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Heath Ledger during 2000 NATO/Showest Convention in Las Vegas.

Alguna vez Marco dijo: A veces como fotógrafos logramos de 100, una sola fotografía ícono. Deseo ser tan grande como él en algún momento. Sin embargo, hoy creo que se logró un poco. #marchaabortolegal #feminist #feminista #estadodemexico #toluca #sociedad #problemasocial #periodismo #fotoperiodismo #mexico #mujeres #marcha #gente #people #women #society #marchafeminista https://www.instagram.com/p/B2-1YuTnU_M/?igshid=n86q9oecw9zt

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100 Days Of Heath Ledger – Day 65

The Order (2003)

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100 Days Of Heath Ledger – Day 75

Candy (2006)

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Whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you stranger

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100 Days Of Heath Ledger – Day 83

Heath + Horses

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Remember the Women Who Made #Apollo50th Possible

As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the historic Moon landing, we remember some of the women whose hard work and ingenuity made it possible. The women featured here represent just a small fraction of the enormous contributions made by women during the Apollo era.

Margaret Hamilton, Computer Programmer

Margaret Hamilton led the team that developed the building blocks of software engineering — a term that she coined herself. Her systems approach to the Apollo software development and insistence on rigorous testing was critical to the success of Apollo. In fact, the Apollo guidance software was so robust that no software bugs were found on any crewed Apollo missions, and it was adapted for use in Skylab, the Space Shuttle and the first digital fly-by-wire systems in aircraft.

In this photo, Hamilton stands next to a stack of Apollo Guidance Computer source code. As she noted, “There was no second chance. We all knew that.”

Katherine Johnson, Aerospace Technologist

As a very young girl, Katherine Johnson loved to count things. She counted everything, from the number of steps she took to get to the road to the number of forks and plates she washed when doing the dishes.

As an adult, Johnson became a “human computer” for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which in 1958, became NASA. Her calculations were crucial to syncing Apollo’s Lunar Lander with the Moon-orbiting Command and Service Module. “I went to work every day for 33 years happy. Never did I get up and say I don’t want to go to work.“

Judy Sullivan, Biomedical Engineer

This fabulous flip belongs to biomedical engineer Judy Sullivan, who monitored the vital signs of the Apollo 11 astronauts throughout their spaceflight training via small sensors attached to their bodies. On July 16, 1969, she was the only woman in the suit lab as the team helped Neil Armstrong suit up for launch.

Sullivan appeared on the game show “To Tell the Truth,” in which a celebrity panel had to guess which of the female contestants was a biomedical engineer. Her choice to wear a short, ruffled skirt stumped everyone and won her a $500 prize. In this photo, Sullivan monitors a console during a training exercise for the first lunar landing mission.

Billie Robertson, Mathematician

Billie Robertson, pictured here in 1972 running a real-time go-no-go simulation for the Apollo 17 mission, originally intended to become a math teacher. Instead, she worked with the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, which later became rolled into NASA. She created the manual for running computer models that were used to simulate launches for the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo Soyuz Test Project programs.

Robertson regularly visited local schools over the course of her career, empowering young women to pursue careers in STEM and aerospace.

Mary Jackson, Aeronautical Engineer

In 1958, Mary Jackson became NASA’s first African-American female engineer. Her engineering specialty was the extremely complex field of boundary layer effects on aerospace vehicles at supersonic speeds.

In the 1970s, Jackson helped the students at Hampton’s King Street Community center build their own wind tunnel and use it to conduct experiments. “We have to do something like this to get them interested in science,” she said for the local newspaper. “Sometimes they are not aware of the number of black scientists, and don’t even know of the career opportunities until it is too late.”

Ethel Heinecke Bauer, Aerospace Engineer

After watching the launch of Sputnik in October 1957, Ethel Heinecke Bauer changed her major to mathematics. Over her 32 years at NASA, she worked at two different centers in mathematics, aerospace engineering, development and more.

Bauer planned the lunar trajectories for the Apollo program including the ‘free return’ trajectory which allowed for a safe return in the event of a systems failure — a trajectory used on Apollo 13, as well as the first three Apollo flights to the Moon. In the above photo, Bauer works on trajectories with the help of an orbital model.

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British Slang Guide for British Characters

Written by someone from Britain.

1. Bloody - Damn. Socially acceptable to use, some of my teachers use it, and my gran does too. You can’t use this enough.

2. Arse - ass but more derogatory. You wouldn’t say this to your grandparents, generally. Parents, it depends who you are.

3. Fiver - £5. Everyone says this all the time.

4. Tenner - £10. Ditto fiver.

5. Quid - £1. Ditto tenner.

6. Grand - £1000. Obviously lesser said than fiver unless you’re Ed Sheeran or someone but people normally say this.

7. Chav - i think Americans call them townies??

8. Mum - do i need to explain? and no, we don’t say Dud.

9. Nappy - Diaper.

10. Lift - Elevator

11. Pavement - Sidewalk.

12. Cock-up - fuck up.

13. Cakehole - mouth. IE: Shut your cakehole!

14. Bloke - Man. Most people say this.

15. Knackered - tired. “I’m off to bed, me, i’m knackered.” the K is silent.

16. Pear-shaped - gone wrong. “It’s all gone a bit pear-shaped.”

17. ay-up - greeting used in the Midlands/North. sometimes used at the start of a statement or question. “Ay-up, what you doing with that?”

