#western kentucky university

[harriswalz4usabybr]

Sunday, September 8, 2024 - Tim Walz

Governor Tim Walz and his family were joined on the campaign trail today by Governor Andy Beshear, his family, TN State Representative Justin Jones, and Former Vice President Al Gore. Below is the 'official' schedule of today's events.

It was great having the Beshears show us their home state and help us understand more of the local issues. Upon the conclusion of today's events the Walz Family headed to meet the Vice President in Philadelphia to continue prepping for her Tuesday Debate.

Owensboro, KY Event Location: Sunday Service Unity Fellowship Event Type: Sunday Worship Event Time: 9:00 - 11:30 CT *No remarks were made during or after the services. However, the Governors, their families, Justin Jones, and Al Gore were at the church prior to in order to greet the congregation. Thank you for allowing the campaign to worship with you this week.

Bowling Green, KY Event Location: Western Kentucky University Event Type: Get Out the Vote Event Time: 13:00 - 16:00 CT *A Get Out the Vote campaign was launched on-campus by Justin Jones and Governor Tim Walz, while Al Gore and Governor Andy Beshear focused on door knocking in the community.

Louisville, KY Event Location: KFC Yum! Center Event Type: Campaign Rally Event Time: 20:00 - 22:00 ET *A full-text of this speech will be released shortly.

~BR~

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Sydney Ernst & Kenlee Newcom

Western Kentucky University (WKU)

[willibeest]

White squirrel going to town on a lil waffle fry (April 6, 2024)

[pan-problemed]

A body on the step and lies all about - i

cooper howard x angel!gn!reader

tags; slow burn, character study, cowboys, angels, religion, gender neutral reader warnings; none

masterlist | cross posted on ao3 inspired by the fallen by @geeks-universe! please check it out summary ; You are an angel, trying to help humanity build what their leaders destroyed. He is a man cursed to painful immortality, trying to survive in the world his leaders destroyed.

He thought he had squashed out all that remained of his humanity, but here you were, all gentle hands and knowing looks, throwing a wrench into the character he had so carefully constructed.

Some of the others questioned why you remained on Earth, even after Father’s creations had burnt it in fire and gamma. They had all given up hope that good may remain and therefore given up on all of them.

You knew not all of them were at fault - a single secretary could do nothing in the face of her government’s greed and hubris. She could not be blamed, could not be declared evil for someone else’s crime. 

Still, grief was something you had become intricately familiar with. Looking at the ashen remains of all Father and humanity had created, you felt nothing but grief in its rawest, most volatile form. 

But you remained. You held onto that hope, because what else were you without it? 

Few of your siblings remained on Earth, equally dedicated to protecting and nudging humanity in the right direction. You remained in contact, despite millennia-long arguments on right and wrong. 

If you asked yourself back in the 20th century whether you’d find yourself allies and almost friends with Lucifer himself, you wouldn’t have believed it. 

But here you were. Constantly tasting the acidic flavour of radiation in the air, watching as humans tore each other apart again and again and tried to undo what they had done each time.

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Purdue had grown into a careful little town in recent years. Before, they had called it West Lafayette, and before then it was Chauncey. But now it was Purdue, named after the title stamped into cracked signs and burnt textbooks. 

They still used the old street signs - someone had taken time to repaint the little forest green rectangles and white letters. 

Fondy was a bar built in the bottom floor of an apartment building, half of the letters had fallen off with age, the original name lost to time. Some of the apartments now were used as an inn, though not many travellers ended up in Purdue when Lucas Oil and Big State were only a day’s walk south. 

And here you were, sitting at the counter as Buddy Holly’s voice buzzed from the little restored radio on the counter. Lukas Striker had recently set up in Big State, and you had provided a generous donation of songs to the bright-eyed boy. What a King was doing starting a radio show in the remnants of Indiana was beyond you, but you were happy to indulge. 

You had always liked music, after all. 

You were nursing your first drink of the night - whisky, caravanned out of Kentucky. The bitter taste was familiar on your tongue. Nothing compared to the expensive drinks Lucifer would encourage you to indulge in back in the day, alongside corny movies and drunken exchanges of stories. 

He had been on a Western kick in 2076 and some of ‘77, particularly fond of one pretty little actor named Cooper Howard. His dark hair carefully slicked back reminded you of a gang you met back in the day, though it took quite a few more drinks to pull that story out of you. 

