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“National Day of Mourning” plaque at the site of the historical monument Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts. United American Indians of New England View high resolution

“National Day of Mourning” plaque at the site of the historical monument Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts.

United American Indians of New England

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crookedindifference: Rest in Peace, Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin took this picture of Neil Armstrong in the cabin after the completion of the first EVA. This is the face of the first man to set foot on the Moon, just hours earlier, on July 20th, 1969. Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made “one giant leap for mankind” with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82. View high resolution

crookedindifference:

Rest in Peace, Neil Armstrong

Buzz Aldrin took this picture of Neil Armstrong in the cabin after the completion of the first EVA. This is the face of the first man to set foot on the Moon, just hours earlier, on July 20th, 1969.

Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made “one giant leap for mankind” with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82.

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selfevidentproject: The Zinn Education Project has awesome lesson plans for teachers about queer rights

selfevidentproject:

The Zinn Education Project has awesome lesson plans for teachers about queer rights

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Ancient Egypt at The Met View high resolution

Ancient Egypt at The Met

smithsonianmag:

Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration

The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation.

Photos: NASA

Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission.

(Reblogged from npr)

TMO Magazine's tumblr: Gendering Dragons - St. George and Sexual Politics

Close your eyes and imagine a familiar scene, that of St. George slaying the dragon. In your mind’s eye picture the dragon. What gender is it? A ridiculous question? One could be forgiven for thinking so, imagining a fire-breathing, mythological and neutrally gendered dragon, as indeed is…

Super interesting…

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Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments, an official review has concluded.

Those papers that survived the purge were flown discreetly to Britain where they were hidden for 50 years in a secret Foreign Office archive, beyond the reach of historians and members of the public, and in breach of legal obligations for them to be transferred into the public domain.

The archive came to light last year when a group of Kenyans detained and allegedly tortured during the Mau Mau rebellion won the right to sue the British government. The Foreign Office promised to release the 8,800 files from 37 former colonies held at the highly-secure government communications centre at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire.

Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes | The Raw Story

Read the rest at the link. It’s really worth it.

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crookedindifference:

Graphical timeline of the Universe

This more than twenty billion years timeline of our universe shows the best estimates of the occurrence of events since its beginning, up until anticipated events in the near future. Zero of the scale is the present day. A large step on the scale is one billion years, a small step one hundred million years. The past time have a minus sign, e.g. the oldest rock on Earth was formed about four billion years ago and this is marked at -4e+09 years. The “Big Bang” event happened 13.7 billion years ago.

(Reblogged from spytap)

newyorker:

From Argentina to Cambodia, Picturing the Disappeared

In this week’s issue, Francisco Goldman writes about the forced disappearance of as many as thirty thousand people by the military junta that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983. Artists from across South America have created powerful bodies of work that reflect on these atrocities, which happened throughout the Southern Cone during this era of military dictatorship: citizens were kidnapped, tortured, and murdered by the thousands by their own militaries, and their families were left with no knowledge of their fates.

- On our Photo Booth blog, a selection of photographs from photographers who have worked extensively on the theme of the disappeared: http://nyr.kr/e87pBj


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If you read it as John intended, you think ‘God is on our side, we of course are on the side of good. Now we could be Lutherans fighting against the Catholic Church, we could be Catholics fighting against Lutherans … What I found so remarkable is the way that people on both sides of a conflict could read that same book against each other.
Elaine Pagels, on how Christians have read the Book of Revelation over the past 2000 years as it applies to conflicts and struggles in their own times. (via nprfreshair)
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