#historic moments

[magnificent-nerd]

June 19 is Juneteenth

From Vox: " A portmanteau of “June” and “nineteenth,” Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when a group of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally learned that they were free from the institution of slavery.

"But, woefully, this was almost two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

"As much as Juneteenth represents freedom, it also represents how emancipation was tragically delayed for enslaved people in the deepest reaches of the Confederacy. "

Read more on Juneteenth from the National Museum of African American History:

[grandmaster-anne]

Queen Elizabeth Speaks to The Nation as World War II Begins She addresses the public in an effort to comfort the families who have been separated by the war due to total evacuation of children and the departure of men to the front.

Video footage from the War Archives

[muttball]

Central Pacific No. 60 Locomotive

The Jupiter was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive owned by the Central Pacific Railroad. It made history when it joined the Union Pacific No. 119 at Promontory Summit, Utah, during the Golden Spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the First transcontinental railroad in 1869.

[forecast0ctopus]

happy 57th anniversary to spock and kirk writhing in the sand

[royaltea000]

he could not control the class 😔

[americanacowgirl]

Kendrick Lamar imitating Drake in “Hotline Bling” after the crowd at The Pop Out: Ken & Friends screamed “a minor” while he performed “Not Like Us”

[justshipsandstuff]

Started reading the light novels for the Jinmao, but stayed for the shenanigans (volume 10-11 were Great!)

I pray for the day we know your name, Lahan’s brother. Your ordinary swag and your expert farming knowledge have captured the heart of regular peasants

[zevexsii]

thank u guys so much <333

[kitconnor]

RACHEL MCADAMS as REGINA GEORGE Mean Girls (2004) Dir. Mark Waters

[wejustvibing]

wearing his chamley-watson hoodie 🥹🫶🏾

[telogreika]

Space Race

[dreamingamongthestars]

SPRINT QUALI 1-2 ON INCHIDENTIVERSARY?!?!?! IKTR

Happy inchidentiversary to all who celebrate 🥰🥰🥰

[grandmaster-anne]

1958: Queen Dials Edinburgh Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh in the new Bristol telephone exchange

[blueskittlesart]

link & zelda regency era fashion please i’m on my hands and knees begging

this might be the best ask ive ever recieved

[leohttbriar]

the aesthetic romanticism of this episode. the deep love for discovery. the decolonization allegory which is not so much a 1-to-1 allegory, so to speak, because sisko proving that ancient bajorans had not only the technology but the sheer Wonder and Curiosity to venture into space is a metaphor for speaking against any number of white supremacist "histories" deriving from imperialistic paradigms since the age of colonization---

to provide the counter-colonization narrative with a space-ship that sails on the impulse of photons (a very real and possible engineering for space-flight--like NASA is building ships like that) is wonderful. this story about the ancient people who thought to travel to space and push their spacecraft through space off the force of light, and then sisko proving to everyone not only its possibility but its historical fact, was sweet and interesting and full of feeling.

it's all as if to say: to engage whole-heartedly with an episteme of decolonization is to engage whole-heartedly with an episteme of curiosity and discovery and love for What Is.

[youwerethedefeated]

I'm not sorry actually