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  • #857018
    katzenjammer
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    I’d probably trip over the hula hoops at the relay! Think that I’ll stick to spin cycling.

    That tuxie phone is pawsome! I have just the purrfect place for it too! Although Dorry might think it’s his new BFF! 😉

    #857033
    Jeankit
    Participant

    International Women’s Day 03-08-17:
    womens day
    About International Women’s Day (8 March)
    International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

    International Women’s Day (IWD) has been observed since in the early 1900’s – a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. International Women’s Day is a collective day of global celebration and a call for gender parity. No one government, NGO, charity, corporation, academic institution, women’s network or media hub is solely responsible for International Women’s Day. Many organizations declare an annual IWD theme that supports their specific agenda or cause, and some of these are adopted more widely with relevance than others.

    “The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights,” says world-renowned feminist, journalist and social and political activist Gloria Steinem. Thus International Women’s Day is all about unity, celebration, reflection, advocacy and action – whatever that looks like globally at a local level. But one thing is for sure, International Women’s Day has been occurring for well over a century – and continue’s to grow from strength to strength
    Intl womens day

    #857054
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy 58th Birthday Barbie – you doll you 😉
    asstd barbie dolls
    Eleven inches tall, with a waterfall of blond hair, Barbie was the first mass-produced toy doll in the United States with adult features. The woman behind Barbie was Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel, Inc. with her husband in 1945. After seeing her young daughter ignore her baby dolls to play make-believe with paper dolls of adult women, Handler realized there was an important niche in the market for a toy that allowed little girls to imagine the future. 🙂

    #857177
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy Purrday to:
    Born today in 1733 painter Johann Zoffany.

    Below: Sophia Dumergue and her cat (1780).
    tuxie and artist

    Hmm…think this is Tuxie’s great great uncle/aunt kitteh with meowmy 😉

    #857182
    katzenjammer
    Participant

    I went to see the purrmanent and free Barbie exhibition. So awesome. Took like 53 pics, some of which I posted on TDK. Plan to re-visit at some point.

    Today’s featured pic features a hairstyle and kit (natch) which are sorta modern. The headgear not so much! 😉

    #857214
    Jeankit
    Participant

    einstein

    einstein vegetarian

    Happy Birthday Einstein!
    On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity drastically altered man’s view of the universe, and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics. Also special Vegetarian! 🙂

    #857306
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Today in History: (Christian Version)
    St Patrick Dies
    On this day in 461 A.D., Saint Patrick, Christian missionary, bishop and apostle of Ireland, dies at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland.

    St Patrick

    “The Voice of the Irish.” As he read it, Patrick seemed to hear the voices of Irishmen pleading him to return to their country and walk among them once more.
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    Alternative March 17th Celebraton:

    st patrick druid etc

    Saint Patrick, Druids, Snakes, and Popular Myths. Questions that the “snakes” St. Pat was said to have driven out of Ireland are a metaphor for pagans. Suggests a different approach for those offended by this celebration. For some who have no personal connection to St. Patrick actual work/history, celebrate 3/17 as “Green Man Day” and weave into that some connections with Irish family history.

    #857458
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Today’s Word of the Day: OK
    Ok history

    On this day in 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for “oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans.

    Im ok therapist thinks not lol
    I’m Ok – you’re Ok…Okey dokey 😉

    #857628
    Jeankit
    Participant

    03-30-1870
    15th Amendment adopted
    15TH Amendment
    Following its ratification by the requisite three-fourths of the states, the 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution. Passed by Congress the year before, the amendment reads, “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
    🙂
    One day after it was adopted, Thomas Peterson-Mundy of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, became the first African American to vote under the authority of the 15th Amendment.

    #857634
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Born today in 1746 painter Francisco José de Goya.

    Below: Goya portrait “Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuniga” (1788).

    goya purrday artist

    #857635
    lagatta4
    Participant

    I love both the staring cats and the wee posh boy with a name so much longer than he is.

    #857650
    Jeankit
    Participant

    March 38, 1889:
    Eiffel Tower opens
    Eiffel Tower France

    Eiffel, a noted bridge builder, was a master of metal construction and designed the framework of the Statue of Liberty that had recently been erected in New York Harbor.

