#virginia statehood

[floridasnatural]

Happy statehood Virginia!

June 25, 1788

[visenyaism]

I knoe nothing about the US. Does West Virginia have beef with regular Virginia?

In 1861 we had a civil war about whether or not to abolish slavery and Virginia seceded from the usa to go join the confederate slave empire. West Virginia (then the western half of Virginia) decided they did not want to do that. So they said we are going to be our own state.

But the constitution says you can only break off from a state to be a new one if your have their permission. And Virginia wasn’t going to grant that. So the West Virginians got themselves legally declared the legitimate government of Virginia since real Virginia had left the country for like as long as it took to give themselves permission to leave Virginia and then apply for statehood on their own. This was definitely against the rules but Abraham Lincoln said it was fine and the USA won the war so it became the new rules.

Now they get the greatest song of all time about them that’s just the way it works out sometimes.

[doueverwonder]

do you have any WTTT headcannons you'd like to share?

sorry it took me a few days I had to remember some I hadn't shared yet + its been mostly branches brainrot the past week and didn't want it to be just them lol

here u go

Gov hates the branches saluting him so much actually, he keeps telling them they don't have to do it but its so habitual they'll never stop. National Guard on the other hand is supposed to salute all the states and territories and stopped doing that forever ago bc some states were so smug about it.

Subregion meetings are always somehow MORE chaotic than region meetings, the Great Lakes and Southwest are tied for number times Gov opened the door, heard yelling, decided "nope." and left without even going in.

At least once a month Gov tries to organize 'region bonding' activities and they're all like "we're not kids at a summer camp what is this smh" cut to the South & West actually about to kill each other over a game of tug of war bc "its unfair, y'all have Alaska! he's like four people!" "stop whining you guys have Texas!" "fuck Texas!" "HEY!"

West Virginia wasn't raised by Virginia like, at all really, but he did get a lot second hand bc Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois turned raising West Virginia into a group project and all four of them were raised by Virginia. (Illinois is the guy who didn't do any work but put his name on it/j) (he did do work he had to work to be a worse influence then Ohio smh)

Speaking of, the first state most states met right after joining the union was Virginia, no one knows how she gets places so fast, became a competition to try to beat her and no one ever has. WV and Nevada are the only two that met someone else first.

Michigan, Wisconsin & Minnesota go ice fishing together at least once a year, they don't actually do much fishing but they do get very drunk at like 8 am. so there's that. somehow none of them have fallen and broken something or fallen through the ice... yet.

when Tennessee and Texas started dating the Carolina's gave Tex a shovel talk with such specifics that they were either joking entirely or dead serious and he has nightmares about finding out which one it is.

Florida has an adderall prescription but has never had it filled, he's started using it to get things, tells Gov he'll go right to the pharmacy if he just lets him do this one last chaotic thing (he will never go to the pharmacy).

based on state land mass Ohio and Indiana are both victims of older but shorter with the rest of the Midwest. Minnesota & Illinois will pick Indiana up so she can see/reach things, Ohio's fragile masculinity won't let anyone help him, he'll scale counters first.

California has 2 siblings Baja California Sur (older sister) and Baja California Norte (younger brother), everyone outside of the west + Texas forget about this a lot bc in no way has California ever given middle kid vibes.

Texas being Texas celebrates his birthday THREE TIMES every year, May 7th (Mexican statehood day), March 2nd (texas independence), and December 29th (US statehood day). he does throw major parties for all three.

that's all I can think of right now :3

[originalleftist]

It's long past time for America to either grant its territories greater autonomy, or statehood (the choice, of course, should be left to the residents of those territories).

Territories of mostly non-white people with second class citizenship are a relic of the colonial past.

Personally, I hope for statehood. I think Old Glory would look pretty damn fine with 56 stars!

FYI, the current populations of the US territories (plus DC) which do not have statehood, and what their Congressional representation would be, is (approximately) as follows:

Puerto Rico: 3, 239, 985 people. Four Congressional Representatives, 2 Senators.

DC: 689, 545 people. 1 Congressional Representative, 2 Senators.

Guam: 168,171 people. 1 Congressional Representative, 2 Senators.

American Samoa: 46,531 people. 1 Congressional Representative, 2 Senators.

Northern Mariana Islands: 44,044 people. 1 Congressional Representative, 2 Senators.

US Virgin Islands: 84,656 people. 1 Congressional Representative, 2 Senators.

Population is obviously approximate, as it changes daily. These are simply the first numbers that came up on Google when I searched today, Sunday evening on October 27th 2024.

The US currently has approximately 1 Congressional Representative per 747,000 people, and every state gets two Senators.

It has been argued that certain territories are too small to be states. However Puerto Rico's population outnumbers the states of Nevada, Arkansas, Kansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nebraska, Idaho, West Virginia, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Montana, Rhode Island, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, Vermont, and Wyoming, per Wikipedia. DC outnumbers Vermont and Wyoming.

Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands are smaller by population than any current state. However, some historic states were smaller than at least some of these when they joined.

[whencyclopedia]

Northwest Ordinance

The Northwest Ordinance was enacted by the Confederation Congress of the United States on 13 July 1787. It created the Northwest Territory – comprised of the modern-day states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota – and laid out the procedure whereby new states could be admitted into the Union.

