Naka-pin na Tweet
Leopard Lady
5.8K posts
Leopard Lady
@LadyInLeopard11
Commonplace Book & Miscellany Acc't Oxford Comma Devotee
Sumali Mayıs 2023
375 Sinusundan396 Mga Tagasunod
@AppyOrtho @Kazeem_Dream Definitely some hanky-panky in the region of southern Germany/northern Italy back in the day.
English
@Kazeem_Dream Not enough disgust because they bred with my ancestors
English
Being an Heritage American is so cool because we descended from cavaliers and pioneers and before that Vikings and Romans.
If it’s amazing, it’s ours.
English
@KnightspurHouse Once they got to Virginia, the women had the final say in selecting the husband of their choice. They also had legal privileges unavailable to women in England. One of the brides refused to pledge to obey in her wedding vows and they let it slide.
English
@NashvilleSoonr @WanjiruNjoya Any Southerners who are not tribal members but who are descendants of Celt/Anglo + Cherokee intermarriage may well care. A whites-only SCV would exclude the likes of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, btw.
English
@WanjiruNjoya I’m Cherokee and a SCV member and I would definitely care
English
This is why I say it was brave of the Sons of Confederate Veterans to honor a black man. They are under huge social pressure to turn themselves into a white nationalist organization. After all, probably 99.99% of Confederates are white.
Wanjiru Njoya@WanjiruNjoya
@AvalonGroup777 @hicottonbrand They would have to jettison all the Confederates who were not white but fought for their cause. They would win a loyal white base but they would lose their integrity.
English
An unused muscle atrophies. Who possibly could have foreseen?
Ewan Morrison@MrEwanMorrison
My take: Letting AI do your work erodes more than your confidence, it erodes the process of creative problem solving; the quiet time-out that's needed to dig deep, to drift and discover new ideas. It erodes the creative process and leads to a culture of mediocrity & stagnation.
English
Büresheim Castle on the Eifel River by Frederik Sødring, 1838
Dansk
Scots-Canadian teacher and author Dr. John M. Harper, b. 1845
English
✨🤍
Mark O’Brien@obrienmark
Codladh Sámh Moya Brennan Your voice straight from the Donegal air, like mist coming down from the mountains, will remain with us forever. This from @RTELateLateShow @rte in 1990 captures the essence of the stillness you could bring. Go raibh maith agat as bronntanas do shaoil
ART
If memory serves: in the case of a husband’s infidelity under Brehon Law, within (but not beyond) one week of discovery it was legal for the aggrieved wife to personally deliver any punishment she could herself devise onto her spouse—if she could find him.
Archaeo - Histories@archeohistories
Long before churches rewrote the rules… Irish women already had power. .... Between 6th-8th Centuries, under what we now call Brehon law, women in Ireland lived within a legal system that recognized them not as dependents, but as individuals with rights, wealth, and authority. This wasn’t symbolic power. It was written into law. A woman could own land. Not temporarily—not through a husband—but in her own name. She could manage cattle, control her wealth, and enter contracts that were legally binding. Marriage didn’t erase her identity. It didn’t absorb her into someone else’s life. It treated her as an equal party in an agreement. And if that agreement failed—if a husband was neglectful, abusive, or dishonorable—she could leave. Not empty-handed, not ruined. She could walk away with what was hers. In a world where most women across Europe had no legal identity at all, Irish women had options. They also had protection. Each person under Brehon law was assigned an “honour price” a value placed on their dignity. If a woman was insulted, harmed, or wronged, there were consequences. The law didn’t just acknowledge her existence, it enforced her worth. But perhaps most striking… was how far their influence reached. Women weren’t confined to the margins of society. They could be landholders, poets, healers, and leaders. Some trained warriors. Others ruled. And then there is Medb of Connacht—a queen who commanded armies, chose her own lovers, and negotiated power on her own terms. Whether legend or memory, she reflects something real: a cultural acceptance of female authority that feels startling even now. Even daily life reflected this respect. The law accounted for women’s physical realities—offering protections for pregnancy, acknowledging their needs, and weaving their experiences into the structure of society itself. This wasn’t a perfect world. But it was a radically different one. Because in much of medieval Europe, women were property. In Ireland, under Brehon law… they owned it. And then, slowly, that changed. With the spread of Christianity, followed by waves of colonization and new legal systems, those rights began to shrink. What had once been protected became restricted. What had once been normal became unthinkable. © Women In World History #archaeohistories
English
This man must be protected at all costs and his store of knowledge should be safely entrusted to a worthy apprentice 🪻
Spitalfields Life@thegentleauthor
Alan Shipp is Britain’s only Hyacinth Grower and is also the Custodian of the National Collection of Hyacinths. He has the world’s largest collection of varieties and knows more about this intriguing plant than anyone else alive. spitalfieldslife.com/2026/04/15/ala…
English
NO cheating, post your last saved image without any context
꧁•𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚘³•꧂@Theperfectdark
NO cheating, post your last saved image without any context
English
@ricksapp Just wait ’til you hear about tussie-mussies! (They’re the same as nosegays 💐 )
English
@LadyInLeopard11 I have a feeling I should have heard of "nosegays" before now. I'm such a rube.
English
‘One of Queen Elizabeth’s Maids of Honor had a fixed salary for keeping fresh flowers always in readiness. The office of “herb-strewer to her Majesty the Queen” was continued as late as 1713.’
English
‘The houses were very fragrant with flowers in pots and vases as well as with the rushes on the floor. Flowers were therefore very important features in house decoration. A Dutch traveler, Dr. Leminius, who visited England in 1560, was much struck by this . . . ’
English
‘The Elizabethan lady was just as learned in the medicinal properties of flowers and herbs as her Medieval ancestor. She regarded her garden as a place of delight and at the same time as of the greatest importance in the economic management of the household.’
English
Leopard Lady nag-retweet
@WorldWideWendal A magpie singing atop a beer tap is stiff competition for the proverbial loaf of bread, flask of wine, book of verse, and wilderness
English
Sometime around 1990 one of my friends pulled out a Clannad cassette (!) and said hey, listen to this and between Moya and Enya and then Sandy Denny and Maddy Prior things were (thank the Muses) just never the same.
English
Music for the film The Last of the Mohicans. Moya sang the chorus in English, Mohican, and Cherokee.
youtube.com/watch?v=MV_BNr…
YouTube
English