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[sometimeslondon]

The Gherkin appearing to launch out of the Tower of London

Another London contrast

[semioticapocalypse]

Wolf Suschitzky. Street Scene. London. 1936

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[timaeuslover001]

Interracial Marriage in United Kingdom

Inter-ethnic marriage began occurring more often in Britain since the 17th century, when the British East India Company began bringing over many Indian scholars, lascars, servants and workers. A lack of anti-miscegenation laws in Britain increased the frequency of such unions.[409][410] By the mid-19th century, there were more than 40,000 Indian seamen, diplomats, scholars, soldiers, officials, tourists, businessmen and students arriving (normally temporarily) to Britain.[356] By the late 19th century and early 20th century, there were around 70,000 South Asians working on British ships,[411] 51,616 of whom were lascar seamen working on British merchant ships for the Royal Navy when World War I broke out.[412][413] Families with South Asian lascar fathers and whitemothers established small interracial families in Britain's dock areas.[414] This led to a number of "mixed race" children being born in the country. The small number of ethnic minority women in Britain were often outnumbered by "half-caste Indian" daughters born from white mothers and Indian fathers although mixed race families were still very unusual in Britain at this time.[415] In addition, a number of British officers who had Indian wives and Anglo-Indian children in British India often brought them over to Britain in the 19th century.[416] From the 1890s onwards, small numbers of Chinese began to set up businesses catering to the Chinese sailors working on Holt's lines and others. Some of these men married working class British women, resulting in a number of British-born Eurasian Chinese being born in Liverpool.[417] The first Chinese immigrants were mainly Cantonese from south China, with some also from Shanghai. The figures of Chinese for 1921 are 2,157 men and 262 women. Many Chinese men married British women while others remained single, possibly supporting a wife and family back home in China. During World War II, another wave of Chinese seamen from Shanghai and of Cantonese origin married British women. Records show that about some 300 of these men had married British women and supported families.[418]

[whereskatieandgrady]

Alton Towers

We stayed in the cutest cottage and visited Alton Towers in the pouring rain. Alton Towers dates back to the Iron Age!

[maximumphilosopheranchor]

TUDORWEEK2024: Day 2 -  Favourite Tudor contemporary quote about or said by the Tudor family

“There is a strong idea in the world that a woman cannot live unless she is married, or at all events that if she refrains from marriage she does so for some bad reason… But what can we do ? We cannot cover everybody’s mouth, but must content ourselves with doing our duty and trust in God, for the truth will at last be made manifest. He knows my heart, which is very different from what people think, as you will see some day.”

Elizabeth I of England to Spanish ambassador Diego Guzmán de Silva, 24 March 1565.

[thirdlotusprince3]

America: England told me to grow up. I was speechless. It's hard to say anything with 68 gummies in your mouth

[smileytaa]

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[spinus-pinus]

Mexican Wolf Canis lupus baileyi

8/14/2022 The Living Desert Zoo, California

[hetalia-club]

here is a png for a video I made thought I would share it so you to can make them watch whatever you want.

[stewytooo]

'oh shit' moment for sure

[pineyw00dsshesquatch]

The more I learn about food the less I'm inclined to defer to 'authenticity' for tradition's sake and just try to research to an insane extent cuz I'm paranoid of being a culture vulture. I'm a pasty bench who cooks a lot of Tex Mex, so I'm always quick to point out who I learned what from and that it's just one way out of buckets of techniques, methods and ingredients. Not matter what I'm goddamn cooking, tbh. I just want to make zero claims that I have any goddamn authority besides "cook TX good". My style is Texas gawdammit.

My husband's family have been in central TX for a few generations which is distinct from East TX where we are now and I have no idea what regions of Mexico his family is connected to cuz TX is big but Mexico is HUGE and just WAS Texas for a long ass time. Texans who pretend Mexican influence isn't integral to our state are garbage trash and deserve to be carried off and devoured by the Lechuza owl woman of legend.

I have never had corned beef and cabbage but a side of my family is actually Czech so they put sausage in that shit, though my grandpa was born and raised in Ohio and got here (Texas) as quick as he could. I know he used to make his own sausage, and I'm crushed I never got to learn from him before he passed. My dad has taught me how to smoke brisket with the vertical pit my grandpa made from a propane tank tho. Some of the best meats etc TX is known for is from that magic of immigrantion and swapping techniques, methods, ingredients etc.

Second wave European immigrants like Germans and Czechs infiltrated the TX Hill country so you'll get billboards for Kolache bakeries and smoke houses out there. West Texas, where I have spent the least time, does incredible things with dove breasts and jalapeno cream cheese. Where I live now is bumped up on Louisiana so there's a lot more Cajun and Creole influence here than the rest of the state. Cajun and Creole are their own dense microcosm of 2 differentiating cuisines/cultures from literally dozens of different cultural groups crammed into one little state shaking out their distinctions over the centuries. Captain Ben Sisko's dad will tell you, Creole is NOT Cajun!

