cojosworld
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cojosworld
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Old Hippie ready to start making love beads
Katılım Haziran 2020
27 Takip Edilen6 Takipçiler

@babylon_be80909 Anyone is a better First Lady. Melanoma is first Ho
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On March 19, 1957, a 22 year old Elvis Presley put a down payment on his iconic Memphis mansion, Graceland. The massive estate was officially purchased for $102,500 just a few days later. It became his ultimate sanctuary and remains one of the most famous homes in the world. Have you ever made the pilgrimage to visit Graceland?

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@dailyglimps24 Absolutely do! You go Rosie, keep fighting the fight!
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In 1890s, France was ripping itself in two over one man and in the middle of that national fever was a teenage girl, half artist and half sponge, taking it all in.
Julie Manet was born into the inner circle of Impressionism: daughter of Berthe Morisot, niece by marriage to Édouard Manet. When her parents died, she grew up surrounded by legends—Renoir, Degas, Monet—under the gentle guidance of the poet Stéphane Mallarmé. Her life was cultured and beautiful. It was also a front-row seat to a country at war with itself.
The Dreyfus Affair exposed every fault line France tried to hide: antisemitism, nationalism, fear, and the fragile pride of the state. Captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason. Some were certain he was innocent. Many were just as certain he wasn’t—and didn’t want to hear otherwise.
Julie’s diary shows how politics doesn’t stay in the streets. It slips into salons, into studio gossip, into dinner talk. At first she’s shaken by the idea that an innocent man could be destroyed. Then, almost immediately, you see her retreat into the comfort of authority—trusting the army, trusting the nation, trusting the adults around her. “It couldn’t possibly be so,” she writes, repeating a certainty she didn’t invent.
She notes Degas’s furious tirades, Renoir’s sharp comments, and the casual antisemitism that drifted through creative rooms like smoke. She even echoes lines about “powerful Jews” and criticizes leaders who supported Dreyfus—then, in the next breath, admits she’s exhausted: “One has had quite enough of the whole affair.”
That’s what makes these pages so unsettling and so valuable. Not heroism—honesty. They show how smart, educated people can still absorb the bias of their world… and how belonging can shape belief.
Those teenage entries, later published as *Growing Up with the Impressionists*, are a reminder: culture doesn’t vaccinate you against prejudice. It can carry it.
© Women In World History
#archaeohistories

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@simonateba He is not a good elpresidente! He divides the people and feeds garbage to the fools that worship him.
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@kangaroos991 Felons and pedophiles should be in prison.
If President Trump is not guilty then leave him alone.
Stop hiding the Epstein files and prove Trump is innocent once and for all or toss him in jail and let’s move on.
Where is the rule of law?
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