#October 14 1834

[whitesinhistory]

On October 14, 1834, authorities charged four white people with unlawful assembly for convening a literacy class for Black residents in Wheeling, a city in present-day West Virginia that was then a part of Virginia. That day, a group of free Black people met at a Wheeling schoolhouse to attend a literacy class taught by Ellen Richie, John Templeton, John Moore, and Stanley Cuthbert. When authorities learned about the gathering, they declared that the literacy class was “against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth” and charged the four instructors under an anti-literacy law passed three years earlier by Virginia’s all-white legislature. That 1831 law, which led to at least a dozen prosecutions in Wheeling alone, declared that “all meetings of free negroes or mulattos, at any school-house, church, meeting house or other place for teaching them reading or writing, either in the day or night, under whatsoever pretext, shall be deemed and considered as an unlawful assembly.” The law authorized officers to enter the meeting space, break up the meeting, and subject any Black person found in attendance to up to 20 lashes. White people convicted under the law faced a fine of up to $50—the equivalent of roughly $1,800 today—and could be imprisoned for up to two months.

The law was part of a wave of anti-literacy laws passed throughout the South targeting both free and enslaved Black people as well as those assisting them. Similar legislation was passed in Georgia (1829), Louisiana (1830), North Carolina (1830), and South Carolina (1834). Yet, despite the criminalization of Black education—and the harsh legal and extrajudicial punishments inflicted on those accused of violating literacy laws—many Black people courageously found ways to circumvent these laws. Historians estimate that hundreds of thousands of Black people acquired literacy during the era of enslavement.

[officiallordvetinari]

Below are 10 articles from Wikipedia's featured articles list. Links and descriptions are below the cut.

On Saturday, May 1, 1920, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Braves played to a 1–1 tie in 26 innings, the most innings ever played in a single game in the history of Major League Baseball. Both Leon Cadore of Brooklyn and Joe Oeschger of Boston pitched complete games, and with 26 innings pitched, jointly hold the record for the longest pitching appearance in MLB history.

Clarence 13X, also known as Allah the Father (born Clarence Edward Smith) (February 22, 1928 – June 13, 1969), was an American religious leader and the founder of the Five-Percent Nation, sometimes referred to as the Nation of Gods and Earths.

Henry Edwards (27 August 1827 – 9 June 1891) was an English stage actor, writer and entomologist who gained fame in Australia, San Francisco and New York City for his theatre work.

The law school of Berytus (also known as the law school of Beirut) was a center for the study of Roman law in classical antiquity located in Berytus (modern-day Beirut, Lebanon). It flourished under the patronage of the Roman emperors and functioned as the Roman Empire's preeminent center of jurisprudence until its destruction in AD 551.

Minnie Pwerle (also Minnie Purla or Minnie Motorcar Apwerl; born between 1910 and 1922 – 18 March 2006) was an Australian Aboriginal artist. Minnie began painting in 2000 at about the age of 80, and her pictures soon became popular and sought-after works of contemporary Indigenous Australian art.

Ove Jørgensen (Danish pronunciation: [ˈoːvə ˈjœˀnsən]; 5 September 1877 – 31 October 1950) was a Danish scholar of classics, literature and ballet. He formulated Jørgensen's law, which describes the narrative conventions used in Homeric poetry when relating the actions of the gods.

Legends featuring pig-faced women originated roughly simultaneously in The Netherlands, England and France in the late 1630s. The stories tell of a wealthy woman whose body is of normal human appearance, but whose face is that of a pig.

The Private Case is a collection of erotica and pornography held initially by the British Museum and then, from 1973, by the British Library. The collection began between 1836 and 1870 and grew from the receipt of books from legal deposit, from the acquisition of bequests and, in some cases, from requests made to the police following their seizures of obscene material.

Qalaherriaq (Inuktun pronunciation: [qalahəχːiɑq], c. 1834 – June 14, 1856), baptized as Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua, was an Inughuit hunter from Cape York, Greenland. He was recruited in 1850 as an interpreter by the crew of the British survey barque HMS Assistance during the search for John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition.

Sophie Blanchard (French pronunciation: [sɔfi blɑ̃ʃaʁ]; 25 March 1778 – 6 July 1819), commonly referred to as Madame Blanchard, was a French aeronaut and the wife of ballooning pioneer Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Blanchard was the first woman to work as a professional balloonist, and after her husband's death she continued ballooning, making more than 60 ascents.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was called to pastor the New Park Street Chapel, London, when he was only nineteen. This church became the 6,000 seat Metropolitan Tabernacle, which he pastored until his death at age 58. Through his relatively short but phenomenally productive ministry, Spurgeon pastored, directed a Pastor’s College, oversaw a Bible and tract society, organized Stockwell Orphanage, published the monthly magazine Sword and Trowel, edited a weekly sermon (among the several he preached each week), and wrote a number of books, including his well-known Treasury of David.

Timeline of the Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

1834 (June 19) – Born at Kelvedon, Essex.

1850 (January 6) – Converted at Colchester.

