…..The majority of the time…..when historians speak about women fighters….defending their land, homes…..or family…..African warriors are mostly mentioned…..rarely mentioned are……Greek, Turkish, Arab, South American…etc….women who gave up their lives…..to defend their homeland…..and I’m sure you don’t know about…..
OHORI TSURUHIME…..Now this woman was a badass….she was the chief priestess of the Oyamazumi Shrine…..on the island of Omishima…..in the Seto Inland Sea…..Ohori’s island was attacked in 1541….but she and her warriors drove the invaders back into the sea…..four months later…..the invaders attacked again…..and Ohori used a grappling hook to climb aboard the invader’s flagship…..and confront the enemy general face-to-face…..he mocked her but got his comeuppance…..when she cut him down…..then her men pounded the enemy with grenades…..and the invaders left…..two years later…..and battling the same guys…..Ohori’s betrothed was killed in battle…..she was so brokenhearted…..she flung herself into the sea a drowned….she was only eighteen-years-old…..female samurai would fight to the death to protect their families or their home…..and even lead troops on the battlefield…..women traditionally trained extensively in martial arts…..especially with the “Naginata”……a wooden staff with a sword blade attached to the end…..many also trained in archery…..and all were taught to use a knife….to cut their throats and their children…..rather than surrender to the enemy…..with their husbands away….the samurai wife was in charge of the castle or the manor….and ultimately…..became the last line of defense.
THERE ARE ENOUGH RESTAURANTS…..in New York City…..for one person to eat out every night…..for 54 years…..and never visit the same place twice.
I WAS TALKING TO MY MOM….And somehow the “Cakewalk” popped up into our conversation…..and she was like…. “What is the Cakewalk”…..let me introduce to….
AIDA OVERTON WALKER….. (1880–1914), actress, singer, dancer and choreographer, “The Queen of the Cakewalk” ……was arguably the most famous female African-American performer of the early 20th century…..she was a prominent figure in the field of black musical theater at a time when the genre was emerging from its roots in minstrelsy and vaudeville…..and had just begun to develop into a fully realized theatrical form…..her early career was characterized by her long and fruitful period of collaboration with Bert Williams and George Walker……the dominant black vaudeville/musical comedy team of the era….. around the time of Aida and George’s marriage in 1899, Williams and Walker began to concentrate on writing and performing full-length musical….. rather than stand-alone songs and sketches in the vaudeville tradition…..Aida Overton Walker would go on to perform in all the Williams and Walker musicals and ultimately adopt the role of choreographer for their theater troupe…..the Cakewalk dance…..originated from…..the two-step….a dance which was itself spawned by the popularity of Sousa’s marches….it was a dance developed from the “Prize walks”…..a dance contest with a cake awarded as the prize…..a contest held in the mid-19th century….it was basically a get-together…..on Black slave plantations before and after the emancipation….in the Southern United States.
CLEOPATRA……Ascended the throne at the age of 17…..and died at the age of 39….she spoke 9 languages….she knew the language of Ancient Egypt and had learned to read hieroglyphics, a unique case in her dynasty…..apart from this, she knew Greek and the languages of the Parthians, Hebrews, Medes, Troglodytes, Syrians, Ethiopians, and Arabs…..
with this knowledge, any book in the world was open to her…..in addition to languages, she studied geography, history, astronomy, international diplomacy, mathematics, alchemy, medicine, zoology, economics, and other disciplines…..she tried to access all the knowledge of her time…….Cleopatra spent a lot of time in a kind of ancient laboratory…..she wrote some works related to herbs and cosmetics…..unfortunately, all her books were destroyed in the fire of the great Library of Alexandria in 391 AD.C…..the famous physicist Galen studied her work, and was able to transcribe some of the recipes devised by Cleopatra…..one of these remedies, which Galen also recommended to her patients, was a special cream that could help bald men regain their hair……Cleopatra’s books also included beauty tips, but none of them have come down to us……the queen of Egypt was also interested in herbal healing, and thanks to her knowledge of languages…..she had access to numerous papyri that are lost today…..her influence on the sciences and medicine was well known in the early centuries of Christianity…..she, without a doubt, is a unique figure in the history of humanity……the only thing that could be considered debatable…..is the burning of the library of Alexandria……the rumor is…..it didn’t burn down…..but all the knowledge within its doors…..were stolen and brought back to Greece…..and I’m not sure if it was Plato or Socrates…..who plagiarized the information…..and called it….his own works.
GUESS WHAT?…..A New York jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual assault….battery and defamation of E. Jean Carrol…..he was ordered to pay…..$5 million in the suit….and the jury said sexual assault claims against Trump were credible…..great, wonderful news….over 19+ women have said they were sexually assaulted or violated by him over the years…..he openly admitted on tape…..that he sexually assaulted women whenever he felt like it…..so I guess that makes him a sexual predator…..so, does he have to register in Florida as one?…..and I’m sure some of his MAGA followers…..have no problem voting for…..a sexual predator to become the next president of the United States…..don’t most predators at least…..go to jail?….or is the a serious abuse…..of the “Privilege Card?”…..honestly,…..with this idiot found guilty…..and George Santos indicted…..I’d say it was a pretty good day.
AND OFF TO THE WORLD OF THE STUPID…..
A widow who wrote a book to help kids grieve their dad is charged with his murder