18. Local - nearby pub. “I’m off for a drink at the local.”

19. Fit - hot. “He’s fit, him.”

20. Bollocks - balls. Sometimes used as an exclamation, like “Shit!”

21. this is important. Fanny - vagina. FANNY DOES NOT MEAN BUTT IN ENGLAND. IF YOU CALL SOMEONE A FANNY TO SOMEONE IN THE STREET YOU MAY GET PUNCHED

22. Shag - screw. Shag is less derogatory than screw.

23. Uni - short for university. Is that your college?

24. Sixth form - Junior and Senior year at high school.

25. Secondary school - 6th grade to Sophomore year.

26. Year 10 - Freshman. Year 9 - Eighth Grade and so on.

27. Reception - Preschool.

28. Telly - television.

29. Chips - Fries.

30. Crisps - Chips.

31. Full Stop - Period. The punctuation kind.

32. Bugger - i don’t really know what this translates to. You’d say “oh bugger i’ve lost my keys.”

33. Crap - Less derogatory form of Shit.

34. Wanker - technically, this means someone who jerks off, but it’s used as an insult.

35. Dickhead - another insult.

36. Twat - Some people use this as an insult, but, as I discovered a while ago, it also means vagina.

37. Cunt - vagina. DO NOT INCLUDE THIS WORD IN ANY WRITING, IT’S THE MOST OFFENSIVE WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

38. Autumn - Fall

39. Biscuit - cookie.

40. Bonnet (a car bonnet) - hood.

41. Boot (of a car) - Trunk

42. Flannel - washcloth

43. Scouser - someone from Liverpool

44. Manc - someone from Manchester

45. Geordie - Someone from Newcastle

46. Brummie - someone from Birmingham

47. Dodgy - suspicious/not quite right. “Ooh, he looks a bit dodgy/My pen’s being dodgy!”

48. Tad - A bit. “Are you cold?” “Just a tad.”

49. Ta - thank you. Used up north a lot.

50. Absobloodylutely - a very enthusiastic yes.

51. Fortnight - two weeks.

52. Gutted - Devastated

53. Chuffed - proud, happy of something someone’s done for you.

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Cheeky Nandos: something you’ll never understand until you’ve been accepted into the brohood by the archbishop of banterbury and gone a night on the wazz.

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Chav is “white trash.” It is offensive in both US and UK dialects (chav is thought to be derived from “Council Housed And Violent,” and “white trash” is “white people who live in degradation, like people of color.”) It can shade to “trailer trash” but for full sneering, demeaning impact I think the best correlation is “white trash.” I don’t think nice people really ought to use either.

Really, this list missing out on pants/pants and fanny/fanny? Those are the ones that people seem to think are so drop dead hilariously funny that nobody on either side of the Atlantic can possibly have an intelligent conversation if one of them is used. Eggplant/aubergine? Courgette/zucchini? Squash/marrow? Piss off/Piss off? those are the BEST ONES.

American colleges mostly track to British universities. An American college is a place that only offers specific degrees; an American university offers a “universal” education and courses of graduate study, but they usually are used interchangeably. An American community college is a place that offers associate and bachelor degrees much more cheaply for nontraditional students. A British college is usually a prep school or vocational high school. However, Oxford and Cambridge are divided into separate colleges.

Bugger literally means “sodomy” and the American equivalent in terms of strength is “goddamn” or “crap.”

Crap is genuinely a word that Americans use, it’s a milder “shit”. However, in American dialects “crap” doesn’t usually follow a gerund (UK “talking crap” is USA “bullshit.”)

Elk (UK) are moose. Europeans have moose as well. Elk (USA) are wapiti. The elk-looking animal in the UK is the red deer.

If you smell something musky, and someone says “Wow, that’s a lot of skunk,” and you are in the UK, someone is smoking pot in public as per usual. If you are in the USA, somebody has killed a furry mammal with a car and burst its scent glands all over the road. If you don’t know where you are, look for stoners or bits of black-and-white mammal and you will have a Clue.

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I’m Not There (2007)

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Candid photoshoots of Heath Ledger

Consumación

Teníamos ganas de consumarnos, lo hicimos, entre tus pliegues claro oscuro y los míos. Entre tu cansancio taciturno y tu ímpetu por quemar todo aquello que te tocara.

Nos consumamos como lo hacen los destellos solares, como aquella fuerza de los planetas al chocar, como esa explosión de la estrellas más distantes, tan distantes como tus manos de la suavidad.

Eres un roble, un tremendo estallido de mi alma, eres tú, el universo y sus constelaciones perfectas. Tan flamante y tan delicado a la vez. Mi mano en tu piel, en cada centímetro que puede rozarse, lo permitido y lo prohibido, nada falta si es contigo.

Tus caderas poco pronunciadas y tus piernas sustento de mis penas, de mis más tristes desgracias. Son tus ojos en lo míos. Tus ganas y tu no querer detener este incendio penetrante en mi pecho, que también que se estremece al verte a mi lado y de lejos. Somos uno y al mismo tiempo de dos mundos paralelos. Corazón fulgurante y extraviado que me permite caminar tus pasos lento, como tu hermoso tacto y tu divino aliento desesperado.

Me impregnas de tu veneno, del que me mata y me invita a seguir viviendo, porque al hacerlo, renazco de ti.