The Northwest Ordinance was enacted as a way to organize the settlement of lands west of the Appalachian Mountains and, ultimately, add new states to the Union. Previous land ordinances in 1784 and 1785 had gotten the original states to relinquish their claims to these western territories and had allowed Congress to sell off the land, but these ordinances had failed to mention how the territories were to be governed prior to achieving statehood. To solve this issue, Congress enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which mandated that the Northwest Territory – and all other incorporated territories of the United States – would initially be administered by a federally appointed governor who was empowered to appoint civil servants and make legislation. Once the population of the territory reached 5,000, it would be able to create its own representative assembly and, upon reaching a population of 60,000, could apply for statehood. According to the Northwest Ordinance, all new states admitted to the Union would have the same rights and privileges as the original thirteen states.

The Northwest Ordinance had a profound effect on the development of early US history. Most significantly, the Ordinance prohibited the expansion of slavery into the Northwest Territory; this effectively led to the geographic divide between 'free states' and 'slave states', helping to lay the groundwork for the national debate over the expansion of slavery that would lead to the American Civil War (1861-1865). A more immediate consequence of the Ordinance was that it brought the US government into conflict with the Native American nations who also laid claim to the territory, resulting in the Northwest Indian War (1790-1795). Additionally, the fact that the Northwest Territory was administered by a federally-appointed governor helped to enhance the authority of the federal government at a time when this was one of the most contentious political issues. Finally, the method of admitting new states to the Union laid out in the Ordinance would become the standard protocol for the entry of future states.

Land Ordinance of 1784

At the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783, Great Britain ceded control of much of its lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to the United States, more than doubling the territory of the young republic. While this was a welcome surprise to many Americans, it also came with a set of problems – almost all this land remained undeveloped by Europeans and was home to around 100,000 Native Americans who were unlikely to welcome an influx of White settlers onto their lands. Furthermore, there was contention about who should govern this new western territory. Virginia had long laid claim to the lands along the Ohio River, citing its 1607 colonial charter, which proclaimed that Virginia's western border extended all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Other states – notably New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts – also had old, and often contradictory, claims on the western territories.

The ink on the Treaty of Paris of 1783 was barely dry, therefore, before the states began quarreling amongst themselves about who should control the lands in the West. Several smaller states, particularly Rhode Island and Maryland, strongly protested Virginia's claims – Virginia was already the most populous and most politically influential state, and the smaller states did not wish to see its power expand any further. New York and Massachusetts, whose charters had also granted them territorial rights 'from sea to sea' also battled over western lands that stretched to the Mississippi River. As the states squabbled over governance, the West was becoming lawless; land speculators and squatters who had flooded into the territory were coming into conflict with the Native Americans who lived there, while a lack of a defined legal process for settling these lands resulted in a myriad of feuds and legal battles that proved a headache for everyone involved. It was clear that a system for the governance and settlement of the western territories would have to be resolved, and quickly.

In 1784, Thomas Jefferson, then a congressional delegate from Virginia, offered a solution, proposing that every state should relinquish its western claims and that new states would instead be carved out from the territory. In return for giving up their claims on the West, Jefferson promised the states that the money gained from the sale of western lands would go toward the betterment of all the United States. The states begrudgingly agreed and, one by one, ceded most of their western claims to Congress (Virginia continued to lay claim to Kentucky until 1789). Jefferson immediately went to work drafting what would become the Land Ordinance of 1784. In Jefferson's plan, the western frontier would be divided into several self-governing districts, and the gate would be open to new settlers. Once any given district reached a population of 20,000, it could send a representative to Congress; once that same district reached a population equal to the least populous state, it could apply for statehood.

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, 1791

Charles Willson Peale (Public Domain)

Jefferson envisaged ten new states arising from the territory, each with artificial, rectangular boundaries, and with names like 'Sylvania', 'Cherronesus', 'Illinoia', 'Metropotamia', and 'Washington'. Jefferson had also drawn up a list of guarantees that he wanted each district to agree to before it could govern itself. These included a guarantee to forever remain a part of the United States; to remain subject to Congress and help pay off Revolutionary War debts; to always maintain a republican government; and to ban slavery after the year 1800. Congress removed this last guarantee from the final draft and struck off Jefferson's plan for state boundaries but passed the rest of his Land Ordinance on 23 April 1784. For the first time, a rough plan for the admission of new states into the Union was in place.

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[weirdestbooks]

The Ghosts That Haunt You (Wattpad | Ao3)

Inspired by this lovely bit of art by @collar-cat. They also made a banger animatic for this oneshot!!

And @lost-islands just made this wonderful animatic for it so please go check it out!

TW for suicidal thoughts.

Plymouth’s new identity had been haunting him for years. Even now, as the sixth state to join his father’s country, the name of his dead brother haunted him.

Massachusetts, they called him, the politicians whose hands he shook as they offered to buy him a drink and invited him to their homes, their faces alight with joy at the “birth” of their state.

It made Plymouth feel sick. His throat seized up, and he did his best to smile and nod as he choked back tears.

I’m not Massachusetts! He wanted to scream. Stop saying I’m him! 

He couldn’t. He couldn’t, not without making people think his father was mad, that he was mad.

So he bit back sobs and ignored the tears that crept into his vision as the politicians of Massachusetts Bay celebrated the existence of his murderer.

He was grateful when the day ended, when he could excuse himself from the celebration of his body.

Of the life he stole from Massachusetts Bay.

“I need to get home,” he had said. “My father wants to do something with the whole family.”

It wasn’t a lie. It still felt like one.

So now here Plymouth was, curled up on the sofa and wishing so desperately that Virginia was here, that she had ratified the Consitution before him, so he didn’t have to face this without her.

She had been there since his birth. Plymouth wished she could be with him now.

He felt empty. Even though he had a body now, a chance to live life as himself, he felt as if he had been drained of all life and all will to live. In Father’s head, he could at least pretend that Plymouth was still real, that Massachusetts Bay wasn’t—wasn’t dead, but just somewhere else.

