#founding

[illustratus]

Romulus and Remus by Joseph Binder

#romulus #remus #art #roman mythology #ancient rome #ancient romans #rome #roman #romans #founding #wolf #lupa #faustulus #sheperd #history #mythology #mythological #europe #european #antiquity #kingdom #twins #twin brothers #brothers #joseph binder #lupercal #she wolf #river tiber #lupa capitolina #capitoline

[spockvarietyhour]

Their couple's energy is insane.

#The Regime #Founding #Founding (episode) #Elena Vernham #Chancellor Elena Vernham #Herbert Zubak #Danny watches The Regime

[quotelr]

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Rodney Dangerfield

#Rodney Dangerfield #Parent #founding #kid #lot #parenting #Funny #For Parents #quotes #life quotes #quotelr #literature #authorquotes #author quotes #lit #poetry #prose #spilled ink

[burninggiantzipper]

Madara at karaoke would loudly, obnoxiously sing Bad Romance while looking Hashirama dead in the eye, stone cold sober. Hashirama would be totally oblivious and cheer his best friend on while Tobirama reaches unheard of levels of disgust as he turns several shades of green.

#naruto time 😎 #me #naruto #founding #hashirama senju #naruto shippuden #madara uchiha #tobirama senju #izuna uchiha #senju #Uchiha #konoha #what is wrong with those grandpas #hashirama is so dense wtf 😭 #hashimada #madahashi #what is the ship name #leaf village

[jlilycorbie]

I have come into guardianship of a tiny abandoned kitten. She lost all her litter mates, briefly had her mother's care, but then she went missing in a hoarded room. Her mother disappeared never to return, and after being presumed dead for a day and a half, a dog found her and returned her to her original finder. Still alive, still without her eyes open.

Here she is just before her disappearance.

She made it through that first difficult week and opened her eyes.

Literally hours after I took that picture with her, one of her eyes sealed shut from infection.

This ridiculous baby would not be deterred. She wants to go on adventures so badly. She managed to travel alone through a hoarded room for a day and a half while she was still deaf and blind. A little infection wasn't going to stop her.

A few days later, she woke up, opened both eyes, and decided to be a menace.

On Monday, I picked her up and took her to the vet. There isn't much you can do with such a tiny kitten. The vet tech checked with the vet about testing for parasites. They were outside of the exam room, but I heard a very tired vet respond, "I'm not going to violate a kitten."

She gave me ointment for her eyes and assured me it should be safe to have her around my adult cat at this point, so she came home with me to find out if Laszlo would let me keep her.

Laszlo is not impressed with this interloper, and he hasn't been shy about vocalizing his displeasure.

However, he hasn't been directly aggressive. He lets me talk him down, soothe him, pet him, and give him treats. He's a very good boy, and I think we'll be able to make this work.

I was never concerned about how Rhapsody would feel about all this. She loves kitties, though she isn't quite sure what to do with one so much smaller than her.

She's not getting run of the house yet, not until Laszlo adjusts and accepts, but since she wants to roam so badly, I let her have supervised time on the open futon, which is more or less neutral ground.

She found a cave bed I purchased years ago for other animals, and none of them ever cared for it. It's her safe space now.

Since it looks like I'm keeping her, I need to decide on a name. The top contenders are Astrid and Sonata.

She's finally becoming less baby and more herself, and so far she's adventurous and fearless. She loves food and isn't shy about demanding it. She's got a big purr, and she loves pets and cuddles, but doesn't much care for laps.

I love her.

#kitten #new kitten #introducing the new baby #founding

[ll10x]

Happy saudi founding day 🇸🇦.

#يوم التأسيس #المملكة العربية السعودية #saudi arabia #founding #good day #🇸🇦 #السعودية #يوم التأسيس السعودية 🇸🇦

[ukdamo]

Villanelle for an Anniversary

Seamus Heaney

A spirit moved. John Harvard walked the yard, The atom lay unsplit, the west unwon, The books stood open and the gates unbarred.

The maps dreamt on like moondust. Nothing stirred. The future was a verb in hibernation. A spirit moved, John Harvard walked the yard.

Before the classic style, before the clapboard, All through the small hours of an origin, The books stood open and the gate unbarred.

Night passage of a migratory bird. Wingflap. Gownflap. Like a homing pigeon A spirit moved, John Harvard walked the yard.

Was that his soul (look) sped to its reward By grace or works? A shooting star? An omen? The books stood open and the gate unbarred.

Begin again where frosts and tests were hard. Find yourself or founder. Here, imagine A spirit moves, John Harvard walks the yard, The books stand open and the gates unbarred.