You reckoned, if they ever made a movie about them, put some facial hair and cigarettes on Howard and he was practically the spitting image. 

The ice clinked against the stained glass as you thought back to those late nights, drinking and laughing at the humans’ entertainment. 

Before the resources grew too few, and the humans’ greed too powerful. 

The ramshackle wood doors creaked open, announcing a new customer, but you didn’t look up from the spot you were studying on the counter. It had been built out of old signs and car parts, you could see a Toyota logo. 

He sat three stools from you and ordered in a low voice, heavy with a southern accent. Speaking of Westerns, you thought to yourself. 

You cast him a brief glance. He had rough skin, most of it covered with a ragged duster and clothes stained brown. His hat was angled to shield his eyes, despite being inside, and you could see the way his hazel eyes studied the room curiously. 

You recognised his kind - mortals cursed to immortality. Skin ragged and burnt. Some had their brains melt away with the cartilage and hair, but others held onto their sanity despite. 

His gaze met yours - intelligent, calculating, suspicious - and you held it for a moment, sizing each other up. 

There was something familiar about him that tugged at your tongue, but you couldn’t puzzle it out just yet. You would keep an eye on him, then - he had a dangerous look about him. 

The radio buzzed as the music rolled over to Billie Holiday. You didn’t look away, even as his drink was passed to him. 

Finally, he downed the thing in one gulp and slammed the glass on the counter, leaning forward. “Reckon I’ve seen you before.” He mused. 

“I thought the same.” You replied evenly, taking a careful sip from your drink. 

The two of you fell silent again. You wondered what he was thinking, why he wasn’t ignoring you as you had planned to do to him. 

He gestured for another drink, and the bartender hesitated for a moment. The man sighed and retrieved a few coppers, which seemed to appease the bartender for now. 

“What brings you to Purdue?” You decided to ask, growing uncomfortable with the tense silence in the nearly empty bar. 

He hummed, leaning back in his seat and draping one arm on the counter, tilting his head to look at you. 

It clicked, then, who you were looking at. Speak of the devil (haha), the hollowed out ghost of Cooper Howard sat in that torn duster, staring you down with curiosity and bitterness in those chesnut eyes. 

“Work.” He replied simply. “You?” 

You shrugged. “I travel.” 

He paused, tilting his head a little further, and you couldn’t help but compare him to a little labrador puppy studying something new for the first time. 

The conversation largely ended there, though both of you did ocassionally hum along to the music playing from the radio. He was much more quiet than you, but the tapping of his fingers and the soft rumble of his voice didn’t escape your attention. 

You gave him a friendly smile as you left, though he ignored it. 

And you wondered. 

[readyforevolution]

JACK DANIELS HOLSCLAW (1918-1998)

Tuskegee Airman Jack Daniels Holsclaw was born in Spokane, Washington, on March 21, 1918. His father, Charles, was a clerk in a downtown store, and his mother, Nell, was a manager at Pacific Telephone and Telegraph. Holsclaw attended North Central High School in Spokane, where he excelled both academically and athletically. When he was 15, he became the first black person in Spokane to earn the Eagle Scout badge.

Holsclaw entered Whitworth College in 1935 but transferred to Washington State College (now Washington State University) in 1936 to play baseball. Beginning in his junior year, he played center field and helped the Cougars finish as co-champions of the Northern Division, Pacific Coast Conference. He was the second African American earn a varsity letter in baseball at the college.

In 1939, Holsclaw transferred to a chiropractic program at Western States College in Portland, Oregon, where he met his wife, Bernice Williams. They had one son, Glen. Holsclaw completed the chiropractic program in 1942 and passed the Oregon state board examination.

While there, he enrolled in a government sponsored Civilian Pilot Training Program at Multnomah College and earned his pilot’s license. On October 5, 1942, he enlisted in the army as a private and entered flight school, training at Tuskegee Army Airfield, Alabama. After completing his training, he received his wings and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant on July 28, 1943. Lieutenant Holsclaw received advanced training at Selfridge Field near Detroit, Michigan before his squadron was shipped to Italy in December 1943.

Lieutenant Holsclaw flew in the 100th Fighter Squadron, 332d Fighter Group, an all-black pursuit squadron. Holsclaw named his favorite P-51 “Bernice Baby” in honor of his wife. The 332d Fighter Group had distinctive red tails giving them the nickname “Red Tails.” The 332d Fighter Group escorted bombers on their runs over enemy territory, shielding them from German fighters. To the bomber crews that were protected by them they were the “Red Tail Angels.”

