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Moved
//once again//
My darling Amelia, how I love thee. But I haven’t been on here for months and I’ve lost you for a while, so it’s time to start anew.
Restarted and Remade, Amelia F. Jones. No longer a nation, this is human verse. I will queue this a few times, and that’s it. I’m keeping this blog up for memories to laugh at B)
Love you all, and thank you for such an amazing time on this blog. But, it’s time for a little change. Amelia is HUMAN. Anyway, see ya on the flip side.
Moved
//once again//
My darling Amelia, how I love thee. But I haven’t been on here for months and I’ve lost you for a while, so it’s time to start anew.
Restarted and Remade, Amelia F. Jones. No longer a nation, this is human verse. I will queue this a few times, and that’s it. I’m keeping this blog up for memories to laugh at B)
Love you all, and thank you for such an amazing time on this blog. But, it’s time for a little change. Amelia is HUMAN. Anyway, see ya on the flip side.
Moved
//once again//
My darling Amelia, how I love thee. But I haven’t been on here for months and I’ve lost you for a while, so it’s time to start anew.
Restarted and Remade, Amelia F. Jones. No longer a nation, this is human verse. I will queue this a few times, and that’s it. I’m keeping this blog up for memories to laugh at B)
Love you all, and thank you for such an amazing time on this blog. But, it’s time for a little change. Amelia is HUMAN. Anyway, see ya on the flip side.
Moved
//once again//
My darling Amelia, how I love thee. But I haven't been on here for months and I've lost you for a while, so it's time to start anew.
Restarted and Remade, Amelia F. Jones. No longer a nation, this is human verse. I will queue this a few times, and that's it. I'm keeping this blog up for memories to laugh at B)
Love you all, and thank you for such an amazing time on this blog. But, it's time for a little change. Amelia is HUMAN. Anyway, see ya on the flip side.
Wow, long time not being on here-- I'm not quite sure what I'll do with this blog, I feel like I've lost my muse and I want to restart, so I probably will restart completely and all. Just contemplating on whether or not I'll keep her a nation or make her human. Um, yeah... But in other news I'm enlisting into Air Force, I'm currently doing the paperwork for that-
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August 3rd 1936: Jesse Owens wins 100 metre dash
On this day in 1936 at the Berlin Olympics, American athlete Jesse Owens won the 100 metre dash, defeating world record holder Ralph Metcalfe. Owens won four gold medals, in the 100 metres, 200 metres, long jump, and 4x100 metre relay, which made him the most successful athlete in the 1936 Games. Germany’s Nazi Chancellor Adolf Hitler had intended to use the Games to showcase Aryan supremacy, thus the success of African-American Owens was particularly poignant. His success made him a famous figure, but back home in America segregation was still in place. After a ticker-tape parade for him in New York, he had to ride a separate elevator to reach a reception in his honour. It was often said that Hitler snubbed Owens at the Games, refusing to shake his hand, but whilst the racist Hitler was certainly displeased by Owens’s success, these stories may have been exaggerated. In fact, Owens maintains that it was US President Franklin D. Roosevelt who snubbed him, neglecting to congratulate the athlete for his success. Jesse Owens died in 1980 aged 66.
"A lifetime of training for just ten seconds” - Jesse Owens
history meme: {1/9} places || the five points (manhattan, new york)
The Five Points was a neighborhood in the central lower area of the Manhattan borough of New York City. The name was derived by the five point intersection created by Orange Street, Cross Street, and Anthony Street. The Five Points gained notoriety as a disease-ridden, crime-infested slum that existed for well over 70 years. The neighborhood could be considered the original American “melting pot”, at first consisting of primarily of newly emancipated African Americans and Irish immigrants, and later with larger groups of Italians, Asians, Russians, and Poles, among others. Infectious diseases such as cholera, yellow fever, typhus, and tuberculosis ran rampant through the community and sometimes spread to other neighborhoods in the city. Gang activity also went unchecked. The Dead Rabbits, the Bowery Boys, the Five Points Gang, the Kerryonians, and the Forty Thieves all fought amongst each other and against police forces. Corruption in the government, especially Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall, led to very little being done about the violence and riots in Five Points. The slums of the Five Points were eventually cleared, and social reformation movements of the early 20th century helped to alleviate the situation of the people living there. Today, most of the west and south parts of the area are covered by state and federal administration buildings. The northeastern and eastern portions of Five Points are now a part of Chinatown.
