#Marie Tharp

[francisofgotham1]

It was actually both of them.

Alfred Wagner (born 1880) - the man seen as the originator of the continental drift - first suggested the idea in 1912 during a lecture in Frankfurt, Germany. Later that same year, he made a long article arguing his theory. He faced some resistance, but many in Europe were already in favor of it in the late 1920s. In the US, though, it took much longer to catch on.

Marie Tharp (born 1920) made groundbreaking work on mapping the Atlantic Ocean Floor between 1946 and 1952, which eventually led to the overall acceptance of Wagner's theories across the globe. In fact, the whole reason why her findings were rejected (apart for sexism) was because it was support continental drift.

So, while Tharp's work definitely led to solidifying the theory as correct, it was Wagner that created and founded the theory to begin with.

God could you imagine how mad geologists must have been to slowly watch the "hey all the continents kinda fit like puzzle pieces :)" guy get proven right

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This map of the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean was published in 1968 and is based on ocean depth surveys compiled by Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp

The map was painted by Heinrich Berann for the magazine National Geographic

[victoriaassanelli]

Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math, by Jeannine Atkins

Simon & Schuster - 2020

[kickmag]

Throwback: Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Up Above My Head

Sister Rosetta Tharpe recorded "Up Above My Head" with Marie Knight in 1947 for Decca Records. The traditional gospel song was first recorded by the Gospel Sons in 1941 but Tharpe and Knight's version is the most known. Their rendition reached number 6 on the Billboard Race Records chart in 1948. Tharpe had already asserted herself as a pioneer of gospel turned into rock and rhythm and blues since her 1938 recording of "Rock Me." Her unique style included being one of the first to play the guitar using distortion with a technique that would lead the way for future rock icons like Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, and many others. "Up Above My Head" became one of her signature songs and she gave a solo performance of the song sometimes in the '60s on the show TV Gospel Time. Tharpe's early contributions in the '30s and '40s as a gospel artist who was accepted by secular audiences had the music press calling her the Original Soul Sister and the Godmother of Rock and Roll. Conservative gospel organizations were critical of her, but she was invaluable to the development of American pop, rock, and  English blues. Her 1945 single, "Strange Things Happening Every Day," was the first gospel record to cross over, with a number two position on the race records chart.

Okeh Records came up with the name race records in 1922 to describe music that was marketed to Black people. By 1942, Billboard created the Harlem Hit Parade to list songs popular with Black audiences. In June of 1949, the term race records was replaced with R&B. Tharpe's music survived all of the music industry politics and her music is still recognized in 2025. Tharpe passed away in 1973 and received several posthumous honors. The United States Postal Service issued a stamp in her honor in 1998. In 2007, she was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. The BBC aired the documentary Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll in 2011. The play Marie & Rosetta, based on Tharpe's relationship with Knight, was staged at New York's  Atlantic Theater Company in 2016. Tharpe was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017.

[weekendviking]

Marie Tharp for the Win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tharp

Her stunning oceanography work with Bruce Heezen gave us all these stunning maps, and combined with and building on the work of excellent maniacs like Harry Hess just before and during the war (he entered the US navy to do his doctorate on gravity anomaly study over deep ocean trenches (which we now know are the subduction zones), but could only do it from a submarine and they wouldn't let him borrow one without enlisting, then the war happened so he was stuck driving submarines and later troop ships, and re-purposed his anti submarine sonar for ocean bottom mapping...) really nailed home the mechanism for continental drift that had been growing in support but needing hard oceanographic proof since the '30s

girls don’t want a man girls want a detailed map of the indian ocean floor from the october 1967 national geographic that they can put on the bottom of the bunk above them and look at to go to sleep

[luminouslumity]

10 Historic Firsts Achieved by Women

[callmeanxietygirl]

#UnDíaComoHoy pero de 1920 nació Mary Tharp, la geóloga que dio luz y color al fondo oceánico.

