Men must not cut down trees. There is a God. (He noted such revelations on the backs of envelopes.) Change the world. No one kills from hatred. Make it known (he wrote it down). He waited. He listened. A sparrow perched on the railing opposite chirped Septimus, Septimus, four or five times over and went on, drawing its notes out, to sing freshly and piercingly in Greek words how there is no crime and, joined by another sparrow, they sang in voices prolonged and piercing in Greek words, from trees in the meadow of life beyond a river where the dead walk, how there is no death.
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. on this day in 1941, Virgina Woolf took her own life in the River Ouse, near her home in Rodmell, East Sussex. she was fifty-nine years old.
#OTD in 1960: Ruby Bridges became the first Black child to attend William J. Frantz Elementary School after a court order mandated the desegregation of schools in New Orleans, Louisiana.
At just six years old, Ruby and her story became a symbol of the civil rights movement 🤎
For the second Gothic Lolita Bible, 2001, Mana様 was photographed wearing the Moi-même-Moitié Rose Pattern One Piece along with a white Lace Up Blouse, Mini Pannier, Rose Cross OTK Socks, purse, shoes and ring.
On this day in 1831, 22-year-old Charles Darwin set sail on the HMS Beagle for a trip around the world. For most of the next five years, the Beagle surveyed the coast of South America, leaving Darwin free to explore the continent and islands, including the Galápagos. He filled dozens of notebooks with careful observations on animals, plants, and geology, and collected thousands of specimens, which he sent home for further study. Darwin later called the Beagle voyage "by far the most important event in my life," saying it "determined my whole career."
In memory of Ian Robins Dury, English singer-songwriter and actor who rose to fame during the late 1970s, during the punk and new wave era of rock music. Ian Dury died of metastatic colorectal cancer on this day in 2000, aged 57.
#OTD in 1967: Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first Black Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
When President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall 56 years ago, he said it was “the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man, and the right place.”
Including Marshall, there have still only been three Black Justices out of the 116 Justices ever sworn into the Supreme Court. Justice Clarence Thomas succeeded Marshall upon retirement in 1991, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in last year.