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smokeyloki · 1 day

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#fish #clean humor #funny picture

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smokeyloki · 5 days

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Not sorry to be an English major on main but I second the statement above

Anyway. Sorry to be an English major on main but yes all stories have meanings and say things

#stories #literature #English Major

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smokeyloki · 5 days

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Happy Unicorn Day! 🦄

Sorry for getting back to this so late. Thank you so much! I was teaching that day, and the realization of the day's significance was forgotten until I received a text. I was, fortunately, still able to celebrate by making myself some unicorn hot chocolate in the evening.

#National Unicorn Day #unicorn #answered ask #straight from the inbox #jurakan

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smokeyloki · 5 days

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#ah!#Tiny unicorns #unicorn #unicorn art #so small yet so regal #as all unicorns must be of course

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#unicorn #unicorn art #I love the cloudy effect the white and blue make #It's so flowy and soft #almost wispy in a way #most loverly

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smokeyloki · 8 days

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Sr. Blandina (Maria Rosa) Segale

Servant of God

1850-1941

Sister Blandina brought the Catholic faith to the American frontier. Born in Italy, her family emigrated to the U.S. when she was 4 yrs. old. She joined St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Sisters of Charity and was soon assigned to work in Colorado and later in New Mexico. Teaching was her main work but she also started orphanages and hospitals. Living in the lawless West, she disarmed gunfighters, lynch mobs and bandits (Billy the Kid) with her kindness. Sister returned to Cincinnati in 1894 to work with the poor Italian immigrants. She died of natural causes at 91 years old.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

#Sister Blandina #Servant of God #A new person to look up!#Catholic

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smokeyloki · 8 days

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#conservation #clean humor #nature #otters

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smokeyloki · 10 days

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#I do remember..#solar eclipse #solar eclipse 2024

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#48 Toyhouse Support me on Ko-fi

#unicorn #unicorn art #what a high stepping beauty

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smokeyloki · 14 days

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For some reason I cannot find a way to search through your posts, so I have no way of fact-checking this, but I would think that by now you've done at least one fun fact on the Emu War in Australia, correct? And even if you have, I'd love to read up on one of my favorite historical events of all time :D

So I don't have a search feature, as I mostly rely on tags (posts about the Emu War are in the Australia tag), and I haven't talked about the Emu War for a Fun Fact it seems! So! Today You Learned about the Emu War!

In the years after World War I, veterans in Australia were given large pieces of land so that they could become farmers. Australian government figured it had to do something with all of that land, after all. Then the Great Depression happened, and things were rough, were the government promising assistance that never came.

And then, in September of 1932, there was a historic drought in Australia. And emus? They migrate. That's a thing they do. And fleeing drought conditions, they found huge chunks of land with a butt-ton of wheat, and water for irrigation. Free food? Free drink? Well of course the emus thought it would be a great thing to just hang out in those places. All, y'know, 20,000 of them.

Twenty thousand emus what the fudge

Some of these veterans went to Minister of Defence (because Australians, like Brits, can't spell 'Defense') George Pearce, who agreed that they should deploy machine guns on these overgrown pigeons. This was a silly move, but some suspect that it was meant to cool tensions between government and soldiers, and make it look like the government cared about what happened to its veterans. Or maybe Pearce genuinely thought shooting up emus was a good idea, I don't know.

In any case, the Emu War began in October of 1932. Or rather, that's when it was sort of declared. The first "battle" was to be at the beginning of November, but it was delayed a day due to rain.

Ridiculousness ensued.

See, the first "battle" involved trying to lure the birds into an ambush, which didn't quite work because their flocks split up. The first round of fire wasn't effective, but eventually they did kill some emus. Two days later, on November 4, a flock of some one thousand emus was spotted, cornered, and fired upon--the soldiers managed to kill 12.

TWELVE.

OUT OF A THOUSAND.

Hoo boy.

The "campaign" continued for a while but ultimately led to not that many emus being killed. The press was having a field day with this, and military leaders noted that emus are surprisingly maneuverable, even when wounded. One officer even compared the emus to Zulu warriors.

On November 8, the Australian forces withdrew. However, the emu problem remained, so on November 12, Pearce approved more attacks. And in this round, it was actually effective; the soldiers managed to actually kill quite a few hundred emus, and the government considered this a success, though as you can imagine there are tons of people who have a problem with the government lending machine guns to kill wildlife, especially once news of this hit the UK, but... yeah. Despite what people say, the second phase of the Emu War was actually sort of successful?

But did anyone really win?

Anyway, they started putting up fences to keep the emus out, and in the 50's the Australian government approved more ammunition in case the farmers needed it.

Also, there's apparently an action comedy movie adaptation in the works written by John Cleese.