#2 august

[dracula-dictionary]

Dracula Dictionary, August 2nd

port: porthole, window on a ship

Straits of Dover: the narrowest part of the English Channel

North Foreland: part of England close to the English Channel that sticks out into the Nort Sea

North Sea: the sea between Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, and Norway

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Harlem Riot of 1943

On August 1, 1943, a White patrol officer arrested a Black woman in Harlem for disturbing the peace. A Black soldier named Robert Bandy protested. The cop said that Bandy hit him, then tried to flee. Bandy said the cop had thrown his nightstick at him and, when he hesitated to return it, shot him. He received a superficial wound in his shoulder.

Pfc. Robert Bandy, a military policeman, in the prison ward of Sydenham Hospital, where he was taken after he was shot in the shoulder by Officer James Collins.

Rumor spread that Bandy had been killed, and the crowd outside the police station became violent. The riot lasted for two days and involved vandalism, looting, and the destruction of White-owned businesses in Harlem.

Smoke billows from an unoccupied automobile that was set on fire during the morning of August 2, 1943, after a night of destruction and looting.

Mayor LaGuardia met with Black leaders and went with them to Harlem, trying to scotch the rumor. He also made radio appeals to Harlem residents, urging them to return home.

Order was eventually restored after the mayor brought in thousands of police and civilian volunteers, but the damage was estimated at between $250,000 and $5 million ($4.4 million to $88 million in today's dollars). Six people died and over 700 were injured.

Policemen and volunteers recruited from all over the city wait outside the 123rd St. station house on August 2 for orders to help restore peace.

The riot died down by the night of August 2. It took the Department of Sanitation three days to clean up the neighborhood. LaGuardia had food delivered to Harlem residents and the Red Cross added some more. Because this was wartime, food was rationed and scarce.

August 2 was also James Baldwin's 19th birthday and the day of his father's funeral. "It seemed to me," Baldwin later wrote, "that God himself had devised, to mark my father's end, the most sustained and brutally dissonant of codas."

All photos from the Associated Press; bottom photo by Harry Harris.

[fuckthispost-andhappybirthday]

August 02: Happy Birthday Draco Centauros (Puyo Puyo)!!!!

[nctzzzenn]

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 2 August:

1800 – The last session of the Irish parliament ends. 1820 – John Tyndall, physicist, and first to discover why the sky is blue, is born in Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow. 1916 – Letter from Roger Casement to Margaret Gavan Duffy. 1920 – The Restoration of Order in Ireland Bill was introduced and first read in the House of Commons. The Government used cloture to limit the debate. 1920 – A gun battle…

[dateinthelife]

2 August 1967

George and Pattie Harrison (along with Neil Aspinall and Alex Mardas) have dinner with Ravi Shankar in Los Angeles.

[disneychannelhistory]

Today in Disney Channel History...

Kim Possible season 1, episode 9 “Attack of the Killer Bebes” premiered on Disney Channel (2 August, 2002)

[rhokel]

MAJ Phillip LaFrance Willis

born #OTD 2 August 1918, Major Willis was not only a Pearl Harbor survivor, but he and his entire family, were eyewitnesses to the assassination of President Kennedy. Major Willis was a Kennedy supporter and had come prepared with his new 35mm Argus camera, hoping to get some good photos of his beloved President Kennedy, and LBJ, whom he personally knew. In all he captured 13 excellent color slides, before, during and after the assassination, later known as the "Willis Photos". Willis later gave a statement to the FBI, and testified to the Warren Commission on July 22, 1964

Photo by Linda #48291572

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9984863/phillip-lafrance-willis

[rabbitcruiser]

Dinosaurs Day

Today we celebrate those large, extinct reptiles: dinosaurs. Scientists believe they first appeared about 245 million years ago, at the beginning of the Middle Triassic Epoch, and existed for about 180 million years, going extinct about 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period. The period when they lived is called the Mesozoic Era. During this time they went through many changes, and various species of dinosaurs replaced other species. Some dinosaurs were bipedal, meaning they walked on two legs, and some were quadrupedal, meaning they walked on all fours. Some switched back and forth. Some were covered with feathers, while others had what was almost like body armor. Some ran fast, and others were slow; most were herbivores, but some were carnivores. There were at least 700 species of dinosaurs, and possibly more than 1,000.