On July 18, 1944, in an aerial battle over Italy, Holsclaw shot down two German fighters. For this action he received the Distinguished Flying Cross. By December 1944, Holsclaw had completed 68 combat missions, nearing the limit of 70, when he became Assistant Operations Officer, an important administrative position that included aerial mission planning. In January 1945, Holsclaw was promoted to captain.

Captain Holsclaw returned to the United States in June 1945 to serve as assistant base operations officer at Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky. He served as an Air Force ROTC instructor at Tuskegee Institute and then Tennessee State College.

From 1954 to 1957, Holsclaw was assigned to Japan, and from May 1962 to the end of 1964, he served as chief of the training division, Sixth Air Force Reserve Region at Hamilton Air Force Base, California. He directed the preparation of two textbooks to guide incoming air force personnel. Holsclaw retired from the Air Force on December 31, 1964 as a Lieutenant Colonel.

From 1965 to 1973 Holsclaw served as a manager in the Marin County Housing Authority, California. In 1973, he and Bernice returned to Washington where Holsclaw joined the staff at the People’s National Bank in Bellevue. He remained there until his second retirement in 1983. He and Bernice took up residence in Arizona, where Jack Holsclaw died on April 7, 1998, at the age of 80.

In August 2019, the Jonas Babcock Chapter, NSDAR, dedicated a historical marker in the memory of Lt. Col. Holsclaw at the site of his childhood home in Spokane.

[coochiequeens]

I'm usually opposed to the death penalty but this guy should face a firing squad.

By Anna Slatz December 5, 2023

CONTENT NOTICE: This article contains a graphic description of child sexual abuse involving an infant. Reader discretion is appreciated.

A trans-identified male in McCracken County, Kentucky is facing charges of child sexual abuse after reportedly molesting a baby in his care. Maria Childres, 25, had been employed as a daycare worker in Paducah, Kentucky when the abuse is said to have occurred.

Childres was arrested in February of this year after the Department of Community Based Services (DCBS) received an anonymous tip detailing an alleged incident of abuse that had occurred in November of 2022. The tip, reportedly written by one of Childres’ co-workers, accused him of making inappropriate comments towards an infant while changing the child’s diaper, and touching the baby inappropriately.

Maria Childres. Photo Source: FACEBOOK

Following the receipt of the DCBS report, Paducah Police went down to Explore Learning Academy, Childres’ place of employment, to investigate. They spoke with a witness who corroborated the details of the anonymous report, and spoke with the director of the Academy, who appeared to have been aware of Childers’ behavior with the baby. Despite knowing what had occurred, the director had only given him a “write up.”

Reduxx has obtained the citation from the Paducah Police Department detailing the complaint, in which Childres is referred to using “she/her�� pronouns despite his legal sex being male.

According to the citation, Childres was confronted by another co-worker while he was changing the infant, who was concerned he was hurting her while wiping her genital area.

In response, Childres reportedly said “that was her clit area and she likes it. It just made her day.”

The witness police spoke with also stated that she saw Childres rub the baby’s vaginal area with his fingers while making the sickening remark.

Courtesy Paducah Police Department.

After being taken to the police station for questioning, Childres initially claimed he had not changed the infant’s diaper at all. He later admitted to having done so after an officer presented him with evidence in the form of a text that he had sent to the daycare’s director confirming the baby’s diaper had been changed.

Childres maintained that he had not made inappropriate comments or touched the baby sexually, and that he “often says things that are taken out of context.”

Childres was charged with first-degree sexual abuse of a victim under the age of 12, and has been housed in the McCracken County Jail since. There has been some confusion over the spelling of his last name, with the courts, police, and his social feeds having different spellings alternating between “Childers” and “Childres.” The Kentucky Court of Justice has the name spelled “Childres.”

According to his now-delated Facebook, Childres claims to have studied child development at The University of Arizona Global Campus, an online college which has come under accreditation concerns in recent years. A separate Facebook account also belonging to Childres has his gender listed as “female.”

After speaking with a clerk at the McCracken County Court of Justice, Reduxx has confirmed that Childres has privately retained a prominent transgender lawyer to defend him during upcoming hearings.

