#sailor-megido

[oortcloud]

cosmic time girlies ^u^

[damarassanctuary]

we don't have even nearly enough Sailor Damara fanart in this world

speedpaint:

[forgetful-river]

I trust her to keep us sailing smoothly :)

[wingshowdown]

Here are the contenders (alphabetically)

Aisa (One Piece)

Aisha (Winx Club)

Aizawa Mint (Tokyo Mew Mew)

Alata (Tensai Sentai Goseiger)

Albedo (Overlord)

Allay (Minecraft)

Ananas Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run)

Angel Cookie (Cookie Run)

Angel Cure Berry (Fresh Precure)

Angel Cure Passion (Fresh Precure)

Angel Cure Peach (Fresh Precure)

Angel Cure Pine (Fresh Precure)

Angel Devil (Chainsaw Man)

Angella (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Aradia Megido (Homestuck)

Aroma (Go! Princess Precure)

Asreil (Undertale)

Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Barbatos (Genshin Impact)

Beck (Disney Fairies)

Bird Person (Rick and Morty)

Bird That Carries You Over A Disproportionately Small Gap (Undertale)

Blackjack (Percy Jackson)

Brietta (Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus)

Butterfly (The Last Unicorn)

Castiel (Supernatural)

Charizard (Pokémon)

Cheese (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy)

Colt (Hunter x Hunter)

Corvin D’Oro (Montress)

Crona (Soul Eater)

Crowley (Good Omens)

Cthulu (The Call of Cthulu)

Cure Felice (Mahoutsukai Precure)

Cure Grace (Healin’Good style) (Healin’Good Precure)

Cure Infini (HUGtto Precure)

Cure Parfait (Kira Kira Precure a la Mode)

Cure Princess (Happiness Charge Precure)

Cyprin (Spyro the Dragon)

Dahlia (Barbie: Fairytopia)

Dark Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising)

Dark Pretty Cure (Heartcatch Precure)

Discord (My Little Pony)

Dragonite (Pokémon)

Duck (Princess TuTu)

Eda (The Owl House)

Elina (Barbie: Fairytopia)

Emyr (The Witch King)

Ender Dragon (Minecraft)

Eternal Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)

Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2)

Fledge (The Chronicles of Narnia)

Fluttershy (My Little Pony)

Genesis Rhapsodos (Final Fantasy)

Giratina (Pokémon)

Goddess Hylia (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)

Grian (Hermitcraft/Evo)

Happy (Fairy Tail)

Hawks (My Hero Academia)

Howl (Howl’s Moving Castle)

Hue (Barbie Fairytopia)

Icarus (Greek mythology)

Iridessa (Disney Fairies)

Irma (W.I.T.C.H.)

Jake Long (American Dragon Jake Long)

Joshua Kiryu (The World Ends With You)

Junior Troopa (Paper Mario)

Kaepora Gaebora (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time)

Konan (Naruto)

Kushina Anna (K)

Link's Loftwing (Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)

Little Bird Holding a Rat (Spirited Away)

Lock (Go! Princess Precure)

Lychee Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run)

Mario (with wing cap) (Super Mario 64)

Mariposa (Barbie: Mariposa)

Max (Magical Boy)

Medli (Legend of Zelda: Windwaker)

Megeara (Hades)

Meta Knight (Kirby)

Monet (One Piece)

Paarthurnax (Skyrim)

Palutena (Kid Icarus: Uprising)

Panty (Panty and Stocking)

Parakarry (Paper Mario)

Penelope (Barbie as Rapunzel)

Philza (Origin SMP)

Pikario (Kira Kira Precure a la Mode)

Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising)

Postman (Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass)

Prilla (Disney Fairies)

Rainbow Dash (My Little Pony)

Raphaella La Cognizi (The Mechanisms)

Rem (Death Note)

Ridley (Metroid)

Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Royale Candy (Smile Precure)

Ruby the Red Fairy (Rainbow Magic)

Rufioh Nitram (Homestuck)

Ryuk (Death Note)

Sam (180° Angel)

Sephiroth (Final Fantasy)

Shantae (bat form) (Shantae: Half Genie Hero)

Sigrún (God of War: Ragnarok)

Smaug (The Hobbit)

Spamton NEO (Deltarune)

Spyro (Spyro the Dragon)

Star Butterfly (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)

Stocking (Panty and Stocking)

Tank (Forever After)

Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck)

The Sorceress (He-Man)

Tinker Bell (Peter Pan)

Tobias (Animorphs)

Toothiana (Rise of the Guardians

Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon)