#MásCiencia #MujeresEnLaCiencia

[nonesuchrecords]

Rhiannon Giddens is a host of the new PBS conversation series Arts Talk, which premieres today, with all episodes available to stream now on PBS.org and the PBS app. Giddens welcomes singer, songwriter, and producer Elvis Costello and actor and singer Brian Stokes Mitchell as her guests on the show to discuss their careers and share personal memories. You can watch them here. Guests on other episodes are Seal, Min Jin Lee, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Jimmy Kimmel, and Twyla Tharp in interviews led by Misty Copeland, Henry Winkler, and Ann Curry. Giddens new album, You're the One, is due August 18.

[matildazq]

Review: Marie and Rosetta, Northlight Theatre, Skokie, IL

[queerasfact]

Happy Rosetta Tharpe Day!

Each year on the eleventh of January, Pennsylvania marks Rosetta Tharpe day, celebrating the queer, Black woman who pioneered rock and roll.

Known as the godmother of rock and roll, Rosetta Tharpe (right) had her first hit song in 1938 and continued to perform almost up until her death in 1973.  Her fame brought the music of her Black, working-class gospel church to the world. Her sound - especially her distinctive guitar-playing - was a pioneering influence on men like Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Chuck Berry, but Rosetta was only admitted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.

Rosetta never spoke publicly about her sexuality, but friends remember that she was attracted to both women and men, and that she and her musical partner Marie Knight (pictured left) were lovers.

Check out our podcast on Rosetta to learn more!

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Okay, folks, the mini-tourney is inching closer to the finals, so I'm going to give a list of the competitors in the Miss Billboard Tourney in order to give everyone a chance to submit more propaganda. The nominees are:

Lale Andersen

Marian Anderson

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Julie Andrews

LaVerne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

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Fontella Bass

Shirley Bassey

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Jane Birkin

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Anne Briggs

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Cathy Carr

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June Carter Cash

Charo

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Petula Clark

Merry Clayton

Patsy Cline

Rosemary Clooney

Natalie Cole

Judy Collins

Alice Coltrane

Betty Comden

Barbara Cook

Rita Coolidge

Gal Costa

Ida Cox

Karen Dalton

Marie-Louise Damien

Betty Davis

Jinx Dawson

Doris Day

Blossom Dearie

Kiki Dee

Lucienne Delyle

Sandy Denny

Jackie DeShannon

Gwen Dickey

Marlene Dietrich

Marie-France Dufour

Julie Driscoll

Yvonne Elliman

Cass Elliot

Maureen Evans

Agnetha Faeltskog

Marianne Faithfull

Mimi Farina

Max Feldman

Gracie Fields

Ella Fitzgerald

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Lita Ford

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Aretha Franklin

France Gall

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Crystal Gayle

Gloria Gaynor

Bobbie Gentry

Astrud Gilberto

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Lesley Gore

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Francoise Hardy

Emmylou Harris

Debbie Harry

Annie Haslam

Billie Holiday

Mary Hopkin

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Betty Hutton

Janis Ian

Mahalia Jackson

Wanda Jackson

Etta James

Joan Jett

Bessie Jones

Etta Jones

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Grace Jones

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Barbara Keith

Carole King

Eartha Kitt

Chaka Khan

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Gladys Knight

Sonja Kristina

Patti Labelle

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Nicolette Larson

Daliah Lavi

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Rita Lee

Alis Lesley

Barbara Lewis

Abbey Lincoln

Melba Liston

Julie London

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Lulu

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Barbara Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Vera Lynn

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Lata Mangeshkar

Linda McCartney

Kate McGarrigle

Christie McVie

Bette Midler

Jean Millington

June Millington

Liza Minnelli

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Joni Mitchell

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Lee Morse

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Anne Murray

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Holly Near

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Nico

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Odetta

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Patti Page

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Mavis Staples

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Poly Styrene

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Pat Suzuki

Norma Tanega

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Big Mama Thornton

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Tina Turner

Twiggy

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Kitty Wells

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Juliane Werding

Tina Weymouth

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Nan Wynn

Those in italics have five or more pieces of usable visual, written, or audio propaganda already. If you have any visuals like photos or videos, or if you have something to say in words, submit it to this blog before round one begins on June 25th!

