#roger williams

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[necrosary]

HAS ANYBODY ELSE READ THIS FUCKINGN BOOK

[franziskas-book-club]

I’m Franziska, and I really like to read. Consider following me/liking/rebloging this post if you also like books (I will probably follow you back).

I will mostly be posting quotes from whatever I’m reading, but I may also rant about literature from time to time.

Some of my favorite works are:

Desert Solitaire (Edward Abbey)

Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)

The Monkey Wrench Gang (Edward Abbey)

Dune (Frank Herbert)

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (JRR Tolkien)

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (Roger Williams)

Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)

Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)

Current Reads: Dune Messiah (Frank Herbert)

Goodreads

[motherwytch]

Another video from yesterday of myself and others giving an adorable crow donations for the zoo. She was such a good girl 🥰

[hit-song-showdown]

Year-End Poll #6: 1955

The sound of a decade does not change the minute the ball drops on New Year's Eve. With the benefit of hindsight, it's easier to form these cultural shifts into a narrative, even when said shifts aren't always obvious. 1955 offers us the music we've grown accustomed to over the course of this decade: traditional pop, vocal quartets, jazz standards. However, this year also gives me an opportunity to highlight some different genres that will come to shape the decade in the years to come.

The post-war 1950s saw a boom in popularity when it came to music from South and Central America. We saw this before with the inclusion of other Spanish language songs reaching the Top 30, but artists like Pérez Prado and later Ritchie Valens helped to popularize Latin music in the States. Pérez Prado is, of course, known for popularizing mambo, a Cuban genre of dance music, by incorporating big band influence. The Prado song featured on this poll is not mambo, but rather one of its descendants, cha-cha.

In 1955 year-end chart, we're seeing the first traces of a genre of music that will help define the decade's sound: rock and roll. With the inclusion of Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock, we're seeing the first rock and roll song to top the Billboard charts. Obviously, rock and roll has existed long before Bill Haley and Pat Boone reached the top 10. Unfortunately, like many other historically Black genres, white faces typically sold better with mainstream audiences. Is this the last we'll see of record executives using white performers to market Black music to white audiences?

Foreshadowing is a literary device--

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perler bead dudes :)

left is link, middle is roger williams, and right is voltaire

roger's base is vaguely rhode island-shaped

[oldshowbiz]

but where does your forehead come from

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NH #141 - The "Roger Williams" - New York, New Haven & Hartford RR         The 1956 Budd built Roger Williams DMU train labeled the "Roger Williams" at the Bridgeport, CT, station. Each of the power cars was equipped with 3rd rail shoe to run into Grand Central Terminal. The entire group of cars was retired in 1980's. The two end cars & one passenger car is now in private ownership at Hobo RR in Lincoln, NH. 2/17/1958

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Fury on Four Wheels Roger Williams 2015

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Successful solo zoo outing!

[motherwytch]

Red Wolf

The Fam and I visited the Roger Williams Park Zoo today and I got some lovely shots of my most favorite animal that they have.

This beautiful girl is Saluda, and she is one-half of the mating pair that resides at RWZ.

The red wolf is the most endangered wolf species on the planet. There is only an estimated 20 left living on protected land in the wild, and approximately 240 in captivity within breeding programs like the one in place at RWZ.

I've always felt especially connected to Wolves, and it saddens me to know that they are in danger of dying out.

RWZ is my family's favorite zoo, and we purchase a membership every year, something I intend to continue doing for the foreseeable future so I can see all of Saluda's future puppies ❤️

[hobbitingryffindor]

This church just told people to STFU and I love it! I love when my state’s church gets sassy 

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Roger William’s stance in the photo you sent me in my questions… it’s very fruity and dare I say TWINKISH

HSHHHSHDJKSBC 😭😭😭

i hope u know i'm absolutely losing it over this fshfjjd