1850 (April 4)- Admitted to Church membership at Newmarket.

1850 (May 3) – Baptized in the River Lark at Isle-ham.

1851 – Becomes Pastor of Waterbeach Baptist Chapel.

1853 – First literary effort, No. I of Water-beach Tracts published.

1853 (December) – Preaches at New Park Street Chapel, London, for the first time.

1854 (April) – Accepts Pastorate of New Park Street Chapel.

1855 (January) – First sermon in the “New Park Street Pulpit” published.

1855 (February) – First preaches at Exeter Hall.

1855 (July) – Mr. T. W. Medhurst becomes C. H. Spurgeon’s first ministerial student.

1856 (January 8) – Marries Miss Susannah Thompson.

1856 (June) – Metropolitan Tabernacle Building Committee formed.

1856 (September 20)- Twin sons Thomas and Charles born.

1856 (October 19) – Surrey Gardens Music Hall Disaster.

1856 (November 23) – Services recommenced at the Music Hall.

1857 – A second student accepted by C. H. Spurgeon and the Pastor’s College practically founded.

1857 (October 7) – Preaches to 23,654 persons at the Crystal Palace on Fast Day.

1859 (August 16) – Foundation Stone of the Metropolitan Tabernacle laid.

1861 (March 18) – Metropolitan Tabernacle opened with a great prayer meeting.

1864 (June 5) – The famous “Baptismal Regeneration” sermon preached.

1866 – Metropolitan Tabernacle Colportage Association founded.

1867 (March 24-April 21) – Sunday services, each attended by 20,000 persons, held at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, during the renovation of the Metropolitan Tabernacle.

1867 – Stockwell Orphanage (Boys’ side) founded.

1873 (October 14) – Foundation Stone of the Pastors’ College Building laid.

1875 – Mrs. Spurgeon’s Book Fund inaugurated.

1879 – Girls’ Orphanage founded.

1884 (June 18 and 19) – Jubilee Celebrations and presentation of testimonial (£4,500).

1887 (August) – First “Down-grade” paper published in “The Sword and the Trowel.”

1887 (October) – Withdrawal from the Baptist Union.

1891 (June 7) – Last sermon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle.

1891 (October 26) – Goes to Mentone for the last time.

1892 (January 31) – Passes away.

1892 (February 11) – Interred at Norwood Cemetery.

[chopinski-official]

Hello, Monsieur! I'm sorry for my much questions, but the chance asking you them is simply too overwhelming and nice!

Well, I am interested about your concerts you gave during your live time. When and where - and that all - I mean. Is there a good website with a list or similar?

Good afternoon mon petit élève, never be sorry for asking questions, I enjoy answering them!

As far as I’m aware, there’s no definitive list of my concerts, but I’ve tried to remember when and where I performed during my lifetime for you. The list only includes concerts, not events such as soirées, balls or bazaars… And nor does it include the specific concert halls for it has been too long for me to recall such small details.

My concerts:

11 August 1829 Vienna

18 August 1829 Vienna

17 March 1830 Warsaw

22 March 1830 Warsaw

8 July 1830 Warsaw

11 October 1830 Warsaw

8 November 1830 Wrocław

11 June 1831 Vienna

28 August 1831 Munich

25 February 1832 Paris

20 May 1832 Paris

March 1833 Paris

3 April 1833 Paris

25 April 1833 Paris

15 December 1833 Paris

25 February 1834 Paris

14 December 1834 Paris

25 December 1834 Paris

22 February 1835 Paris

15 March 1835 Paris

4 April 1835 Paris

26 April 1835 Paris

31 March 1837 Paris

3 March 1838 Paris

12 March 1838 Paris

29 October 1839 Paris

26 April 1841 Paris

21 February 1842 Paris

15 January 1843 Paris

17 March 1843 Paris

16 February 1848 Paris

23 June 1848 London

7 July 1848 London

28 August 1848 Manchester

27 September 1848 Glasgow

4 October 1848 Edinburgh

[lboogie1906]

Henry Blair (1807–1860) was the second African American inventor to receive a US patent.

He was born in Glen Ross, Maryland. His first invention was the Seed-Planter, patented on October 14, 1834, which allowed farmers to plant more corn using less labor and in a shorter time. On August 31, 1836, he obtained a second patent for a cotton planter. This invention worked by splitting the ground with two shovel-like blades which were pulled along by a horse. A wheel-driven cylinder followed behind which dropped the seed into the newly plowed ground. He had been a successful farmer for years and developed inventions as a means of increasing efficiency in farming.