If you don't see a name you submitted here, it's because most or all of their career was as a child/they were too young for the cutoff, their career was almost entirely after 1979, or music was something they only dabbled in and are hardly known for. There are quite a few ladies on the list whose primary career wasn't "recording artist" or "live musician," but released several albums or were in musical theater, so they've been accepted.

[soulbrothershow]

Honor the Ancestors

Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Little Richard, Big Mama Thornton, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, BB King, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Etta James, James Brown, Clyde Stubblefield, Sam Cooke, Mahalia Jackson, Miles Davis, Charlie "Bird" Parker, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Sis. Clara Ward, Aretha Franklin, Jackie Wilson, Otis Redding, Tina Turner, Florence Ballard, Mary Wells, Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell, Jimi Hendrix, Sun Ra, David Ruffin, Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks, Melvin Franklin, Dennis Edwards, Mary Wilson, Levi Stubbs, Obie Benson, Lawrence Payton, Abdul “Duke” Fakir, Betty Davis, Eddie Hazel, Glen Goins, Phyllis Hyman, Roger Troutman, Mallia Franklin, Ike Turner, Tupac Shakur, Christopher “Notorious BIG” Wallace, Curtis Mayfield, Minnie Riperton, Donny Hathaway, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, James Cleveland, Andre Crouch, Kevin “Dino” Conner, DJ Screw, Bobby Womack, Luther Vandross, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Prince, J Dilla, Cynthia Robinson, Sylvia Robinson, James Mtume, Khalis Bayyan, Phife Dawg, David “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur, Gregory “Humpty Hump” Jacobs, Tito Jackson, and Frankie Beverly.

Thank you for the impact on our lives and for sharing your gifts. We speak your name. 

Asè.

[balkanradfem]

Geology stuff by women; tectonic plates were discovered by a woman.

Marie Tharp.

She is so cool!

[lost-boy-into-the-upper-heavenly]

This map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, created in 1968, is based on depth surveys conducted by Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp. Heinrich Berann painted the map for National Geographic magazine. — in New York, NY.

[edandstede]

Ik it’s not on the music asks but could you rec me some happy songs? As in songs that make you happy always. Thank you Archie!

Ahhhhh of course!! I will legit always be happy to give music recommendations lol here you go. You’d be hard pressed not to feel good listening to these, enjoy:

Moonshadow // Yusuf/Cat Stevens

Unfunky UFO // Parliament

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) // Sly & The Family Stone

Fire in the Hole // Black Peaches

Cool Cat // Queen

Just Fine // Mary J. Blige

Me & Magdalena // The Monkees

Back & Forth // Aaliyah

Narwhal // Xylaroo

Space Samba (Disco Volador Theme) // The Orielles

We Gonna Live Forever // Emma Noble

Get Loose // Bubba Graham

Uptight Downtown // La Roux

Party up in Here // Brides of Funkenstein

Disco Dancin’ // A Taste Of Honey

Up Above My Head I Hear Music In The Air // Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Fly As Me // Silk Sonic

Caribbean Queen // Billy Ocean

Make Me Feel // Janelle Monae

I Wanna Be Your Lover // Prince

:•) 🧡 ⭐️

[cosmogyros]

Anyway.

Guess I’m going to go soothe my nit-picky music-historian rage by listening to Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey and Big Mama Thornton and Odetta and Elizabeth Cotten and Lucille Bogan and Ida Cox and Alberta Hunter and Mahalia Jackson and Diamond Teeth Mary and Big Maybelle.

AND Sister Rosetta Tharpe.