#december 16

[tswiftupdatess]

6 years ago today, a signed copy of 1989 by Taylor Swift was launched in a time capsule into space!

(On December 16, 2018)

[happybirthday-unusannus]

Happy 5th Birthday to

“We Had to Drink Each Other's Pee”

[chalamet-chalamet]

He looks so amazing today (IG credit to _ab_tm) 💥

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

~ ❦ Queen Silvia of Sweden and her grandchildren help decorate Christmas trees given by the Forest University’s student union, December 16th 2024

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Daniel Craig and Josh O’Connor for Variety’s Actors on Actors (December 16, 2024) ✨✨✨

📸 by Alexi Lubomirski

[boydholbrook-fan]

Boyd in a Good Morning America interview

Boyd has the most beautiful smile and laugh in the entire universe! He's also such a handsome man! He's such an exceptional talent! He's so adorable! And I love him and admire him so much! He's incredible! He's the best! ❤️🌟

I know I've said this multiple times already but you know, I'll never get tired of saying all this!

[floridaboiler]

source - https://twitter.com/adilando

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 50, vol. 32, 16 décembre 1911, Paris. Habit de brocart "orange” broché d’argent et bordé d’hermine, sur robe de tulle bis et dentelle. Imp. L. Lafontaine, Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Reverend Guilford Larimer Speaking about Burnside School

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United StatesSeries: Civil Case FilesFile Unit: Anthony P. Burroughs, et al. v. Benjamin Willis, et al. v. the Board of Education of the City of Chicago and Benjamin C. Willis

December 16, 1959

Rev. Guilford Larimer--Representing Chesterfield Community Council--

Speaking about Burnside School, 91st Place and Langley Ave.

I speak this morning representing the Chesterfield Community Council

and its concern with the overcrowded conditions at Ambrose Burnside School.

Perhaps the most direct method would be to list the conditions at the

school and then present for your consideration what we think will help rem-

edy these conditions on two levels, the long run and the immediate future.

Simply stated, the problem is this: there are far too many children for

the facilities of the school. Here are the facts:

1) The ratio of pupils to teachers is 40.9-1

2) Perhaps an even more importation ratio is that of pupils to actual class

rooms. This is 45-1

3) I say actual class-rooms because there are classes meeting

a)on the stage of the auditorium

b)in the teachers' lounge

c) in the teachers' cafeteria

d) in the library.

It is an understatement to say that adequate teaching cannot be done under

these circumstances.

4) In the last five yearsthe enrollment at Burnside has had a net gain

of about 500, bringing it over the 1600 mark at the present time. And the

future promises no relief from this pressure. Due to the change in the racial

character of the neighborhood, which has seen families with young children

replacing many middle-aged and older folks whose children are now grown, and

due to the extensive building in the area between South Park and Indiana Ave.

and 87th and 95th Sts., all of which is in the Burnside district, there is

every reason to believe that the load on the school will continue to increase.

Here then is the problem. In view of the plans for building indicated

in the tentative budget for 1960, and keeping in mind an already pressing

situation, we offer the following for your consideration:

1) For future needs, not only of Burnside School, but of the larger

area bounded by 87th, 95th, State, and the Illinois Central tracks, we strong-

ly recommend the building of a full 8 grade school on the McDade site at 88th

and Indiana. We submit that a minimum figure of $600,000 rather than $300,000

is more in keeping with both the present and the future need in that area.

We feel that the present plans which would culminate in the building of a

school accomodating approximately 250 pupils would be an unrealistic approach

in view of the fact that there are already 537 children now attending Burn-

side who live in the area bounded by 87th, 95th, South Park and Indiana.

2) Along with the building of McDade we then would recommend re-district-

ing, moving the western boundary of the Burnside district to South Park Ave.

3) For Burnside's immediate needs we request the following alternatives

as providing a measure of temporary relief--

a) Build "portables" on the Burnside grounds

b) Consider the use of the facilites of Tuley Park for some class-

es. This park is in the block diagonally adjoining the school property.

c) Consider the use of the facilities of Vincent Methodist Church

for class-rooms. The church is immediately across the street from the school.

There are, no doubt, many factors to be considered in these remarks,

not the least of which is the availability of money for building. We do not

presume to be experts in this field. But we do justly claim a great concern

that the children of our neighborhood have the best education possible.

Under the present circumstances at Burnside, we know that this educational

process is severely hampered.

EXHIBIT "B"

[lulublack90]

Prompt 16 - Vision

@jegulus-microfic December 16, Word count 194

Previous part First part

How could he have been so stupid to go that far with a boy he wasn’t allowed to be around? His parents had made it abundantly clear that he was not to follow in his brother's footsteps and befriend the Potter boy. It had been drilled into him every time he left Grimmauld Place to return to Hogwarts, and here he was going far further with the Potter boy than he was sure his brother had ever gone. 

He was going to be disowned for sure. But the little voice in the back of his head that sounded eerily like Sirius, kept telling him, so what? 

The little voice grew louder, pointing out that he’d never felt so safe and comfortable. James asked for nothing and expected nothing of him. James had held him lovingly like no one ever had.

Regulus’s head flopped back onto his pillow and he let himself imagine what it would be like if he could actually be with James Potter in the way he’d glimpsed an hour ago. 

In his vision he was happier than he’d ever remembered being, and he wished he’d never allowed his mind to wander.

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'THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT' is now the longest running album at #1 on the Billboard 200 in any calendar year this century with 17 weeks!

(December 16, 2024)

[happybirthday-unusannus]

Happy 4th Birthday to

“We Had to Drink Each Other's Pee”

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2016 and 2024

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[multiverse-peterbparker]

Sometimes you have to think to yourself: “Am I good enough?” Especially when you’ve been put into shoes that are too big for your feet. Shoes that you’ll never be able to grow to fill.

I think that a lot when I go out into the world as Spider-Man. I mean there’s so many things I didn’t get to do as a kid, so many things I missed with Mr. Stark.

I mean, like I said there’s always going to be those shoes that you’ve been put in. They’re always going to be too big. There’s always going to be that hoodie that’s will always be just a little too big for you, but you wear it anyways because it was his. And you miss him. There’s always going to be pictures that you walk past and look at and think: “Man, this would’ve been different if you were around, right?”

Like, God. It’s been years now right? And I still find myself missing Mr. Stark. I mean, he was like a dad to me. I know he had his own kid, I know I was just kinda there, but that didn’t really change any of it. I mean, to so many of us he wasn’t just Iron Man or the playboy Tony Stark. He was dad or a best friend. He got the Avengers through some things that I’m not sure they would’ve gotten through without him.

Even now he still makes a difference. Yeah, he’s dead but he’s still here if that makes sense? I don’t know why I’m thinking about this. I think it’s because today was the day his parents died and it really got me thinking you know? Like… after my parents it was May and Ben, then just May. Then it was Tony. He was kinda just there. But he was always there when you needed him, he always showed up and he never let you down. Then I lost him, May, Happy… I visited him today. Then his parents. Told them that I’m glad that they had him, because I would’ve been alone without him. I’m alone now, but I would’ve been more lost as Spider-Man.

I think I’m only who I am because of Mr. Stark. Call him what you want: Playboy, reckless, egotistical. Yeah, he was. But that was his external front. You didn’t know the real him. Mr. Stark… he had heart.

[dailykafka]

— December 16, 1913 / Franz Kafka diaries