Julie d'Aubigny's  father might have worked in the stables of Louis XIV, maybe as an ex musketeer, anyway, a soldier good with horses.She moves to Versailles following her dad at about 9 years old where she witnessed some of the greatness of Louis XIV's court.Her hobbies are riding and fencing. For practical reasons she would dress in boys clothes and she would kick ass with a sword.She was also an opera singer and she saw opera performances hosted in the Versailles stables. Quite some stables, apparently.

Julie who?

She becomes a mistress of her dad's boss: she's 14 and he's 46. Gasp!Then she get's married off just to keep up appearances (husband sent away, while she stays in Paris with the old dude). Get's another lover, this time a more adventurous guy, a fencer. They flee Paris together because he does an illegal duel.They become a duo fencer. They flee to Marseille where they give fencing demonstrations. Julie does mixed gender fighting while wearing men's clothing, so people assume she's a bloke. When people misgender her, she flashes her boobs, silencing the crowd. Gasp, again!

She has a very busy a sex life

Her dad and her official husband are not around, so she's more in charge of herself than other women in her time.She sings duets with the adventurous guy in the Marseille opera and gets admired for her low voice and her beauty.Then she gets herself a new lover: a woman this time, a daughter of a local merchant. They fall in love, but her family sends her to a convent. Julie enters the convent as a novice and then they escape when a fellow nun dies and they steal her body and burn it. They escape while the nuns try to put out the fire. They get caught and Julie dodges an execution.

Woman lover

She is challenged to a duel by a dude who doesn't know she's a woman and she wounds him. Then she takes care of him, and not surprisingly, they become lovers for a while.She's off to Poitiers next where she's taking singing lessons.Meets a baritone singer, becomes her lover, goes back to Paris. Get hired to the Opera. She's only 17 by this time (talk about really living!!!). Now is when she takes her stage name Mademoiselle La Maupin. She's a star.

Famous & very busy sex life again

Goes to a Paris party dressed as a man and kisses a woman. She get's asked to a duel by some jealous men whom she defeats.She then runs to Brussels and gets involved with a Bavarian prince like figure. Maximilian, the princely dude, can't handle her and tries to give her money just to go away. Auch! She doesn't take them and leaves.She obviously had a temper and allegedly attacked her landlord when he refuses to make her dinner (hangry much?). No judging, I would do the same! :))She beats an actor who tries to seduce her because he's too pushy (wohoo!).

Temper and fights and more lovers

A bit of opera is written for her where the main character is not a soprano (quite unusual). The character is a muslim sword fighting woman. A lot like Julie wouldn't you say?Finally in 1703 she falls in real love with Madame la Marquise de Florensac (a super beauty) and they live together for 2 years in total happiness,  until the Marquise falls ill and dies (soooo saaad).Ironically, it is said that Julie entered a convent (again with the nuns) where she dies at 33. Talk about living fully.

Finally true love (but also death)

Julie d'Aubigny seems to have been quite a character for her time. A famous bisexual sword fighting opera singer who had tones of lovers, amazing success in her career, and managed to find true love, even if short lived.

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There are 2 factors that drive person to do work - 1)Motivation, 2)Consitency Motivation <ul><li>Motivation is like "Self-kick" that helps us to do our work to reach goals.</li></ul>It's of 2 types -<ul><li>Intrinsic- means we're doing that work for "Internal satisfaction"</li><li>Extrinsic- means there is a FORCE that's driving us to do work. It can be money,car, luxury, or any other external lurable things. </li></ul>But Consistency is different , that is👇🏻

Motivation

<ul><li>Consistency is doing "WORK" daily without giving much thought & make them HABITS.</li><li>Here "WORK" means it must be 'Productive' and 'Necessary' . For eg- Studying,Following passion,building skills & revising old ones(so they cannot be forgotten) are all productive things, and Eating, keeping body clean & fit, participating in Sports activities, etc are necessary things , an individual must practice daily.</li><li>"Without giving much thought" means you have "Planned" the 'road' on which you go to achieve your specified goal. And you just need to focus 'daily' on "small tasks" that will lead to that. </li></ul>

Consistency 

Motivation is like "Self-kick" to get us on track & Consistency is track on which we have to run to achieve our goals(Success).On track, we have to use our "energy & time" Wisely (Statistically- with planning) to get goal fastlyAnd Motivation "triggers" to go on that 'Consistency route'

Motivation & Consistency Relation

<ul><li>No one is always motivated & productive , there comes HABIT, which helps to do essential work & utilise time properly. </li><li>To do work, sometimes motivation will not be there but is you are consistent , your habit will help you to complete the task on time.</li></ul>

"I accumulated small but consistent habits that ultimately led to results that were unimaginable when I started"

Being consistent increases the chances of success whereas motivation helps to be pushed to do work , so which is more important. 