There was no pretending here. There was no Plymouth here—only the life of his dead brother he was expected to take.

Plymouth wished he was dead.

Although…he did have a body of his own now. Would it be better if he just took care of things now so…so Massachusetts Bay’s people would have a better personification, a personification that wasn’t a murderer? Maybe if he were lucky, it would be Massachusetts Bay’s replacement.

Maybe he was standing in the way of things.

Plymouth walked into the kitchen, not feeling in control of his body. The only person in there was Connecticut, sitting on the table. The state grinned, mouth curling into a familiar smile.

“Hello, Massy,” he said. Plymouth couldn’t stop himself from flinching at the nickname. Connecticut frowned. “Sorry, Plym. I guess this day would be rough on you.”

Plymouth didn’t say anything. He wasn’t sure if he could without sobbing.

“Are you okay? I know the bodies can be overwhelming,” Connecticut said. Plymouth couldn’t breathe. He felt like he was going to faint. Everything was too much.

His hands were shaking.

He needed Virginia. He needed his mother, the only person who would understand. He couldn’t breathe, he couldn’t breathe, he couldn’t breathe.

“LITTLE BROTHER!” 

Plymouth gasped, black spots at the end of his vision as Connecticut’s voice snapped him out of whatever fit he had fallen into.

Dimly, he realized he had fallen to the floor.

“Little…little brother?” Plymouth asked, confused. He was sixteen years older than Connecticut. What was he talking about? The confusion eased the pressure on his chest, eased the weight that was crushing his mind.

Connecticut smiled, worry in his eyes.

“Well, since we’re supposedly as old as our statehood dates now, that makes me older than you in the eyes of our people,” he argued. Plymouth scoffed.

“It’s not even thirty days!” He protested, clinging desperately to the topic, eager to get his mind off of his crimes, his sins, the blood that he drowned in daily.

“Still enough to make me older,” Connecticut sing-songed. “Want to get Father?”

“He’ll say I’m older,” Plymouth said, hoping he could distract Connecticut and keep the conversation about fit to a minimum so he could forget how much his family cared for a murderer. It would make it easier for Plymouth to do what needed to be done.

“Plym…” Connecticut chided, the concern not leaving his eyes.

“I’m fine!” he snapped.

“Is this about Mass—”

“So what if it is!” Plymouth snapped, cutting off Connecticut before he could finish, rising to his feet. He couldn’t stand to hear his name anymore because it hurt, because it sank into his soul and ripped it apart, and it hurt, it hurt so badly because no one wanted to use that name to refer to its rightful owner.

“If it helps, I know how you fe—”

“How can you? How can you possibly know how I feel? I murdered our brother and sister and then took our brother’s place, and now I’m being celebrated for it! How the fuck could you know how that feels?” Plymouth snapped, tone venomous.

“You aren’t the only one whose land is made up of the dead. Rhode is lucky. Newport, Warwick, and Portsmouth are still alive. But…Saybrook, New Haven, they’re gone. Because of me. I never took anyone’s place like you did, Plymouth, but don’t you fucking dare say I don’t know what it’s like,” Connecticut snapped, tone equally venomous, before it faded into something sadder.

In an instant, all of his anger faded from his body, and Plymouth sank back to the floor.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered. The urge to get it all over with grew stronger. He couldn’t stay here anymore, ruining things for everyone else.

“I know you are. I know it hurts,” Connecticut said, sounding like he was holding back tears. “And I can’t imagine how you feel, knowing that everyone thinks you are the one and only personification of Massachusetts Bay.”

“I don’t…I can’t be the state that they want me to be, Connecticut,” Plymouth whispered as his younger brother pulled him into a hug. “I can’t.”

“Be the state that you want to be, then,” Connecticut whispered. Plymouth just clung to his brother, not answering.

He wasn’t sure what else he could say.

“New Jersey and I have been planning something,” Connecticut then said, pulling away from the hug, keeping one hand on Plymouth’s shoulder. Plymouth swallowed down his tears. 

“What?” Plymouth asked. He meant to be politer, to say more, but the words failed him. Connecticut didn’t seem to mind.

“We were planning on making a mausoleum in the Land In-Between, wherever Father builds his new home. For New Haven, Saybrook, West Jersey…and for Maine and Massachusetts Bay, if you would like to join us? We still need to wait for Virginia so she can memorialize the ones she got to know, but…do you want to help us?”

“Yes,” Plymouth whispered, desperate. He would stay until the mausoleum was complete to ensure that Maine and Massachusetts Bay were memorialized properly so he would have a place to beg for atonement for his sins before he finished things.

It wouldn’t be enough. It would never be enough.

But Plymouth had been living in Hell on Earth since they passed. He was prepared to be sent to actual Hell.

He would be better off there anyway.