Leach holding the transgender pride flag.

Madison Leach, a male who began identifying as a “woman” six years ago, was the first openly transgender candidate to seek public office in western Kentucky when he ran as a Democrat for the Calloway County attorney seat. Leach recently decided to leave Kentucky over Senate Bill 150, which would make it optional for public school teachers to use a student’s preferred pronouns.

“This is kind of the cherry on top for me. The quality of life in New York is going to be better for me, and I think that a lot of parents of trans youth or other trans people are debating this in their head,” Leach said in March, stating that he was intending to eventually move his practice to New York.

Childres is scheduled for a pretrial conference this week, at which point he and Leach will enter a plea or negotiate a potential resolution with the prosecutors.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Thomas Fountain Blue

Thomas Fountain Blue, the first African American to head a public library in the United States, was also a civic, educational, and religious leader. Blue was born in Farmville, Virginia, on March 6, 1866, to Noah Blue, a carpenter, and Henry Ann Crawley Blue. They were parents of two other children, Alice Blue and Charles Blue.

Blue enrolled in Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia, in 1885 and graduated in 1888. In 1894, he enrolled in Richmond Theological Seminary (now Virginia Union University) in Richmond, Virginia, finishing in 1898 with a Bachelor of Divinity degree. One week later, when the United States declared war on Spain after the sinking of the USS Maine off the coast of Cuba, touching off the Spanish-American War, Blue joined the Sixth Virginia Volunteers battalion comprising African American soldiers and was stationed first in Camp Poland in Tennessee and later at Camp Haskell in Georgia.

In 1905, Blue was selected to lead the Western Branch Library of the Louisville Free Public Library on South 10th and Chestnut Street, the first Carnegie Library in the nation to serve African American patrons with an exclusively African American staff. The facility cost $31,024.31 to build and when completed had over 4,000 books and 53 periodicals.

In 1914, Blue opened Louisville’s second Carnegie Library for African Americans, the Eastern Branch Library. During World War I, Blue was drafted, left the branch, and was appointed the Education Secretary at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, one of sixteen national Army training camps created across the nation. Blue worked with Black troops who mostly had supporting and laboring roles in the United States.

After the war ended in 1918, Blue returned to Louisville, and a year later, in 1919, he was named head of the “Colored Department” for the city’s public library system and supervised eight African American assistants. The Colored Department was the first in the United States to have a staff which served multiple Black library branches.

In 1922, Blue was a presenter at the American Library Association Conference in Detroit, Michigan, where he gave a paper titled, “Training Class at the Western Colored Branch,” and led the subsequent discussion with the Negro Roundtable composed of other African American Library staffers from across the nation.

On June 18, 1925, Blue married Cornelia Phillips Johnson from Columbia, Tennessee, and they parented two children, Thomas Fountain Blue, Jr., and Charles Blue (named after his younger brother). Two years later, in 1927, Blue founded the Negro Library Conference and conducted its first meeting at Hampton Institute.

Later becoming a minister, Reverend Thomas Fountain Blue—who held membership in the American Library Association, the Special Committee of Colored Ministers of Louisville on Matters Interracial, and was a charter member of the Louisville Chapter of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History—died on November 10, 1935, in Louisville, Kentucky. He was 69.

At the 2003 joint conference of the American Library Association with the Canadian Library Association Annual Conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Blue was posthumously honored when the organization passed a resolution recognizing his leadership in promoting professionalism among the staff of African American libraries across the United States. In 2022, a headstone honoring Blue and his wife, Cornelia Phillips Johnson, was placed at Eastern Cemetery in Louisville by the Frazier History Museum.

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/people-african-american-history/thomas-fountain-blue-1866-1935/

[timeisancestral]

About me:

names: ariadne, ari, alexis, lex.

she/they. white. 21. transsexual. lutheran // former baptist. far enough left that i got my g*ns back. ENM // poly. autistic, adhd, bipolar 1. NC - VA - AZ - KY (current).

my folks come from southwest virginia, southern west virginia, & eastern kentucky (bio dad’s side) // southeastern ohio (bio mom’s side). i grew up on a goat farm in western NC in a large, split family.

i’m currently working on my MFA in poetry, & am a published poet // fiction writer. i aim to get my PHD in english eventually & hope to teach english, creative writing, & appalachian studies at the university level.

