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Hiya! I'm Ollie, 20s, from the US. used to be mostly history, but now a mess of a blog. he/him or they/them. disney/theme park sideblog at owlsong74
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shoutout to this random-ass guy who had this incredibly rare bird sighting
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Isn't there an account of quincy adams staring into the sun during an eclipse
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okay americans i gotta ask because as an European i grew up with lots of american shows and cartoons and in a lot of them there was an episode where they give the protags a doll or an egg or a bag of flour or whatever and told them pretend to be its parents or something
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The Ballad Singer by Henry Robert Morland 1764.
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autumn aspects; zion national park, utah
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Two Young Women Kissing (1790s) by Louis-Léopold Boilly.
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Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.
The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.
The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.
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#lmao#animal is “deer” in literally every other major germanic language to my knowledge#(dier tier dyr etc)#english#and its very latinate vocabulary
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FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.
It was an eye-popping magenta purple
HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...
...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.
(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).
They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.
Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.
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the english and french may have fought each other for like their entire history but linguistically (haha) they were also kissing with tongue
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Gaza's municipality is trying to raise money to fix and restore Gaza's water system. Please support them by boosting and/or donating
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"School districts that don’t respect transgender and nonbinary students’ pronouns or force them to use restrooms that don’t align with their gender identity could be committing federal civil rights violations beginning this fall.
Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced the issuance of a final rule under Title IX to protect people in public schools from sex-based discrimination and harassment. The announcement marks a significant update in federal efforts to combat sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. During a call with reporters, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona emphasized the administration’s dedication to ensuring that Title IX effectively serves all students by providing safe, welcoming, and rights-respecting educational environments."
Read the full piece here
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Night Owls Rejoice: A Neon-Lit Time Capsule in Albuquerque, 1986 ฆ‰ŒŒ
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Left: “He deliberately knocked the whole thing over.”
Reigate Squires, Sidney Paget, The Strand Jun/Jul 1893
Characters: Watson, Holmes
Right: “It hinged back like the lid of a box.”
Second Stain, Sidney Paget, The Strand Dec 1904
Characters: Watson, Holmes
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