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 expose-the-light: Top 10 Biggest Brain Damaging Habits 1. No Breakfast People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level.This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration. 2. Overreacting It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power. 3. Smoking It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease. 4. High Sugar consumption Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.        5. Air Pollution The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency. 6. Sleep Deprivation Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain 7. Head covered while sleeping Sleeping with the head covered, increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects. 8. Working your brain during illness Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.             9. Talking Rarely Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain. 10. Lacking in stimulating thoughts Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

cenophilia: Anthropomorphic tree Anthropomorphism is the recognition of people-like characteristics in animals, plants or non-living things. This tree can be found in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. During the time of slavery in the South, slave ships were often unable to make it through the Outer Banks because of the treacherous landscapes. From the looks of this picture, it seems as if they may have lost some passengers along the way.

17th of May 1893 by Norwegian painter Christian Krohg (1852 –1925)

lady-eboshi: In 1808, Napoleon, running out of scenic holiday destinations to invade, somehow totally forgot about his neighbor to the south, Spain. So that year he dispatched his troops, kicking off the Peninsular War. Only 20 years old and working as a barmaid in the town of Valdepenas, Juana Galan was not expecting a surge of French soldiers to come storming through her village. But on June 6, that’s exactly what happened. At that time, most of the men were fighting Napoleon’s forces elsewhere in the nation. Juana, unfazed by things like rifles and Frenchmen and French riflemen, began organizing the women in her village to form a trap for the approaching army. When the army arrived, Juana and her friends were ready. They dumped boiling water and oil on the French troops, which by all accounts will instantly take the fight out of pretty much anyone. Then Juana, armed with only a batan, beat back the heavily armed French cavalry with her squad of village women, almost none of whom were armed with guns. The French retreated, giving up on capturing not just Juana’s town but the entire province of La Mancha, leading to ultimate Spanish victory. Today, she is seen in Spain as a national hero, a symbol of resistance, strength, patriotism, feminism and hitting shit with a stick. (x) 

kissenschlacht: “Dancing elves”: Älvalek by August Malmström, 1866.

fuckyeahnordicwomen: Kristina Augusta (1626 – 1689) was Queen regnant of Swedes, Goths and Vandals, Duchess of Finland, and ruler of Ingria, Livonia and Karelia, from 1633 to 1654. She had to abdicate the throne when she converted to Catholicism, as the Swedish king had to be Lutheran. She spent the rest of her life in Rome, becoming an important figure in supporting culural life. Kristina is one of the extremely few women who were buried in the Vatican grotto, and is one of the two historical women that are honored in the Peter’s dome.

meatandpianos: March 19th, 2011 The current Danish monarch’s crown in the royal treasury in Copenhagen.