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Post reblogged from Neil Gaiman
In 32 minutes this link goes live. It’s really good. And I’m not allowed to say anything about it until it drops.
It’s live! Go and watch it. It’s a song I wrote about being a sad and lonely vampire, brought to life by the astonishing FourPlay String Quartet, from our forthcoming album Signs of Life. And it’s a VIDEO. It has a plot and everything!
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Photo reblogged from Music, Arts & Literature
Sensitive viewers will have noticed that a portal is opening up in this photo, a phenomon sometimes triggered by excellent reading material. From Marquette University’s 1959 yearbook.
Here’s my gallery of unusual imagery from vintage college yearbooks.
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Post reblogged from The amazing digital art
The amazing digital art of Sylvain Sarrailh
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Photoset reblogged from nancy drew central
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Post reblogged from U.S. National Archives
Campus Scene during Shootings at Kent State University, Records of U.S. Attorneys, National Archives at Chicago, NARA ID 2723186.
Map of Site of Shootings at Kent State University, President Nixon’s Commission on Campus Unrest. 6/13/-12/1970, NARA ID 596837.
KENT STATE SHOOTING #OTD 1970
In the midst of Vietnam War, President Nixon televised his decision to initiate the Cambodian campaign. This apparent expansion of the war detonated an explosion of antiwar activity that escalated to a national crisis when 4 students were shot at a protest at Kent State University in Ohio.
Affidavit of student shot, Donald S. Mackenzie, NARA ID 596838.
Telegram from Doris and Arthur Krause to President Ford re: the Pardon of Former President Nixon, Ford Library, NARA ID 16637619.
Did you know…?
- While Nixon spoke of initiating the Cambodian campaign, he had been secretly bombing Cambodia since mid-March 1969—an escalation of a covert bombing campaign started by President Johnson in 1965.
- Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on unarmed students. There were over 1,300 armed troops, armored personnel carriers, mortar launchers, and helicopters.
- 67 shots were fired in 13 seconds, killing 4 students and wounding 9—one paralyzed for life (Dean Kahler).
- Two of the students murdered weren’t protesters; they were walking to class, and one of those was ROTC and planned to enter the military.
- Following this shooting, an estimated 4 million striking students shut down 800 campuses nationwide.
- According to a Gallup Poll, 58 % of Americans blamed the students for the violence at Kent State.
- Dean Kahler, who was shot and paralyzed during the attack, came out of an induced coma to read a letter that began: “Dear communist hippie radical, I hope by the time you read this, you are dead.”
- President Nixon responded to the shootings stating: “When dissent turns to violence, it invites tragedy.”
- President Nixon’s Commission on Campus Unrest concluded: “the indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted and inexcusable.”
- A federal grand jury indicted 8 guardsmen, but found they were not subject to criminal prosecution because they acted in self defense.
See also:
- Remembering Vietnam: Online Exhibit
- Nixon Library’s Nixon and Kent State - Fifty Years Ago: Tragedy Strikes at Kent State
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Photoset reblogged from Easily Distracted By Shiny Things
my-sins-might-be-your-tragedies:
HI LET’S SHARE NICOLE’S WORDS ON THE SUBJECT!
It has been literal years but every time I see Martin’s tweets posted somewhere and his word is shared as truth while her post is not shared it sort of reiterates the fact that we trust men to speak about feminism more than we believe women who experience it.
Interesting, innit? https://medium.com/@nickyknacks/working-while-female-59a5de3ad266
Reading her account of how their boss treated her blows me away. Men are so emboldened that they will literally admit to illegal discrimination casually and face no consequences.
In all the years of seeing this post I’ve never seen a link to her side. Didn’t even know she’d written one.
Adding screenshots of her post. His whole post is there without needing a link. Hers should be, too.
Also, she posted this is 2017! It’s fucking 2020 and I’ve seen his side of this for years, but it took 3 years for her side to make its way to my dash…
I’ve reblogged his story at least twice; it’s time for Nicole’s.
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Photoset reblogged from starved for interaction
Miniature house of the Addams Family.
Artist Kelly Little-Kuehnert of K&K Custom Miniature Creations made this amazing miniature models of the Addams Family home for a client. The house took about a year to built.
I could never do this, I still haven’t started my dollhouse, but these miniatures are costly, b/c they’re so small and detailed. I wonder what she charged to make this.
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Photo reblogged from Piper's Daily Paintings
3152. Gingerbird House
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Photoset reblogged from Unashamed Bibliophile
Timeless (2016) S1E012 - The Murder of Jesse James
Bass Reeves, protrayed by Colman Domingo. Rufus Carlin, protrayed by Malcolm Barrett.
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It’s true!
Bass Reeves was so dedicated to the law, he even arrested his own son Bennie for the murder of his wife. Bennie was sentenced to life in prison. With over 3000 arrests, 14 kills, went his entire 32 year career in law enforcement without being shot once.
He was assigned to bring in the notorious female outlaw Belle Starr. Once she got wind who was after her she turned herself into the federal court.
Reeves was one of a few Marshalls who would venture into Indian territory *oklahoma*. After the age of 67 he retired in 1907. He enjoyed his short lived retirement as a police officer in Muskogee Oklahoma, his assigned beat had 0 crime reported until he died at the age of 71 of Bright’s disease.
He was one of the true gun slingers of the west.
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Photoset reblogged from Unashamed Bibliophile
Bearing Witness- Marking 82 Years to the Events of Kristallnacht “the Night of Broken Glass”.
82 years ago today, the Nazi government led people to attack Jewish-owned businesses, buildings and synagogues throughout the country and in parts of Austria, at a time of intense discrimination of Jews, which included boycotting their businesses.
The attacks were called “Kristallnacht”: the “Night of Broken Glass” because of the shattered windows throughout the cities. Synagogues were burned, 91 Jews were murdered, and 30,000 Jews were arrested and taken to concentration camps simply because they were Jewish.
Let us never forget that the horrible crimes against humanity that occurred in WWII were not sudden, but a product of gradual and increasing persecution.
To those who lost their lives,We remember.
To those who survived, We hear you
To the next generation,We must never forget.
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Photoset reblogged from Unashamed Bibliophile
There is an old belief in Serbian villages and small towns that certain pumpkins (and watermelons), when left outside during a full moon, will turn in to a vampire.
Happy Halloween, everyone!
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*whisper chants* vampire pumpkin vampire pumpkins vampire pumpkins
This is the quality fall shit I’m here for
I think it’s great that Pumpkins (and other squash) were only introduced to Europe around 1600 and the Serbs wasted absolutely no time blaming them for their problems.