[brookston]

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Julian: 2 March 2025

Moon: 98%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 18 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Cicero]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 85 of 90)

SUn Calendar: 14 Green; Seventhday [14 of 30]

Week: 2nd Week of March

Zodiac:

Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 25 of 30)

Sidereal Zodiac: Pisces (Day 1 of 30)

Schmidt Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 22 of 27)

IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Pisces (Day 4 of 38)

IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Pisces (Day 4 of 38)

Calendar Changes

Pisces (The Fish) begins [Sidereal Zodiac Sign 3; thru 4.13]

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 1.26

Holidays

Aemilia Asteroid Day

Auschwitz Liberation Day (Netherlands)

Australia Day

Belarusian Science Day (Belarus)

Bessie Coleman Day

Day of Islam (Poland)

Dental Drill Appreciation Day

Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)

Dungeons & Dragons Day

Eddie Van Halen Day

Engineer’s and Architect’s Day (Panama)

General Douglas MacArthur Day (Arkansas)

Hydroplane Day

International Customs Day

International Day of Clean Energy

International Environmental Education Day

International Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day

Liberation Day (a.k.a. NRM Liberation Day; Uganda)

Lotus 1-2-3 Day

Multicultural Children’s Book Day

Napoleon Abueva Day (Philippines)

National Ellen Degeneres Day

National Heroes Day (Cayman Islands)

National Ranboo Day

National #24 Day

Renewable Energy Day (Indiana)

Rocky Mountain National Park Day

Rum Rebellion Day (Australia)

Sexual Relations Day

Spouse’s Day

State Audit Service Day (Ukraine)

Television Day

Tinder Polypore Day (French Republic)

Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement

World Day for the Abolition of Meat

World Day of the Fisherman

World Environmental Education Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Sous Vide Day

National Green Juice Day

National Irish Soda Bread Day

National Peanut Brittle Day

National Pistachio Day

Spike the Punch Day

Stingray IPA Day

Nature Celebrations

Bald Eagle Appreciation Day

Mimosa Day (Sensitive Heart; Korean Birth Flowers)

Independence, Flag & Related Days

Discovery Day (Brazil; 1500)

Foundation Day (Australia; 1788)

Hong Kong (Proclaimed British Sovereign Territory; 1841)

Louisiana (Seceded from the U.S.; 1861)

Michigan Statehood Day (#26; 1837)

NRM Liberation Day (Uganda)

Recognition of the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republikas Atzīšana; Latvia)

Republic Day (Declared; India; 1950)

Suttornland (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

Virginia (Readmitted to the Union; 1870)

New Year’s Days

Chinese New Year Holiday, Day 2 (Taiwan)

4th & Last Sunday in January

Child Labor Day [4th Sunday]

Clean Out Your Email Inbox Week begins [Sunday of Last Full Week]

Dinagyang (Philippines) [4th Sunday]

Homeless Sunday (UK) [4th Sunday]

International Internet-Free Day [Last Sunday]

National Bible Sunday (Philippines) [Last Sunday]

National Holocaust Memorial Day (Ireland) [Sunday closest to 27th]

Sanctity of Human Life Sunday [Sunday closest to 22nd]

Septuagesina Sunday [4th Sunday]

Seven For Sunday [Every Sunday]

Soothing Sunday [4th Sunday of Each Month]

Spud Sunday [4th Sunday of Each Month]

Souper Sunday [Last Sunday of Each Month]

Sultry Sunday [Last Sunday of Each Month]

Sundae Sunday [Every Sunday]

Sunday Funday [Every Sunday]

World Leprosy Day [Sunday Nearest 1.30]

Weekly Holidays beginning January 26 (4th Week of January)

Catholic Schools Week (thru 2.2) [From Last Sunday]

Cheeseburger Week in Pasadena (Pasadena, California) [thru 2.1]

Global Crayola Creativity Week [Last Full Week]

International Hot Air Balloon Week (thru 2.1) [4th Full Week]

Kiss a Shark Week (thru 2.1) [4th Full Week]

National CRNA Week [Last Full Week]

National Meat Week (thru 2.2) [8 Days from 4th Sunday]

National School Choice Week [Last Full Week]

San Diego Restaurant Week (San Diego, California) [thru 2.2]

Tax Identity Theft Awareness Week [4th Full Week]

Festivals Beginning January 26, 2025

BRAFA Art Fair (Brussels, Belgium) [thru 2.2]

Critic’s Choice Awards (Santa Monica, California)

Dairy Forum (San Antonio, Texas) [thru 1.29]

Delhi Republic Day Parade (New Delhi, India)

Satellite Awards (Los Angeles, California)

WASGA Winter Seed Conference (Phoenix, Arizona) [thru 1.28]

Feast Days

Alberic (Christian; Saint)

Beat the January Blues Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Cernunnos’ Day (Celtic God of the Wild; Master of the Animals; Celtic Book of Days)

Conon (a.k.a. Conan of Man; Christian; Saint)

Dévote's Day (Monaco; Saint)

End of the Fifth Quarter of the Ninth Dozen of the Thirteenth Set (Shamanism)

Enki’s Day (Pagan)

Eystein (Christian; Saint)

Founders of Cîteaux (Alberic of Cîteaux, Robert of Molesme, Stephen Harding)

Gabriele Allegra (Christian; Blessed)

John the Baptist (Positivist; Saint)

Margaret of Hungary (Christian; Virgin)

Paula (Christian; Saint)

Pilar (Muppetism)

Polycarp (Christian; Martyr)

Powamu begins (a.k.a. Bean Dance Ceremony; Hopi) [8 Days; thru 2.3]

Rum Rebellion Day (Pastafarian)

Sailing of Anubis (Ancient Egypt)

Steve Jackson Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

St. John the Baptist (Positivist; Saint)

String Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Thordith of Barking (a.k.a. Theorigitha; Christian; Saint)

Timothy and Titus (Christian; Saints)

Titus (Christian; Saint)

Secular Saints Days

Louis Anquetin (Art)

Sal Buscema (Art)

François Coppée (Literature)

Angela Davis (Politics, Philosophy)

Philip José Farmer (Literature)

Jules Feiffer (Art)

Rupprecht Geiger (Art)

Scott Glenn (Entertainment)

Wayne Gretzky (Sports)

Susan Griffin (Literature)