#university #john harvard #harvard #massachussetts #seamus heaney #poetry #anniversary #founding

[gpscomputertechnology]

#coding #affiliatemarketing #founding #python #startup #html #programming #seo #Youtube

[sirvivalism]

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt (the Younger), Speech in the House of Commons, November 18, 1783

Embarrassing is what I'd call watching the USA give up a right that other countries sport without the ramifications our borderline dystopian society causes by stacking trauma and delusion on the shoulders of our youth. Pathetic is what I'd call focusing millions of civillian dollars on ensuring the ability to confiscate not just a citizen's property, but their last line of self defense against starvation, predators, criminals, and the government without any proof beyond hearsay.

For twenty years I've met on the common ground of national tragedy and endured the blind rants of hundreds if not thousands of misinformed, well-intending, terrified gun control advocates. But now, as it happens in my own community, after watching the people these idiots would leave as our only line of defense concoct an absolute nightmare of incompetence in my own backyard... I really couldn't fathom how this was happening if I didn't know better; if I wasn't so sure that both sides of this supposed fight didn't water at the same trough and wish for the same power over their perceived lessers.

If you think a Republican is going to save you, if you think the NRA cares; if you think you'll ever be voting for anything but their collective convoluted brand of slow rolled oppression, look back in all those old documents you treasure written by all those founding fathers you adore and realize you're just... wrong. They are all against you. They all want you helpless. You are cattle.

"On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823

"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, son-in-law of John Adams, December 20, 1787

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

"To disarm the people...[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them." - George Mason, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops." - Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787

"A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves…and include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms… To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." - Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun." - Patrick Henry, Speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778

"This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty.... The right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction." - St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, 1803

"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance ofpower is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside. And while a single nation refuses to lay them down, it is proper that all should keep them up. Horrid mischief would ensue were one-half the world deprived of the use of them; for while avarice and ambition have a place in the heart of man, the weak will become a prey to the strong. The history of every age and nation establishes these truths, and facts need but little arguments when they prove themselves." - Thomas Paine, "Thoughts on Defensive War" in Pennsylvania Magazine, July 1775

"The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." - Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788

"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them." - Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 1833

"[I]f circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights and those of their fellow-citizens. This appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist." - Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28, January 10, 1788

And let's not forget:

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country." - James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789

#gunblr #2a #firearms #rights #freedom #founding #fathers #quotes #that #are #hard #to #misinterprrt

[shakespearenews]

Local businessman W. Arthur Jones opened the Fluffy Bundle in 1959, and a young Fred C. Adams and his financée Barbara Gaddie were doing their laundry there in the spring of 1960 when the idea of a Shakespeare festival was born. At this time, Fred was the only drama professor at what was then the College of Southern Utah.

“Notes written on a yellow notepad while waiting for their clothes to dry would become the blueprint for the Utah Shakespeare Festival,” the plaque reads. “Little did [Fred and Barbara] know that those notes would drastically change their lives and help shape the future of this community.”

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #utah shakespeare festival #founding #company #founders #the fluffy bundle #theater history #historical markers #utah #laundromat #laundry

[globalcourant]

Depeche Mode: Andy Fletcher, keyboardist and founding member of 80s pop group, dies aged 60 | Ents & Arts News

Depeche Mode: Andy Fletcher, keyboardist and founding member of 80s pop group, dies aged 60 | Ents & Arts News

Andy Fletcher, keyboardist and founding member of Depeche Mode, has died aged 60. The band revealed the data in a social media submit and wrote: “We are shocked and stuffed with overwhelming unhappiness with the premature passing of our costly buddy, member of the family and bandmate. “Fletch had an precise coronary coronary coronary heart of gold and was frequently there everytime you wanted…

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#80s #aged #Andy #Arts #Depeche #dies #Ents #Fletcher #founding #group #keyboardist #member #Mode #News #pop

[illustratus]

The Rape of the Sabine Women by Sebastiano Ricci

#ancient rome #roman mythology #roman #sabine #founding #rome #art #sebastiano ricci #romans #sabines #romulus #foundation #roman kingdom #roman republic #history #antiquity #europe #european #mythology #ancient

[katabasiss]

do you guys think jesus, the son of a carpenter, smelt the wood of the cross & temporarily thought of home

#omg found this in my drafts from nov but like. for real

[quotelr]

But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.

Pablo Neruda

#Pablo Neruda #Love #Water #earth #founding #walk #walking #wind #quotes #life quotes #quotelr #literature #authorquotes #author quotes #lit #poetry #prose #spilled ink

[ruhua-langblr]

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

#EDIT: Added a great resource for ESL and African languages that weren't found elsewhere #I do NOT recommend memrise and will talk about it another day but #langblr #duolingo #duo #language learning #language learning apps #mandarinblr #resource #reference

[midnights-dragon]

#found this gem on twitter #ao3 #archive of our own #ao3 memes #ao3 writer #fanfic #fanfiction