#The history of the fork

[doctorsiren]

Day 20 of Sirentober / Doctober

Hands / Journal

You can tell who never made a deal

Available as a print on my Etsy Shop

[from-here-from-me]

Congratulations to the cast and crew of "The Bear," for a record-breaking 23 Emmy nominations!

THE BEAR — Season 2

[ohshy]

When people make hc posts about the punch out characters but leave out king hippo

[lionofchaeronea]

Romans Passing Under the Yoke, Charles Gleyre, 1858

[vintagecamping]

Building a fire in Blacksmith Fork Canyon.

Utah

1986

[vandaliatraveler]

Thomas and Douglas share a common legacy as historic coal mining and lumber towns, both of which reached their zeniths in the first half of the 20th century. The artifacts of area's industrial past, some of which are now being reclaimed by nature, are still evident along Douglas Road, which forks out of Thomas and follows the North Fork of the Blackwater River to Douglas. These include the beehive coke ovens that once lit up the night nonstop to produce coke for local blast furnaces. In addition to the abandoned structures, a number of coal company buildings have been preserved and added to the National Register of Historic Places, including the Davis Coal and Coke Company Administrative Building and the Buxton & Landstreet Company Store, which is now home to the Buxton & Landstreet Gallery and Studios. The area's bittersweet past includes a legacy of human exploitation and racial injustice. Like its brethren, the Davis Coal and Coke Company paid its miners in company scrip that was only redeemable at the company store, which charged inflated prices for goods and ensured it could reclaim their wages at a premium. The area was also home to the Coketown Colored School, a segregated school at the center of an important civil rights victory in 1892, when Carrie Williams, a teacher at the school, teamed with J. R. Clifford, the state’s first African-American lawyer, to defeat an effort by Tucker County to reduce the school’s term. The victory ensured equal pay and terms for African-American schools in West Virginia. The Coketown Colored School closed in 1954 when segregated schools were found unconstitutional.

[icarusbetide]

my favorite thing in the world is reasonable delusion? or honest delusion, i suppose?

one of my acquaintances is a history professor. a few weeks ago i asked him about hamburr, and this man looked me straight in the eye and said "aaron burr and alexander hamilton were products of their time. they both went into the duel not knowing what to expect, and burr especially did not anticipate the aftermath of that outcome." only to immediately follow it up with "but FAWK aaron burr, he's a little shit and he burns in hell for all i care."

i spent ten minutes trying to wheedle out the logic behind this and he goes "of course, burr did not deserve all the vitriol he received. but he also 100% deserved it, because he's aaron burr."

this is the person historians should strive to be. don't try to make yourself sound convincing if you know what you're saying isn't convincing. don't manipulate quotes or context to justify your misleading claims. just lay out all the evidence, acknowledge the reasonable take, and only after you have done your ethical duty, express your true feelings happily and proudly. no one can blame you then.

[avantroodles]

I have a theory that the Dimwood is, canonically, an actual place in Avantris. But there's some sort of anti-magic magic barrier around the place that simultaneously nullifies all magic and either transforms everyone inside into cute little creatures or messes with everyone's perceptions to make it seem like everyone is.

Spoilers for S2E4 below

The appearance of the Hungry Catfish Casino during S2E4 with "Louie LeDoux" or however his name is spelled, kinda solidifies this for me, and might place the timeline of Uprooted either alongside Prime or the magic barrier places it it a sort of timeless pocket dimension.

It'd be funny if the barrier also forces anyone inside it to play into Uprooted's "rules", rearranging memories and reshuffling their classes into the Root mould.

So in theory anyone anyone from the Avantris cinematic universe could potentially find themselves in Dimwood. Witchlight crew? Yes. Icebound crew? Absolutely. Edge of Midnight? Lethica has possum vibes I think.

[artschoolglasses]

Fork and Knife, Meissen Porcelain Factory, English, Late 18th/Early 19th Century

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

[animejunki5]

Anna M Mangin invented the pastry fork in 1891. She was an #Educator #Baker and #Caterer #Pioneer #AnnaMMangin #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackInventors #Baking

[saamaton]

work place break room so awkward i end up talking about table culture in medieval castles just to keep the conversation going

[rabbitcruiser]

Manitoba was incorporated as a province on January 27, 1870.

[20th-century-railroading]

LN0114 by Stanley Short Via Flickr: A Louisville & Nashville mine run passes a mine on the Straight Creek Branch at Stoney Fork, KY on May 17, 1979 with RS-11 No. 950 and C420 No. 1368.

[maddi--paige]

Princeton scientist Albert Einstein rented a house on the North Fork for the summer of 1939. It was a small beach shack on Nassau Point in Southold where, at the age of 60, he felt he could enjoy the salt sea air, sailing his 15-foot sailboat on the gentle waters of Peconic Bay—he’d brought it with him—and the peace and quiet of a rural community. With him came his secretary to keep his schedules and cook his meals, and for much of the time his married daughter Lieserl, who visited him and did his shopping for him. Einstein worked at least part of every day advancing his theories at a blackboard in the shack’s tiny living room.

While in Southold, Einstein befriended David Rothman, the owner of Rothman’s Department Store on Main Street in Southold. Einstein, a trained violinist, had learned that Rothman and several of his friends played Mozart and Beethoven in a classical string quartet at one or another’s homes in the evening twice a week. Einstein asked if he could join them and of course the answer was yes. Rothman, delighted to have a friendship with Einstein, kept a journal of their time together that summer.

In August, several prominent scientists, seeing that war was looming, drove out from New York to visit Einstein at his little beach house. They had written a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning him that the Germans were actively trying to build an atomic bomb. They felt America should have a lab to do that too and beat the Germans to the punch. But they also felt they needed the famous Albert Einstein to sign the letter so it would be read by the president. Einstein signed, and subsequently it was read by the president, and so the top secret lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee was quickly built and opened. Five years later, the lab split the atom and got the bomb before the Germans could do so.

Source: https://www.danspapers.com/2021/07/history-albert-einstein-southold/

[txtilecemetery]

Another thing about Thom Higgins is that he was suspended for contributing to an underground publication at UND called ‘Snow Job’. Which, of all the ways to be kicked out of college in 1960’s North Dakota, is at least pretty funny.

[the-littlest-goblin]

things that could salvage Campaign 3 for me:

final Predathos battle but they bring back the Downfall crew for a truly cosmic-level smack down

that is all