Tropius (Pokémon)

Tsunderplane (Undertale)

Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony)

Untitled Goose (Untitled Goose Game)

Venger (Dungeons and Dragons)

Vex (Minecraft)

Vidia (Disney Fairies)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck)

Winged Pikmin (Pikmin 3)

Yasha (Critical Role)

Yume (Mewkledreamy)

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.16 (before 1940)

1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Roman emperor Otho commits suicide. 73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War. 1346 – Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans. 1520 – The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V. 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina. 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants. 1780 – Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster. 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre. 1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. 1838 – The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War. 1847 – Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars. 1853 – The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane. 1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is dissolved. 1862 – American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia. 1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law. 1863 – American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg. 1878 – The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issues a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands from the old Kymi parish. 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle. 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah. 1910 – The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time. 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. 1917 – Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland. 1919 – Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier. 1919 – Polish–Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania. 1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed. 1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.

[gothgirlshowdown]

Welcome to the Goth Girl Showdown! A competition where we will determine the ultimate fictional goth girl (gender neutral)!

This bracket will include 64 characters. Each round will last a week, and there will be 24 hours between rounds for me to set up for the nest round! I tried to seed it traditionally, but I’m not familiar with some media, and therefore am unsure about its relative popularity. I’m hoping to start getting everything uploaded on Saturday, June 10, 12am EST!

Round One

Wednesday Addams (the Addams Family) vs Emily Strange (Emily the Strange)

Marceline Abadeer / Marceline the Vampire Queen (Adventure Time) vs Creepie Creacher (Growing Up Creepie)

Sinead (But I’m a Cheerleader) vs Alice Lendrott (The Duke of Death and His Maid)

Misa Amane (Death Note) vs Marnie (Pokemon Sword and Shield)

Claudia (The Dragon Prince) vs Crimson (Total Drama)

Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs Goth Girl (Turning Red)

Maddie Flour (Amphibia) vs Sucy Manbavaran (Little Witch Academia)

Trish (Devil May Cry) vs Gwen (Total Drama Island)

Spock (Star Trek: The Original Series) vs Enid Mettle (OK KO: Let’s Be Heroes)

Mandy (Billy and Mandy’s Grim Adventures) vs Ruby Gloom (Ruby Gloom)

Nancy Downs (The Craft) vs Karina (Guardian Tales)

Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice) vs Scary Girl (Total Drama Island)

Gerry Keay (The Magnus Archives) vs Esmerelda Tusspells (Ace Attorney)

Laudna (Critical Role) vs Dru Blackthorn (The Shadowhunter Chronicles)

Serana (Skyrim) vs Hanajima Saki (Fruits Basket)

Aradia Megido (Homestuck) vs Arachne Gorgon (Soul Eater)

Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way (My Immortal) vs Lenore (Lenore the Cure Little Dead Girl)

Mai (Avatar: The Last Airbender) vs Claire (The Summoning)

Janis Ian (Mean Girls) vs Noxia (Guardian Tales)

Sam Manson (Danny Phantom) vs Onyx von Trollenberg (Trolls)

Harrowhark Nonegesimus (The Locked Tomb) vs Maria Gorey (The Great Ace Attorney)

Wei Wuxian (The Untamed) vs Courtney K (Craig of the Creek)

Brigitte Fitzgerald (Ginger Snaps) vs Celestia Ludenberg (Danganronpa)

Morrigan (Dragon Age) vs Nadja of Antipaxos (What We Do in the Shadows)

Morticia Addams (The Addams Family) vs Serenity Rose (Serenity Rose)

Vanessa Doofensmirtz (Phineas and Ferb) vs Misery (Ruby Gloom)

Allison Reynolds (The Breakfast Club) vs Queen Lilith (Guardian Tales)

Hotaru Tomoe (Sailor Moon) vs Nana Osaki (Nana)

Death of the Endle (The Sandman) vs Courtney Sithe (The Great Ace Attorney)

Magenta (Sky High) vs Tabitha (Craig of the Creek)

Ruby Rose (RWBY) vs Nico Minoru (The Runaways, Marvel)

Rose Lalonde (Homestuck) vs Vampire Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Round Two

Wednesday Addams (The Addams Family) vs Marceline the Vampire Queen)

Sinead (But I’m a Cheerleader) vs Misa Amane (Death Note)

Claudia (The Dragon Prince) vs Drusilla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Sucy Manbavaran (Little Witch Academia) vs Geen (Total Drama Island)

Spock (Star Trek) vs Mandy (Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy)

