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So happy to have her wings!
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Isn’t she?!
So happy to have her wings!
If a bunch of out of touch boomers didn't rush everyone back to work instead of a hybrid model, the rise in gas prices wouldn't hurt as much.
The man’s a polyp.
His highest and best purpose may be kibble - for cognitively challenged guinea pigs.
DISRESPECT AND MOCK YOUR OPPRESSORS OFTEN EAT THE RICH ABOLISH PATRIARCHY
When is it Open Season on rich people???
Turnabout is fair revenge, especially if ever homeless.
—Poverty Class
My doctor told me this, too. He knows I don't believe in any religion.
I asked if he had a prescription for faith and he shut up.
Best video I've seen today (maybe ever):
Those spoils included land that made up California, Nevada, Utah, most of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and a small portion of Wyoming. About a year later, the Mexicans were surprised to learn that gold had been found in California one week before they signed the Treaty. The Gold Rush that followed generated hundreds of millions of dollars in the U.S. in just its first few years.
A map showing the lands acquired by the U.S. in the Treaty of Hidalgo Image source: Colorado Encyclopedia
On this day in 1848, the U.S. Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
It ended the Mexican-American War and, as the victor, the U.S. took the spoils.
#ManifestDestiny #Gold #CoastToCoast #History #OTD
Her work changed care itself, by putting nursing instruction in public schools. Henry Street Settlement and Wald helped establish the National Organization for Public Health Nursing and Columbia University's School of Nursing. Wald was also an advocate for child welfare, labor rights, and women's suffrage. Her influence extended to public policy aimed at improving living conditions and access to healthcare for marginalized populations.
An undated b/w photo of Lillian Wald Image source: Nurse Manifest
It is the birthday in 1867 of activist and author Lillian Wald.
As a pioneering social reformer and nurse, she founded the Henry Street Settlement in New York City in 1893. It provided healthcare, education, and social services to impoverished immigrant communities.
#WriterSky #HumanRights #BOTD
Brown became a teacher, then a school leader who served as dean of the women's college at Howard University. Throughout this time, Brown studied and practiced what was then called elocution and she became an in-demand orator on the Chautauqua circuit of public speakers. In her lectures across the U.S. and in Europe, she became an eloquent advocate for civil rights and women's suffrage. And Brown spoke directly to the importance of equality and inclusion for Black women. This involved asking people in power to extend opportunities to Black women.
An undated, sepia-toned photo of Hallie Quinn Brown
It is the birthday in 1849 of the American activist and author Hallie Quinn Brown. She was one of the first Black women to receive a master's degree in the U.S.
#WriterSky #Activist #Educator #Speaker #History #BOTD
“The superstition of almost all nations has been so horrible that, if the monuments of it did not survive, it would be impossible to believe the accounts of it. The history of the world is the history of fanaticism. Tolerance is the prerogative of humanity; we are all full of weaknesses and mistakes; let us reciprocally forgive ourselves. It is the first law of nature.” –Voltaire, "Treatise on Tolerance," 1763
On this day in 1762, Jean Calas was executed - under false and fabricated allegations - in Toulouse, France.
After first hearing of the case, Voltaire wrote:
The affair is "the height of fanaticism. Ignoring such a thing is to abandon humanity."
Then he wrote "Treatise on Tolerance," including:
In 1934 Sir Allen Lane was waiting at Exeter St Davids for a train back to London after visiting his friend Agatha Christie who lived in Devon, and found himself without a book to read. All that was on offer at the station bookstall were magazines and Victorian reprints. Right then and there he decided that high quality, engaging, and reasonably priced books should be available to everyone, anywhere. The following year saw history made with the birth of the paperback as Penguin Books released their first ten titles. Sir Allen Lane wanted to put books in the hands of as many people as possible and 10 months after founding Penguin Books he dreamed up a new way of making that happen: The Penguincubator, a futuristic machine on Charing Cross Road that offered a selection of Penguin titles. It wasn’t entirely ‘knaveproof’, but certainly paved the way for today…
The Penguincubator!
