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April 29th, 2016 5:59pm

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April 28th, 2016 9:11am
A kenning was a circumlocution used instead of the ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry. Some examples include “battle-sweat” for blood, “flame-farewelled” for an (honorable) death, and “Freyja’s tears” for gold, or sometimes amber. I particularly like “whale-road” or “whale-way” which means the sea.
April 25th, 2016 6:55pm

April 25th, 2016 6:50pm
om.


April 23rd, 2016 12:09pm

Harriet Tubman is the new face of the $20 bill—and just one of the many trailblazers who will be featured when our new National Museum of African American History and Culture opens this fall. @nmaahc will display some of the objects related to Tubman in our collection in its slavery and freedom exhibition.
They include her hymnal, whose well-worn pages give us glimpses of the girl and woman behind the historic figure.
This shawl was given to Tubman by Queen Victoria in recognition of her accomplishments. It’s one of 39 items donated to the museum on the 97th anniversary of Tubman’s death.
These are merely pieces from the complex life of Harriet Tubman: escaped slave, Underground Railroad conductor, Union spy, abolitionist leader and icon of service. Learn more about the full Harriet Tubman Collection here.
April 23rd, 2016 11:51am
Another Ada Baka stairway walk checked off: Lands End, with China Beach tacked on.

Hell no!


with Amanda Walker Stavely at Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument.

10 feet!


























It’s Wookey Jack season, yay, but it isn’t Sucubus season, boo!

Barkeep says the brewery store down the road might have some, will check.

Death rows on the Thames claiming the lives of those who did not pay to have the river cleaned up during the Great Stink, 1858
April 17th, 2016 2:24pm
April 17th, 2016 2:16pm
“This is fine.png” to appreciate how in some ways this might have already worked out OK for oneself and at the same time see that it’s a godawful trash fire for plenty of others.
April 13th, 2016 9:09pm
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April 9th, 2016 9:27am
Signs, Signs, Everywhere there’s signs.
Blocking out the scenery. Breaking my mind.


April 5th, 2016 6:13pm
Mississippi legislature: Jerks!
What the city of ancient Rome looked like in 320 CE (and not just the Colosseum or the Forum, either)
April 2nd, 2016 9:42am
kylo: I’m being torn apart
Han Solo: (visibly struggling with a profound and painful conflict. he is silent for a long time, breathing audibly in the empty space. then the struggle is over, and he has lost to something he hates in himself, something stronger than his will. he speaks.) hi being torn apart
kylo: no
Han Solo: I’m dad
April 2nd, 2016 9:22am