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Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Permission To Be Creative 

We're all a little suspect of our own talent. Most of us really want to offer the world something of quality, something that the world will consider as good or important. But that's the enemy, because it's not up to us whether what we do is any good. If we look upon the history it will taught us that the world is extremely unreliable critic. You just have to ask your self 'Do human creativity matters?'﻿

What Is Creativity?

If you're an artist for example people can make fun of what you do. People can consider you as an idiot and your production as useless. But you should know that it's your job, you have to play the fool. Most of the people around the world have to go to the job all day long. To make money then return home to their family. And whatever you do is your job and Play the fool.

Find Your Calling

When the life doesn't go the way we want, when someone really close to our heart dies. All of a sudden you're desperate for making sense out of this life. You started thinking "Has anybody ever felt this bad before?" And "How did they come out of this cloud?"Or when the inverse happens you meet somebody and your heart explodes. You love them so much that you can't even see straight. You know, you're dizzy. Now you think "Did anybody feel like this before?" And "what is happening to me?"And that's when art is not luxury it's actually sustenance. We need it.

Art Is Not Luxury It's Sustenance 

When you ask what is art? Well Human creativity is manifest in us. When you truly love someone you find that your lover is pretty beautiful. When you look at your children playing on their own, jumping and running around the house doing anything. You feel that's so beautiful. That's why kids are so beautiful because they don't have any habits. They don't care if they're any good or not. They just throw themselves at whatever project you put in front of them. Whatever they do they try to impress upon you their individuality

Human Creativity Is Manifest In Us

We are here on this star of space to help one another. At first we have to survive and then we have to thrive. And to thrive, we have to express ourselves and to express ourselves we have to know our selves.In knowing ourselves we start searching what we love and when we get close to what we love who you are is revealed to you. And it expands. When you expand you start to see how connected we all are. We realise art is vital.

It's Vital...Art Is Vital

It's the way we heal each other. In poetries, novels, musics, dancing, acting. In telling our story, in inviting you to say. "Hey, listen to me and I'll listen to you", we're starting a dialogue and the healing happens and we're coming out of our corners, we start witnessing each other's common humanity. We start to assert it. If you want to help your community, your family, your friends, your loved ones you have to express yourself. And to express yourself you have to know yourself. You just have to follow your love.There is no path till you walk it and you have to be willing to play the fool

Play The Fool

Don't read the book you should read, read the book you want to read. Don't listen to the music you used to but come out of your comfort zone and try another genre

Do The Odd

We often ignore that we all are creative in some way. All we have to do is to find the calling and follow our love.

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Some people say, “Knock on wood,” and then knock on something made of wood for good luck, when they have made a remark that has been true up to that point and they want it to continue to be true: “I've never had an accident yet, knock on wood.”

What does it mean when you knock on wood?

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Crustaceans shares a common ancestor with all insects, including the household cockroach, Blattaria.Insects and crustaceans belong to the phylum Arthropoda. The class Insecta, contains insects (no way!) such as mosquitos, beetles, and ants.

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When you have something like a toy that glows in the dark, it can glow because it contains materials called phosphors. Phosphors can radiate light after they have gotten energy from the sun or another source of bright light. The phosphors soak up the energy from the light, and then they radiate this energy as light.

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The Great Wall of China was built over 2,000 years ago, by Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor of China during the Qin (Ch'in) Dynasty (221 B.C - 206 B.C.). In Chinese the wall is called "Wan-Li Qang-Qeng" which means 10,000-Li Long Wall (10,000 Li = about 5,000 km).

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Picasso was exceptionally prolific throughout his long lifetime. The total number of artworks he produced has been estimated at 50,000, comprising 1,885 paintings; 1,228 sculptures; 2,880 ceramics, roughly 12,000 drawings, many thousands of prints, and numerous tapestries and rugs.

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Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed by Odoacer, a German barbarian who proclaims himself king of Italy. Odoacer was a mercenary leader in the Roman imperial army when he launched his mutiny against the young emperor.

Who deposed the last emperor of the Roman West?

Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed by Odoacer, a German barbarian who proclaims himself king of Italy. Odoacer was a

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The solubility of gases decreases when the temperature is raised, and that why the dissolved air bubbles out from the water. Then, as the boiling point of water is reached (100 degrees Celsius or 212 degrees Fahrenheit), water vapor starts to form inside the liquid in the form of bubbles.

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