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Bojan Jevtic - Support

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I cut the cake on my baby gender reveal party and the m&m’s are black. “It’s a goth!” we shout in unison. My family is sobbing. Morticia Addams is there,

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In 1847, Elizabeth Blackwell wanted to go to medical school. Never mind that at the time women simply did not get medical degrees. The 26-year-old hadn’t planned to grow up to become a physician—rather, her interest in medicine was sparked by a personal encounter. A dying female friend remarked to Blackwell that her trials would have been made easier had there been a female doctor to care for her. The comment struck a chord.

Drawn by a challenge, she decided to pursue a medical degree and, after studying for a year under several physician friends, made her attempt.

She applied to 12 schools along the Northeast, in addition to every medical program available in New York and Philadelphia. In the end, only Dean Charles Lee of Geneva Medical College in western New York gave her application any real consideration—sort of. PBS’s Howard Markel explains:

Dean Lee and his all male faculty were more than hesitant to make such a bold move as accepting a woman student. Consequently, Dr. Lee decided to put the matter up to a vote among the 150 men who made up the medical school’s student body. If one student voted “No,” Lee explained, Miss Blackwell would be barred from admission.

Apparently, the students thought the request was little more than a silly joke and voted unanimously to let her in; they were surprised, to say the least, when she arrived at the school ready to learn how to heal.

And learn she did. Undeterred by her classmates’ and professors’ sometimes open animosity, Blackwell received her medical degree on January 23, 1849. She went on to study obstetrics and pediatrics in Europe before returning to the United States to start her own practice in New York City.

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It’s only forever, not long at all.

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David Bowie in Labyrinth (1986)

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          𝐼 𝓂𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓃𝑜 𝑜𝓃𝑒

                          David Bowie                             1947-2016

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A sculpture is Russia called The Motherland Calls. It represents the call for Russians to defend their homeland from invaders and commemorates the Battle of Stalingrad.

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How lovely is the silence of growing things. This photo is by Kristina Perea.

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A panorama fail that makes this girl appear to have evolved the hind legs of a large dog.

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Times Square, NYC. Photographer: http://andrewthomasnyc.com/product/76/. I thought this was breathtaking. 

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Walls of Writing

A mysterious author somewhere in Chongqing, central China has written an entire story on the walls of this abandoned house. The story is about a Kung-Fu super-hero and his adventure. No one knows who or where the author of this story is. 

He describes the super-hero in one line as: “I was 17… I have reactions like lightning, hearing like a bat, my vision is like a hawk, and I am as strong as a general.” -[X]