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AuntieWicked
Dec 6, 2010
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Link Explosion, or The Top Internets of this period of time

by A. Wicked

The super happy writer’s block addition! Now its been a little while since your Auntie Wicked managed to come across enough material that she felt would make an awesome enough tidbit list. Like a squirrel preparing for winter, she’s found an overabundance to keep you amused for at least an hour or two of fun, so prepare, surfers and non, for the Top Internets of the Fortnight (or more), or “The Tumblr is fucking broken and I’m so bored and frustrated” edition of Auntie Wicked’s Internets.#1 – A very academic but readable article from Andrew Gough’s Arcadia which explores the “History and Symbology”of the Bee :

“Bees are the definitive example of a true matriarchal society. The Queen Bee rules, and is viewed as the ‘mother’ of all bees in the hive. She’s fierce, and her power is absolute. The Queen Bee is developed in a pouch while the worker and drone Bees develop in the traditional a 6-sided honeycomb cell, and she develops in 16 days – approximately days 5 faster than other Bees. As a young Bee, the Queen in waiting is fed ‘royal jelly’ – a high protein substance derived from the heads of young Worker Bees. The young royal is groomed to become the sole, mated Queen in the hive, and is expected to kill all competitors that stand in her way. Her success as a ‘warrior princess’ is facilitated by the fact that unlike her rivals, her grooming has enabled her to sting repeatedly without dying.”[Read More http://www.andrewgough.co.uk/bee1_1.html]#2 – Blonde Girls Then and Now, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ke$ha, By Nostalgia Chick )(of That Guy With Glasses.com). Nostalgia chick normally does great video reviews of Movies, but she takes a break to explain why its ok to like pop music – and teaches us how NOT to hate ourselves over it.

Furthermore, go check out Nostalgia Chick’s videos and learn to love her like we do![See More : http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thedudette/nostalgi a-chick]#3 – The Lost Roman Legion – DNA tests show a Chinese Village whose residents are more than 50% Caucasian :

“They supposedly fought as mercenaries in a war between the Huns and the Chinese in 36BC – Chinese chroniclers refer to the capture of a “fish-scale formation” of troops, a possible reference to the “tortoise” phalanx formation perfected by legionaries. The wandering Roman soldiers are thought to have been released and to have settled on the steppes of western China.”[Read More : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8154490/Chinese-villagers-descended-from-Roman-soldiers.html##4 – Alasdair Wilkins (of io9) Presents – In the Ancient Amazon Children had many Fathers, and Women Many Lovers (aka, Finally an Ancient Civilization whose habits I can back 99%!):

“Open sexual arrangements were socially accepted, even expected, according to anthropologist Robert Walker…. Men acted as father figures to the children of any and all of their partners. A woman could marry one man, making him the primary father to her children, but all the other men in her life would be considered vital secondary fathers.” “For children, having as many fathers as possible had its advantages. More dads meant more gifts and support for the child, which is known to increase a youngster’s odds of reaching adulthood. Besides, it was a rather pragmatic solution to a basic fact of life in a culture where warfare was all too common and brutal. If a child’s primary father died, he or she would have other males around to step in and act as father figures, easing the newly widowed mother’s burden.”[Read More : http://io9.com/5687207/in-the-ancient-amazon-children-had-many-fathers-+-and-women-many-lovers#5 – Stacy Schiff of Smithsonian Magazine Presents – Rehabbing Cleopatra (aka the only dead woman with articles obsessed about whether she was hot clogging up the internets.)

“She may be one of the most recognizable figures in history, but we have little idea what Cleopatra actually looked like… We remember her, too, for the wrong reasons. A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency. One of Mark Antony’s most trusted generals vouched for her political acumen. Even at a time when female rulers were no rarity, Cleopatra stood out, the sole woman of her world to rule alone… She nonetheless survives as a wanton temptress, not the first time a genuinely powerful woman has been transmuted into a shamelessly seductive one. “[Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Rehabilitating-Cleopatra.html]# 6 – I bring you an excellent article on The Bygone Practice of Foot Binding in China.Miss Cellania writes an excellent and even-tempered article about the habits, history, and highly debated reasons for Footbiding :

“There is an argument over where the story of Cinderella came from, China, Egypt, or Greece. But the ancient tale of Ye Xian contains a rather creepy clue that the story originated in the land of the original foot fetish. In the Chinese version, the king never even meets our heroine at the ball -he becomes obsessed with finding her solely because of the miniscule size of the shoe she left behind”

“Special shoes had to be constructed to fit and accentuate tiny lotus feet. A young woman would sew and embroider at least a dozen pairs of shoes for her wedding trousseau. Many a potential mother-in-law would inspect these shoes, both to see how small they were and to see how fine the handiwork was. There were intricately detailed shoes for all occasions, including shoes to sleep in.”[Read More : http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/07/the-bygone-practice-of-foot-binding-in-china/ ]#7 : Richard Holmes brings to light “The Lost Woman Scientists of the Royal Society“. This one has circled through the popular sites, but I for one, can’t read it, or have it read enough.

“… My re-examination of the Royal Society archives during this 350th birthday year has thrown new and unexpected light on the lost women of science. I have tracked down a series of letters, documents and rare publications that begin to fit together to suggest a very different network of support and understanding between the sexes. It emerges that women had a far more fruitful, if sometimes conflicted, relationship with the Royal Society than has previously been supposed.“It is at once evident that they played a significant part in many team projects, working both as colleagues and as assistants (though hitherto only acknowledged in their family capacities as wives, sisters or daughters). More crucially, they pioneered new methods of scientific education, not only for children, but for young adults and general readers. They also played a vital part as translators, illustrators and interpreters and, most particularly, as “scientific popularisers”.”[Read on : http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/21/royal-society-lost-women-scientists]Phew! I feel like my brain is bigger already! Now I don’t know about you darlings, but I need a snack and a nap! That’s all the amazing I can handle! Back to our regularly scheduled programing, see you on the Next Top Internets of the Fortnight!

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