#4 May

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Gertrude Stein gives an autograph to an admirer just before sailing on the Champlain from New York for her country home in France, May 4, 1935. Stein said her reception here "was perfectly marvelous. It was extraordinary and so completely natural because it was so completely natural."

Photo: Associated Press via WHNT

#vintage New York #1930s #Gertrude Stein #autograph #May 4 #4 May #writers

[dracula-dictionary]

Dracula Dictionary, May 4th

"making inquiries as to": asking about

reticent: not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily

Herr: German word for Sir or Mister

St. George's Day: a celebration day for a Christian saint who supposedly defeated a dragon, not typically associated with evil

"my duty was imperative": my work was very important

idolatrous: worshiping a physical object as a god

ungracious: impolite

rosary: a chain of prayer beads used most commonly by Catholics

#this time i didn't even misspell the title #dracula daily #dracula daily 4 may #4 may #re: dracula #dracula dictionary 4 may #dracula dictionary #i didn't find too much that i felt needed explaining in this entry #so i went for some of the vocabulary that felt fancier than necessary #i was struggling to find something but if there is something in the text that you still don't understand then please let me know

[dateinthelife]

4 May 1969

At the wrap party for the Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr film The Magic Christian, Paul McCartney denies his wife Linda is pregnant.

Mary will be born four months later. It's a miracle!

#today in the life #paul mccartney #Linda McCartney #4 May #1969

[wiiildflowerrr]

@Luke5SOS: LLAMAS UP PORTUGAL

4 May 2015

#this day in 5sos history #5sos #5 seconds of summer #luke hemmings #luke 5sos #2015 #4 may #5sos portugal

[ivovynckier]

4 May is Star Wars Day!

(Cartoon by Jeffrey Brown)

#star wars #star wars day #darth vader #4 may #jeffrey brown

[rabbitcruiser]

International Respect for Chickens Day

International Respect for Chickens Day exists “to celebrate chickens throughout the world and protest the bleakness of their lives in farming operations.” On the day, actions are to be done “to highlight the life and suffering of chickens and encourage compassion for them.” The day was started by the United Poultry Concerns in 2005. Karen Davis, the founder of the group, believes that chickens should be returned to an outside environment and that they shouldn’t be eaten. The idea for the day stemmed from Harry Shearer—the host of Le Show and Simpsons voice contributor—who had proclaimed May 14, 2000, as National Respect the Chicken Day. It was Mother’s Day, and he wanted to point out that hens are symbols of devoted motherhood.

Chickens are the most prevalent bird species; there are about 25 billion in the world. There are also dozens of breeds. The chicken is a subspecies of, and largely descended from, the red junglefowl, which is native to Asia. To a lesser extent, the chicken can also trace its lineage to the grey junglefowl. A baby chicken is a chick, young female chickens are pullets, female chickens old enough to lay eggs are hens, young male chickens are called cockerels, and full-grown male chickens are called cocks or roosters.

Chickens are likely domesticated more than any other fowl and are raised for both their meat and eggs. First domesticated in India and Southeast Asia, they were used in cockfights and for religious reasons, not for food. They began appearing on farms a few thousand years ago, but it wasn’t until the early twentieth century that they began being viewed differently, and eggs and meat became mass-produced commodities. High-volume poultry farms began appearing in Britain around 1920 and in America following World War II.

Hens and pullets are raised for meat and eggs. At first, eggs were the main focus, and only hens that couldn’t produce any more eggs were killed for food; now female chickens of any age are killed for meat. Males are used for breeding, but some young males—cockerels—are castrated (often chemically) and used for food; they are then known as capons. In the mid-twentieth century, meat surpassed eggs as the primary use of chickens. The meat industry has since continued to grow. Chicken meat is often used as pet food as well as for human consumption.

Chickens themselves are omnivores; they eat seeds, but also eat insects, lizards, and mice. When food is present, roosters may do some tidbitting: they make food calls and move their heads up and down while picking up and dropping pieces of the food. Research has shown that hens prefer roosters who do tidbitting more often. Groups of chickens create a social hierarchy. There is usually a dominant male, a few less-dominant males, and a few females. A pecking order is formed, and higher ranking males may strike out against lower ranking males, literally pecking them with their beaks. There is a pecking order with females as well.