In the patent records, he is listed as a “colored man,” making this identification the only one of its kind in early patent records. He was illiterate, therefore he signed his patents with an “x”. It is said that he was a freedman. At the time that his patents were granted, US patent law allowed both freed and enslaved people to obtain patents. In 1857, this law was challenged by an enslaved owner who claimed that he owned “all the fruits of the slave’s labor,” including his slave’s inventions. This resulted in a change of the law in 1858 which stated that enslaved were not citizens, and therefore could not hold patents. In 1871, the law was changed to grant all men patent rights. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 5.16 (before 1920)

946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. 1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. 1364 – Hundred Years' War: Bertrand du Guesclin and a French army defeat the Anglo-Navarrese army of Charles the Bad at Cocherel. 1426 – Gov. Thado of Mohnyin becomes king of Ava. 1527 – The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic. 1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England. 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England. 1584 – Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines. 1739 – The Battle of Vasai concludes as the Marathas defeat the Portuguese army. 1770 – The 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste, who later becomes king of France. 1771 – The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina. 1811 – Peninsular War: The allies Spain, Portugal and United Kingdom fight an inconclusive battle against the French at the Albuera. It is, in proportion to the numbers involved, the bloodiest battle of the war. 1812 – Imperial Russia signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War. The Ottoman Empire cedes Bessarabia to Russia. 1822 – Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli. 1832 – Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo sparking the Chilean silver rush. 1834 – The Battle of Asseiceira is fought; it was the final and decisive engagement of the Liberal Wars in Portugal. 1842 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail from Elm Grove, Missouri, with 100 pioneers. 1866 – The United States Congress establishes the nickel. 1868 – The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote. 1874 – A flood on the Mill River in Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people. 1877 – The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France. 1888 – Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances. 1891 – The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opened in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today). 1916 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria. 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than two years later. 1919 – A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.

[wikiuntamed]

On this day in Wikipedia: Thursday, 12th October

Welcome, Benvenuto, 你好, 안녕하세요 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 12th October through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

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12th October 1923 🗓️ : Birth - Jean Nidetch Jean Nidetch, American businesswoman, co-founded Weight Watchers (d. 2015) "Jean Evelyn Nidetch (née Slutsky, October 12, 1923 – April 29, 2015) was an American business entrepreneur who was the founder of the Weight Watchers organization...."

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12th October 1822 🗓️ : Event - Pedro I of Brazil Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor. "Dom Pedro I (English: Peter I; 12 October 1798 – 24 September 1834) was the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil, where he was known as "the Liberator". As King Dom Pedro IV, he reigned briefly over Portugal, where he also became known as "the Liberator" as well as "the Soldier King"...."

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12th October 🗓️ : Holiday - Christian feast day: Wilfrid of Ripon "Wilfrid (c. 633 – 709 or 710) was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Francia, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon...."

[18thfoot]

29th July 1882 - England. General Clement Edwards, Colonel of the Regiment, died at Leeson House, Blackheath, England. Edwards was born in London on 12th November 1812, the son of Colonel C M Edwards, Military Secretary to the Duke of York. Clement went to Sandhurst at the age of 14 and was commissioned in the 18th Royal Irish on 9th July 1829. Edwards was promoted Lieutenant, by purchase, on 28th November 1834; Captain, by purchase, on 13th March 1840. He served with the Regiment in China from 1841-42, and then served in a staff appointment, being appointed Assistant Quartermaster-General by Lord Gough from 20th December 1842 to 30th November 1844. He was back with the 18th in the Burmese War, from July 1851 to the conclusion of the war; and was on a detached command for six months, when the provinces of Padoung and Kanghlin were cleared of the enemy. Edwards was appointed Brevet Major on 11th November 1851 and promoted substantive Major, without purchase, on 25th May 1853. His service in Burma earned Edwards the appointment to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel on 9th December 1853. He went with the Regiment to the Crimea from the 30th December 1854, having been appointed Brevet Colonel on 28th November 1854. Edwards was promoted substantive Lieutenant Colonel and appointed to command the 18th from 9th March 1855. He took the Regiment to India in 1857, and was promoted to Brigadier-General and appointed to command a Brigade at Mhow from August 1858 to October 1859. After the Mutiny Edwards exchanged to the command of the 49th Regiment where he was in command until August 1863. He was Inspector-General of Recruiting from July 1867 to August 1873. Edwards was promoted to Major-General on19th April 1868; Lieutenant General, 17th March 1876 and on 25th March 1877 he was appointed Colonel of the 18th Foot. He was promoted to full General on 10th August 1878. General Edwards held the Colonelcy of the 18th Royal Irish until his death on 29th July 1882.

#18thfoot #royalirishregiment #india #china #burma #crimea #49thfoot

The photo is snipped from a group of the Regiment's officers at Sebastopol in May 1856. Photo Credit; National Army Museum.

[clove-pinks]

Whaler 'Harpooner', c. 1831 (Science Museum)

Should an 1830s medical man long for the experience of strange seas and wondrous lands, he might find himself a position as a surgeon on a whaling ship, as described by Joan Druett in Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail:

Dr. James Brown found his ship in London. Accordingly, he was on board when the Japan was "towed by the Nelson, Tug Steamboat to Gravesend," on December 15, 1834. In May 1837, Dr. Fysh of the Coronet had the same experience, except that his ship was towed by the Tam O'Shanter. "All the men or nearly all drunk," he noted, adding, "That's nothing! It will be long before Jack [slang for a sailor] gets another chance of being so again! So go it my Boys make the best of your time."

