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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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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the expression "go girl give us nothing" is very funny if you imagine you live in Elizabethan England
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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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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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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).
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?
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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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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Yesterday, I got to hold Abraham Lincoln's autopsy report. I love archives!
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sophia loren at the venice film festival, 1955 via mubi
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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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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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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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