom his parents regarded as unsavory.” One of these men was von Steuben. Charles had become infatuated with and adored Von Steuben. It is clear from the family letters that the Adamses were concerned about a relationship between Charles and the baron. Von Steuben’s sexuality was an open secret, one that he himself never challenged, other than to ask Washington to defend his moral character. But John Mulligan another one of Baron von Steuben’s “boys” was extremely close with Charles.
It was von Steuben, a gay man, who played a giant role in not only the creation of American military, but the idea of military academies, a standing Army and even veterans organizations. As said by many: if George Washington was the father of the nation, then von Steuben, a gay man, was the father of the United States military.
I know this is kind of long but hoollllyy shit..,..Steuben wasn’t fucking around
Read Josh Trujillo and Levi Hastings on how Baron Von Steuben, an openly gay immigrant, whipped the US Military into shape when things were looking bleakest.
My (non inclusive) Top Moments In Early American History
- George Washington naming his dogs shit like Sweet Lips
- Aaron Burr lighting himself on fire while trying to light a candle with a gun
- America ever winning in the revolution because we were a fucking mess
- Alexander Hamilton hiding behind Henry Knox at Yorktown when a shell burst near the tent
- Congress not finding John Adams a home in New York, forcing him to live with John Jay for like two months
- Lafayette not noticing he got shot in the leg
- John Adams taking the job of presiding over the senate seriously
- Abigail Motherfucking Adams
- Thomas Jefferson breaking his wrist trying to impress a girl
- The Hamilton family basically having three names that they rotated between kids
- Jefferson inviting Madison to come live with him at Monticello and Madison responding by basically saying he needed a year to think about it and never broaching the subject again
- Literally nobody knowing shit about Monroe
- Hamilton making a bet that he would buy dinner for a dozen delegates at the Constitutional Convention if Gouverneur Morris went up and clapped Washington on the back, which he did, and was subsequently given a glare that made him want to sink into the floor
- Washington actually cutting down two cherry trees
- Admiral de Grasse calling Washington “mon cher petit général”
- Aaron Burr trying to annex Texas and being tried for treason
- the Merry Affair
- Thomas Jefferson procrastinating in calling in Virginia militia, which forced him to flee Richmond when Benedict Arnold swept the capital
- “One hundred and eighty miles in three days and a half. It does admirable credit to the activity of a man at his time of life.” - Alexander Hamilton talking about Horatio Gates abandoning his army at Camden
- Baron Von Stueben showing up at Valley Forge with an Italian greyhound and his gaggle of little French boyfriends
- Baron Von Stueben cussing out the soldiers in French, leaving Hamilton and Laurens to translate
- Baron Von Steuben
- Jefferson being given a 1000 pound wheel of cheese, which no “federalist cows” were allowed to contribute to
- Jefferson having basically a burn book called “Anas”