    #857722
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Today in History 04-03-17
    Lighter Version:

    Hollywood
    1978
    Annie Hall beats out Star Wars for Best Picture

    Star Wars:
    https://www.youtube.com/user/starwars

    #857726
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    On this day in 1860, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Ten days later, on April 13, the westbound rider and mail packet completed the approximately 1,800-mile journey and arrived in Sacramento, beating the eastbound packet’s arrival in St. Joseph by two days and setting a new standard for speedy mail delivery.

    #857771
    Jeankit
    Participant

    In Special Remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr:
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dr-king-is-assassinated?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2017-0404-04042017&om_rid=092ba06f25256b856da3d3399af803a1669fe55b7ad30f1e84cd6d3fecceaefd&om_mid=167134303&kx_EmailCampaignID=10832&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2017-0404-04042017&kx_EmailRecipientID=092ba06f25256b856da3d3399af803a1669fe55b7ad30f1e84cd6d3fecceaefd
    Dr. MLK funeral 1968
    1968
    Dr. King is assassinated
    from article…On April 3, back in Memphis, King gave his last sermon, saying, “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop…And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.”

    #857915
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy 151st Anniversary to ASPCA Today!
    1866
    ASPCA is founded
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/aspca-is-founded

    On April 10, 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by philanthropist and diplomat Henry Bergh, 54.

    In 1863, Bergh had been appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to a diplomatic post at the Russian court of Czar Alexander II. It was there that he was horrified to witness work horses beaten by their peasant drivers. En route back to America, a June 1865 visit to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in London awakened his determination to secure a charter not only to incorporate the ASPCA but to exercise the power to arrest and prosecute violators of the law.

    #858032
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Today in History: April 14
    1912
    RMS Titanic hits iceberg
    Just before midnight in the North Atlantic, the RMS Titanic fails to divert its course from an iceberg, ruptures its hull, and begins to sink.

    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rms-titanic-hits-iceberg

    titanic under water

    #858136
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Wow – Great SF Earthquake 04-18-1906:
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-great-san-francisco-earthquake?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2017-0418-04182017&om_rid=092ba06f25256b856da3d3399af803a1669fe55b7ad30f1e84cd6d3fecceaefd&om_mid=172550540&kx_EmailCampaignID=11136&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2017-0418-04182017&kx_EmailRecipientID=092ba06f25256b856da3d3399af803a1669fe55b7ad30f1e84cd6d3fecceaefd

    sf earthquake

    with:

    Music

    1906 Enrico Caruso survives the San Francisco earthquake
    …“My valet, brave fellow that he is, goes back and bundles all my things into trunks and drags them down six flights of stairs and out into the open one by one.” That same valet would eventually find a horse and cart to carry the great Caruso and his many belongings to the waterfront Ferry Building—no mean accomplishment on a day when tens of thousands were attempting to escape the fires ravaging the city.

    #858168
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Today in History:
    04-19-1943
    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/warsaw-ghetto-uprising-begins?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2017-0419-04192017&om_rid=092ba06f25256b856da3d3399af803a1669fe55b7ad30f1e84cd6d3fecceaefd&om_mid=172765433&kx_EmailCampaignID=11166&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-tdih-2017-0419-04192017&kx_EmailRecipientID=092ba06f25256b856da3d3399af803a1669fe55b7ad30f1e84cd6d3fecceaefd

    In Warsaw, Poland, Nazi forces attempting to clear out the city’s Jewish ghetto are met by gunfire from Jewish resistance fighters, and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins.

    warsaw uprising

    warsaw ghetto uprising

    #NeveAgain #EndFascism!

    #858176
    lagatta4
    Participant

    We’ve certainly had a string of solemn and serious ones recently, from the assassination of MLK on…

    I hesitated even to post that one. Most of the ghetto residents were either murdered there or taken to extermination camps; a few escaped to other areas of Warsaw in the confusion, where sadly most of those harboured by non-Jewish Poles were hunted down by house-to-house clearances, as were many Polish resistance members and other Warsaw residents.

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