#scots american

[scotianostra]

On May 15th 1857 Williamina Fleming was born in Dundee.

Born as Williamina Paton Stevens, Dundee to a reasonably affluent family: her father ran a gilding and picture framing business. Sadly he died when she was just 7 and she was sent away to a good local school until she was 14.

She worked for a while as a student teacher in Dundee, eventually marrying James Fleming, a local accountant. Within a year they emigrated to Boston USA. Things quickly began to go wrong starting with him leaving her without warning. Shortly after she discovered she was pregnant. She was forced to find employment and secured a job as a maid – the choice of employer was to change her life.

Professor Pickering was a demanding employer and as the story goes, he became increasingly dissatisfied with the quality of the work from his male employees- to the extent that he claimed- ‘even my maid could do a better job’. It appears he really did believe this as he initially employed Williamina as an administrative assistant and then, impressed by her work, moved her on to analysing astronomical data- at which she excelled.

By her mid-twenties Williamina was one of a number of women Pickering employed to work at his observatory. They became known as the Harvard Computer – or Human Computers. Pickering taught the women to analyse spectral data and encouraged them to learn and study.

Williamina went on to manage this group and develop, alongside Pickering, a new star classification system, known as the Pickering-Fleming System. She classified over 10,000 stars; their work being published in 1890 when she was 33 years old.

She worked tirelessly, examining over 200,000 photographic plates and in the course of her work discovered many novae (including Pickering’s Triangle- see my article on this beautiful object), she analysed many variable stars, discovered tens of unusual Wolf-Rayet stars and worked on the discovery of double stars. By 1889 she was a curator at the Observatory, the first woman to hold such a post. However, much of her early work was published under Pickering’s name- it was only later that her name appeared as co-author.

Williamina hired many women over her time running the group, with a number going on to become great astronomers themselves.

Despite her position and status, Williamina received the same salary as that of a junior male new-starter. This was a source of great frustration and hardship as she tried to give her son a good education.

Williamina was awarded honorary membership of the Royal Astronomical Society in London and received numerous awards and recognition throughout her career.

[oifaaa]

Would you rather be british or french

Haven't I answered this before? French the foods nicer the weather's better and it's still apart of the eu

[garpen]

YALLER

Yaller...

"Yaller need therapy once he's done with you."

I'm sorry. I have nothing to say for myself 😔

Yaller= yall will = you all will

I'm not even country or anything this is just gen how I speak. I try spelling out what comes through my head but sometimes I forget and just like spell/sound out what words sound like to me lol

A more accurate spelling would have been "Y'all'll" ? (ew the apostrophes make it look ugly) but the way I say it out loud sounds more like "yaller"

You all should be thankful you can't hear the way I speak it's honestly an atrocity

[vagueconfusion]

just found my mom didn't know that people in Britain speak English and it sent me into hysterics

[bantarleton]

Poignant images of the recent re-burial of 14 Revolutionary War bodies discovered at Camden, including one redcoat highlander. Members of the present-day Royal Regiment of Scotland were in attendance along with the reenactors. Research is currently being conducted to find any living relatives of the deceased. Images from the 71st Regiment of Foot Facebook page.

[insomniacfoxu]

my mom literally just told me that the first thing she asked my piece of shit father when she found out he was cheating

"oh ye found some wee sheep ta fuck now arentye"

[leadendeath]

Read your tags in Demoman's voice

UR NOT THE FIRST PERSON TO GUESS I SPEAK SCOTS!!!!!!

[ebenelephant]

reclaiming my national roots by saying 'yous' instead of 'y'all' because i'm not a cowboy that's just the spirit of american entertainment speaking through me

[kemetic-dreams]

By the 1760s the English, both at home and in colonial America, were applying the term to Scots-Irish settlers of the southern backcountry, as in this passage from a letter to the earl of Dartmouth: “I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode.” The word then came to be associated with the cowboys of Georgia and Florida, many of them descendants of those early frontiersmen.

Among African Americans cracker became a contemptuous term for a white southerner; among some southern whites it has become a label of ethnic and regional pride, boosted by the election of south Georgian Jimmy Carter to the presidency in 1976. This led to the coining of the word crackertude as a not entirely serious answer to negritude.

[scotianostra]

'I only went out for a walk'

The words of John Muir, but also me!

Dunbar today, birthplace of Muir, it's a shame he is more celebrated in the USA, but I suppose that's where he made his name.

[algrenion]

you know youre in love with a cis man when you start showing genuine interest in his favourite sports

[britneyshakespeare]

Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off and me I also feel not so good

[rainingincale]

Nah cause tell me why i saw a random car in my neighbourhood with a tr*mp 2024 bumper sticker 😭😭😭 are you not embarrassed!!!

[timaeuslover001]

Cowboy “Cash Grab” Carter: it’s giving….Gimmick

Beyoncé has capitalized off of mainstream media at all points in her career. And this is evident in her song styles, her wardrobe, even in the features she’s had with various musicians over the years.

If you not popping, she’s nowhere near you.

This woman is NOT a trail blazer , she has not trail blazed a single thing , but the way people talk about her Like she has is CRAZZYYYYYY

And peopel need to understand the difference between country music the genre and the country music the LABEL!

Black country artists BEEN existing, the LABELS don’t want to open that door for Balck artists but Balck peopel BEEN in country.

And another thing about country is it’s a self sustaining community only person to win a Grammy for a country album in modern day music is LeAnn Rhimes and that was when she was a teenager.

Country is NOT mainstream and people openly VOCAL about the hatred and dismissal of country music.

It’s no secret .

And I think some of it has to do with people‘s own prejudicial ideas of what the south is and that they think that they’re all stupid.

They are very much so like Latin music, and their fans are very much so like Latin fans they are very loyal and very supportive.

Country music has always had loyal fans from every single decade and continues to have fans.

In the origins of country music stem from the Irish . They do not come from black Americans. They come from Irish Americans.

So it’s a blend of different components of other songs and music.

Just because slavery was in the south does not mean that everything that we know that is about the south today was created from black Americans .

There were other people in America, besides black Americans .

And so since the Irish have been in America since the beginning , a lot of the music and songs and other things they brought have been implemented into the culture just like every other group.

And now she wants to capitalize for some reason on the south and Americana …. When a decade ago she was standing there dressed like a black panther along with her dancers throwing up a fit during the halftime show when everybody was talking about the American flag being a symbol of racism🤨🤨🤨?!???

Like you spit on our nation’s, flag a decade ago and all of a sudden now because you want a new gimmick for your album it’s OK to now use the flag as a prop?!?

And if she had any type of social understanding about the world around her like she claims that she does , she would understand that a lot of people still attached the idea of racism to the south and she would’ve opened her mouth and stood up for the south like she should have back when people were acquainting Trump support to racism and /sistercousin marrying illiterate southerners😡😡😡

But what makes country music country music isn’t just the music alone it’s also a singing style . Those who do country don’t sound like any other genre it’s the same thing that jazz has, it’s a singing style that is completely unique to its genre the same way that soul singer sound unique in the same way that R&B singer sound very unique.

So if you’re gonna stand on something stand on it because it’s true not because “he said she said”Don’t be a liar.

[yorktaylor]

society if my family hadn't come to america from ireland during the revolution and instead came in the 40s like most irish americans so i could get citizenship

[loki-zen]

trying not to think about how the domination of an increasingly internet-based and therefore undifferentiated anglosphere media surely incentivises presenting whatever view of a certain nation’s politics will play best in America, and if the country is Anglosphere itself this will in turn actually affect the politics there bc of how media Does That