#Provos

[victusinveritas]

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1982 – Five men charged with conspiring to smuggle arms to the IRA in 1981 were acquitted in Federal Court in Brooklyn, NY.

Five men charged with conspiring to export arms to the Irish Republican Army were acquitted in Federal Court in Brooklyn, NY, apparently because a jury believed defence contentions that the Central Intelligence Agency had sanctioned their gun-running operation. No evidence directly linking the CIA to the operation was offered at the seven-week trial, and denials of involvement by the agency were…

[lem0nademouth]

i need all the self identified revolutionaries to remember that every iteration of the IRA has been designated as a terrorist organization by the Republic and its allies and you should not strive to be like them

[madamemarmot]

For a group with an alarming tendency to kill people by accident, the IRA had an elaborate internal mechanism for determining whether to kill people on purpose. Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe

[tonyrossmcmahon]

The murder of Ross McWhirter

In 1975, children's TV presenter Ross McWhirter was murdered by the Irish Republican Army - Tony McMahon investigates a terrible crime

On the night of November 27, 1975, Britain was stunned by the shooting dead of household name celebrity, Ross McWhirter. He and his identical twin brother Norris created and compiled the world famous Guinness Book of Records in 1955 and both men appeared regularly on the BBC children’s show Record Breakers in the early 1970s. Viewers were amazed by the ability of the cerebral twins to answer…

[ly0nstea]

14 dead but not forgotten, we got 18 and Mountbatten has to be one of the hardest slogans ever made

Agus as Gaeilge: 14 marbh ach ná dearmadta, mharaíomar 18 's Mountbatten, doesn't ring as well though :/

[nerdygaymormon]

[kas-e]

Atmospheric Vibes in Provo Canyon, Utah.

[city-flag-tournament]

Bonus Poll

A past flag of Provo, Utah, United States (1989-2015) vs The current flag of Lubec, Maine, United States vs The current flag of Bienville Parish, Louisiana, United States vs The current flag of Slaughter Beach, Delaware, United States vs The current flag of Whittier, California, United States vs The current flag of Biggar, Saskatchewan, Canada vs

[anglerflsh]

hatching is a terrible idea by the way

[mod2amaryllis]

finally watching secret lives of mormon wives cuz it feels like an obligation and of fucking course these bitches are from Utah county

[gelatinatremolante]

Incredibile: svegliarsi in un posto diverso da quello dove si vive per tutto l'anno e avere come unico pensiero in testa quello di uscire e scoprirlo il più possibile è bellissimo e vorrai farlo sempre.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

"average town listens intensely to 1000 artists a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average town listens intensely to just a couple hundred artists per year. Provo, Utah, which apparently listens to all kinds of music 24/7 through several devices at the same time, is an outlier adn should not have been counted"

[utahlive]

Hey Wilbur, do you work at the “LAST CHANCE” gas station in Provo, UT?

We are a bit of a ways out of the city, currently!

[transcript below]

Caller tahcoo:

Hey Wilbur, do you work at the “LAST CHANCE” gas station in Provo, UT?

Wilbur Soot:

Not even close. I'm not near Salt Lake.

[akimao]

~ Vash with the new design

[mynameis-gloria]

Questa cosa che ci provo eh, eppure non riesco ad essere costante, e continuo a perdermi, e continuo sempre a scattare e riempire la mia galleria eppure mi dico che forse è un bene, che il tempo lo sfrutto per altro, per godermi i momenti fuori, la vita , che sto abbastanza bene e che cieli come quelli di stasera, attimi quotidiani come una semplice passeggiata post cena nel mio paesello in qualche modo mi riempiono il cuore e mi bastano.