#rondon

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-1994-

I used some photos because idk I like it

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Normalize having a crush on Mio Saito's hair.

Yes, seriously, her hair. Like, we're all seeing her hair, right? Look at how smooth and silky it looks?? AND THE TINY WHITE STRANDS??? I AM GENUINELY FANGIRLING.

IT LOOKS LIKE IT WOULD SMELL SO GOOD?? It looks like if one were to brush it, the brush would just go straight down. No getting caught, no tangles, nothing.

Her hair is genuinely so attractive, I wanna take it out on a date. Do you guys think Mio's hair is wlw? Heck, do y'all think Mio herself is wlw?

Would I realistically even have a chance with either of them..?

Uh so anyway, I think Mio's hair is pretty neat... if you couldn't tell.

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Black culture in Bluefields, Nicaragua! ✊🏿🇳🇮

#HappyHispanicHeritageMonth

[nimuendaju]

Triste fim de Simplício

Simplício, sertanejo matogrossense, "camarada" na Expedição Científica Rondon-Roosevelt (1913-1914), morreu afogado quando sua canoa, comandada por Kermit Roosevelt, naufragou. O naufrágio teria sido evitado se Kermit não tivesse desobedecido ordens explícitas de Rondon.

Simplício dá seu nome à cachoeira onde seu corpo desapareceu. Kermit, como seu pai, foi homenageado com o nome de um rio, o Rio Kermit, um afluente do Rio Roosevelt (antigo Rio da Dúvida).

Talvez o Rio Roosevelt devesse se chamar Rio Simplício — homenageando, através do desventurado camarada, os incontáveis heróis anônimos do sertão, geralmente esquecidos pela historiografia oficial. Ou Rio Pyreneus de Sousa, em homenagem ao tenente goiano, mão direita de Rondon, que resgatou a expedição. Ou que se adotasse o nome que lhe dão os povos indígenas tradicionais da região.

Rio Roosevelt, em um Brasil soberano, não.

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+ Sobre Teddy Roosevelt

Um rio no coração da Amazônia brasileira foi batizado em homenagem a Teddy Roosevelt, ex-presidente dos EUA. Fervoroso adepto da doutrina do excepcionalismo norte-americano, Roosevelt defendia que os brancos tinham a missão de "civilizar" os povos "selvagens" do mundo.

Na etnografia brasileira, a fama de Roosevelt se deve à expedição que fez com Rondon ao oeste do velho Matto Grosso. Para a Comissão Rondon, um trabalho de rotina. Para Teddy e sua trupe, um safári científico.

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[jimintomystery]

TNG: “Coming of Age”

The Enterprise brings Wesley Crusher to Relva VII for his Starfleet Academy entrance testing.  Once there, Captain Picard discovers his old friend Admiral Quinn has brought an investigator from the Inspector General’s office to interrogate the senior staff.

The storyline with Commander Remmick snooping around reminds me of various M*A*S*H episodes where the camp would undergo an inspection.  Inevitably, the guy asking all the questions would uncover all the dirty little secrets at the 4077th, but then he’d enjoy their nutty, laid-back style so much that he’d see his way to giving them a pass.  Along those, lines, Remmick seems deeply concerned about Captain Picard’s judgement in recent adventures, only to finish his investigation by requesting a transfer to the Enterprise.  As for what Quinn and Remmick are looking for, we’ll have time to get into that later.

The Wesley storyline always gives me flashbacks to doing gifted-kid stuff when I was about 10-14--the sets in this episode feel eerily like some community college I probably visited in 1988.  Also, the students’ anxieties about the testing vaguely reminds me of the TV show Head of the Class, for some reason. 

The 80s seemed fascinated with giving kid geniuses every opportunity to live up to their prodigious potential, but with a curious, paternalistic detachment.  Wesley’s character arc, for example, is far more about his adult peers getting to generously shape his future than about who he is or what he really wants.  It’s a Baby Boomer’s fantasy about parenting, and Wesley is only brilliant so he can deserve all the hard work put into raising him right.  When he fails, Wesley’s only concern is that he’s let down his father figure Picard.  The only remedy is Picard’s fatherly wisdom, which quietly reminds us that these brainiac kids can still learn a thing or two from the older generation.

The Academy entrance exam always bewilders me.  Why are only four candidates are being considered for admission into the Academy this year?  Why can only one of them be accepted?  Are crewmen assigned to the testing center year-round just to be “crisis actors” in unannounced tests?  I especially hate the trick question about the matter-antimatter ratio, because if it’s always 1:1 there’s absolutely no way the one girl could mess that up.  It’d be like a physics professor composing a trick question about calculating the speed of light in a vacuum.  You’re not going to run out of time solving some equation, because there isn’t one--you either know it’s a constant, or you don’t so you wouldn’t even be taking the exam.

In conclusion, I’d like to talk about my favorite season 1 character, Rondon the Zaldan.  Rondon is huge.  Rondon is easily angered.  Rondon says things like “How DARE you?  I am RONDON!” and “Friend.  I like you.”  I like you too, Rondon.

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Hugo says not today.

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