Polycarp Kusch (Science)

Giovanni Lanfranco (Art)

Douglas MacArthur (Military)

Paul Newman (Entertainment)

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (Art)

Paula Rego (Art)

Günther Reindorff (Art)

Huey ‘Piano’ Smith (Music)

David Strathaim (Entertainment)

Samuel C.C. Ting (Science)

Bob Uecker (Sports)

Roger Vadim (Entertainment)

Kees van Dongen (Art)

Eddie Van Halen (Music)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chinese: Month 12 (Ding-Chou), Day 26 (Yi-Wei)

Day Pillar: Wood Sheep

12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Destruction Day (破 Po) [Inauspicious]

Holidays: Special Working Day (China) / Chinese New Year Holiday, Day 2 (Taiwan)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [4 of 53]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Tycho Brahe Lucky Day (Scandinavia) [1 of 4]

Premieres

The Bear and the Bees (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1922)

Bowling (Atari 2600 Video Game; 1979)

Bridge Over Troubled Waters, by Simon & Garfunkel (Album; 1970)

The Cat and the Swordfish (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1922)

Catch and Release (Film; 2017)

The Clock Watcher (Donald Duck Disney Cartoon; 1945)

College (Osewald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1931)

Così Fan Tutte, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Opera; 1790)

The Debut of Thomas Katt (Goldwyn-Bray Pictograph Cartoon; 1920)

Der Rosenkavalier, by Richard Staruss (Comic Opera; 1911)

The Dog and the Thief (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1922)

Dog-Gone Tough Luck (Mutt and Jeff Cartoon; 1919)

Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Piano Player (Album; 1973)

Don’t Stop Me Now, by Queen (Song; 1979)

Eddie the Eagle (Film; 2016)

Edgar Runs Again (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series; 1979)

The Farmer and the Ostrich (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1922)

The Fox and the Grapes (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1922)

Gormenghast, by Mervyn Peake (Novel; 1950) [Gormenghast #2]

The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank, by Erma Bombeck (Novel; 1976)

Hello, I’m Johnny Cash, by Johnny Cash (Album; 1970)

How I Became Krazy (Goldwyn-Bray Pictograph Cartoon; 1921)

Instant Karma, recorded by John Lennon (Song; 1970)

Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Talk Show; 2003)

Masters of the Air (TV Mini-Series; 2024)

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (Film; 2018)

Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer (TV Series; 1984)

The Miller and His Donkey (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1922)

The Mouse Exterminator (Phantasies Cartoon; 1940)

Need You Now, by Lady Antebellum (Album; 2010)

Notes on a Scandal (Film; 2007)

Pastoral Symphony, a.k.a. Symphony No. 3, by Ralph Vaughan Williams (Symphony; 1922)

Peaceful Neighbors (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1939)

The Phantom of the Opera (Broadway Musical; 1988)

Philip José Farmer (Writerism)

Poker Face (TV Series; 2023)

Pop-Pie a la Mode (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1945)

Riverdale (TV Series; 2017)

Scrambled Aches (WB LT Cartoon; 1957)

Seal on the Loose (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1970)

Shōgun, by James Clavell (Novel; 1975)

Sinister Stuff (Aesop’s Sound Fable Cartoon; 1934)

The Spendthrift (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1922)

Sugar & Spice (Film; 2001)

The Three Bears (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1934)

The Tiger and the Donkey (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1922)

Twelve O’Clock High (Film; 1950)

Vacation with Play (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1951)

Volver (Film; 2007)

Walk Like a Man, by The Four Seasons (Song; 1963)

Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points (Fleischer Stone Age Cartoon; 1940)

Today’s Name Days

Paula, Timotheus, Titus (Austria)

Bogoljub, Paula, Timotej, Tit, Tonka (Croatia)

Zora (Czech Republic)

Polycarpus (Denmark)

Ulve, Ulvi (Estonia)

Joonatan (Finland)

Paule, Pauline, Timothé (France)

Paula, Timotheus, Titus (Germany)

Xenofon (Greece)

Paula, Vanda (Hungary)

Paola, Timoteo, Tito (Italy)

Agnis, Ansis (Latvia)

Daugis, Eigilė, Justas, Rimantas (Lithuania)

Esten, Øystein (Norway)

Paula, Paulina, Polikarp, Skarbimir, Wanda (Poland)

Arcadie, Ioan, Iosif, Maria, Xenofont (Romania)

Tamara (Slovakia)

Paula, Timoteo, Tito (Spain)

Bodil, Boel (Sweden)

Arkad, Arkadiy, May, Maya (Ukraine)

Aubrey, Conan, Coner, Conner, Connor, Conor, Gonzalo, Paola, Paula, Paulette, Paulina, Pauline (USA)

Today’s National Name Days

National Diane Day

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 26 of 2025; 339 days remaining in the year

ISO Week: Day 7 of Week 4 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Ding-Chou), Day 27 (Yi-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Jia-Wu]

Coptic: 18 Tubah 1741

Druid Tree Calendar: Cypress (Jan 25-Feb 3) [Day 2 of 15]

Hebrew: 26 Teveth 5785

Islamic: 26 Rajab 1446

J Cal: 26 White; Fryday [26 of 30]

Julian: 13 January 2025

Moon: 9%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 26 Moses (1st Month) [St. John the Baptist]

Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 37 of 90)

Week: 4th & Last Week of January

Zodiac:

Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 7 of 30)

Sidereal Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 12 of 29)

Schmidt Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 1 of 27)

IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 7 of 28)

IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Capricornus (Day 8 of 28)

[floridasnatural]

Happy statehood West Virginia!