Nancy Downs (The Craft) vs Lydia Deetz (Beetlejuice)

Gerry Keay (The Magnus Archives) vs Laudna (Critical Role)

Hanajima Saki (Fruits Basket) vs Arachne Gorgon (Soul Eater)

Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way (My Immortal) vs Mai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Janis Ian (Mean Girls) vs Sam Manson (Danny Phantom)

Harrowhark Nonegesimus (The Locked Tomb) vs Goth Girl (Turning Red)

Celestia Ludenberg (Danganronpa) vs Morrigan (Dragon Age)

Morticia Addams (The Addams Family) vs Vanessa Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb)

Allison Reynold (The Breakfast Club) vs Hotaru Tomoe (Sailor Moon)

Death of the Endless (The Sandman) vs Magenta (Sky High)

Nico Minoru (The Runaways, Marvel) vs (Vampire) Willow Rosenberg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

The Current Bracket:

[xxmeowkoxx]

damara tiktok gifs

feat. lemonflower.cos on tiktok & insta :)

[dailydamara]

Fighting evil by moon light

[amaryllis56-homestuck]

+day 22: damara

[joshuaotero]

Here is last night’s New Years Stream images! It was fun ringing in the new year with y’all! I hope to do another stream soon!

[aleny-lg]

at Comicon as Sailormoon and Rufio

(homie requested a Rufioh)

[damarassanctuary]

the return of Sailor Megido

10/05/2023

Day #5: Cosplay

(note: also the day i'm posting this i've watched almost the entire first season of Sailor Moon and it's so damn good. now i understand why Damz likes it ^u^)

[pretty-guardian-saorise]

introduction!

hi! i'm saorise! i'm 15, bi and i like precure, sailor moon and homestuck! i'm using this blog to rp and post my art.

here's a list of characters that i can rp as:

feferi peixes

jane crocker

aradia megido

rose lalonde

terezi pyrope

vriska serket

idk if there's still any hs rp-ers out there but i hope there is lol :) (if ur interested pls message me as long is it's not some weird NSFW shit!!)

thank you for reading!! xx

[wingshowdown]

Round One Match-Ups

I cannot find a 128 contestant bracket template that isn’t two pages long, so I’m only going to make a visual bracket for the second round. So, for now, here’s the match-ups. They were randomized via Random.org