Your idea isn't too different from Allen Lane's:
Those men only reveal their idiocy.
It's so easy to debunk any claim that zionism has any positive relationship to feminism (this took less than 15 seconds to find and similar stories have run for decades):
Here is how the Guardian newspaper described Cala’s murder: “In Toulouse in 1761, a shopkeeper’s son hanged himself. A rumor quickly spread around town that the son had been killed because he wanted to convert and become Catholic. The shopkeeper, Jean Calas, was a protestant Huguenot, and the town was about to celebrate – and “celebrate” is the word – the 200th anniversary of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre, when 2,000 Protestants were murdered, with maxi- mum barbarity, by the town’s Catholics. So the Toulousains were in no mood for tolerance, or even skepticism (such as how a frail man in his 60s could kill a large, healthy man some 40 years younger). Calas was tortured, and then executed.”
Voltaire found that Calas’ son was despondent over his gambling debts and being barred from university because of anti-protestant prejudice – the same bias that led to his father’s execution. And so, Voltaire wrote Treatise on Tolerance. Published in 1763, the book focuses on religious extremism. Voltaire’s Treatise became an indictment of superstition of all kinds, especially organized superstition. The book was quickly banned throughout much of Europe, but it was still widely available and quite popular. In 2015, after militant Islamists massacred staffers at the French humor magazine Charlie Hebdo, Treatise on Tolerance became a best seller in France, some 250 years after it was first published.
Voltaire got Jean Calas’ case brought to the King’s council. It took some time, but the council quashed the guilty verdict imposed by the Toulouse Parliament. In 1765, the King’s council formally recognized Calas as innocent. The charge was overturned and his name restored. As the Calas family was financially insecure, funds were raised to help them, and King Louis XIV himself made donations.
An undated and uncredited painting of Jean Calas, saying farewell to his family before his execution. Image source: Musee Protestant
On this day in 1762, the murder of Jean Calas in Toulouse, France moved the writer Voltaire to produce one of the world’s most enduring commentaries on prejudice and the violence it inspires.
#WriterSky #BookSky #TreatiseOnTolerance #History #OTD
Good points.
Good questions.
It certainly seems that those who cite Smith the most miss his most important points.
That’s one reason I refer to his book as a capitalist bible.
Iran war is costing American citizens
$890M a day...
Spillane created the hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer and he brought to life a world that millions of readers dived into, reading book after book just to see what would happen next. He wrote more than 40 novels and they’ve sold more than 225 million copies.
A b/w photo of Mickey Spillane, appearing on an episode of ABC's "Columbo," circa 1974
“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”
-American writer Mickey Spillane, born on this day in 1918
#WriterSky #BookSky #History #BOTD
“She walks among the loveliness she made, Between the apple-blossom and the water— She walks among the patterned pied brocade, Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter.” –Vita Sackville-West, "The Land," 1926
Happy Vita Sackville-West's birthday!
Grow your garden. Bloom like flowers. Take lovers. Write about (some of) it. Make it all beautiful:
Her best-known written work may be The Land, though she published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels. Sackville-West was also quite close to Virginia Woolf, and is considered the inspiration for the main character in Woolf’s popular book "Orlando."
An undated, uncredited b/w photo of Vita Sackville-West. Image source: The Paris Review
“I sing once more The mild continuous epic of the soil.
- English writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West, born on this day in 1892.
#WriterSky #BookSky #Poet #History #BOTD
These people were to be taken to the Americas where they would be sold as slaves. While at sea, the Africans took over the ship, killed the captain, and demanded the crew return to Africa. But the crew set a course northward, where U.S. authorities took custody of the Amistad. The Africans aboard the ship sued for their freedom. A movement to end slavery had begun in the U.S. about 10 years earlier and the story of the abducted Africans garnered intense interest. The Supreme Court ruled that the Africans were justified in killing the Amistad’s captain and that as free people, they should not be imprisoned or become slaves. Those Africans abducted on the Amistad who wanted to go back to Africa received donations to help them return home.
On this day in 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in The Amistad case. The Amistad was a ship and it carried African men and women who had been taken aboard against their will.