this blog is a mixture of appalachian gothic, dark academic, & religious imagery. all photos i post are mine unless specified otherwise. reblogs sporadically.

equipment: nikon d3500 & iphone 15

loves: ethel cain, julien baker, fiona apple, poetry, coffee, hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, sustainable architecture, rural decay, religious iconography, late 1800s & early 1900s residential architecture, bluegrass music, transcendentalism, character art, animation, cooking, foraging, goats, travel, dnd, online roleplay

fandoms: warrior cats, furry, dropout, night in the woods, dream daddy, avatar the last airbender, the secret history

interact at your own discretion. creeps will be blocked.

keep up with what i’m listening to & reading:

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Hattie Mae Annette Dulin Redford (October 8, 1896 - July 9, 1990) was one of seven Founders of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority.

She was born in Greenville, Kentucky. Her parents were James and Mary Elizabeth Dulin. They moved to Indiana in 1898, first to Marion and South Bend. James and Mary Dulin were certain that the Midwest would offer their daughter a quality education. The Dulins started a small hotel and restaurant in South Bend.

She joined the Second Baptist Church and excelled in school. She graduated cum laude from South Bend Central High School during WWI and Indiana State Teachers College with a BS and studied at Western Reserve and Indiana University extension. She taught one year in Terra Haute and thirty-seven years in Indianapolis. She serve as a principal towards the end of her career.

She was Grand Epistoleus, Grand Tamiochus, and Financial Consultant and received various awards and honors for her sorority service. Plaques are awarded in her name at each Boule for exhibits of chapter achievements. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #sigmagammarho

[immemorymag]

Jared Hamilton is a documentary-style photographer, filmmaker, activist, poet, habitual pot stirrer, firestarter, and flame keeper. He is from Central Appalachia and his work focuses on trying to capture ideas in images whether it’s about a feeling or an idea. Jared is an alumnus of Western Kentucky University’s photojournalism program. He lives and works in Central Appalachia.

[skarabrae-stone]

US Voting Rights, Advocacy, & Assistance Part 3

I post a lot about how important it is to vote, but I know it’s not that simple/easy for people living in places with voter suppression. So I thought I’d make a post of organizations that help people exercise their right to vote, both on the national and the state/regional level. The links below included resources for voting, education on voting in your state/region, and opportunities to volunteer and get more politically engaged.

This will be a series of posts, going in alphabetical order. National organizations and organizations for states K-M (Kansas through Montana) below the cut: Part 1 (A-C), Part 2 (D-I)

Links marked with an * include information for disabled voters. Links marked with a # include information on voting rights for people who have been incarcerated.

National:

Vote.Org Vote 411 American Civil Liberties Union #* Movement Voter Project Fair Elections Center Autistic Self-Advocacy Network Voting Toolkit * League of Conservation Voters Common Cause Ballotpedia Environmental Voter Project Black Male Voter Project Black Voters Matter US Vote Foundation #* Accessible Voting *

Kansas:

Know Your Voting Rights (ACLU) # Loud Light (focuses on youth/student voters) The Voter Network League of Women Voters Kansas Disability Rights Center of Kansas *

Kentucky:

PFLAG Votes Respect My Vote! Rock the Vote League of Women Voters Kentucky Kentuckians for the Commonwealth Our People Our Vote # * Kentucky Democracy # US Vote Foundation *

Louisiana

Power Coalition for Equity and Justice Southern Poverty Law Center # Louisiana Voter Guide (SPLC) Legal Defense Fund Disability Rights Louisiana * League of Women Voters Louisiana

Maine

Democracy Maine Maine Students Vote League of Women Voters Maine AARP * Disability Rights Maine * Maine Citizens for Clean Elections US Vote Foundation #

Maryland

Out for Justice # PFLAG Votes Progressive Maryland Center for Common Ground League of Women Voters Maryland Disability Rights Maryland * Accessible Voting Maryland *

Massachusetts

American Federation of Teachers AARP *# Rock the Vote *# Mass Vote League of Women Voters Disability Law Center * The Arc Votes * Voter Choice Massachusetts Mass Alliance

Michigan

All Voting is Local Michigan Voting.org #* League of Women Voters Michigan Fair Elections Center The Disability Network * Michigan Justice Advocacy # Promote the Vote

Minnesota:

Clean Elections Minnesota Fair Vote Minnesota The Arc Voter Empowerment Toolkit * Restore the Vote MN # League of Women Voters Minnesota Minnesota Voice The Sentencing Project #

