#24 may

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Sixteen men carrying placards warning against buying in the black market paraded from Chambers to North Moore Streets, May 24, 1945. Food was rationed during the war and some people supplemented their coupons with illegal purchases. Edward A. Hausman, Secretary of the Allboro Retail Fruit Association, which sponsored the demonstration, said it was in protest against tie-in sales and black market practices.

Photo: Matty Zimmerman for the AP

[aster-blogging-dracula]

Scholars will have the nerve to call Lucy selfish for wishing she could marry three men when she literally said that for the sake of making all of them happy smh

[wiiildflowerrr]

Awsten and Michael on Tiktok, 24 May 2025

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Milan, Italy, 24 May 2013

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Dracula Dictionary, May 24th

"it never rains but it pours": when something bad happens other bad things usually happen at the same time

"Just fancy!": Just imagine!

silk hat: a top hat

lancet: a scalpel

Desdemona: the wife of Othello

"I am somewhat previous": I am getting ahead of myself

"I ain't good enough to regulate the fixin's of your little shoes": I'm not worthy of tying your shoe laces (a reference to the Bible where John the Baptist was talking about Jesus)

"them seven young women with the lamps": a reference to the Parable of the Ten Virgins from the Bible

"if you wait till you find a man that is you will go join them seven young women with the lamps when you quit": If you wait for a man who is worthy, you will die a virgin, because you will never find one

[leer-reading-lire]

"Your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover; it's more unselfish anyhow".

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 24 May:

1487 – Lambert Simnel (aged 10), the Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is brought to Ireland. It is claimed that he is Edward, Earl of Warwick (Clarence’s son), but in fact, he is a baker’s son – the real Warwick is a prisoner in the Tower of London and will be executed in 1499. Most of the Anglo-Irish believe that Simnel’s claim is genuine and support him (exceptions are the Butlers,…

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24 May 2024, Dublin