June 20, 1863

[lboogie1906]

Barney Lancelot Ford (January 22, 1822 - September 22, 1902) was born to a Virginia enslaved and a white plantation owner who grew up in South Carolina where he learned to read and write from another servant. He escaped slavery at age twenty-six when his master hired him out to work on a Mississippi riverboat. He simply walked off the boat in Quincy and fled to Chicago.

He married Julia A. Lyoni (1849). The Fords and their two children lived at various times in Denver and Breckenridge, Colorado, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and San Francisco. He built thriving enterprises that at some point suffered the vicissitudes of nature or the West’s boom-bust economy.

Denver’s famous Inter-Ocean Hotel and his Restaurant and Chop House in Breckenridge may be the best-known of his ventures. He opened his elegant hotel in 1874 but faced bankruptcy after he opened another Inter-Ocean Hotel in Cheyenne. A move to San Francisco exposed him to restaurants known as chop houses, and in 1882 they returned to Breckenridge where they opened Ford’s Restaurant and Chop House. There the family began construction on a five-room cottage that is now the Barney Ford Museum.

His reputation survived his death and his stained glass image resides in Colorado’s House of Representatives in recognition of his efforts to end racial discrimination and gain civil rights for African Americans. He effectively opposed Colorado statehood because African American men were denied the ballot. He joined other educated African American men in the territory to establish adult education classes for African Americans in reading, writing, arithmetic, and the workings of democratic government. He traveled to DC to lobby the Senate for the right to vote and became the first African American man in the state to serve on a US Grand Jury. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[whitesinhistory]

On June 14, 1910, Louisiana’s House of Representatives broadened its ban on interracial marriage by passing legislation, by a vote of 93 to 10, prohibiting Black people and white people from living together under any circumstances. Under the new legislation, cohabitation was a felony punishable by imprisonment for up to five years. The bill was signed into law by Governor Jared Sanders on July 16, 1910. The legislation broadened the state’s existing ban on interracial marriage and criminalized the cohabitation of white people and individuals with at least one Black great-grandparent, punishing those found living together irrespective of marital status. The law authorized the state to break up couples who had lived together for years. Acknowledging that the act would likely destroy thousands of families, white legislators declared the impending trauma to be “suffering incidental to a good cause-the cause of preserving the purity of the [white] race.”  Laws criminalizing relationships between Black and white people predated Louisiana’s statehood. In 1724, the French colonial government criminalized interracial relationships, imposing severe penalties on interracial couples. When Louisiana joined the U.S. in 1812, it banned marriage between enslaved Black people, free people of color, and white people. In 1825, Louisiana severely restricted the ability of biracial children to inherit property through white fathers. In 1868, during Reconstruction, newly elected Black legislators successfully pushed for the repeal of Louisiana’s interracial marriage ban. An all-white legislature reenacted the ban in 1894.  During the 20th century, Louisiana legislators repeatedly broadened the state’s ban on interracial marriage. A set of laws passed in 1900 and 1914 forbade interracial couples who claimed residence in Louisiana from getting married outside the state. A 1914 enactment made it a crime to officiate an interracial wedding and exposed individuals who violated this law to the threat of imprisonment. Louisiana courts were likewise complicit in rigorously enforcing racial hierarchy. Local press boasted that “a large number of persons had been convicted'' during the 1908-1910 period. These laws remained in effect until the Supreme Court declared anti-miscegenation statutes unconstitutional in 1967 in Loving v. Virginia. Louisiana did not formally repeal its ban on interracial marriage until five years later, in 1972.  Like Louisiana, states throughout the country relied on laws banning interracial marriage to maintain a rigid racial caste system. To learn more about these and other laws that entrenched white supremacy, read EJI’s report, Segregation in America. 

[doueverwonder]

Delaware has beef with Virginia & Massachusetts solely bc they get all the oldest recognition Del wants so badly. Delaware was like the 7th or 8th to be established of the 13 colonies, firmly middle child, and when he was the first to become a state he was like "watch them overlook me now!!" and then they did. nothing changed. Ginny and Mass are still the eldest no matter what their statehood order is. sorry Del.

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

NASA Analysis Shows Irreversible Sea Level Rise for Pacific Islands

Climate change is rapidly reshaping a region of the world that’s home to millions of people.

In the next 30 years, Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 8 inches (15 centimeters) of sea level rise, according to an analysis by NASA’s sea level change science team. This amount of rise will occur regardless of whether greenhouse gas emissions change in the coming years.

The sea level change team undertook the analysis of this region at the request of several Pacific Island nations, including Tuvalu and Kiribati, and in close coordination with the U.S. Department of State.

In addition to the overall analysis, the agency’s sea level team produced high-resolution maps showing which areas of different Pacific Island nations will be vulnerable to high-tide flooding — otherwise known as nuisance flooding or sunny day flooding — by the 2050s. Released on Sept. 23, the maps outline flooding potential in a range of emissions scenarios, from best-case to business-as-usual to worst-case.

“Sea level will continue to rise for centuries, causing more frequent flooding,” said Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, who directs ocean physics programs for NASA’s Earth Science Division. “NASA’s new flood tool tells you what the potential increase in flooding frequency and severity look like in the next decades for the coastal communities of the Pacific Island nations.”

Team members, led by researchers at the University of Hawaii and in collaboration with scientists at the University of Colorado and Virginia Tech, started with flood maps of Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji, Nauru, and Niue. They plan to build high-resolution maps for other Pacific Island nations in the near future. The maps can assist Pacific Island nations in deciding where to focus mitigation efforts.