Hens may mate with many different roosters. Interestingly, they may eject sperm and are more likely to do so if the rooster is lower on the pecking order. Chickens breed in the spring and summer months when the longer daylight hours stimulate egg-laying. Artificial lighting in chicken coops can influence hens to lay eggs year-round. The time between ovulation and egg-laying is between 23 and 26 hours, and chickens can ovulate an hour after laying an egg. So, it is possible for some hens to lay about 300 eggs a year. Chicks hatch about 21 days after eggs are laid. Free-range chickens may live up to six to eight years, while most chickens in the poultry industry only live two to three years—they lay eggs for a few years and are then slaughtered. The longest a chicken may live is about 30 years.

How to Observe

According to United Poultry Concerns, an “action” of compassion is to be done for chickens today. Posters, as well as brochures and handouts, can be acquired from United Poultry Concerns, and they suggest the following ideas on how to celebrate the day:

Hand out leaflets on a street corner.

Set up a table with information about chickens somewhere in public.

Have an office party dedicated to the topic.

Have a celebration of chickens in a classroom.

Write a letter to the editor of a local publication.

Call in to a radio program.

Host a vegan open house.

Talk to friends, family members, and strangers about what can be done to help chickens.

Some other ideas on how to celebrate the day could include:

Watch a documentary such as Food, Inc. or Dirty Birds: A Story of Chickens in America.

Watch Chicken Run.

Read about the different breeds of chickens.

Read a book about the chicken industry such as Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats or Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food.

Read Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry, a book by Karen Davis, the founder of United Poultry Concerns.

Join United Poultry Concerns.

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#Brahma chicken #Key West Chicken #Kings Landing Historical Settlement #USA #Zoo Zürich #Zurich #Schweiz #Switzerland #Canada #travel #day trip #flora #fauna #bird #animals #Silkie #International Respect for Chickens Day #4 May #original photography #tourist attraction #InternationalRespectForChickensDay #outdoors #indoors #landmark #New Brunswick #Florida #vacation

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 4 May:

#OTD in Irish History | 4 May:

1699 – According to Jonathan Swift’s book, Gulliver’s Travels, it was on this day that Lemuel Gulliver sets sail on board the Antelope from Bristol. 1715 – Joseph Deane, Justice of Assize for Munster and MP for Co Dublin, dies of a fever resulting from a cold he caught (allegedly caused by a total eclipse of the sun) while returning from circuit on horseback. 1773 – Art Ó Laoghaire, the subject…

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#irelandinspires #irishhistory ireland #OTD #1916 Easter Rising #4 May #Aran Islands #Ciaran Nugent #Co. Galway #Dublin #Edward Daly #History #History of Ireland #Inis Mór #Ireland #Irish Civil War #Irish History #Irish War of Independence #Joseph Mary Plunkett #Michael O’harrahan #Sinn Fein #Today in Irish History #William Pearse

[disneychannelhistory]

Today in Disney Channel History...

DuckTales season 1, episode 10 “The Spear of Selene!” premiered on Disney Channel (4 May, 2018)

#ducktales #disney channel #episode #4 may #may #2018 #may 2018

[makemerainbows]

“Do you know what day it is?” I answered that it was the fourth of May. She shook her head as she said again: “Oh, yes! I know that. I know that! but do you know what day it is?” On my saying that I did not understand, she went on: “It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?”

Jonathan Harker’s Journal, May 4th, DRACULA - Bram Stoker

#may 4th #4 may #fourth of may #dracula #Bram Stocker's Dracula #bram stocker #novel excerpt #book quotes #jonathan harker #jonathan harker's journal

[leer-reading-lire]

“It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that to-night, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? Do you know where you are going, and what you are going to?”

-Dracula, Bram Stoker

#dracula daily #4 may #dracula #bram stoker #book quote

[tetsunabouquet]