Liverpool whaler c. 1834, Francis Hustwick (Ferens Art Gallery)

On October 14, 1837, on the far side of the Atlantic, another of our whaling surgeons boarded his ship—but probably not in a spirit of high adventure and lively anticipation. His feelings, by contrast, were much harder to gauge, since he had signed on to the voyage under very strange circumstances for a gentleman of his attainments.

This fellow's name was John B. King, and he hailed from the island of Nantucket. While London whalers finished their fitting out at Gravesend, Nantucket whaleships completed their preparations for voyage at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, where Dr. King arrived on that date. [...] In 1832, at the age of twenty-four, King had graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons with the very substantial degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery. He was immediately awarded a certificate that allowed him to practice in New York [...] These elaborate qualifications failed to settle him down. He moved to Nantucket—and then he signed onto the whaler.

It was a most eccentric decision. For a start, there was no legal reason for Dr. King to be on board the Aurora. While an English whaling master was required by law to ship a surgeon, American whaleship captains were not.

— Joan Druett, Rough Medicine: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail

'South Sea Whale Fishery': 1834 print by William John Huggins (New Bedford Whaling Museum)

[scotianostra]

On March 26th 1834 Jean Armour, wife of Robert Burns, died.

For all his philandering ways when he was a young lad there can be no doubt that Robert Burns loved his wife, Jean was second oldest of the eleven children of stonemason James Armour and Mary Smith. She met Robert Burns on a “drying green” in Mauchline around 1784 when she chased his dog away from her laundry. According to Armour’s testimony in 1827, she met Burns again at a local dance and she “fell acquainted” with him.

Jean became pregnant with twins early in 1786. Her announcement, in March 1786, that she was expecting Robert Burns’ twins caused her father to be “in the greatest distress, and [he] fainted away”. Burns signed a paper attesting his intent to marry Jean, but her father disapproved of the union.

James Armour destroyed the “certificate of informal marriage agreement” between Robert and Jean and he removed his daughter to Paisley to prevent a local scandal. However, word had spread and the Mauchline Kirk recalled her on 10 June 1786 to admit that she was unmarried and pregnant and to confirm the father’s name. Burns was called by the Mauchline Kirk on 25 June 1786 and admitted his part in the affair.

His letters from this period indicate that he intended to marry Jean Armour as soon as they realised she was pregnant, but had been discouraged by her reluctance to disobey her father. By this time Burns was romantically involved with ‘Highland’ Mary Campbell and she was also pregnant. They were considering a move to Jamaica. The emigration fell through and Mary died in October 1786 before she could give birth.

Believing he had been abandoned by Jean Armour, he set about having himself declared single. Jean’s father, James Armour issued a warrant against him and Burns went into hiding.

Jean remained with her parents in the village of Mauchline, Robert was hiding out at the farm at Mossgiel. The couple continued to live apart even after the birth of their twins Robert and Jean, born 3 September 1786. Following the success of The Kilmarnock Edition, Burns temporarily moved to Edinburgh. He returned intermittently to Mauchline, during which time Jean became pregnant again.

When Burns returned permanently on 23 February 1788 he found Jean was destitute and had been expelled from the family home. They reconciled their relationship, and Burns found her a place to stay. On 3 March 1788 she went into labour and delivered a second set of twins, two girls, one of whom died on 10 March 1788, the other on 22 March 1788.

In the light of Burns’s new-found celebrity as a poet, James Armour relented and allowed his daughter to be married to him. Although their marriage was registered on 5 August 1788 in Mauchline, the parish records describe them as having been “irregularly married some years ago”. She and Burns moved to Ellisland Farm where they stayed until 1791 when they moved to Dumfries, where both would live for the rest of their lives.

Jean Armour and Robert Burns had nine children together (he had at least another four by other women), the last of whom was born on the day of his funeral in July 1796.

Her widowhood and the straitened circumstances she found herself in after Burns’s death attracted national attention and a charitable fund was collected for her and the children. She survived her husband by 38 years, and lived to see his name become celebrated throughout the world. Twenty years after his death, his fame had reached such a point that his remains were removed from their modest grave in St Michael’s Kirkyard, Dumfries, and placed in a specially commissioned mausoleum. Here, Jean Armour was buried when she died in 1834. Statues of Jean were erected in Mauchline in 2002, and in Dumfries, opposite St Michael’s Kirk, in 2004.

Burns wrote in all 14 songs commonly associated with Jean. Of these, by far the greatest is 'Of a’ the Airts the Wind can Blaw’, of which Burns said, 'The air is by Marshall; the song I composed out of compliment to Mrs Burns’, The song first appeared in 1790 in the Scots Musical Museum. The air first appeared as 'Miss Admiral Gordon’s Strathspey’ in William Marshall’s Collection of Reels, in 1781.

Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw, I dearly like the west, For there the bonie lassie lives, The lassie I lo'e best:

There’s wild-woods grow, and rivers row, And mony a hill between: But day and night my fancys’ flight Is ever wi’ my Jean.