1. Howl (Howl’s Moving Castle) vs. Tobias (Animorphs) 2. Aradia Megido (Homestuck) vs. Ridley (Metroid) 3. Charizard (Pokémon) vs. Tsunderplane (Undertale) 4. Crowley (Good Omens) vs. Spamton NEO (Deltarune) 5. Dahlia (Barbie: Fairytopia) vs. Yume (Mewkledreamy) 6. Megaera (Hades) vs. Terezi Pyrope (Homestuck) 7. Rufioh Nitram (Homestuck) vs. Ruby the Red Fairy (Rainbow Magic) 8. Asreil (Undertale) vs. Parakarry (Paper Mario) 9. Dark Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising) vs. Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy) 10. Philza (Origin SMP) vs. Little Bird Holding a Rat (Spirited Away) 11. Genesis Rhapsodos (Final Fantasy) vs. Mario (with wing cap) (Super Mario 64) 12. Ender Dragon (Minecraft) vs. Brietta (Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus) 13. Kushina Anna (K) vs. Duck (Princess Tutu) 14. Link's Loftwing (Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword) vs. Dragonite (Pokémon) 15. Max (Magical Boy) vs. Smaug (The Hobbit) 16. Lock (Go! Princess Precure) vs. Rem (Death Note) 17. Goddess Hylia (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) vs. Lychee Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run) 18. Albedo (Overlord) vs. Pikario (Kira Kira Precure a la Mode) 19. Elina (Barbie: Fairytopia) vs. Butterfly (The Last Unicorn) 20. Toothiana (Rise of the Guardians vs. Ananas Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run) 21. Vex (Minecraft) vs. Giratina (Pokémon) 22. Dark Pretty Cure (Heartcatch Precure) vs. Tinker Bell (Peter Pan) 23. Spyro (Spyro the Dragon) vs. Bird That Carries You Over A Disproportionately Small Gap (Undertale) 24. Eda (The Owl House) vs. The Sorceress (He-Man) 25. Aroma (Go! Princess Precure) vs. Bird Person (Rick and Morty) 26. Monet (One Piece) vs. Yasha (Critical Role) 27. Grian (Hermitcraft/Evo) vs. Vriska Serket (Homestuck) 28. Royale Candy (Smile Precure) vs. Cyprin (Spyro the Dragon) 29. Star Butterfly (Star vs. the Forces of Evil) vs. Cure Princess (Happiness Charge Precure) 30. Untitled Goose (Untitled Goose Game) vs. Aziraphale (Good Omens) 31. Panty (Panty and Stocking) vs. Cheese (Sonic the Hedgehog) 32. Mariposa (Barbie: Mariposa) vs. Eternal Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon) 33. Angel Cookie (Cookie Run) vs. Aisha (Winx Club) 34. Prilla (Disney Fairies) vs. Cure Parfait (Kira Kira Precure a la Mode) 35. Meta Knight (Kirby) vs. Corvin D’Oro (Montress) 36. Palutena (Kid Icarus: Uprising) vs. Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2) 37. Tropius (Pokémon) vs. Penelope (Barbie as Rapunzel) TIE 38. Cure Felice (Mahoutsukai Precure) vs. Konan (Naruto) 39. Pit (Kid Icarus: Uprising) vs. Kaepora Gaebora (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) 40. Aisa (One Piece) vs. Shantae (bat form) (Shantae: Half Genie Hero) 41. Rainbow Dash (My Little Pony) vs. Tank (Forever After) 42. Discord (My Little Pony) vs. Venger (Dungeons and Dragons) 43. Cure Infini (HUGtto Precure) vs. Fluttershy (My Little Pony) 44. Mew Mint (Tokyo Mew Mew) vs. Angel Cure Pine (Fresh Precure) 45. Joshua Kiryu (The World Ends With You) vs. Angel Cure Passion (Fresh Precure) 46. Sam (180° Angel) vs. Alata (Tensai Sentai Goseiger) 47. Winged Pikmin (Pikmin 3) vs. Irma (W.I.T.C.H.) 48. Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon) vs. Cthulu (The Call of Cthulu) 49. Beck (Disney Fairies) vs. Barbatos (Genshin Impact) 50. Emyr (The Witch King) vs. Raphaella La Cognizi (The Mechanisms) 51. Iridessa (Disney Fairies) vs. Sigrún (God of War: Ragnarok) 52. Angel Devil (Chainsaw Man) vs. Rouge the Bat (Sonic the Hedgehog) 53. Castiel (Supernatural) vs. Ryuk (Death Note) 54. Allay (Minecraft) vs. Vidia (Disney Fairies) 55. Twilight Sparkle (My Little Pony) vs. Paarthurnax (Skyrim) 56. Blackjack (Percy Jackson) vs. Crona (Soul Eater) 57. Jake Long (American Dragon Jake Long) vs. Angel Cure Peach (Fresh Precure) 58. Stocking (Panty and Stocking) vs. Angella (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) 59. Colt (Hunter x Hunter) vs. Medli (Legend of Zelda: Windwaker) 60. Hawks (My Hero Academia) vs. Sephiroth (Final Fantasy) 61. Angel Cure Berry (Fresh Precure) vs. Hue (Barbie Fairytopia) 62. Fledge (The Chronicles of Narnia) vs. Cure Grace (Healin’Good style) (Healin’Good Precure) 63. Icarus (Greek mythology) vs. Junior Troopa (Paper Mario) 64. Happy (Fairy Tail) vs. Postman (Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass)

Round One will last for four days with sixteen polls posted per day. See you then!

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.16

1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide. 73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War. 1346 – Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans. 1520 – The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V. 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina. 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants. 1780 – Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster. 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre. 1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. 1838 – The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War. 1847 – Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars. 1853 – The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane. 1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is dissolved. 1862 – American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia. 1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law. 1863 – American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg. 1878 – The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issued a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands from the old Kymi parish. 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle. 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah. 1910 – The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time. 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. 1917 – Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland. 1919 – Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier. 1919 – Polish–Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania. 1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed. 1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded. 1941 – World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships. 1941 – World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected. 1942 – King George VI awarded the George Cross to the people of Malta in appreciation of their heroism. 1943 – Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19. 1944 – World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter. 1945 – World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights. 1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz). 1945 – More than 7,000 die when the German transport ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine. 1947 – An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600. 1947 – Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. 1948 – The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed. 1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism. 1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation. 1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border. 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union. 2007 – Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide. 2008 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Baze v. Rees decision that execution by lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment. 2012 – The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway. 2012 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize. 2013 – A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others. 2013 – The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga. 2014 – The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities. 2016 – Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years kills 676 and injures 6,274. 2018 – The New York Times and the New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.

[marigoldprince]

Sailor Megido