I just heard that there are people planning to protest during 4 May against Israel. As a Dutch woman of Roma heritage, I AM FUMING. To those who don't know: 4 May is national memorial day in the Netherlands where we remember those who died during WWII. Whilst I find you anti-semitic fucks who are villifying every Jew in existence for what's currently happening in Israel to be awful - targeting 4 May when that day is for EVERY minority hunted down during WWII means you are targeting ALL of our communities. Remember how I mentioned that during my final year of elementary school I had a hag of a teacher? I literally remember arguing with her about how the history books barely talk about us. The REAL estimated number of deaths could have been as high as 1,5 MILLION Roma unlike the reported '400K' you'll find in your history pages. I have seen in YouTube videos from Americans and Canadians how they solely talk about the Jews and are trying to make it about black people with the unproven historic sentiment that Jewish people originally were black. I've even heard statements written out loud from American musea who only mentioned us like a footnote before talking about black people in length. Reported numbers of black people castrated/killed during WWII were a couple of thousand because that's how few black people there were in Europe. The Roma are the biggest racial group hunted down during WWII, stop trying to take that away from the potential million people that died! Give their souls the respect they deserve. How sick in the head do you have to be to be like, 'This major genocide has to be about MY race'- when the actual group hunted down for their skin and culture wasn't yours. My deadbeat dad and his sisters are more lily white looking as I always call it, but grandpa was a bit more Roma looking like me and my late grandma did make a few implied statements that it was his father who had a Romani mother. That was during WWII. My great-great grandmother likely was an elderly lady hunted down like a rat during this period. The fact my paternal family didn't had any pictures of my great-grandfather unlike his wife, worries me but it's too heavy of a subject to talk about with relatives that I have a strained relationship with. How can you make that about you? Tell me! Another one of my great-grandfathers wasn't a member of the Resistance but he did help out with food smuggling. Ever heard of the Dutch famine during WWII? My great-grandfather tried to keep regular Dutch citizens alive and was willing to stick his neck out as one of the richer families of the area to help the lesser priviliged and he was publically beaten for it by the Nazis as an example for the townsfolk. He's the only male relative I am proud of to be related to, because that was an act of bravery and generosity worthy of praise.

Not every wealthy white man is a greedy devil, my great-grandfather proved that. As much as I hate Frank Timmermans (Dutch politican), I do agree with his statement that you can protest on every fucking day of the year- just not memorial's day. This day belongs to so many non-Jews too and making this about Israel is just overshadowing the other victims once more. We haven't done anything to deserve to get erased. Yet the media, history books and non-Roma do that very thing. In my own personal experience, even the gays are mentioned more often then we are. The only group that might be more forgotten then we are, are the disabled. And as an autistic individual that also earns my ire.

I can bet my ass off that none of those sickening protesters would have been hunted down if we lived during WWII, unlike me. I have to live with that and the handful of people throughout my life who did call my blood impure. LEAVE 4 MAY ALONE!

#tetsutalk #4 may #4 mei #wwii #jews #roma #roma erasure #romani #romani erasure #israel #don't target the victims of wwii- they were more then just Jews #millions of non-Jewish people died in my country #remember the Dutch famine?

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A crowd estimated at 150,000 gathered at Madison Square Park to celebrate the first anniversary of the birth of Israel as a nation, May 4, 1949. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the first Israeli president, was among the speakers.

Photo: Associated Press via Pinterest

#vintage New York #1940s #Israel #crowd #celebration #Chaim Weizmann #May 4 #4 May #Madison Square Park #birthday

[little-eye-guy]

"this is too raw of a line to come from—" shut up. beauty and meaning is everywhere

#eye guy speaks #i need that phrase to be removed from everyone's vocabulary Please #why are you so convinced that such things cannot be discovered by or found in the mundane #1/1/23 edit: hope you all have enjoyed yourselves bc im ready for some peace and quiet *turns off reblogs* #1/4/23 edit: please don't comment about wanting to reblog. the experience itself may be fleeting but you will have your memory of it #(aka i turned them off for my health and you will be ok. it's just a post)

[swedenis-h]

To be loved is to be changed

#cheesy ass caption for my faves 🫡 #happy may 4th! #may 4th #may 4 #may the fourth be with you #Star Wars #star wars day #sw #sw fanart #star wars fanart #luke skywalker #leia organa #han solo #c3po #r2d2 #chewbecca #digital art #art #fanart #fan art #my art

[wiiildflowerrr]

@Calum5SOS: Look what I'm wearing @twloha :) #pleasestayalive x

4 May 2013

To Write Love on Her Arms is a nonprofit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and invest directly into treatment and recovery.

#this day in 5sos history #5sos #5 seconds of summer #calum hood #calum 5sos #calum #twloha #charity #tw #tw suicide #mental illness #mental health #treatment #recovery #2013 #4 may #nonprofit #to write love on her arms

[mangozic]

archivist be upon ye

#relistening to tma again #i think the last time i’ve drawn anything related to it was like may 2020 #god it’s been a while #have been listening to the magnus protocol and my god it’s so good #but heres good old jonathan as a treat #the interest has been in deep slumber for the past 4/5 years only periodically coming back to life #i’m very normal about this podcast actually #on other note i also started a taz balance relisten #what’s up with me and revisiting my middle school fixations lately #anyways #if you’re still reading these tags i’m impressed i could never with my abysmal attention span #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus pod #jonathan sims #the archivist #tma jon #fanart #my art #digital art #illustration #doodle