I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair: I hear her in the tunefu’ birds, I hear her charm the air: There’s not a bonie flower that springs, By fountain, shaw, or green; There’s not a bonie bird that sings, But minds me o’ my Jean.

[kuiinncedes]

no one asked but here’s all the stuff i’ve written (and drawn i guess) (and including non glee stuff apparently) bc i’m bored and wasting time 😗✌️ also with word counts which no one cares about but me lol

everything is also now on ao3 !! (in this post they’re all linked to the tumblr post with the fic :))

updated 8/29/21

quinntina

october 2020 prompt challenge

midnight [ 518 words ]

masks [ 786 words ]

werewolf (vampire/werewolf au) [ 551 words ]

fangs (vampire/werewolf au) [ 612 words ]

full moon (vampire/werewolf au) [ 816 words ]

vampire (vampire/werewolf au) [ 234 words ]

random / sort of inspired by “delicate” by taylor swift [ 655 words ]

“You’re bleeding.” (shadowhunter au) [ 2104 words ]

december 2020 advent drabble challenge (idk what’s up with these word counts they were supposed to be exactly _00 and i swear they were when i posted so idk what google docs is doing lmao rip)

day 1: abashed [ 201 words ] 

day 2: brake [ 200 words ]

day 3: careless [ 204 words ] 

day 4: dispensable [ 201 words ]

day 5: event (famous au) [ 200 words ]

day 6: farm [ 200 words ]

day 7: grey [ 202 words ]

day 8: history (vampire/werewolf au) [ 201 words ]

day 9: inconclusive (skank/cheerio au) [ 201 words ]

day 10: join (skank/cheerio au) [ 201 words ]

day 11: knit (skank/cheerio au) [ 202 words ]

day 12: learn (vampire/werewolf au) [ 206 words ]

day 13: meet [ 305 words ]

day 14: nip [ 201 words ]

day 15: opinion (famous au) [ 201 words ]

day 16: possible [ 301 words ]

day 17: remarkable [ 304 words ]

day 18: sisters [ 201 words ]

day 19: tub (vampire/werewolf au) [ 200 words ]

day 20: ugly (vampire/werewolf au) [ 202 words ]

day 21: vanish [ 402 words ]

day 22: worthless [ 304 words ]

day 23: yard [ 202 words ]

day 24: zealous [ 200 words ]

head back laughing like a little kid (shadowhunter au) [ 621 words ]

“I haven’t seen (her/him/them) smile in months.” (vampire/werewolf au) (prompt fill) [ 2788 words ]

“It’s you, it always has been.” (prompt fill) [ 602 words ]

“Lie to me. I don’t care what you say, just lie to me. Make me feel okay again.” (skank/cheerio au) (prompt fill) [ 2423 words ]

“love” drabble [ 334 words ]

and you knew what it was (shadowhunter au) [ 1541 words ]

klaine

show me the places where the others gave you scars (shadowhunter au) [ 1184 words ]

“Could you say that again?” “Were you not listening?” “No I was, I just like hearing your voice.” (prompt fill) [ 535 words ]

“Is that my shirt?” “You mean our shirt?” (prompt fill) [ 371 words ]

“straw” drabble [ 444 words ]

samcedes

“You’re an idiot.” “But I am your idiot.” (prompt fill) [ 660 words ]

other (not one of these ships)

come morning light (shadowhunter au) [ 864 words ]

jatp au - kurt and the phantoms

just the keys to paradise (prologue) [ 1834 words ]

relight that spark (chapter 1) [ 9385 words ]

‘cause it’s been years (interlude) [ 922 words ]

art

quote for kurt’s birthday

random klaine quote

tina painting

quinntina - a random one lol

quinntina - never can say goodbye, girl

quinntina and klaine process pics

klaine - like i’ve never seen the sky before

klaine “astronomy” lyric edit thing

klaine “when the sun goes down” lyric edit thing

not glee

taylor lyric lettering designs

deh lyric lettering design

fearless (taylor’s version) lyric lettering

more random taylor lyric lettering

willex - i wouldn’t really call it magic (jatp fanart)

willex process pics (jatp fanart)

it’s brighter now (jatp oneshot) [ 1116 words ]

jatp “the story” lyric edit thing

jatp juke “you are in love” lyric edit thing

jatp “i got the music” lyric lettering design

[victorianwhitechapel]

Siblings Day is a holiday recognized annually in some parts of the United States and Canada on April 10, and as Brothers and Sisters Day on May 31 in Europe, honouring the relationships of siblings. 

We know that some of the 20 women who were attacked in and around the London's Whitechapel area at the end of the 19th century had siblings. They are the following ones:

Annie Chapman (b. Sept 1841): Emily Latitia (b. 1844), George William Thomas (c. 2nd June 1844 ~ d. June 1854), Miriam (c. 25th January 1852 ~ d. June 1854), William (c. 1st February 1854 ~ d. June 1854), Georgina (b.1856), Mirium Ruth (b.1858), and Fountain Hamilton (b. 1861).