August 9th 1974: Nixon resigns
On this day in 1974 at noon, Richard M. Nixon became the first and only President of the United States to resign from office. He was replaced by his Vice-President Gerald Ford, who remains the only President to have never been elected Vice-President (as he was appointed in 1973 to replace Spiro Agnew), or President (as he lost his presidential re-election bid in 1976 to Jimmy Carter). Richard Nixon resigned due to the revelations of the Watergate scandal that his administration had been involved in illegal activities, which included breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex, covering up said break-in, and widespread wiretapping. He long denied direct knowledge of these activities, but after the Supreme Court forced him to hand over the tapes of his conversations in the Oval Office, Nixon’s involvement was clear. What was also made evident by the tapes was Nixon’s intense paranoia, his rough demeanor and his often racist attitudes. He resigned rather than face impeachment and almost certain removal by Congress. He was later pardoned for his crimes by Ford, who hoped his decision would help America heal and move on. 40 years on, Richard Nixon is mainly remembered for the corruption and dishonesty of Watergate, which discredited the presidency for many years after. However, his numerous achievements in office must not be forgotten: he cooled down the Cold War with his policy of détente and was the first President to visit China and Moscow; withdrew American troops from Vietnam; supported affirmative action policies; established the Environmental Protection Agency; supported the Equal Rights Amendment; and oversaw major desegregation of schools. Nixon is rightfully remembered for his role in Watergate and his unprecedented resignation in disgrace but we must be wary of only seeing one side of one of the most controversial figures of American history.
40 years ago today
The Loving Story - the interracial couple that overturned anti-miscegintion laws around the country
August 20th 1938: Lou Gehrig hits 23rd Grand Slam On this day in 1938 the famous New York Yankees baseball first baseman Lou Gehrig hit his 23rd Grand Slam. Nicknamed ‘The Iron Horse’, Gehrig’s 23 Grand Slams remained the most on record until it was broken by fellow Yankees player Alex Rodriguez in 2013. The remarkable career of this exceptionally talented baseball player ended in 1939 when, after his performance had been deteriorating, Gehrig was diagnosed with a terminal neurodegenerative disease which severely limits physical mobility (often to the point of paralysis) while not affecting the brain. The disease is known by different names, for example in the UK it is called motor neurone disease (or MND), and in the US as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The diagnosis led Gehrig to retire aged 36 and on a July 4th 1939 ‘Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day’ at Yankee Stadium, he gave an emotional farewell speech that has become known as baseball’s Gettysburg Address. Lou Gehrig died two years later just before his 38th birthday. His legacy continues as one of the greatest players of all time and in the fact that many Americans now refer to ALS/MND as ‘Lou Gehrig’s Disease’. Other notable people to have this disease include Stephen Hawking, whose is an unusual case as he has lived with it for over 50 years. This cruel disease, which affects hundreds of thousands of people across the world, has been brought to the forefront of public attention due to the recent ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ in which someone has a bucket of ice water tipped over their head and then nominate others to do the same and donate to charity. To donate to this cause and find out more about the disease visit the ALSA website (US) or MNDA website (UK). The effort to raise funds and awareness of this disease which tragically ended Lou Gehrig’s life has been a great success, with over $30 million in donations being made to the ALSA and celebrities like Bill Gates, Robert Downey Jr. and the Foo Fighters getting involved.
"Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth…I might have been given a bad break, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for” - Lou Gehrig in his 1939 farewell speech
August 21st 1831: Nat Turner’s rebellion begins On this day in 1831 the Virginian slave Nat Turner began the deadliest slave rebellion the United States had ever seen, which resulted in the deaths of 55 whites. Turner, a slave preacher, had come to believe that God intended for him to lead a black uprising against the injustice of slavery. In the evening of August 21st 1831, Turner and his co-conspirators met in the woods to make their plans and early the next morning began the rebellion by killing Turner’s master’s family. Turner and his men, who soon numbered over 80, then went from house to house assaulting the white inhabitants. Eventually a local militia, and then federal and state troops, confronted the rebels and dispersed the group. Turner himself initially evaded capture but was captured on October 30th. Subsequently Turner, along with over fifty other rebels, was executed. However the retribution for Nat Turner’s rebellion did not end there. The uprising sent shockwaves across the South, and while full scale rebellion such as Turner’s was rare in the Deep South due to the rigid enforcement of the slave system, caused widespread fear of another rebellion. In the ensuing hysteria over 200 innocent black slaves were killed by white mobs. Turner’s rebellion came close to ending slavery in Virginia, as in its wake the state legislature considered abolishing the ‘peculiar institution’. However the measure was voted down and instead the state decided to increase plantation discipline and limit slaves’ autonomy even further by banning them from acting as preachers and learning to read. Similar measures were adopted across the slave-holding South and thus Nat Turner’s rebellion increased the South’s commitment to slavery, despite undermining the pro-slavery argument that it was a benevolent system and slaves were content. Turner has left behind a complicated legacy, with some seeing him as an African-American hero and others as a religious fanatic and villain; his memory raises the eternal question of whether violence is justified to bring about necessary change.
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