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Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Brownie McGhee during the Blues and Gospel tour of England, 1964.

Geraldine Ferrar as Joan d'Arc.

The MAHA position is that if some illness they let run rampant kills you but you have any other disability or health condition you had it coming and it’s not their fault.

Rice University will soon grant free tuition to undergraduates whose families earn up to $200,000 a year, increasing the cap and easing access to the Houston institution for students beyond the middle-income range. bit.ly/4hKkP0O

Love drone footage of new builds in exurban Texas, gives me a very particular kind of dread to look at that is hard to replicate with other photos.

a $20 boot lasts a month but a $200 boot lasts 50 years but the company that makes the $200 boot got bought out by private equity and changed factories to the same one that makes the $20 boot so now it only lasts a year but another company bought the original factory and is selling boots for $400

A starry night walking home at the weekend reminded me of this fancy dress costume worn by Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1926, a dark sky chock full of beaded stars plus all of the sparkly accessories #HillwoodMuseum #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Dolores del Río used 1930s tailoring to navigate Hollywood’s narrow casting limitations. By choosing masculine silhouettes over ruffled gowns, she was able to maintain her personal agency. #DoloresDelRio #Irene #FashionHistory #OldHollywood #PowerDressing #LatinaHeritage #FashionConservatory

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Archaic word of the day: guerdon - a reward, recompense, or requital (First recorded in 1325; Middle English 'werdoun'; Medieval Latin 'widerdonum') #englishlanguage #history #medievalsky

🧵Central to Ripon Cathedral is the magnificent Great East Window, a towering medieval masterpiece revived in the 18th century. The tracery dates to the 13th century and the glass was themed on the Trinity. The original glass was largely damaged in the civil war. In the 18th century it was

In 1911, Milano Films produced one of the first movie adaptations of The Odyssey

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Hmm... (The Dallas Morning News is a newspaper. The Dallas Express is a right wing website with one reporter, and the outlet is deeply intertwined with right wing advocacy)

Joan Jett — Michael Grecco, 1981

“When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly calm and cool; but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.” There are legions of guys on message boards and in people’s replies who need to have this hot-iron branded onto their asses.

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

North Texas continues to be one of the hotbeds of American fascism

Posting this image just so people can steal it and use it with gleeful abandon every time there is a White House press release

This colourful lithograph, Yorkshire Coast, British Railways (North Eastern Region), by John Bee, c.1950. captures the picturesque fishing village of Staithes. Boats rest on Roxby Beck, and cottages cluster beneath the surrounding cliffs, showcasing the vintage charm of the Yorkshire coast.

Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.

Anytime a black person starts a response with "WHALE...", be prepared to be served with the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We gon' give it to you straight up.