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[rongzhi]

An underwater dance inspired by the feitian/apsaras depicted on the Dunhuang murals

[chewsalot]

Anyone can find her/his favorite inspirational quote from this book/animated short film "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse," 2023 Academy Award winner, which depicts love, fear, and hope. It is not deep at all, as simple as human.

What is my favorite quote? "One of our greatest freedoms is how we react to things" that resonates with what Gandalf (Tolkien) said to Frodo: "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

Different reactions result in different outcomes and different paths of life. But as humans, we all have fear and uncertainty, and we all need relationship, courage, adaptability, faith, hope, and love. No matter how different we are, we are the same.

(source of the image: wikipedia)

[beatricecenci]

Ivan Aivazovsky (Russian-Armenian, 1817-1900)

View of Vico near Naples

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

“добрались до зимнего солнцестояния — самого короткого дня года. С этого дня стартует цепь языческих и христианских аграрных праздников, странным образом перемешанных между собой. — Магические ритуалы, которые сопровождают эти праздники разнообразны 🤪: кидание башмаков за спину, сжигание чучел, блины, ночные гулянки и переодевания, призвание потусторонних существ или умерших родственников — обожаю вот это все. — Нравится, что даже в самый «серый» сезон мы сами добавляем себе ярких красок, игр и настроения. Всех с началом вечеринки!”

“We reached the winter solstice — the shortest day of the year. From this day on starts a chain of pagan and Christian agrarian holidays, strangely mixed with each other. The magical rituals that accompany these holidays are varied 🤪: throwing shoes behind the back, burning scarecrows, bliny, night parties and dressing up, calling otherworldly creatures or dead relatives - I adore all this. I like that even in the “grayest” season we add bright colors, games and set the right mood for ourselves. Everyone start the party!”

by Natasha Yankelevich

[fuckingfreud]

Arkhip Kuindzhi. Moonlight Night on the Dnieper. 1880. Oil on canvas.

[datarep]

There have been 678 shootings with casualties at elementary and secondary schools in the US since 2000

by u/USAFacts_Official

[chewsalot]

Watch "Omicron science, good news" on YouTube

[nasa]

It's the International Day of Human Space Flight!

In this image, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 32 flight engineer, appears to touch the bright Sun during the mission's third spacewalk outside the International Space Station. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Aki Hoshide is visible in the reflection of Williams' helmet visor.

Today, April 12, is the International Day of Human Space Flight—marking Yuri Gagarin's first flight in 1961, and the first space shuttle launch in 1981.

As we honor global collaboration in exploration, we're moving forward to the Moon & Mars under the Artemis Accords.

Sign up to send your name around the Moon aboard Artemis I at go.nasa.gov/wearegoing.

[datarep]

Ethnic Diversity and Houshold Income in America

by u/ptan191

[pogphotoarchives]

Apache mother with baby in cradle board, White River Indian Reservation, Arizona

Photographer: Carl Werntz

Date: 1900?

Negative Number: 037421

[todaysdocument]

We’re so excited about the 1950 Census!

The National Archives will release the digitized 1950 Census population schedules on April 1, 2022! These records have been kept confidential for 72 years, and researchers will be able to access them through a dedicated website on April 1 at 12:01 a.m.

Whether you are looking to build on your current genealogy research or you are just starting to explore your family history, the National Archives is ready to help you prepare for the census release on April 1. Visit archives.gov/1950census for blog posts, how-to videos, and other online resources.

[todaysdocument]

Untitled “Passing the Buck” cartoon by Clifford Berryman, 3/24/1937.

Series: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, 1896 - 1949

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015

Image description: In this cartoon, the circle of blame goes from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Supreme Court to the Constitution to Congress to labor leader John L. Lewis to “The Interests” representing corporate wealth to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins to the lower courts and back to Roosevelt.

[todaysdocument]

Mary Ellen Walker Taylor reviews documents during the Nuremberg Trials, 3/18/1947. 

She was the wife of and assistant to Brigadier General Telford Taylor, Chief Counsel for the prosecution.

File Unit: General – Evidence Division, 1946 - 1949

Series: Photographs Relating to the Minor Nuremberg Trials, 1946 - 1949

Record Group 238: National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records, 1933 - 1949

Image description: Mrs. Taylor is perched on a stool reading a document with “Part D” on the cover. She is surrounded by tall stacks of paper.

[todaysdocument]

Certificate of Residence for Chin Num, 3/9/1894

Series: Immigration Arrival Investigation Case Files, 1884 - 1944

Record Group 85: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004

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[usnatarchives]

#StandWithUkraine

The National Archives Building in Washington, DC, is illuminated in blue and yellow in solidarity with the people and heritage institutions of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian flag is displayed between the American and District of Columbia flags outside the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, in solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

[newtonpermetersquare]

And speed.

[chewsalot]

Hedges: The Greatest Evil Is War – scheerpost.com

Hedges: The Greatest Evil Is War

Russia has every right to feel threatened, betrayed, and angry by the abandonment of post-Cold War promises on NATO expansion. But to unders