Catherine Eddowes (b. April 14, 1842): Alfred (c. 2nd August 1833), Harriet (c. 3rd October 1834), Emma (b. 30th November 1835), Eliza (c. 14th May 1837) and Elizabeth (b. 1838), Thomas (b. 9th December 1844), George (b. 1846 - d. 1885), John (b. January 1849 - d. 18th March 1849), Sarah Ann (b. 1850), Mary Ann (b. 1852) and William (b. 1854 - d. 1854).

Elizabeth Stride (b. November 27, 1843): Anna Christin (b. 1840), Carl Bernard (b. 1848), and Svante (b. 1851).

Emily Horsnell (b. 1860/61): Mrs. Ekins.

Alice McKenzie (b. March 8, 1845): William (b. 1833), John (b. 1838), Martha (b. 1840) and Jane (b. 1843), Charles (b. 1847) and Thomas (b. 1850).

Mary Ann Nichols (b. August 26, 1845): one brother (d. June 1886).

Martha Tabram (b. May 10, 1849): Sarah Elizabeth (b. 1832), Henry (b. 1837), Esther (b. 1839), Stephen (b. 1842) and Mary Ann (b. 1847).

Frances Coles (b. September 17,1859): Mary Ann (b. ca. 1853), Selina Adelina (b. 25th October 1855 - d. 1897), and James Jr. (b. 30th August 1862 - d. ca. 9th January 1889).

Rose Mylett (b. December 8,1859): Mary (b. 1855), William (b. 1857), and John (b. 1863).

Mary Kelly (b. ca.1863): seven brothers (one of them called Henry) and at least one sister.

Ada Wilson (b. 1863): Charles and Henry (maybe older), Rose, Emma and Thomas (younger).

Elizabeth Jackson (b. March 18, 1865): Annie (older), May (older), James.

NOTE: b = birth, c = christening, d = death

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Tuesday 3 October 1837

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fine morning F59 ½° at 8 35 and went downstairs to a Mr. Greenwood from H-x who brought a plan for the water wheel – breakfast with A- (and Mr. Gray came at 9) at 8 50 in about ¾ hour – then looking to see what sum of Lords rent A- owns to Lady William Gordon (vid. 30 August) and calculating for her she leaving the money £4.16.11 for SW. this morning to pay Mr. Lister the auctioneer who collects these rents -  off in the yellow carriage to Thorpe at 10 – took A- to Nicholsons’ shop, and staid with her there from 10 ¼ to 10 50, and then set her down (to walk to Cliff Hill) at the far end of  the northbridge at 10 55 and drove off to the White Lion for a ticket for the King x bar – off from the White lion at 11 and met Mr. J. Priestley on the road (he going into Norland) at 11 ½ and took him back in the carriage to his own house and alighted there about 11 ¾ and came way at 1 35 – both the brothers J and Walker P- the former brought his plan of his estimate and the greater intelligence of the latter much aided our conversation – said I had come over to tell JP.  he could do me a service and himself too – Explained – he seemed to know very little about coal – JP. said he must take advice and consider about it – yes! certainly – a matter of consideration to all parties but I should be glad of a determination as soon as possible as I should set about goit or steam engine as soon as I could – I was not fast – there were 2 sides of the brook, either would suit me – but I had preferred applying to P- first – I thought the drain or goit would be a benefit to him and on the other were the Mcaulays with whom I knew Mr. Stocks would have influence – P- wished to consult a disinterested person – I said no coal-person would be so – I mentioned Kitchingman Childe – and Matthew Naylor as valuing tenants damages for me, I thought £6 per DW. – and Mr. Cooke of Elland called in to value coal damages for me, and Illingworth Miss Walkers’ coal tenant, Mr. Rawsons’ great man and very clever, but he certainly would not be disinterested – I said they would tell him (JP.) that the privilege was worth thousands to me – of that I left him to judge for himself merely observing that if he thought so, I should give the thing up – I did not even offer him more than damages, because I thought the benefit, to him and the expense to me sufficiently great – it could not be done for less than 10/. per running yard – might be – probably would be a 2 thousand pounds job – might be (but SW.’s survey would shew) from 2 to 3 thousand yards long – WP. measured the plan from which, direct across from about the low end of waste-wood to the head of Walterclough mill new goit, seemed = 1100 yards explain the benefit of the goit to JP. his upper bed 60 or 70 yards deep at Dumb mill bridge and 51 yards at Walkerclough mill (vid. near the bottom of last page) – my goit would begin at about 40 or 42 yards below the surface; and if ever his coal was wanted would save him 30 or 40 yards of pumping he wished I would loose his coal – I said it was not in my power to do what except perhaps about the upper 1/3 of it – never thought of working my own coal but gently explained how forced into it – the communication between R. and me underground pretty near – mentioned the assa-faetida for the 10 acres sold I had only a price between the 2 prices sold at by my uncle and it was odd that

