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wildspringday · 4 months
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eartha kitt by paul harris, 1982 via retrokingdanny
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slimegargoyle · 3 months
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scream I'm reviewing my old texts with ash for immigration purposes and have arrived at january 6th, 2021. it's been lost to time now but apparently right before the attempted coup began, the trending topic of the day was about kanye allegedly cheating on kim with jeffree star.
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ladybugsimblr · 9 months
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Richards' Residence Cavalier Cove, Brindleton Bay
a few decorating posts: x x x x (nothing on the new house since brooklyn hired a different designer 😉)
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3rdmissingsock · 2 years
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Museum Trip!
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morhath · 11 months
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the expression "go girl give us nothing" is very funny if you imagine you live in Elizabethan England
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delgrosso · 1 year
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Why We Give Thanks
On this day, in 1492, Pilgrims and Indigenous Americans banded together to drive the Germans back across the Rhine, allowing General Washington’s Jedi forces time to rescue Queen Peach from the castle at Hogwarts.
Now, we feast.
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brightlotusmoon · 1 year
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This is real.
https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/april-fools-day
In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1. 
People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were called “April fools.” These pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.
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mollyscribbles · 6 months
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The first Teddy Bear is not what we think
Went down an internet rabbit hole when looking into the history of the stuffed animal. Found an interesting line in the Wikipedia page for Mararete Steiff:
In 1877, Margarete opened a felt store and began making felt underskirts, which had just become fashionable, for the firm of Christian Siegle in Stuttgart. She was soon able to employ people to work for her and it became a thriving business. Margarete commented: "At this time I came across a pattern for a toy elephant. Felt was the ideal material for this toy and the filling would be of the finest lambswool. Now I could make these as gifts for the children in the family and I tried out the patterns in various sizes".[8] In 1879, the American magazine The Delineator published a pattern for a cloth mouse, rabbit, elephant, and other animal patterns followed. The German magazine Modenwelt then reproduced these patterns.
Which then left me wondering about the magazine that published the patterns. This being the internet, I found the pattern, dated December 1878 (well, an advertisement for the pattern).
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Which then brings us to the teddy bear. Now, the jointed bear that became known as the Teddy Bear was developed around 1903 by either Steiff or Michtom, possibly both at once. Steiff had made other bear toys between 1897 and 1899.
But what did I find in the Delineator in 1884?
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in conclusion, pattern makers deserve a bit more credit than they get for things like this. The magazine gives no indication of who designed the pattern and I feel like if I do more research on the topic I'll end up wanting to write a book on the history of the stuffed animal and I do not have enough follow-through on projects to consider that.
So let's just take a moment to reflect on the 19th century's unknown version of CholyKnight.
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squigglebitch · 5 months
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I am sitting on the sofa.
I look down; Dabi is a todoroki.
I look up; Georgia went Democrat.
I look down; Cas confesses his love to Dean and goes to superhell.
I look up; Putin might be resigning.
I look down; Sherlock season 5??
I look up; Nevada is still being counted
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redrikki · 1 year
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Yesterday, I got to hold Abraham Lincoln's autopsy report. I love archives!
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pansyfemme · 1 year
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genuinly i support anyones ideas of what a femme/fem is bc it means different things to everyone but. the only tiktoker who insisted that femme as an identity only exists as a counterpoint to a butch in a relationship because they go by 'historical definintions' and then in the same breath said that bi women cant identify as butch/femme because the communities are so different. pick one history to follow please
#history!#turning off rbs bc like. i hate it when my posts I don't mean to spread when I'm just venting#but like. for me. i can acknowledge that aligning with the original definition of a term is a way of accepting queer history#but i can also accept that those same terms have evolved and in pretty much every decade from its coining femme has had a different#definition. the femme definintion i feel closest to was how it was used by gay men in the 80s/90s to reclaim the idea of being a visibly#queer man as not a weakness or something to be ashamed of and to fight against masc4masc only gay cultures.#that's also a historical defnition with a significant history.#i acknowledge that not everyone might consider me a femme in their definition and feeling of the term.#but i know how it works for me and how it was used before I was even born#people often just say 'thats history!' and fail to acknowledge any growth or change in language since the coining of the word#people still yell about how queer is historically a slur and ignore that its also historically an empowering statement and a name of a#movement. faggot is a degrading slur. it's also an identity that people have used for a long time at this point. those statements can co#exist. what doesnt make sense is speaking for people as a whole and failing to understand that people have different ways of experiencing#queerness. the first definition isnt the one everyone uses and neither is the current. you can't just say and run away when#you're blatently leaving out facts that are also historical. language changes all of the time. its changing right this second. we don't#have to abandon the old meanings of worlds but also we need to consider the cultural impact and how those meanings have changed and accept#that some people will always be queer in a way you don't like and you can't really change that.
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wildspringday · 7 months
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sophia loren at the venice film festival, 1955 via mubi
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jwood718 · 1 year
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Associated Press via The Guardian
“After more than half a century of production, the last Boeing 747 has rolled out of a US factory in Washington state...
It took more than 50,000 Boeing employees 16 months to churn out the first 747. The company has completed 1,573 more since then.”
more
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hadescavedish · 2 years
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I'm obsessed with the show bc I'm a damn nerd. :(
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People used to comment on web comics.
People used to comment on fanfiction.
People used to comment on fanart.
People used to comment on OCs.
I hate "content" culture.
I hate "consuming content" and scrolling immediately to the next thing.
People used to be excited about the art that other people created.
People used to want to share that excitement with creators.
I hate this future.
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morhath · 1 year
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do you ever think about how homoerotic it must've been to have your friend draw your stocking lines on for you in the 1940s
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