#Anniversary History

[streetsofsalem]

Salem and the Boston Tea Party

I’m excited about this weekend’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party: while the regional Revolution 250 initiative has been geared up for some time, I think that the countdown to the semiquincentennial of the beginning of the American Revolution will really intensify now. 2026 is going to be an interesting year in Salem, with both the 400th anniversary of its European…

[delappdesignsbyl]

Anniversary Jewelry Gifting History (& Ideas!)

The best anniversary gifts don’t have to be expensive or extravagant, but they should be meaningful. Wow, your partner with a heartfelt present that has a hidden message that only the two of you share. Or surprise your Mom and Dad or another couple with a gift they’ll remember and cherish for many years! Or, if you’ve totally forgotten/left gifting to the last minute, allow me to help you…

[nerdycartoongal]

Today is the only day you can repost this

On this day exactly 12 years ago, Gravity Falls premiered on television.

Happy 12th anniversary to one of the greatest cartoons of all time! 🎉🥳❤️

[newfoundland-official]

Happy Ides of March everyone!

It is now the 2068th anniversary of Caeser's death. Yippee!!

[guinevereslancelot]

[dekariosclan]

*Gale and Tav, sitting together on their balcony in Waterdeep, watching the night sky reflect on the water.*

Gale, kissing Tav and whispering in their ear: Happy one year anniversary, my love. The happiest year of my life—and yours too, I hope?

Tav, squeezing his hand tightly: It’s been everything I’ve ever hoped for. I simply couldn’t ask for anything m—*pointing* Oh! *sitting up straight* Look, fireworks!

Gale: Indeed! What serendipitous timing.

Tara, suddenly yelling from the inner room: MISTER DEKARIOS! *flying in, looking aghast* Sir! Did you do this?! We spoke about this! After the Waukeentide debacle I assured the city council you would not be doing any more rogue illusory magic!

Tav: Tara, it’s fine! Gale didn’t orchestrate this, it’s just a happy coincidence!

*Gale, Tav and Tara watching as the fireworks spell out: I Love You More Than The Stars, Tav! Happy Anniversary From Your Loving Husband, Gale Dekarios.*

Tav and Tara: …

Gale: …

Gale: Who could have done such a thing

[folklorespring]

One year ago russia blew up the Nova Kakhovka Dam.

[cookiewishesyou]

On this 22nd of September, 2024, Cookie wishes you a happy 525th anniversary of the Treaty of Basel (1499), ending the Swabian War!

[raayllum]

Happy 6 year anniversary The Dragon Prince!

[firelise]

Alfre Woodard on Crooklyn (1994) for R29:

“To my knowledge, we hadn’t seen a Black family that was just presented as we are in life, as human beings,” Woodard said. “I get told in Belgium by white Belgians ‘I love Crooklyn, it reminds me of growing up.’ Which is what happens when you tell a story from a specific point of view, you don’t have to mention race. You didn’t get up this morning like ‘I’m a black woman that wants a cup of coffee.’ You just want a cup of coffee. It was us as we are. Just us being fabulous, complex, funny, delightful, and making ends meet. And seeing, even within that story, that we’re not monolithic...The specificity is what makes it universal. Diversity is not the point; showing reality is the point.”

[tippenfunkaport]

As Tumblr celebrates 10 years since DashCon, I thought I'd remind you all that ND Stevenson was there, had to moderate his own panel when the moderator didn't show up and ended up crashing on a sofabed in the Nightvale crew's airbnb.

(reminder that ND Stevenson has since transitioned, screenshots and articles below include his old name and pronouns)

ND has since deleted his tweets about it, but they are archived in some articles about it so here are tidbits and lore...

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this tumblr post gives the context for that and why it's funny but the gist is: nightvale star + nightvale writer + ND Stevenson all making fun of dashcon

But the real question is, did he get an extra hour in the ball pit? 🤔

[streetsofsalem]

A Big Salem History Project, 1952!

I receive gifts from readers of the blog from time to time and they are all very special and much appreciated. A reader sent me a slim, illustrated and bound History of Salem prepared by a “committee of students and teachers of the Salem Public School System” in 1952 several years ago, and I was immediately charmed by it but not quite inspired to post about it. But yesterday I woke up and it was…

[bantarleton]

To commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, a short thread of photos colourised by DBColour (Colourising History on Facebook). Descriptions run from top-to-bottom.

Piper Bill Millin, seen here landing on Sword Beach with his bagpipes with Lord Lovat’s Commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade. IWM B 5103.

Commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade after landing on Queen Red beach, Sword area, 6 June 1944. British Airborne troops smile from the door of their Horsa glider as they prepare to fly out as part of the second drop on Normandy on the night of 6th June 1944. LCI(L) 135 of the 2nd Canadian (262nd RN) Flotilla carrying personnel of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders and the Highland Light Infantry of Canada en route to France on D-Day, 6 June 1944. (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN Nº. 3205043) Film still from the D-Day landings showing commandos aboard a landing craft on their approach to Sword Beach, 6 June 1944.

LCA (Landing Craft Assault) containing soldiers from the Winnipeg Rifles head for the Normandy Juno beach - June 6, 1944.

Commandos approach Sword Beach in a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI). Ahead, the beach is crowded with tanks and vehicles of 27th Armoured Brigade and 79th Armoured Division.

Troops of 3rd Infantry Division on Queen Red beach, Sword area, circa 0845 hrs, 6 June 1944. In the foreground are sappers of 84 Field Company Royal Engineers. Behind them, medical orderlies of 8 Field Ambulance, RAMC, can be seen assisting wounded men.

A Horsa glider near the Caen Canal bridge at Benouville, 8 June 1944. No. 91 (PF800), carried Major John Howard and Lieutenant Den Brotheridge of No.1 Platoon, 'D' Co., 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in the early hours of D-Day. © IWM B 5232

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

" I had it bad. The empty camera trembled in my hands. It was a new kind of fear shaking my body from toe to hair, and twisting my face. Remembrance of landing on Omaha Beach, D-Day. "

- Robert Capa

📷 Robert Capa

[saddayfordemocracy]

35 years of Tiananmen.

35 years since the Chinese government has wanted to erase this bloody repression from its history.

35 years later, the commemoration of Tiananmen remains BANNED in China and Hong Kong.

[larachelledrawsfe]

A very, very late FE anniversary scribble.