Anne Boleyn Day

[feminist_flirt]

So today is the day, 473 years ago today, Anne Boleyn was beheaded at the Tower of London after a sham trial in which she was convicted of adultery, incest, witchcraft, etc.  It's amazing how sad I can feel about someone dying when their passing was almost 450 years before I born.  I've always felt inspired by her, she used her intelligence and wit

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[turielen]

I like you for this. It's somewhat unrelated, but in a class I took two years ago about greek literature, when we were told the story of how the library of Alexandria was burned down, I cried. I think I know how you feel.

[feminist_flirt]

It always makes wonder how the world would be different if certain people had lived or institutions been salvaged - I hate to even think of all the early human history we don't have and will never know because of the destruction Alexandria's library.