nomadicway

12372 pts · December 25, 2013


when I grow up I want to grow a beard and join the circus send nudes plz

and a means of acheiving upward mobiliy. the most desirable brides possessed a 3 inch foot known as a "golden lotus"

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representing female refinement. In China, families with marriageable daughters foot binding translated into its own form of currency, 4/?

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up foot-binding making it an elite status symbol. a small foot in china was no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, 3/?

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the shape of a new moon. She entranced Emperor Li Yu by dancing on her toes inside a 6 ft golden lotus. gradually other court ladies took2/?

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I dunno about that, but it's said that it started to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer Yao Ning why bound her feet into 1/?

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calling themselves the Qing Dynasty. The first Manchu emperor of China ordered all Han Chinese men to adopt the braid as a signof submission

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defeated the Han Chinese Ming and conquered China. Then the Manchu seized Beijing and established a new ruling family on the throne 2/?

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Ah, gotcha. It's originally Manchu hairstyle, from what is now northeastern China. In 1644 an ethnically Manchu army 1/?

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Failure to comply resulted in beheading so they adopted the slogan, “keep your hair and lose your head, or keep your head and cut your hair"

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There was a series of laws called the the Queue Order that forced men to shave their forehead and braid back the rest of their hair. 1/2

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aw man he was my high schools bus driver. rip steve

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Spain

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Front page already?

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Trilingual here. Can confirm

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I'm guessing she put insulation between the wood panels

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It snowed where I live today so naturally there were a bunch of accidents and when an ambulance would drive through people just sat there

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or you put him in there you monster!

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THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPLES YOU

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Found him

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Kecharitomene too :)

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Are you okay

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Mummers dance is my jam!

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What the fuck

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Shots not fired

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This I like

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iPhone 5?

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You monster!

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Am I a horrible person for laughing?

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