What makes so much of the "authenticity" harder is thanks to white supremacy, many specifics are just lost to time. My husband only recently found out from his great tió, that his great grandfather was Apache who went through state assimilation and had his name changed. A cousin on my side has a Creole grandmother who was apparently insistent she was French Creole and 'nothing else'. I ain't saying she was fibbing, just pointing out that she made such a a distinction. Creole is usually associated with Afro and indigenous folks compared to Cajun though it is absolutely not a rule, but people still carry a negative association for poop reasons. To reiterate, I am white, my ancestor got to come across the pond and keep fuckin 'Hvizdos' where my husband's ancestor was US born and forced to assimilate. People way more researched and knowledgeable than me have spilled ink on these phenomena that are infinitely more useful. I just love the multicultural history of my state and how it's specialized our food and want to honor the people who've lived here over the centuries when I cook.

You sure AF can't get a Boudin Kolache (a Czech yeast roll filled with Cajun dirty rice) anywhere but here in East TX. I also goddamn love Viet Cajun food, IM SO GLAD ITS CRAWFISH SEASON PASS ME THE MUDBUGS!

what if i told you that a lot of “Americanized” versions of foods were actually the product of immigrant experiences and are not “bastardized versions”

[empresspersephone]

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[emvidal]

"The French monarchy has often been described as absolute, but that word poorly describes the actual regime. Many government responsibilities lay beyond the authority of the throne. While the French king was the only source of legislation for the entire realm, the king’s decrees only became efficacious when they were registered by the Parlement of Paris; thus, at the very least, the wishes of the king could be delayed."

[snekdood]

some of yall think human lives are always more important than animal lives and it kinda sucks ngl

[wouldvebeensweet]

Eras Tour photos masterpost!  ⁺˚⋆。°✩

General eras tour tag → here

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US Leg (2023) 🇺🇸

→ Glendale, AZ (3/17, 3/18)

→ Las Vegas, NV (3/24, 3/25)

→ Arlington, TX (3/31, 4/1, 4/2)

→ Tampa, FL (4/13, 4/14, 4/15)

→ Houston, TX (4/21, 4/22, 4/23)

→ Atlanta, GA (4/28, 4/29, 4/30)

→ Nashville, TN (5/5, 5/6, 5/7)

→ Philadelphia, PA (5/12, 5/13, 5/14)

→ Foxborough, MA (5/19, 5/20, 5/21)

→ East Rutherford, NJ (5/26, 5/27, 5/28)

→ Chicago, IL (6/2, 6/3, 6/4)

→ Detroit, MI (6/9, 6/10)

→ Pittsburgh, PA (6/16, 6/17)

→ Minneapolis, MN (6/23, 6/24)

→ Cincinnati, OH (6/30, 7/1)

→ Kansas City, MO (7/7, 7/8)

→ Denver, CO (7/14, 7/15)

→ Seattle, WA (7/22, 7/23)

→ Santa Clara, CA (7/28, 7/29)

→ Los Angeles, CA (8/3, 8/4, 8/5, 8/7, 8/8, 8/9)

Asia, Australia and Latin America (2023)

→ Mexico City, MX 🇲🇽 (8/24, 8/25, 8/26, 8/27)

→ Buenos Aires, ARG 🇦🇷 (11/9, 11/11, 11/12)

→ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷 (11/17, 11/19, 11/20)

→ Sao Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷 (11/24, 11/25, 11/26)

→ Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 (2/7, 2/8, 2/9, 2/10)

→ Melbourne, AUS 🇦🇺 (2/16, 2/17, 2/18)

→ Sydney, AUS 🇦🇺 (2/23, 2/24, 2/25, 2/26)

→ Singapore, SG 🇸🇬 (3/2, 3/3, 3/4, 3/7, 3/8, 3/9)

Europe Leg 2024

→ Paris, FR 🇫🇷 (4/9, 4/10, 4/11, 4/12)

→ Sweden, SE 🇸🇪 (4/17, 4/18, 4/19)

→ Lisbon, PT 🇵🇹 (4/24, 4/25)

→ Madrid, ESP 🇪🇸 (5/29, 5/30)

→ Lyon, FR 🇫🇷 (6/2, 6/3)

→ Edinburgh, SCT 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (6/7, 6/8, 6/9)

→ Liverpool, England UK 🇬🇧 (6/13, 6/14 6/15)

→ Cardiff, Wales UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (6/18)

→ London, Engand UK 🇬🇧 (6/21, 6/22, 6/23)

→ Dublin, IE 🇮🇪 (6/28, 6/29, 6/30)

**If you don't see photos for your show, don't worry! I'll be going through and adding more. This is just what I have so far!