Was the Lone Ranger Black? The Fight to Resurrect the Legacy of Bass Reeves. The story begins in 1884, on a stormy day in June.
Two men on horseback are traveling through the Chickasaw Nation, in what is today southern Oklahoma, moving southwest among the timbered hills and rocky outcrops of the Arbuckle Mountains. Mud-splattered and road-weary, the riders have covered nearly two hundred miles in the days since they set out from the federal courthouse in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A windstorm the day before had kicked up dust so thick that folks in a nearby town along the Red River claimed it was impossible to see farther than twenty yards. Now a light rain has settled in the area. What About the Missing Women Who Look Like Me? A public art installation commemorating missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Burlington, Canada, October 2020.
Photo: Stacey Newman/Shutterstock As someone who has lived through the terror, frustration, and catastrophic loss of having friends and relatives vanish or be murdered, I wouldn’t wish that kind of suffering and grief on anyone — regardless of their race, nationality, class, or background.
The 36 Questions That Lead to Love. In Mandy Len Catron’s Modern Love essay, “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This,” she refers to a study by the psychologist Arthur Aron (and others) that explores whether intimacy between two strangers can be accelerated by having them ask each other a specific series of personal questions.
The 36 questions in the study are broken up into three sets, with each set intended to be more probing than the previous one. The idea is that mutual vulnerability fosters closeness. To quote the study’s authors, “One key pattern associated with the development of a close relationship among peers is sustained, escalating, reciprocal, personal self-disclosure.” Allowing oneself to be vulnerable with another person can be exceedingly difficult, so this exercise forces the issue. The final task Ms. California Firefighters Race to Protect Giant Sequoia Trees. Last week, California’s raging KNP Complex Fire encroached on a grove of famous trees in Sequoia National Park.
Firefighters raced to wrap the ancient trees in fire-retardant foil and cleared flammable vegetation in the area. Officials say as of yesterday, the park’s most famous sequoias are safe from the blaze. “As of right now, we don’t have any damage to any of our trees,” said fire information officer Mark Garrett.
A Brief History of Pickles. Is there an alternate timeline where America is known as the United States of the Pickle-Dealer?
It seems unlikely, but there’s an element of truth to this half-sour hypothetical. Amerigo Vespucci didn’t discover the Americas, contrary to what the map-makers who named the continents believed, but his given name did end up lending itself to the so-called “new world.” And Ralph Waldo Emerson once called Vespucci “the pickle-dealer at Seville,” a derisive label that may have stretched the truth a bit, but pointed towards a very real part of the itinerant Italian’s biography. Oregone. Tragically Stupid.
Blue Dogs Found Near Shuttered Russian Chemical Plant. TwitterThe unusually-hued canines were first posted on social media by bewildered Russians.
Why so blue? That’s the question people in Dzerzhinsk, Russia started wondering when a pack of bright blue dogs was spotted near a shuttered chemical factory this week. The photos were first posted by Alekseї Ganine on Vkontakte (VK) a Russian social media platform, prompting confusion, concern, and comedic jabs from users. “What’s so funny?” One VK user asked. 25 Websites to Learn New Skills, For Free. Learning is a life-long process.
Yet if you're someone who always loves learning or wants to pick up a new, specific skill, then cost might be a problem. However, there are lots of free website out there that can teach you a range of skills for free. Father and son bonding. : MadeMeSmile. 7 Health Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide. Photos Reveal 19-Month-Old Boy's Point of View After Photographer Dad Gives Him His Old Camera. The world looks very different through the eyes of a 19-month-old, which we can now see thanks to the pictures taken by Stanley Jones, the son of British Army photographer Timothy Jones.
One bright and summery day, Jones shared his old Canon G12 with Stanley and taught him how to press the shutter and shout out “say cheese.” Jones writes, “He wandered round the house and garden snapping away saying ‘cheese' at everything. He even managed to switch the settings to ‘sepia' at one point.” Every photographer has his own style—even young Stanley, who “looks through the viewfinder…rather than use the LCD screen on the back.” Why People Fall For Conspiracy Theories. Think of a conspiracy theorist.
How do they see the world? What stands out to them? What fades into the background? 50 Times People Spotted Pareidolia In These Vegetables And Fruits And Just Had To Take A Pic.
Well hello there - Imgur click 2x. This is why. Seriously? Well Said. Why do idiots roam around damaging mail boxes? "imagine the bounce back" Not all trolls live under the bridge. Oh for fuck's sake. O Canada. 10 Latin phrases people pretend to understand. By Kevin Fleming Whether you're deciphering a cryptic state seal or trying to impress your Catholic in-laws, knowing some Latin has its advantages.
But the operative word here is "some. " We'll start you off with 10 phrases that have survived the hatchet men of time (in all their pretentious glory). 1. Caveat Emptor // "Let the buyer beware" Graduate Student Has Hilarious Newborn Photo Shoot With Her Thesis. Log onto any social media platform, and you're bound to see a bunch of baby-related posts. Whether you're looking at maternity photos or newborn shoots, these pictures typically feature expectant or new moms posing with their bellies or bundles of joy. On top of these traditional takes, however, you're also sure to see some creative interpretations, starring dogs, dads, and now a PhD thesis. Photographer Captured The Unusual Friendship Between A Gray Wolf And A Brown Bear. Lassi Rautiainen, 56, is a nature photographer who comes from Finland. In 2013, the photographer had a chance to document the amazing sight of a female grey wolf and a male brown bear. The amazing pictures taken over the course of ten days, depict their unusual and wonderful friendship.
Redhead Portraits Pair Red-Haired Subjects With Matching Animals. In her whimsical body of work, photographer Alexandra Bochkareva explores the eye-catching beauty of red hair. To accentuate the splendid color of her subjects' locks, she often pairs her redheaded muses with ginger animals, including Alice, a photographic fox that stole the show in 2016. Now, Bochkareva is back with an all-new color-coordinated cast of characters, ranging from a rescued lynx to majestic Maine Coon cats. Each duo in these fairytale-esque photographs has been personally paired by Bochkareva, who strives for matches that are “very similar, both in an external and internal way.” These Fonts Are Puzzles. Can You Solve Them? The entire suite of puzzle fonts is available, with varying degrees of interactivity, on Dr. Demaine’s website The Demaines hand-designed the letter shapes, but used a computer to generate the letter-embedding Sudoku puzzles.
“It was hard to design letters that still enabled the puzzle to be solvable, and without adding additional stray connections to the longest path,” Dr. The Myth of a Majority-Minority America. In recent years, demographers and pundits have latched on to the idea that, within a generation, the United States will inevitably become a majority-minority nation, with nonwhite people outnumbering white people. In the minds of many Americans, this ethno-racial transition betokens political, cultural, and social upheaval, because a white majority has dominated the nation since its founding.
But our research on immigration, public opinion, and racial demography reveals something quite different: By softening and blurring racial and ethnic lines, diversity is bringing Americans together more than it is tearing the country apart. The majority-minority narrative contributes to our national polarization. Its depiction of a society fractured in two, with one side rising while the other subsides, is inherently divisive because it implies winners and losers.
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