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that such objection was made to my sending anyone into R-‘s pits – it was suspicious – I should have no objection to anyone going into my pits – if anything was wrong, I should be glad to be informed of it; if not, what need of mystery – the law of no use – must give a fortnights’ notice of a chancery injunction, and that time enough for stopping all up so that nothing could be found out – But now I was pretty much at ease – it was now discovered that R- could  not get the bit of coal I had wished to buy – for which R- bade 1 hundred and got me up to 5 hundred when I said he might have it – but they could not make a title to it – I believed also that he could not get Walker P-‘s coal – H- had offered a good price and was not likely to offer as much again    WP. knew of the throw that had been found but said H- had been at great expense and must have some coal to pay for it – I quietly said yes!  but he had a large quantity already and now that nobody could get WP.’s but H-, it made a great difference – if  I did not let my colliery and perhaps I should not H- was naturally my agent for it; and the colliery would in case be almost as good as his won, so that he would be in no want of coal – said I should be glad to see but the Messrs. P- at Shibden hall – nothing wanted but a table large enough; and they would learn from my plans in 2 minutes more than their own plans or mere talk could shew them in 2 hours – said I should be glad to avoid the smoke of an engine, but if obliged to have it, I should easily get over it – the chimney would be carried up into the hill and Mr. Harper thought the nuisance would be very small – I could a 14 horse English for £420 (vid. line 12 of yesterday) and the whole outlay engine house road and everything would not exceed £1000 nor would the daily expense exceed 10/. (including coal fireman and wear and tear) – at all rates the annual expense would not exceed £200; and then I should do my coal work and benefit nobody – Mr. JP. might think of this when they told him the privilege was worth thousands to me  and then judge for himself be it remembered I am not fast – if I was I must come into P-‘s terms yes! said P- ‘and you we all make what we can’ (How nicely characteristic!) he thought we should want some written document – yes! certainly said I – for my sake quite as much as yours – but that will be left to our attorneys – or I will shew you a rough draft of agreement for your perusal - I will shew you the old grant from Mrs. Firth to my grandfather – But we are both of us people who will come to the business without any wish to take any advantage one either side – oh! yes! to be sure, said JP- that their confidence in me may [?] with the length of the proposed goit je n’en sais rien – I doubt it – but SW. is to take the levels and I am to let JP. know the result and he will consider about and take advice and come over – In fear and trembling lest my goit and I should be too deep for him? I had told him his coal was not worth more than £10 an acre now – it could not got in one time – say 56 years how often would ten pounds double itself in that time? – Holt said I had coal enough of my own to last twenty colliers getting 150 years – Walker P- said my coal might not be so valuable for coal had been discovered in Soyland – a seam 9in. thick – in 1834 – some Lancashire colliers had come over but the property here was so divided nothing could be done – they thought it might be the Dule (Lancashire Dule or some such name) bed – WP. gave me a copy of the strata bored thro’ at Soyland mill (near Thorpe) in 1834 as follows  

                                    yards        ft.        in.

1 Shale                             6

2 Black ditto                    9

3 Gritty ditto                  16

4 Shale                             18

5 Iron stone                     1            .           6

6 Shale                             3            .           10

7 Iron stone                                   2          8

8 Shale                             20           1          6

9 Iron stone                                   1          6

10 Shale                            3

11 Iron stone                   1

12 Black shale                  4

13 Intermixed with          8

shale

14 Iron stone                    1        .           6

15 Left off in black            4       . ��         8

shale very soapy

                                         96      2         2

Had just written all the above of today in an hour at 4 ¼ - Miss Priestley with us the whole time – changed my dress before sitting down to my journal how will the matter end? shall I get the privilege or not? – then wrote as follows to ‘Mr. Samuel Washington, Crownest’ – ‘Shibden hall. Tuesday 3 October 1837 – Sir – I shall be obliged to you to let me know the earliest day you can take the levels of the brook, from the gapstead in the bit of wall between the Bunker hill and Parkfield in Lower Place land, going along Mr. John Priestley’s land down to the lowest extremity of my Southolm land – I am sir, etc. etc. etc. A. Lister’ – JP. particularly inquired what n° of vent pits I should require I said I could not exactly tell – something would depend upon himself air might be carried in pipes 200 or 300 yards and the drain would be so deep I should make as few vent pits as possible unless he gave me to leave to make as many as I liked and I found them cheaper than pipes – at any rate I should want the privilege of a place to bury the scale in – thought about 1 ½ yard cube per running yard would come out – but all should be buried so as to leave no nuisance – not a bit of scale to be seen – I should do it as I had done that in my own land – JP. had best come and see – But I thought I could manage very well with 6 vent pits in JP-‘s land supposing the length 1100 yards went downstairs at 4 ¾ - George gone for A- ¼ hour ago – out, about a little while then at 5 5 off to Mitham to send my note by little John – he went to Mr. George Robinson’s on Monday (yesterday) to work in the land and eat at home – walked forwards meaning to go to Crownest – met A- not far from on this side of Hipperholme lane ends – sent George back with the note and returned with A- and back at 6 – then out with Robert Mann seeing about road for the platform carts till 6 40 then ¼ hour with A- dressed – dinner at 7 10 – asleep – coffee –read the newspaper – came upstairs 5 minutes after A- at 10 pm at which hour F61° - fine till about noon – then a couple of hours rain or more afterwards tolerably fair – but damp warm disagreeable afternoon and evening – raining fast about 10 1/2 pm

