#famous americans

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AMERICAN OF THE DAY [APRIL 25TH 2023] : YEONMI PARK

Yeonmi Park (Korean: 박연미; born 4 October 1993) is a North Korean defector and activist whose family fled from North Korea to China in 2007 and settled in South Korea in 2009, before moving to the United States in 2014. Her family turned to black-market trading during the North Korean famine in the 1990s.[2] Her father was sent to a labor camp for smuggling.[3] They fled to China, where Park and her mother fell into the hands of human traffickers and she was sold into slavery before escaping to Mongolia.[4] She is now an advocate for victims of human trafficking in China and works to promote human rights in North Korea and around the globe.

Park is also a naturalized U.S. citizen.

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maffhew who refuses to say runebergin torttu because he knows hes gonna butcher it so bad he might be kicked out of the country the second he tries and staunchly avoids that by going "the one dessert that barky is going to have to explain 😃"

sasha who gets faced with the most generic description of everything hes ever eaten in his life so far because of maffhew and going "???... oh you mean runebergin torttu!"

"he did good he liked the food and he likes the finland so far so its good" sasha says with so much pride now that all the anxiety has left his system that his husband teammate is enjoying his country and doesnt hate it

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the smile of a man who knowlingly doomed his husband and said husband using all his brain power to context clues his way to whatever the fuck he just got asked that his brain is running hotter than a mid 2012 macbook air thats somehow still alive in the year of the lord 2024 but girl does she chug along shes louder than a fighter jet

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𝔉𝔞𝔪𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔐𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔉𝔦𝔩𝔪𝔩𝔞𝔫𝔡

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Carry On Through the Ages is in TWO MONTHS! (No, really, it's true!)

Shepard and Penny wouldn't lie to you. (They send greetings from some farm in Nebraska, btw. No idea what they're doing there. Maybe hunting imps.)

This is your Friendly Reminder that Carry On Through the Ages will have open posting November 3-9! Anyone who wants to can participate.

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Illustration from Famous Fantastic Mysteries by Virgil Finlay (June 1953)

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Jessica Lange photographed by Antonio Lopez, 1975

[alwaysbewoke]

Did you know that the famous line "And what the hell is that smell?" from 'Independence Day' was improvised by Will Smith? While filming the scene on the salt flat near the Great Salt Lake in Utah, nobody warned him about the strong odor caused by billions of decomposing brine shrimp in the lake.⁠

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Barbara Eden (ca.1960s)

[whowouldwininafite]

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gatsby at the ART closes today… so lucky i got to see it twice let alone at all. genuinely a one of a kind adaptation that goes beyond what the genre has been for musical theater by a mile- especially having seen the recent best musical outsiders beforehand. this was a show that kept the color and tone of the book while morphing it into a truly modern importance and interpretation.

idt there’s gonna be something like this in a while…. like this was how i felt doing cabaret for the first time years ago and that’s. big

[livelaughlovelams]

IMPORTANT!!!!

TOMORROW, JUNE 3RD, IS THE BIRTHDAY OF PIERRE-ETIÉNNE/PETER-STEPHEN DU PONCEAU!!!!

DU PONCEAU WAS A FRENCH-AMERICAN LINGUIST AND LAWYER, AS WELL AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY!!! HE WAS THE FIRST MAJOR WESTERN LINGUIST TO STUDY ASIAN AND INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES, AND EVEN COINED TWO MAJOR LINGUISTIC TERMS STILL USED TODAY!!! DU PONCEAU WAS ALSO HEAVILY SPECULATED TO HAVE BEEN BISEXUAL, AND TOMORROW IS BISEXUAL PRIDE DAY!!! EVERYONE TOLD HIM TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BUT HE DIDNT, BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE WASNT WORTH REMEMBERING!!! LETS SHOW HIM THAT HE WAS!!!!

Reblog this to show pretty boy that he was so worth remembering.

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Grace Kelly - 1954

[timetravelingcourtney]

I heard a rumor that there might maybe be a historical doll drop this week. I believe it after my trip to the new AG place LA.

I submit for your consideration:

Not pictured, Molly sweater pattern chair cushions.

It’s all happening!

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