“Science and data can help the community of Tuvalu in relaying accurate sea level rise projections,” said Grace Malie, a youth leader from Tuvalu who is involved with the Rising Nations Initiative, a United Nations-supported program led by Pacific Island nations to help preserve their statehood and protect the rights and heritage of populations affected by climate change. “This will also help with early warning systems, which is something that our country is focusing on at the moment.”

Future Flooding

The analysis by the sea level change team also found that the number of high-tide flooding days in an average year will increase by an order of magnitude for nearly all Pacific Island nations by the 2050s. Portions of the NASA team’s analysis were included in a sea level rise report published by the United Nations in August 2024.

Areas of Tuvalu that currently see less than five high-tide flood days a year could average 25 flood days annually by the 2050s. Regions of Kiribati that see fewer than five flood days a year today will experience an average of 65 flood days annually by the 2050s.

“I am living the reality of climate change,” said Malie. “Everyone (in Tuvalu) lives by the coast or along the coastline, so everyone gets heavily affected by this.”

Flooding on island nations can come from the ocean inundating land during storms or during exceptionally high tides, called king tides. But it can also result when saltwater intrudes into underground areas and pushes the water table to the surface. “There are points on the island where we will see seawater bubbling from beneath the surface and heavily flooding the area,” Malie added.

Matter of Location

Sea level rise doesn’t occur uniformly around the world. A combination of global and local conditions, such as the topography of a coastline and how glacial meltwater is distributed in the ocean, affects the amount of rise a particular region will experience.

“We’re always focused on the differences in sea level rise from one region to another, but in the Pacific, the numbers are surprisingly consistent,” said Ben Hamlington, a sea level researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and the agency’s sea level change science team lead.

The impacts of 8 inches (15 centimeters) of sea level rise will vary from country to country. For instance, some nations could experience nuisance flooding several times a year at their airport, while others might face frequent neighborhood flooding equivalent to being inundated for nearly half the year.

Researchers would like to combine satellite data on ocean levels with ground-based measurements of sea levels at specific points, as well as with better land elevation information. “But there’s a real lack of on-the-ground data in these countries,” said Hamlington. The combination of space-based and ground-based measurements can yield more precise sea level rise projections and improved understanding of the impacts to countries in the Pacific.

“The future of the young people of Tuvalu is already at stake,” said Malie. “Climate change is more than an environmental crisis. It is about justice, survival for nations like Tuvalu, and global responsibility.”

IMAGE: Pacific Island nations such as Kiribati — a low-lying country in the southern Pacific Ocean — are preparing now for a future of higher sea levels. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

[lickmystamp]

US postage stamp, 1988 “Virginia - Bicentenary Statehood” Scott #2345

Issued: June 25, 1988 - Williamsburg, Virginia Quantity: 160,245,000 Designer: Pierre Mion Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Lithographed, engraved, & photogravure)

On June 25, 1788, Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution and was admitted as the 10th state of the Union.

[weirdestbooks]

Historical Oneshots (Chronological Order)

More historical oneshots are present in Countryhumans Hispanic Heritage Month

A Concerned Friend:

Scotland has not heard word from England since the Norman Invasion. So when he got the chance to travel to London to see England again, he jumped at the opportunity. What he discovers is worse than being left in the dark.

The Murder of a Kingdom:

Gwynedd had a bad feeling when he was invited to meet with Normandy. He should have listened to that feeling.

The Dragon's Rebirth

Wales has just regained his dragon traits. That brings back some old memories.

The Birth of an Empire:

England was prepared to kill Wales by signing the acts disestablishing the Principality of Wales. Unfortunately, that plan backfired, and now England must deal with the consequences.

Reset

England needed to ensure Britain would never remember the circumstances of his birth. Luckily, there was an easy way to do that.

The Little Empire's Crush:

Britain (although he is not yet known by that name) experiences his first crush. It's a shame that it is a man.

The Boy and the Charter:

The Virginia character has just been signed. That has some effects on poor Roanoke.

Virginia, Jamestown, and Martial Law:

The year is 1610. Jamestown has just been put under martial law. This action will have dangerous and invasive side effects on the two personifications that make up that land. And both of them are helpless to stop it.

Defenestrations:

The Kingdom of Bohemia has a city called Prague. Apparently, it's good for throwing people out of windows.

Bonds & Bruises:

There are strong bonds that bind countries to their colonies. Ireland despises how his bond with Britain feels.

The Dying Bay:

Plymouth's land is about to become a part of Massachusetts Bay. He's made his peace with that, but Massachusetts Bay has not.

What's In A Name?:

Even many years after Massachusetts Bay's death, Plymouth still refuses to take on his name. The birth of two new colonies begins to change that.

The New Father:

Quebec (formerly known as Canada) has just become a British Colony. Now it is time he learns what that means.

The Silence That Falls When The War Ends:

England was badly injured at Bunker Hill. So how did he handle it when he arrived home?

The Ghosts That Haunt You:

Plymouth had never gotten over the deaths of Massachusetts Bay and Province of Maine. Statehood only further proved that.

The 11th State:

America was so happy that his children were now getting bodies of their own. New York is the most recent, although he has some things to say about it.

Flight Lessons:

New York and Pennsylvania were both born with wings. Their first attempt at flying could have gone better.

The New Century:

As the 1700s end and the 1800s begins, America reflects back on life and how he got to where he is.

A Little Brother's Guidance:

Michigan is unable to see the inner world. A newborn Illinois decides to be his eyes.

