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Baby shark, do do, do do do do

Baby shark, do do, do do do do

Baby shark, do do, do do do do

Baby shark

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Something happened on the day he died

Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside

Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried

(I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar)

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The ocean pout is thinking about you...and coming to disturbing conclusions.

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Would have given anything to see this show

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Either the greatest children’s book ever or an Introduction to post-postmodern deconstructionist theory.

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So…Harry Potter’s Midlife Crisis may be in the final draft version.

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Happy birthday to the kindest and most fancy rock star in the world! Happy birthday #AdamClayton! #U2 #HappyBirthdayAdam #HappyBirthdayAdamClayton (en Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMXWscdrnw7/?igshid=c53y4p3c3zy0

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The milkmaid 1889

Paul Gauguin

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Bono / U2 / Vertigo Tour / Anaheim / 1 Apr 2005 / this frame previously unpublished

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Repost from @sbu_specarch: In May 1983, @U2 performed a sold out concert in the gym at Stony Brook University. Happy birthday to lead singer Bono. #u2 #bono #stonybrook #rock #rockhall #concert #irish http://ift.tt/2q4i6Wn

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Alexander Hamilton, 1/11/1757 - 7/12/1804

Hamilton, Alexander (bust) Series: Loan Exhibition of Portraits of the Signers and Deputies to the Convention of 1787 and Signers of the Declaration of Independence, 1935 - 1938. Record Group 148: Records of Commissions of the Legislative Branch, 1928 - 2007

Alexander Hamilton was born 260 years ago on January 11, 1757*, the illegitimate son of a poor itinerant merchant. He would go on to become a lieutenant colonel in the American Revolution, a close confidant to George Washington, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and first Secretary of the Treasury.

More items related to Alexander Hamilton, including:

“Statement of My Property and Debts, with Remarks”, 7/1/1804

“Statement on Impending Duel with Aaron Burr”

Alexander Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures to the House of Representatives, on special exhibit at the National Archives Museum until January 31, 2017

(*Sources vary as to whether Hamilton’s birth year is 1757 or 1755.)

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Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo, is the only human, alive or dead that isn’t in the frame of this picture, 1969

via reddit

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On the evening of April 13, 1970, the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were just hours from the third lunar landing in history. But as they soared through space, two hundred thousand miles from earth, an explosion badly damaged their spacecraft. With compromised engines and failing life-support systems, the crew was in incomparably grave danger. Faced with below-freezing temperatures, a seriously ill crew member, and a dwindling water supply, a safe return seemed unlikely.

More about the story of Apollo 13 in the book Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed by Henry S. F. Cooper.

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Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation

While Thanksgiving celebrations date back to Plymouth Colony, and some presidents and governors declared various Thanksgiving Days, there was no national Thanksgiving Day until President Lincoln issued his proclamation in 1863, during the Civil War. Poet and editor Sarah J. Hale argued for a national celebration since the 1820s, sending letters over the years to Lincoln and other state officials. “Thanksgiving,” she wrote, “like the Fourth of July, should be considered a national festival and observed by all our people … There is a deep moral influence in these periodical seasons of rejoicing, in which whole communities participate. They bring out … the best sympathies in our natures.” Lincoln proclaimed:

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well as the iron and coal as of our precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the imposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 3d day of October, A.D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. Abraham Lincoln

Image from the Library of Congress

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‘An odd title… we accept that’ @U2 ’s How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, released #onthisday in 2004.

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#ImwithTheyMightBeGiants