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Timeline of the Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was called to pastor the New Park Street Chapel, London, when he was only nineteen. This church became the 6,000 seat Metropolitan Tabernacle, which he pastored until his death at age 58. Through his relatively short but phenomenally productive ministry, Spurgeon pastored, directed a Pastor’s College, oversaw a Bible and tract society, organized Stockwell Orphanage, published the monthly magazine Sword and Trowel, edited a weekly sermon (among the several he preached each week), and wrote a number of books, including his well-known Treasury of David.

1834 (June 19) – Born at Kelvedon, Essex.

1850 (January 6) – Converted at Colchester.

1850 (April 4) - Admitted to Church membership at Newmarket.

1850 (May 3) – Baptized in the River Lark at Isle-ham.

1851 – Becomes Pastor of Waterbeach Baptist Chapel.

1853 – First literary effort, No. I of Water-beach Tracts published.

1853 (December) – Preaches at New Park Street Chapel, London, for the first time.

1854 (April) – Accepts Pastorate of New Park Street Chapel.

1855 (January) – First sermon in the “New Park Street Pulpit” published.

1855 (February) – First preaches at Exeter Hall.

1855 (July) – Mr. T. W. Medhurst becomes C. H. Spurgeon’s first ministerial student.

1856 (January 8) – Marries Miss Susannah Thompson.

1856 (June) – Metropolitan Tabernacle Building Committee formed.

1856 (September 20) - Twin sons Thomas and Charles born.

1856 (October 19) – Surrey Gardens Music Hall Disaster.

1856 (November 23) – Services recommenced at the Music Hall.

1857 – A second student accepted by C. H. Spurgeon and the Pastor’s College practically founded.

1857 (October 7) – Preaches to 23,654 persons at the Crystal Palace on Fast Day.

1859 (August 16) – Foundation Stone of the Metropolitan Tabernacle laid.

1861 (March 18) – Metropolitan Tabernacle opened with a great prayer meeting.

1864 (June 5) – The famous “Baptismal Regeneration” sermon preached.

1866 – Metropolitan Tabernacle Colportage Association founded.

1867 (March 24-April 21) – Sunday services, each attended by 20,000 persons, held at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, during the renovation of the Metropolitan Tabernacle.

1867 – Stockwell Orphanage (Boys’ side) founded.

1873 (October 14) – Foundation Stone of the Pastors’ College Building laid.

1875 – Mrs. Spurgeon’s Book Fund inaugurated.

1879 – Girls’ Orphanage founded.

1884 (June 18 and 19) – Jubilee Celebrations and presentation of testimonial (£4,500).

1887 (August) – First “Down-grade” paper published in “The Sword and the Trowel.”

1887 (October) – Withdrawal from the Baptist Union.

1891 (June 7) – Last sermon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle.

1891 (October 26) – Goes to Mentone for the last time.

1892 (January 31) – Passes away.

1892 (February 11) – Interred at Norwood Cemetery.

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Untitled (Lord George Hill (1801-1879)), Mary Georgiana Caroline Cecil Filmer, 1862-1888, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs

Sitter information: Lord George Hill (9 December 1801-6 April 1879). Fifth son of the 2nd Marquess of Downshire. Major in the Army. First married, 21 October 1834, to Casandra Jane (d. 14 March 1842) youngest daughter of Edward Knight (a nephew of... Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden Size: 28.9 x 23.2 cm (11 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.) Medium: Album page with trimmed carte de visite albumen silver print painted to appear framed and mounted on an easel.

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/317504

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Henry Blair (1807–1860) was the second African American inventor to receive a US patent.

He was born in Glen Ross, Maryland. His first invention was the Seed-Planter, patented on October 14, 1834, which allowed farmers to plant more corn using less labor and in a shorter time. On August 31, 1836, he obtained a second patent for a cotton planter. This invention worked by splitting the ground with two shovel-like blades which were pulled along by a horse. A wheel-driven cylinder followed behind which dropped the seed into the newly plowed ground. He had been a successful farmer for years and developed inventions as a means of increasing efficiency in farming.

In the patent records, he is listed as a “colored man,” making this identification the only one of its kind in early patent records. He was illiterate, therefore he signed his patents with an “x”. It is said that he was a freedman. At the time that his patents were granted, US patent law allowed both freed and enslaved people to obtain patents. In 1857, this law was challenged by an enslaved owner who claimed that he owned “all the fruits of the slave’s labor,” including his slave’s inventions. This resulted in a change of the law in 1858 which stated that enslaved were not citizens, and therefore could not hold patents. In 1871, the law was changed to grant all men patent rights. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence