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The Princess of Wales says ’Hi’ to her husband as he passes her during the Garter Day Procession || 19 JUNE 2023

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TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)

In 1997 Amelia’s daughter, Mary Moran, and other members of the Moran family were invited to Sierra Leone, West Africa, where they were welcomed in Freetown by Sierra Leone’s President and then flown by helicopter to the country’s interior.  There, in the small village of Senehun Ngola, Mary and Bendu Jabati met and sang this song together for the first time.  Years earlier, Bendu’s grandmother had told her that this song, which had been passed down in her village from mother to daughter for centuries, would one day reunite her to long-lost relatives.

In addition to finding out where in Africa her ancestors were abducted into slavery, Mary Moran discovered the meaning of the Mende song: a processional hymn for the final farewell to the spirit, it was sung in Senehun Ngola by women as they prepared the body of a loved one for burial.

(The OP’s link leads to a site with a recording of the song sung by both Mary Moran and her mother, Amelia)

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tantive404:

The Star Wars Original Trilogy is peak fiction because they took a fairy tale and set it in space, then they gave the princess in distress a GUN. But even better they gave her a sharp tongue and the power of revolution. They made the “dragon” a depressed cyborg father with asthma who doesn’t understand his own emotions and does murders because of it. And they made the knight a blond Barbie boy who attempts to solve problems with the power of love like he’s Sailor Moon or something.

And then they said, “oh yeah they’re all related btw. All the galaxy’s problems are this one family’s fault. Hope this helps 😘”

I mean this is a great summary

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I’ve been reading facts on Wikipedia again, and i’m overcome with the need to terrify non-Americans with the most underrated Terrifying American Thing: TORNADOES

Due to a quirk of mountain and ocean placement, the east-central United States has a higher number of tornadoes (particularly exceptionally strong tornadoes) than any other place on Earth.

And they’re so fucking scary oh my God

Reasons tornadoes are So Fucking Scary:

• they can form really suddenly and move really fast, so you have like a few minutes of warning when one happens
• their behavior is arbitrary and unpredictable. They can obliterate your house and leave your neighbor’s house untouched
• the most powerful tornadoes are so strong that it’s nearly impossible to even measure them because measuring equipment is straight up obliterated in those conditions, but they’ve been known to exceed 480 km/h wind speeds.
• please just read this wiki article it’s the scariest fucking thing ever
• like with F5 tornadoes you’ll see a lot of stuff about trucks, SUVs, furniture, appliances from homes like refrigerators etc being “lost/missing” and you may think to yourself “how does something that large just get ‘lost’ surely there’s a better description of what happened”
• and well. the above article does provide the 'better’ description. And it’s “granulated.”
• As in, “debris from many of the obliterated homes was finely granulated.”

As a born and bred Alabamian, reading this is very funny when you’re so desensitized to them that when you’re woken up at 3 am by the sirens theres a very good chance you’ll be like “if its my time its my time” and go right tf back to sleep

I mean I’ve been there but I contain multitudes okay

Tornados can put a 4x4 through concrete but also that siren going off right when my muffins come out of the oven is annoyingly inconvenient…

Truth 😂

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“Only rich kids played with Barbie” is just an absolute insane take. Literally every family had at least one Barbie at some point. Like ok if you had like walls lined with tons of different Barbies you were probably rich but I cannot stress enough that turning “playing with Barbie” into a bourgeoisie thing is just ahistorical to the point that stupidity is the only explanation

The $5 bargain Barbie, and the even cheaper bargain store rip-offs, were absolutely a thing. Also, Barbie has been around forever, and the further back you go, the sturdier the dolls become. Could my family afford to get me brand new Barbies? No. But I had my mother’s Barbies, and my aunt’s Barbies, and various Barbies from garage sales and flea markets.

“Only rich kids had brand new” is a statement that can apply to anything, but I assure you, children of all socioeconomic classes had access to Barbie. Not 100% of children, but children.

Yep I inherited a ton of Barbie’s from an older and richer cousin.

She outgrew them and passed them to me

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I have never heard of Norman Rockwell. I don’t understand anything about art. But this picture shook me and caused a storm of emotions. It is called Breaking Home Ties, 1954

The boy is going to a Uni and wearing his best outfit; the Uni sticker is on his luggage, even his tie and his socks are the colours of the sticker. He is excited and impatient. The father - obviously a farmer, is sitting at the worn farm truck with a flag and a storm lamp, because their place is so small the train won’t normally stop there, so the father will need to “catch” the train and signal with the light and the flag for it to stop.

His son will never come back to the farm.  

I think I understand why this picture sold at 15,4 million dollars in 2006. 

Great paintings by Norman Rockwell of everyday Americana.

Norman Rockwell specialized in exactly this, OP. You can look at almost all of his paintings and find a story in it. Some are sweet, some are poignant, some just show family. They are all stories, and they all have story woven into every single detail.

And because it is my favorite, this is “Shiner”

Rockwell’s mentor was A.C. Leyendecker best known for his illustrations of the Arrow Collar shirt man. The model was Leyendecker’s lover. Rockwell was a pallbearer at Leyendecker’s funeral.

Rockwell’s paintings also dealt quite a bit with social issues as he got older and after the Saturday Evening Post made him remove a Black person from an image bc Black people “could only depicted in service jobs”.

As a result he left the Post & created (among other works) The Problem We All Live With and Murder in Mississippi.

OP post “Breaking Home Ties”.

Look at the dog.

Oh boy…

For those who don’t know the problem we all live with :

It’s also very fun to add that during WW2 when the government put out a call to commission artists to create a poster to inspire woman to fill in service roles and feed the war effort, Normal Rockwell was one of the artists who entered. The famous picture of Rosie the Riveter is known to every USAmerican student, and known throughout the world over. But what’s not as commonly known was Rockwell’s submission, which was denied by the US government for portraying the wrong kind of American woman and not something that would appeal to their femininity. Basically, it fucks too hard and the government got scared. But Rockwell was no such coward to give a woman a sandwich and a strap

Rockwell’s WWII art that was accepted by the Government referred to as the 4 freedoms

If you pull up freedom of worship and look closely you’ll see he represents many faiths

Christian (Catholic and various Protestant sects)

Judaism

Islam

Hinduism

And so on it’s literally meant to be all faiths

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Biggest indicator of US decline: You could buy 6 BigMacs with 1 hour of minimum wage in 1980, but today you can’t even buy one, despite minimum wage more than doubling.

It’s over.

Fs for the USA

explaining purchasing power collapse to an american: imagine no burger

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