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i’m sorry but there is no way you could have stopped me from standing on my chair and screeching like a banshee if i saw this live…

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“ballet isn’t a sport”

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The thing about this is, you can barely see their muscles straining from effort. The effort to keep each other and themselves balanced, definitely, but that guy’s hand is barely shaking. The amount of training and strength and balance to go into this is fucking insane.

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but mom how will other people know that you, a white Texan, are a Christian

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same

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Jesus

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I bet those two are couple now..

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I’m gay

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me too

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This is such a great story

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How to get out stains using other things

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TO SAVE A LIFE

#save for later

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#neon #floral

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FREE German Learning Resources

1. dw.de (Listening/Reading)

This is Deutsch Welle webpage for Learning German. It is very informative and it has podcasts suitable for different levels.

dw.de podcasts include : Wort der Woche, Alltagsdeutsch, Dialektatlas, Spachbar.

2. Goethe Institut Podcasts (Listening/Reading)

i. Grüße aus Deutschland

ii. Deutsch Baukasten

iii. Wanderwörter

3. Learn German while listening to Radio (over the internet) (Listening)

i. View my post on German Radio.

ii. Listening to Children’s stories from Ohrenbär (rbb) can improve your German too! (Unfortunately there are no texts)

4. Verb Conjugation tables (Writing/Reading)

i. Cactus2000

ii. Deutsch Wörterbuch (iPhone app) - users can look up conjugations offline.

5. For absolute beginners

Head here to learn about writing date, time, colours, country names, etc in German.

6. Dictionary

i. Pons.com

ii. Linguee - iPhone app. It can be used even if you’re offline (no need internet)

7. Watch free videos in German (Intermediate to Advanced level)

i. Euromaxx (no English subs): Living and Culture, Cuisine

ii. Yabla - Good news! There are English and German subs for this.

8. For super-advanced learners (listening/fluency)

i. Klub Konkret (SWR eins plus) - Podcasts in Talk show formats.

ii. Sanft & Sorgfältig (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg Radio eins) - Podcasts on a wide variety of topics. The hosts speak really fast!

9. Der-Die-Das

test yourself: der die das App

10. Idioms/Proverbs/German Vocabulary

This Awesome Tumblr: Germanwordsandmore

11. Zeit Magazin (Advanced learner)

There are articles interesting enough to expose you to more German. There are no translations. You might want to consult the dictionary as you go along.

12. Free downloadable German e-books/PDF

Head over to “So you want to learn a language” and scroll down to the German section.

You can also find free ebooks of other languages, if you are interested. :)

13. Get Germanized

Watch interesting videos by Vuko aka MeisterLehnsherr to improve your German!

14. A German Phrase a day Program

*Last updated on 18 March 2015.

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ALICE ROOSEVELT WAS HARDCORE. “She was known as a rule-breaker in an era when women were under great pressure to conform. The American public noticed many of her exploits. She smoked cigarettes in public, swore at officials, rode in cars with men, stayed out late partying, kept a pet snake named Emily Spinach (Emily as in her spinster aunt and Spinach for its green color) in the White House, and was seen placing bets with a bookie.

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So what I’m reading here is, she was a Roosevelt?

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Well I have a new hero.

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Her whole wikipedia article is gold

“When her father was governor of New York, he and his wife proposed that Alice attend a conservative school for girls in New York City. Pulling out all the stops, Alice wrote, ‘If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will.’”

“Her father took office in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, Jr. in Buffalo (an event that she greeted with “sheer rapture.”)“

“During the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the ship’s pool fully clothed, and coaxed a congressman to join her in the water. (Years later Bobby Kennedy would chide her about the incident, saying it was outrageous for the time, to which the by-then-octogenarian Alice replied that it would only have been outrageous had she removed her clothes.”

“She was dressed in a blue wedding dress and dramatically cut the wedding cake with a sword (borrowed from a military aide attending the reception)”

“When it came time for the Roosevelt family to move out of the White House, Alice buried a Voodoo doll of the new First Lady, Nellie Taft, in the front yard.”

“Later, the Taft White House banned her from her former residence—the first but not the last administration to do so. During Woodrow Wilson’s administration (from which she was banned in 1916 for a bawdy joke at Wilson’s expense)…”

“As an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, “What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, “He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!”

“To Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had jokingly remarked at a party “Here’s my blind date. I am going to call you Alice”, she sarcastically said “Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, but you may not.”

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I love this woman.

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WOMEN WHO NEED FUCKEN MOVIES.

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This is Alice as an older lady. The pillow says “If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.”

She is my absolute favorite.

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On Friday, Nov. 1, Germany will become the first country in the world to allow parents to leave the gender box blank on their child's birth certificate. As reported in August, the move is an effort

Starting next month, new parents in Germany will no longer be required to designate their newborn children as either male or female.

In an effort to be more inclusive of intersex individuals, Germany will allow parents to leave the gender box blank on their baby’s birth certificate if they so choose. The law takes effect on November 1.

With babies reportedly born without clearly determinable genitalia at a rate of 1 in every 1,500 – and many intersex individuals not exhibiting characteristics until later in life – the legislation seeks “to take the pressure off parents to commit themselves to a gender immediately after birth.”

“This will be the first time that the law acknowledges that there are human beings who are neither male nor female, or are both,” stated University of Bremen law professor Konstanze Plett. “People who do not fit into the traditional legal categories… We will have fellow human beings with no sex registered. They can’t be forced into either one of the traditional sexes in these other contexts.”

Earlier this year, the United Nations condemned “normalization” surgery, citing research that surgeries aiming to create an either anatomically male or female bodyfor intersex infants often leads to more harm than help.

The German law reportedly states that if a child “cannot be assigned to the female nor the male gender,” their status “shall be entered without such information in the register of births.”

Long live blank gender boxes!