There were big biotic changes at the end of the Cretaceous Period, and many other animals and plants died at that time as well. There are many theories as to why dinosaurs died out, including disease, heat waves, cold spells, changing sea levels, large amounts of volcanic activity, the emergence of egg-eating mammals, or from X-rays from an exploding supernova. One other common theory is that an asteroid smashed to earth, spread ash widely, and shifted the earth's climate. However, it is not believed that all dinosaurs died out at the same time. Rather, it is believed they had been declining during the last part of the Cretaceous Period. Scientists also believe that some dinosaurs may have evolved into birds.

Richard Owen, an English anatomist, came up with the word "Dinosauria" in 1842. The word comes from the Greek word "deinos," meaning terrible or fearfully great, and "sauros," meaning reptile or lizard. He applied the term to three animals whose fossilized bones had been found over the previous few decades. The remains came from reptiles that were both larger and had more vertebrae than any found before. The earliest known published record of dinosaur remains was in 1820, and many fossils were found in the 1820s and 1830s. Many other kinds of dinosaurs were found in the years following the 1842 naming as well. Fossils of dinosaurs have now been found on all seven continents.

How to Observe Dinosaurs Day

The best way to celebrate the day is to visit a museum or other dinosaur-related attraction, where fossils or bones may be viewed. You could also watch a documentary about dinosaurs or a film that features dinosaurs, such as Jurassic Park. If you have children, there are many dinosaur-related activities they could do today.

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[fieriframes]

[NO, SHE WON'T. ORDER UP. MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ON 2 AUGUST 1943, OF HEART FAILURE, SHE'S STILL RUNNIN' A CLASSIC SOUTHERN TEA ROOM]

[that-ineffable-devil]

Did Crowley really not know he was in love with Aziraphale, or did he not realize other people could see it?

Did Crowley really not know he was in love with Aziraphale, or did he not recognize that Aziraphale loved him back?

Did Crowley really not know he was in love with Aziraphale, or did he just not recognize the very human way they love each other?

[shadowednavi]

it's been awhile since I've worked on this project! I've had this verse finished for months but didn't want to post it on its own, and instead wait until the whole thing is strung together to show the final result all at once. But I'm tired of holding onto it, so here is one section of my deltarune animation! My art tag has other clips if anyone is interested in seeing more~

(song: "The Hymn of Axciom" by Vienna Teng)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Arthur Murray and Louise Brooks (no, not that one) demonstrate his new "Recovery Dance" on August 2, 1933. In this step, they're doing a slow left turn to demonstrate prosperity rounding the corner. Murray dedicated it to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Photo: Associated Press

[fuckthispost-andhappybirthday]

August 02: Happy Birthday Rosemary "Rose" Winters (Resident Evil)!!!!

She was born in 2020, which would make her 3 years old today!

[takisyak]

Hands

Due to not knowing each other's language, August and Misha could communicate using their hands. They could show gestures, depict something using shadows

In the first picture August told about his nightmare, where a brown bear attacked him in a snowy forest

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 2 August:

#OTD in Irish History | 2 August:

1800 – The last session of the Irish parliament ends. 1820 – John Tyndall, physicist, and first to discover why the sky is blue, is born in Leighlinbridge, Co Carlow. 1916 – Letter from Roger Casement to Margaret Gavan Duffy. 1920 – The Restoration of Order in Ireland Bill was introduced and first read in the House of Commons. The Government used cloture to limit the debate. 1920 – A gun battle…