#Pan-American Exposition

[rabbitcruiser]

U.S. president William McKinley was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6, 1901.

[witekspicsoldpostcards]

BUFFALO, NY, USA >>> Pan American Exposition in 1901. On the sides famous waterfall Niagara.

[czolgosz]

[ID: a photograph of a glass paperweight featuring the words "I was at," then a picture of a buffalo, then the words "in 1901"; a ceramic statuette with the words "His Master's Voice" on the base depicting a dog looking into the horn of a phonograph; and a postcard featuring a colored photograph of the temple of music, portrait photographs of william mckinley and ida mckinley, and the words "Temple of Music, where Pres. McKinley was shot." /end ID]

three of the items i received for my birthday

[thingsmk1120sayz]

[deadpresidents]

Who was the last president that never flew in an airplane during his lifetime? I was thinking Coolidge. Hoover lived 31 years after his term ended. On that same note, last president to never ride in a car. McKinley? No post presidency. And, train might be Polk.

These were interesting questions to think about, so I ended up doing some half-assed research to try to nail down the answers.

Calvin Coolidge was definitely the last President to never fly in an airplane during his life. The Coolidge Foundation confirms that.

The first incumbent President to ride in a train was actually Andrew Jackson in 1833, which was 12 years before Polk was in office, so imagine all of Jackson's successors traveled by train, as well. We know that John Quincy Adams traveled by train after leaving office because in November 1833, just a few months after President Jackson's first train trip, Adams was on board a train that derailed in New Jersey and resulted in what might have been the first train accident fatalities in history.

As for cars, that's a little bit tougher to figure out. William McKinley was definitely the first President to ride in a car while in office. We know that when McKinley was first inaugurated in 1897, he and outgoing President Grover Cleveland made the traditional trip to the Capitol together via horse-drawn carriage. Cleveland lived until 1908 and traveled in automobiles after leaving the White House, but he would have been the last President to never ride in a car while he was in office.

Along with being the first incumbent President to travel in a car, President McKinley has the unfortunate distinction of being the first sitting President to ride in an ambulance. After he was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901, McKinley was transported from the site of the shooting to a home where doctors unsuccessfully tried to save his life:

[smbhax]

First photo of Leon F. Czolgosz after his shooting of US President William McKinley in 1901, photos illustrating the assassination attempt, as McKinley shook hands with the public at the Pan-American Exposition’s Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, and Czolgosz’s booking photo. [1][2][3] Though not directly fatal, the wound became gangrenous, and McKinley died a week later. The Exposition continued for another two weeks. Czolgosz was executed three weeks after it ended. At the time, US Presidents lacked a regular security detail. “Though it still lacked any legislative mandate, by 1902, the Secret Service (a unit of the Treasury) was protecting President Theodore Roosevelt full-time. [...] In 1906, Congress passed legislation officially designating the Secret Service as the agency in charge of presidential security.” [4]

[mrcowboydeanwinchester]

women in horror

wanted a sapphicnatural anthem so i wrote one <3

this is dedicated to all the women of supernatural, and especially to the people in the fandom who bring them back to life to give them their sapphic happy endings. happy @sapphicnaturalrights sapphicnatural week !!! i tried to hit as many of the prompts as possible in one go <3

lyrics under the cut!

VERSE home alone late at night cold open in the dark light bubble bath, spilling red wine her scream cues the title card

guest appearance, aren't you lucky exposition, keep it clunky mystery isn't the only thing she makes hard

PRE-CHORUS tiny top, thick makeup white and lacy linen lipstick pop, DD cup bloody in your visions oh, she's a woman in horror come and tell me you want her handcuff torn, baby born losing is a given monster turn, crash and burn i know why you're driven oh, she's a woman in horror come and

CHORUS bury your girls bury your gays you like pretty women (yum) but you love your cliches she's coming back wrong i'm making it right once i get my shovel we'll keep you up at night (oh?) we'll keep you up at night (okay)

([british accent] so basically, she- am i american or not? i can't remember. oh. um. [american accent] is this accent okay?)

VERSE bloodthirsty kiss and chase through hell's fire and heaven's grace slow panning shots up to her face (that's hot) that's a wrap on her screentime

credits rolling, she's the last name find a plot hole, give her the blame she's a hot one but it's a shame about her crimes (ew)

PRE-CHORUS tiny top, thick makeup white and lacy linen lipstick pop, DD cup bloody in your visions oh, she's a woman in horror come and tell me you want her handcuff torn, baby born losing is a given (yeah) monster turn, crash and burn i know why you're driven oh, in a fatal genre she's dead cos you (laughter into manic shriek)

CHORUS bury your girls bury your gays you like pretty women but you love your cliches she's coming back wrong i'm making it right (yeah) since i've got my shovel we'll keep you up at night we'll keep you up at night

([american accent] so his girlfriend burns to death, so he wants revenge, but then she comes back to life, like - nonono, his mom comes back to life, because she also burned to death-)

BRIDGE me and bloody mary are getting off in the back of your daddy's car stole your silver bullets, the witches and i making magic, we go so far for women in white for mothers and wives for demons and daughters resurrection time the write to survive she's coming alive for women in horror resurrection time !!!

CHORUS you bury your girls you bury your gays i love all your women and i hate your cliches she's coming back strong i'm making it right now i've got my shovel we'll bury you deep at night we bury you deep at night

[marzipanandminutiae]

broke: there is no mention of the 1901 Buffalo Pan-American Exposition in Crimson Peak because Del Toro didn't know that was a thing

woke: there is no mention of the 1901 Buffalo Pan-American Exposition in Crimson Peak because the characters are too wrapped up in their own lives to give a damn about it

which becomes even funnier when you recall that, oh yeah-

the President of the United States was fatally shot, at a massive highly publicized event, in the town where this movie takes place, smack-dab in the middle of the story's timeline (September 6, 1901- William McKinley died on September 14th and the disastrous dinner party is on October 21st, 1901 based on the dates in Carter's checkbook)

presidential assassination? fuck that; there's Gothic Drama afoot!

