Day 5022: A True Heroine & A Bee's Brain.

"Split Personality": China marker drawing, junk collage.

 

                                                                       

  

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    Click: Jada Monroe, One More Day.

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This photograph was taken in 1900. The woman in front wasn't a nanny or a maid, she was one of the personal bodyguards of the King of Dahomey, an ancient West African kingdom (modern-day Benin) famed for its fierce female warriors: the Dahomey Amazons.

Standing over 2.5 meters (8'2"tall), according to reports of the time. She was said to lift a grown man with one arm and possessed strength and endurance that bordered on mythical. Her skill in combat was legendary.

Yet, colonial exoticism tried to reduce her to a spectacle. The British press wrote of her as though she were a sideshow attraction: "This dark-skinned beauty... will soon visit our major cities," they reported, failing to recognize they were witnessing not a curiosity, but a living legend.

Her name was Ella Abomah Williams — also well known as Mme Abomah, and history has largely forgotten her. But her story reminds us that true heroines often walk among us, unseen by those who don't know how to truly look.

Tiny brain, massive intelligence.

A bee’s brain may be as small as a sesame seed, but it can recognize and remember human faces — proving that nature never stops amazing us. Every tiny creature plays a huge role in our world. Protect bees, protect life, protect nature

 

  

 

A 5+ minute video, Horsefly,  here.

 

Just because ...

Orange-headed Thrush

Monday's Smiles ... 

 

Hoping you see all the good things in your day.