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Amazons!

Depiction of Amazons and other warrior women in art.

Pic: Herakles fighting against the Amazons, ca. 530-520 BC.
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Amazon Breaking a Savage Horse, 1843, bronze, by Jean-Jacques Feuchère.
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Amazon Penthesilea (1862), by Gabriel-Vital Dubray (1813-1892).
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Amazon preparing for the battle (Queen Antiope or Armed Venus), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860.
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Fleeing Amazon, tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, c500 BC.
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Amazone - Jacques Buirette (1631-1699), in the garden at Versailles.
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Amazone vor der Villa Stuck, München.
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Kämpfende Amazone (1897), Franz von Stuck (1863-1928).
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Kämpfende Amazone, von August Kiss, Statue am Alten Museum, Berlin.
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Amazonomachia (fight between Greeks and Amazons), relief on a sarcophagus, c180 BC.
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Amazonenschlacht by Feuerbach,1873.
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Amazonomachia, marble, sarcophagus panel, ca. 160–170.
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Amazons after hunt, c1871.
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Another view of the Amazon hunting a lion (or whatever that big horse-eating cat is) at the Berlin Alten Museum.
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Der Drachenkämpfer vor dem Alten Museum.

Statues of lion hunts at the Alten Museum tend to show the horse getting the worst of the action.
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Some Amazons depicted in Gustave Doré’s illustration of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso.
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Battle of the Amazons (1618).
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Mr. Guano sir, your posts are always unique and informative, and I feel immensely grateful for your generous contributions.

I don't mean to offend you, but a thread on Amazons and warrior women lacking fappable material seems rather lacking (at least in this particular corner of the Internet)
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I provide the groundwork and classical art.
You /hr/ mavens of 4chan provide the fappable material.
Everyone goes home happy.

Pic: another engraving of Gustave Doré’s illustration of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (I'm running out of Amazon material).
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You sire, are a gentleman and a scholar
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A Valkyrie is fine too.

Statue by Stephan Sinding, located in Copenhagen.
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not even /s/ lists fapping as it's intent. /hr/ is visually fascinating, even the guy from /k/ brings archaeological content. < weird but damn nice>
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In Norse mythology the valkyries (Old Norse Valkyrja "Choosers of the Slain") are dísir, minor female deities, who served Odin. The valkyries' purpose was to determine the victors of battles and wars, and to choose the most heroic of those who had died in battle. Freyja, called Mistress of the slain (Valfreyja) and of the Valkyries in general, chose half of these fallen heroes for her hall Fólkvangr. The rest went to Valhalla where they became einherjar. This was necessary because Odin needed warriors to fight at his side at the preordained battle at the end of the world, Ragnarök. In Valhalla the valkyries also “serve drink and look after the tableware and drinking vessels” (Prose Edda Gylfaginning 36). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie
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Valkyries by Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1869.
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A fanciful Val the Valkyrie from SUN Episode I.
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US B-70 (XB-70A) Valkyrie, an experimental ultra-high-altitude, Mach 3.1 (2,056 mph) nuclear penetration bomber, from 1967.

Cost overruns and the decision that the US Air Force would no longer invest in fast, high-altitude bombers for nuclear attack (felt they would be too vulnerable to high-altitude enemy SAMs) effectively killed the Valkyrie.
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Honda F6C Valkyrie
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The mammoth XB-70 Valkyrie achieved its design speed Oct. 14, 1965 when it accelerated to Mach 3.02, or 2,000 mph at 70,000 feet altitude over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The aircraft weighed 500,000 pounds.
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Valkyries!!!!
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Oh my God. I think I just came.

I mean, I was watching the previous bit with interest, but the XB-70 was a stunning, awesome aircraft. I seem to remember it's the loudest aircraft ever built.
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Here's a bunch of Valkyrie bomber pictures:

US Bomber Development 1950-1962 (39 mb)
http://rapidshare.com/files/146940291/Bat_Guano_US_Bomber_Development_1950-1962.rar.html
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Valkyrie vs Earth Dragon.
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Boris Vallejo - Valkyrie 1982.
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The Valkyrie model was used on Germania, the symbol of the new unified Germany.

Pic: Brandenburg Gate in Berlin produced by Johann Gottfried Schadow in 1793.
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Germania by F A von Kaulbach, 1914.
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it's not valkyrie on brandenburger tor. it's Nike, the goddes of victory (with wings)
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she looks pissed
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who painted this?
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Bump for source of Valkyrie vs Earth dragon