The Time Spend In A Gilded Cage:

During the War of 1812, Governor Hull surrendered the entire Territory of Michigan to the British. Michigan is forced to live with the British for two years until he is returned to the Americans at the Treaty of Ghent. This details his entire experience during that war and what he experienced.

Parental Rage:

The system's POV of Ghent, when they get Michigan back.

An Unwilling Reunion:

1822 Annexation of the Dominican Republic

Remember the Alamo:

The End of the Texan Revolution

Blinded:

Ireland tried to warn Hawaii of what Britain was truly like. Now he’s paying the price.

The Showcase:

Queen Victoria had always been interested in Britain's colonies. So Britain decides to show her one of them.

The Discovery of a Kindred Spirit:

The moment Choctaw decides to donate money to the Irish during the Famine.

Mistakes In Love:

Illinois has just learned about the existence of Beaver Island. He's not happy about it.

Shot From the Sky:

The Battle of Vicksburg was a huge Union victory. Unfortunately for the Union, Michigan was seriously injured and nearly killed by his sister, Mississippi, during the battle.

Missouri's Medical Report:

Missouri was a good doctor. He did his job well. That's why he needed to send his brother's medical report to the Army Medical Museum, not matter how uncomfortable it made him.

The Ones Left Behind

Grief is always hard to deal with, no matter how familiar you are with it. Massachusetts knows grief, but this grief seems more terrible than any he has experienced before.

A Father's Grief

America hates mourning his children. Virginia most of all.

Peshtigo:

The Peshtigo fire was a brutal fire that ravaged Wisconsin. Both the state and its personification. Luckily, Wisconsin's family is there to help her.

The Faceless People You Have Yet To Meet:

When Hawaiʻi became a part of the United States, she expected many things. However, she did not expect everyone to be talking about people who didn't exist and act like she was in the wrong for being confused about who they were. AKA Hawaiʻi becomes a US Territory, and the states forget to tell her about America having DID.

Texas Gets a Concussion (and he totally deserved it):

Texas is furious after hearing about how the new territory of Hawaii burned his brother, Alaska. So he decides to confront Hawaii about it himself. (A Rewrite of a Scene from Texas' POV from the book "Born of Fire" by @aloha-from-angel)

The Death of Unity:

The Japanese Empire was about to annex the Korean Empire after years of breaking him down. Korea still refuses to give in.

Celtic Brothers:

Ireland is newly independent and struggling with chronic pain and an injury that has left him disabled. Good thing Scotland is there to help.

We Should Know Who We Are:

Finland has been looking forward to meeting the new country of Estonia.

The Identity of the State:

Illinois is in deep, deep trouble.

Delusions and Poison:

Russia wants his “son” to forget his past. And Russia will do whatever it takes to make that possible.

The Independent Colony

Greenland had been worried when Denmark was captured by Germany. Luckily, his people have a plan.

The Power of a Puppet:

Philippines was trying his best to fight off the control of the puppet state put in place by the Empire of Japan. His efforts were not always successful.

Giving In:

The American Troops have surrendered at Bataan. Philippines can't fight off the puppet any longer.

The Puppet Master:

Philippines is now under the control of the puppet state, so it is time for him to meet his new master.

Puppet State:

The Philippines has been trapped as Japan’s puppet for months now, and as Japan slowly breaks his mental state, she has another person she wants his help in breaking. His daughter, Guam.

Strike Back:

Ohio and North Carolina were always the pilots of the family. So when they were informed of the plan now known as the Dolittle Raid, they were eager to participate.

A Concerned Father:

America is very worried about Kentucky, a prisoner of Japan for over a month. He decides to see if the Red Cross organizations know anything about him.

Reeducation

The Empire of Japan wanted the Filipinos to be on their side. That meant the creation of reeducation camps. Philippines, under the control of the puppet state, doesn't want to go visit one. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a choice.

After Death

Armenia deals with the consequences of death.

When The Land Lacks a Host:

When the Allies occupied Germany, they killed the personification of the nation and prevented a new one from being born. Turns out that has consequences.

One Good Leg:

America got shot in the leg in the Battle of Okinawa. The person who saved him was not the person he was expecting.

Canada's Cold War

The Gouzenko affairs causes a few problems for Canada.

The Other Side of the United States:

America loves his kids, which sometimes makes it hard to remember he's an empire. Here's your reminder.

The North and the South:

The births of North Korea and South Korea.

Becoming a Satellite:

Hungary is about to become a satellite state. Shame he doesn’t know what it entails.

False Love of a False Father:

Hungary knew the consequences would be dire if he lost the Hungarian Revolution. He still fights them regardless.

The Satellite Inspection:

Soviet likes inspecting his satellites to make sure they are turning out like he wants them too. Sometimes, they aren’t. That’s when things get bad for them.

The Not So Good Friday:

It was a peaceful Good Friday in 1964, and Alaska was enjoying his afternoon in Anchorage. Then he got hit by an earthquake.

The Meaning of Freedom:

Philippines has not been having a fun time in the 20th century, as his mind is ripped away from him again and again. But finally, his mind is freed and he can begin to heal.

Kindred Spirits:

Ireland had been helped by a lot of people during his Famine. The one he remembers the most fondly is the Choctaw Nation.

Successor:

Poland doesn’t think he deserves to be Poland. His father disagrees.

Checkmate:

Croatia has just signed the Sarajevo Agreement, a big step towards her independence.

The Nightmare:

Finland's dreams are full of regret.

The River:

Delaware and New Jersey don't exactly get along. A border conflict makes this worse.

Confessions:

Britain is a terrible father, but he has many favorites, picked because of their majority white populations and their lack of a native personification as a birth parent. Or so they thought.