Mississippi

Mississippi Black Women's Roundtable Mississippi Votes Poor People's Campaign The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation League of Women Voters Mississippi Disability Rights Mississippi * Southern Poverty Law Center #* Mississippi Center for Justice PFLAG Votes US Vote Foundation #

Missouri

AARP * Missouri Voter Protection Coalition #* League of Women Voters Missouri Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services US Vote Foundation #

Montana

Montana Natives Vote (Native American Rights Fund) # Western Native Voice Vote in Montana # Montana State University Voting Guide PFLAG Votes Disability Rights Montana *

[college-girls-blog]

Kenlee Newcom

Western Kentucky University (WKU)

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.13 (after 1940)

1945 – World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army. 1945 – World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. 1951 – Korean War: Battle of Chipyong-ni, which represented the "high-water mark" of the Chinese incursion into South Korea, commences. 1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game. 1955 – Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls. 1955 – Twenty-nine people are killed when Sabena Flight 503 crashes into Monte Terminillo near Rieti, Italy. 1960 – With the success of a nuclear test codenamed "Gerboise Bleue", France becomes the fourth country to possess nuclear weapons. 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee. 1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug. 1967 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain. 1975 – Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York. 1978 – Hilton bombing: A bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman. 1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 0.5-mile (0.80 km) long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. 1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. 1983 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people. 1984 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1990 – German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. 1991 – Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed. 1996 – The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre). 2001 – An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944. 2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". 2007 – Taiwan opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after being indicted on charges of embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. 2008 – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations. 2010 – A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more. 2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855. 2012 – The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted the first launch of the European Vega rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. 2017 – Kim Jong-nam, brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, is assassinated at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. 2021 – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is acquitted in his second impeachment trial. 2021 – A major winter storm causes blackouts and kills at least 82 people in Texas and northern Mexico.

[usedcarheaven]

Moneta J. Sleet Jr. (February 14, 1926- 1996) American press photographer best known for his work at Ebony magazine. Sleet was the first African-American man to win the Pulitzer Prize, and the first African American to win the award for journalism. Sleet was born in Owensboro, Kentucky. He was editor of the school newspaper at Western High School, his alma mater. After serving in an all black unit in WW2 he graduated cum laude from Kentucky State College (now Kentucky State University), a historically black college. He went on to obtain a master's degree in journalism from New York University (NYU) in 1950. After his education at NYU he was a sports journalist for the Amsterdam News in New York and then John P. Davis' magazine Our World. Sleet began working for Ebony magazine in 1955.

[k12academics]

The mission of the Gordon Ford College of Business is to actively support and engage students, faculty, staff, and community in academic and lifelong professional development, providing the foundation needed to lead in today's diverse business environment.

[thetrickstersdaughter]

Full Name: Rebekah Faye Reilly 🩵

Nicknames: Becky, Beck, Bam Bam, Barbara (if you’re Mr. D) 😜

Birthday: December 18th ♐️

Parents: Jolie Reilly and Hermes 🪽

Home: Western North Carolina ⛰️

Significant Other (OC): Ajax Joshua “Jax” Clay (Son of Ares) 🔪

Close Friends: Savannah Stevie McKissick (OC, Apollo) 🎻, Jordyn Ada Leigh Jackson (OC, Aphrodite) 🏐, Thalia Grace ⚡️, Katie Gardner 🍓, Percy Jackson 🌊, Annabeth Chase 🏛️, Clarisse La Rue ⚔️, Grover Underwood 🌱, and all my siblings of course 🪽

Education: BS Aerospace Engineering with a Minor in Physics, University of Kentucky 💙, MS Astrophysics, University of Tennessee Space Institute (in progress) 🧡

Weapons of Choice: My sword 🗡️, My talaria (winged shoes) 👟

Pets: Mabel 🐶, Copper 🐶, Olive 🐎, and Conway 🐠

A Few Things I Love: Track and Field 🏃🏼‍♀️, Trail Running 🌞, Climbing 🧗🏼‍♀️, Paddlesports 🚣🏼‍♂️, Snowboarding 🏂, Diving 🤿, Airplanes (Licensed pilot, baby) ✈️, Physics ☢️, Fireworks 💥, Dogs 🐶, Cool Ranch Doritos 😋, Horror Movies🩸

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