Big TORNADO north of Tulsa, OK right now
Big TORNADO north of Tulsa, OK right now
Waffles the giraffe at the San Antonio Zoo. Today is her third birthday
The San Antonio Zoo is not on here but today is Waffles the giraffeβs third birthday and I just felt like this was need to know information today, with everything else being so terrible
The Iditarod starts this weekend! The Ceremonial Start (parade) is Saturday, and the race starts Sunday. Here's a great article with details and photos about the sled dog race 1,000 miles across Alaska! alaskapublic.org/news/iditaro...
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SOO much cuteness I can't...
Also, how is Bubbles an ice cream flavor?
The IKidarod preschoolers have voted, and theyβll be following Jesse Terry for this yearβs Iditarod. They were super excited about all the dog profiles. Weβll keep everyone posted on our adventures this year. #uglydogs #iditarod
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SO COOL!!!
Quote: βIn Wortegem-Petegem we have recovered around 350 shells over the past 3 days. It appears that this site was used as an ammunition depot during World War I. An impressive, but also confrontational reminder of our past.β
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In a win for the Gullah Geechee people on St Helena Island in South Carolina, access to a long-used cemetery has been restored
A bouquet wrapped in yellow paper left at a grave featuring a life size Jesus in marble with two lambs
A long text carved into a marble plaque commemorating the manufacturing process of luxury campers, I assume, since my French is not up to this one
Grave of Henri and Henriette Henon with the life size Jesus and a life size weeping mourner, also marble clasped hands and a marble bank of roses
Flowers for Henri and Henriette Henon, visionary manufacturers of the camper trailer in the 1930s. In 1944, they hid an injured American airman in a luxury caravan in the woods near Albert, which honestly had to be a fairly strange experience.
Itβs a warm day in Arras, which means the cemeteries are full of tiny lizards basking on the stones.
It's the anniversary of the Boston Massacre!
So this week on the Untitled History Podcast, @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social and I break down the myths and reality of what happened. And why it became such a landmark moment in the American narrative.
cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-...
closeup detail of a winged skull on a gravestone
A lovely thing about this era of gravestones from the Lamson family shop in Charlestown, Massachusetts is the occasional mix of carving depths. This stone (John Tufts, d.1728, Malden) is mostly carved in the usual deep style, but also has a lightly incised medallion that reminds me of embroidery.
There is a video here:
concordmuseum.org/event/fashio...
A wonderful event tomorrow at the Robbins House in Concord with Dr. Jonathan Square:
Fashioning Identity: The Garrisons and African American Fashion in Photography
It looks like a virtual option is available. Register for free here:
robbinshouse.org/event/fashio...
Holy cow
discharge paper dated 1783 for Primus Slocum, Fifer, a printed sheet with the name and date details filled in by hand
26. 1783 discharge for Primus Slocum of Rehoboth/Seekonk, Massachusetts, who served as a fifer in the 1st Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War.
Learn more about Primus Slocum (and many other enslaved people in southeastern Mass) from Wayne Tucker:
@elevennames.bsky.social
eleven-names.com
Photo of the house Phoebe once lived at. Title text: Abigail Adams' enslaved Black "parent." Did Phoebe model qualities recognized today as Abigail Adams' trademark feminism?
The woman known as Phoebe Abdee, Phebe Savil Oliphant, was born enslaved in Col. John Quincy's household. She helped raise Quincy's granddaughter, Abigail Adams, and maintained a life-long connection to Abigail and her family. elevennames.substack.com/p/abigail-ad...
So I've just been added to a list by a troll.
@support.bsky.team we NEED the ability to block others from adding us to lists. Now.
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film...
It was only in theaters for a while, and not publicized much. It's good- not uplifting, but quality work as one might expect from Kenneth Branagh.
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I just wish I could do a full-time PhD or DrPH at this point. But I had to leave a PhD program due to illness and those incompletes did become an F.
I was straight As until then, though ... anyone in public health looking to take on a PhD student? I'm an experienced researcher and analyst!
Poems for Lent (Day 15)
β’ William Wordsworth β’
This is the content I want from California Closets.
There are a lot of content scrapers who post photos and videos without regard to their creators. They can also be used to track your account.
Here is a list to help eliminate the thieves
bsky.app/profile/did:...
thank youπ₯
Ode to a Potato Shed?