#Slavery #Freedom #History #OTD
Smith also called on governments to not interfere with the resulting free market that the people would create. The book has become a kind of capitalist bible. A study conducted in 2016 found that The Wealth of Nations was the second most cited economics book – published before 1950. The most cited, though, was Das Kapital, by Karl Marx.
Portrait of the political economist and philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) by an unknown artist, circa 1800s. Image source: National Galleries .org
On this day in 1776, the landmark book "The Wealth of Nations" was published. Written by Scottish economist Adam Smith, it argues that national policies allowing individuals to pursue their self interests will, eventually, build greater wealth.
#WriterSky #MoneyGuy #Economics #Finance #History #OTD
We are a funny species:
“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.” –John McPhee, "Annals of the Former World," 1998
Happy John McPhee's birthday!
Whatever it is, say it so clearly that you make people smile:
He has written about seemingly everything, from oranges to the thinking of a nuclear engineer. But McPhee’s writing stands apart from that of his contemporaries. His nonfiction borrows the intimacy of fiction, which is partly the result of the depth of McPhee’s research and his questioning.
He began working at The New Yorker in the 1960s and taught writing at Princeton for decades. Some of the current crop of America’s most accomplished writers, including The New Yorker’s editor, David Remnick learned their trade in McPhee’s classes. He has written more than 30 books and was nominated four times for the Pulitzer Prize. It was awarded to McPhee in 1999, for Annals of the Former World.
An undated, b/w photo of writer and teacher John McPhee Photo credit: Office of Communications, Princeton University Image source: Brittanica
“I'm addicted to the entire planet. I don't want to leave it.”
-American author John McPhee, born on this day in 1931
#WriterSky #BookSky #Teacher #BOTD
An undated and uncredited photo of writer Juana de Ibarbourou of Columbia Image source: Poets.org
It is the birthday in 1892 of Uruguayan poet and author Juana de Ibarbourou. At the age of 17, she published a piece titled “Women’s Rights.” She became a well-respected author on feminism and naturalism.
#WriterSky #BookSky #History #BOTDW
It was printed under the pen name “Justice and Humanity,” though it was widely believed to have been written by Thomas Paine. He authored the pamphlet Common Sense, which came out a few months later and extolled the righteousness of America’s fight for independence from England.
The Thomas Paine Historical Society dug into this and used a few different methods of author attribution, as this type of research is called. And according to the historic society, “Justice and Humanity” was the pen name for Samuel Hopkins, a minister and theologian. He was one of the first abolitionist ministers and, again, according to The Thomas Paine Historical Society, Hopkins’ Congregationalist Church was the first in the American colonies to publicly denounce slavery.
Samuel Hopkins wrote another, similar article in 1776 that noted the hypocrisy of fighting for liberty while owning slaves. There are no records of public responses to Hopkins’ pieces on the abolition of slavery. Some historians say this is an indication of the public’s lack of interest in emancipation in pre-Revolution America. Others believe that concerns over the institution of slavery in the mid-1770s were overshadowed by the immediate, practical necessities of the Revolutionary War.
Link to the Thomas Paine Historical Society article on author attribution of the article "African Slavery in America": https://thomaspaine.org/studies-in-thomas-paine/the-author-attribution-of-african-slavery-in-america/
On this day in 1775, the article titled “African Slavery in America” ran in a Philadelphia newspaper. It is considered one of the first published pieces in the American colonies that called for freeing all slaves and ending slavery.
#Abolition #Emancipation #History #OTD
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He is a urine-soaked sock of a man. A fleck of excrement on an unwanted boot.
How can anyone like or support such an imbecilic mockery of a human?
This is so great!
A 1908 perspective on women doing what men do.
Click through to the blog for a closer look at the vignettes in the illustration:
“Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.”
—Arthur Schopenhauer, “Psychological Observations”, Parerga and Paralipomena
That’s awesome!
Thanks for posting
“Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.” –Luther Burbank, letter to the San Francisco Examiner, 1922
Happy Luther Burbank's birthday!
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