We think history is so far removed from us, but sometimes I’m reminded how very close we are to each other on the timeline.
My paternal grandfather was born in 1906 (I have older parents). He and my grandmother came through Ellis Island.
My vocal coach’s grandparents survived the 1906 San Fransisco earthquake and fire.
My great-grandfather lived to the age of 106. He often spoke of how strongly he remembered his nursemaid’s taffeta skirts rustling as she walked when he was a child. He was born in the 1870s. My grandmother recorded him on video in the 1980s talking about those Victorian bustle skirts he grew up with.
On my mother’s side, we tracked down a marriage record for her 17th-century English ancestors, their signatures still crystal-clear and confident on the yellowed parchment. The church where they were married still stands in London.
Samuel J. Seymour was born in 1860 and at age five, he witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Almost 100 years later, at age 96, he went on live television and recounted his firsthand account of the death of the president. You can watch the interview here.
The last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, Millvina Dean, died in 2009.
The oldest person ever, Jeanne Calment, lived to age 122. She died in 1997 after recording a pop album, the same year The Spice Girls were topping the charts; but she remembered that as a child, Vincent Van Gogh once visited her father’s paint shop.
It’s easy to think of history as abstract, black and white, theoretical. But do some digging–you’ll probably find that it’s within arm’s reach.
Dude i got through all these but that last one fuck me up
My health professor told my class that in the late 70s he’d asked his class to raise their hand if they were a feminist. Every single person, guys included, raised their hand. It was simple, of course they believed women should be equal to men.
When he asked the same question 30 years later, a few girls raised their hands while the rest didn’t move. The term feminism had been polluted. Although the students still believed in equality of the sexes, using the term feminist was “taking it a bit too far”.
Please educate the people around you about the true meaning of the word feminism. Let’s erase all of the misconceptions surrounding feminism. NEVER BE ASHAMED TO CALL YOURSELF A FEMINIST. Happy International Women’s Day!
i really hope nintendo added this very specific animation of eevee on purpose, because if you know a little fun fact about animal behaviour then it makes it approximately one dkjfhgillion percent better.
quite often, you’ll see dogs doing something like this with their front paws. they pick it up and wave it at you. sometimes they even hit you by accident! but they aren’t trying to hurt you, oh no. quite the opposite. see, when you regularly pet a dog, it starts to learn the motion you do. if you treat the dog well and it starts to love you, then it will sometimes perform this jerky smacking motion with its paw. this is a dog’s best approximation of petting, and sometimes when you go to pet it, it will do it in an attempt to return the favour. cats also do this, although not as often, because cats are just like that.
long story short: eevee is attempting to pet you back, because it loves you.
this is just something i noticed, and it might not be anything. but i really hope that this was intentional on nintendo’s part, because it’s an adorable little addition to the game!
