In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades. (Posts tagged alexander hamilton)

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The ten most relatable things about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Drunk History episode

10. Loudly and forcefully denying that you like The Monkees more than The Beatles.

9. That thing where your memory’s already spotty and you’re really giggly. Saying so out loud.

8. Needing to lean forward because you’ve just realized you’re SUUUUUUUPER drunk.

7. Telling the person you’re with that you need to lean forward.

6. Going from being across the room from the person you’re drinking with to sitting in that person’s lap over the course of the evening.

5. Wanting to order Domino’s.

4. Singing Semisonic’s ‘Closing Time’ while completely trashed.

3. Drunk dialing your BFF who’s not there. Bonus Twitter follow-up: Not remembering doing that the next day.

2. “As long as I gotta job, you gotta job. As long as I gotta job, you gotta job.”

1. Facetiming with ?uestlove. (Okay, maybe not this one.)

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Slutshaming women is not ok
Slutshaming Alexander Hamilton is totally ok
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he cheated. on his wife.

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he’s also been dead for several hundred years this is the funniest post ive ever read in my life

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i just woke up and im not mentally equipped to handle the fact that someone typed up the words “slutshaming alexander hamilton” and inserted them into a post and said to themselves “thatll show em” and hit send

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Burr was now seldom seen, and when seen, was silent. The air of indifference it was his habit to affect, even towards his nearest friends, was no longer assumed. The conviction of his disappointed ambition, he could not conceal. Nor was this the whole. His credit was near its end. Penury was before him. In the midst of his spendthrift habits and luxurious tastes, his importunate creditors were pressing upon him. His dejection was dark, and deep, and despairing. What to do he was at a loss. What he did do—what occurred, looking at the past, and that which was near by, is hardly credible. Hamilton was at his country-seat; and soon after the early summer sun had arisen, was awakened by a violent ringing at the bell of his front door. He arose, descended, and found Burr at the door. With great agitation, he related circumstances which rendered immediate pecuniary assistance absolutely necessary to him. On returning to his bed, Hamilton relieved the anxiety of his wife, caused by this early call. ‘Who do you think was at the door—Colonel Burr.—He came to ask my assistance!’

Hamilton immediately endeavored to raise the desired sum, which was not without difficulty. While thus exerting himself, he ‘received a note from Colonel Burr, telling him to take no further trouble about it, couched in language which he interpreted as intending in despair to put an end to himself. General Hamilton immediately applied to Church and other of his friends, and raised the money for him.

John Church Hamilton, History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and His Contemporaries, Volume 7 (via elizajumel)
THEY WERE SO WEIRD both about each other and in general aaron burr alexander hamilton like is this a real thing?
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Throughout his career, Hamilton was outspoken to a fault, while Burr was a man of ingrained secrecy. He gloried in his sphinxlike reputation and once described himself thus in the third person: “He is a grave, silent, strange sort of animal, inasmuch that we know not what to make of him.

Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton

Aaron Burr, Ultimate Mystery Bird. 

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As for the duel with Hamilton, Burr almost never showed any remorse. Soon after returning to America, he visited his aunt, Rhoda Edwards, who worried about his immortal soul and warned him, “You have committed a great many sins against God and you killed that great and good man, Colonel Hamilton. I beseech you to repent and fly to the blood and righteousness of the Redeemer for pardon.” Burr found this rather quaint: “Oh, aunt, don’t feel too badly,” he replied. “We shall both meet in heaven.” One day, Burr was walking down Nassau Street in New York when Chancellor James Kent happened to see him. Kent lost all control, swooped down on Burr, and started flailing at him with his cane. “You are a scoundrel, sir!” Kent shouted. “A scoundrel!” His legendary aplomb intact, Burr tipped his hat and said, “The opinions of the learned Chancellor are always entitled to the highest consideration.” Then he bowed and walked away. Burr never lost his sense of humor about having killed Hamilton and made facetious references to “my friend Hamilton, whom I shot.” Once, in the Boston Athenaeum, Burr paused to admire a bust of Hamilton. “There was the poetry,” he said, tracing creases in Hamilton’s face with his finger. Another time, Burr paused at a tavern to refresh his horses and wandered over to a traveling waxworks exhibition. He suddenly came upon a tableau that represented him and Hamilton in the duel. Underneath ran this verse: “O Burr, O Burr, what has thou done? / Thou hast shooted dead great Hamilton. / You hid behind a bunch of thistle, / And shooted him dead with a great hoss pistol.” In relating the story, Burr roared with laughter. Only once did Burr betray any misgivings about killing Hamilton. While reading the scene in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy in which the tenderhearted Uncle Toby picks up a fly and delicately places it outside a window instead of killing it, Burr is said to have remarked, “Had I read Sterne more and Voltaire less, I should have known the world was wide enough for Hamilton and me.
Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow (via lessthansix)
like doesn't this read as tons of remorse to anyone else? maybe it's just because i'm an inappropriate joker about nearly everything alexander hamilton aaron burr