[detroitlib]

View of the L'Anse Brown Stone fountain, presented to the City of Detroit by the L'Anse Brown Stone Company, and located on Belle Isle at southeast Loiterway and Picnicway. Made of Indian red limestone, it was one of the exhibits at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York. Inscription reads: "1902, presented by."

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[blueiscoool]

Tiffany Studios Dandelion lamp

Hand-blown Favrile glass, hammered and patinated copper. Etched to shade ‘M3962’. Impressed to base ‘TIFFANY G. & D. CO. NEW YORK S 1293’. Exhibited: Exposition Universelle, 1900, Paris | Pan-American Exposition, 1901, Buffalo. USA, 1900.

[rabbitcruiser]

U.S. president William McKinley was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6, 1901.

[witekspicsoldpostcards]

USA - New York state building / Pan American Exposition 1901

[czolgosz]

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[thingsmk1120sayz]

[presidentmckinley]

Here it is, the full April Fools/Pan American Exposition attendee getup all in one piece that I will be wearing to the concert

please excuse the state of my room

assassins Halloween everyone

[rose-reveries]

⚠️BEWARE THE EPISODE 4 PJO SPOILERS⚠️

Episode 4: The things I like, the things I don’t, the things I miss but I’m okay with them not being there

The things I liked about the new episode:

I liked the conversation at the beginning in the train. Very reminiscent of the book where we get to learn a little bit more about Annabeth and how she arrived at camp. I found it interesting how here we changed it from Annabeth’s father always resenting her birth to Annabeth’s father considering her “a gift” until her step-mother came along. I don’t mind this change at all and all in all still makes sense as to why Annabeth ran away when she was 7.

“But at least with gods you know the rules” okay Miss Chase your autism is showing (/j)

The flow from seeing the centaurs (which is something I believe only Percy saw in the books) to letting this be how Grover opens up about Pan and why he wants to be a searcher was a nice little combination of scenes to save time. We still understand how Grover feels about humans and their mistreatment of nature but it’s just in a slightly different way than the books and I’m okay with that change.

The BANTER between the trio was SO good this episode. You can really feel the bonds between these characters (especially Percy and Annabeth) forming this episode.

The pacing in this episode finally started to feel a little bit better than the first 3 episodes. I actually do think the change in how they meet Echidna helps with this because it prolongs the hunt whereas in the book the Echidna and Chimera scene IS quite short and fast. Meeting Echidna on the train, having them run and try to heal Percy, Percy gets worse, Percy sacrifices himself to let the other two get away, fight scene, he falls into the river, etc. Just way better pacing than like, for example, episode one where Alecto literally just flies at him and without moving he stabs her and she dies 💀

Okay, my FAVORITE new thing about the episode does have to be making the Arch a temple to Athena. If the gods still rule but have adapted to the west it makes total sense that they still have temples but they’re just modern American landmarks. Super cool and I loved this change.

Also, rather than Annabeth and Grover just heading down in the elevator before learning there’s a monster, I do like Percy stepping in and sacrificing himself to let them get away. It shows his loyalty to his friends, and how he would rather fight a monster than let them die without reason.

Since the Arch is a temple and Athena had to give Echidna permission to enter, and she did so due to Annabeth’s impertinence, this REALLY helps with the shows current message of heroes and monsters and what those terms mean, but also just how the gods are like BAD. I think it’ll help make Luke’s reasoning for turning on the gods make SO much sense for new audience members.

Percy and Annabeth banter?? ADORABLE

TOTALLY CALLED THE WATER REACHING OUT TO REACH PERCY LMAO. I know RR said he had Percy jump into the river because he didn’t realize how far it was from the arch so this is like sort of a retcon but yea, it works. Percy can manipulate water we learned this with how he pushed Nancy into the fountain.

Things I didn’t:

I think Echidna breaking into the train ✨magically✨ was eh. She could have simply just been on the train like how in the book she was just simply in the elevator.

Speaking of Echidna, it would’ve been so cool to see a snake lady :’). They did it with Medusa and Alecto but I guess they spent their whole budget on that because no snake lady to be seen.

I know the Mist would be hiding it from mortals… but even in the book Grover is like wearing pants and a hat. If they spent less cgi on Grover they could’ve animated some other stuff I’m sure.

The choice to keep depicting Kronos as this wraith instead of a voice from a pit is interesting?? We are already not setting up for Kronos reveal (like there was no Kronos exposition in the museum in episode one which I though was weird). Also I’d say that they’re doing this because they want new audience members to believe Hades is the BBG or something, but if they wanted us to think that why not mention the Helm of Darkness? The Helm would definitely help allude to this wraith figure we see I think. Or show us the hellhound. I don’t know. Weird. I think there is a lot of missing information that is IMPORTANT to the story that shouldn’t have been left out.

Things I miss but it’s fine they’re not there

The trio just never lost their stuff, huh? Like…the bus didn’t explode. They didn’t have to return a poodle for money to a train to Denver. I understand this was all probably cut for time and money sake.

Wish we took the time in the arch for Annabeth to talk about wanting to be an architect.

In conclusion, I liked this episode and I am enjoying the series. But this means that the Lightning Thief Musical is still the most book accurate adaptation of Percy Jackson and that makes me lol