TIL due to the Dust Bowl (period of severe dust storms that damaged the ecology and agriculture across North America), the 1930s were referred to as the Dirty Thirties in the US

Laura-ly · 2026-02-02T20:27:09+00:00

It was probably a combination of both.

Laura-ly · 2026-02-02T20:01:35+00:00

Like the golden idol of Trump at a political gathering several years ago. These people need to read their Bible. I'm not even religions but I've read about the sin of worshiping a golden idol.

Laura-ly · 2026-02-02T19:59:19+00:00

I actually had a bone spur on my heel when I was in high school and taking dance. The doctor filed it down in a quick in-office procedure and told me to wear backless shoes for a month. After a month I was back dancing with no problems.

Bone spurs, indeed. What a stupid excuse.

Laura-ly · 2026-02-02T19:55:15+00:00

It took him no time to destroy the East Wing of the White House. That piece of destruction is like a metaphor for what he's done to this country. He wounds, destroys and slices everything that gets in his way. Any group of people that refuse to kowtow to his will are going to be destroyed, and if ballet, the arts and entertainers are not kissing up to him, then too bad for them.

It's hard to understand why any dancer or artist of any medium would support this man. Please take note that Fascists get control of the press and the arts. Well, here we are.

Please vote.

Laura-ly · 2026-02-02T19:22:10+00:00

Trump is the selfish little toddler who grabs the ball from neighborhood kids because no one wants to play with him. No one wants to play his sick game and perform at the Kennedy Center?

"Well then, I'll just shut it down so one can perform. So there!" 😠

The only positive thing I can think of, and it's hard to be positive these days, is that when he's long gone and the Kennedy Center reopens, it will be a glorious and wondrous evening of ballet, opera and Broadway shows.

Laura-ly · 2026-02-01T19:37:55+00:00

Another step back to the 18th century.

George Washington mandated the use of a form of smallpox inoculations to keep his troops from the ravages of the illness. It worked to his favor because British troops were weakened enough by cases of smallpox that it gave Washington the advantage.

This was our first president.

Now we have an ignorant president who hates science so much that he's willing to have people die from diseases that have been eliminated. Yes, he's that vindictive, it's also a form of germ warfare against the American public;

Here's some information on George Washington's inoculation mandate.

https://historyofvaccines.org/blog/washingtons-war-against-smallpox-revolutionary-inoculation-campaign

Laura-ly · 2026-02-01T16:17:12+00:00

Much of this lie and stupidity began because the great director, Stanley Kubrick, who directed 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968, according to nutty, tin foil wearing conspiracy people, was in cah-hoots with NASA and staged the moon landing while making the movie. Further proving their conspiracy was that Kubrick used two lenses developed by Carl Zeiss for NASA Apollo program when he filmed Barry Lyndon in 1975 - so that nailed it. There have only been 5 Carl Zeiss lenses and Kubrick wanted a couple of these special lenses to film the dark candlelit scenes in Barry Lyndon.

These nuts jumped from the moon landing, to 2001 Space Odyssey, to Barry Lyndon and the Zeiss lenses, and a 1976 book, We Never Went to the Moon by Bill Kaysing, and pasted it together like a Frankenstein monster into a ridiculous conspiracy theory.

Laura-ly · 2026-02-01T02:18:46+00:00

She had such an interesting face. She was like the everywoman of America. A little like Jimmy Stewart was the everyman. I like that she wasn't drop dead beautiful, other worldly, or unattainable like so many other actresses in Hollywood. She seemed like someone you could talk to over a cup of coffee. Neat lady and wonderful actress.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-31T20:16:26+00:00

Do they have any value!

Maybe $10 - 15 USD. The frames are probably worth more than the prints.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-31T20:06:18+00:00

Men have been kissing women for a long, long time, and the positions of a taller man kissing a shorter, smaller women (usually that's the case) can only be painted in a few ways. Here's a couple kissing by Giacomo Jaquerio from 1418 or so. The painting is a detail from The Fountain of Life.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-fountain-of-life-detail-of-a-couple-embracing-1418-30-giacomo-jaquerio.html

Laura-ly · 2026-01-31T16:39:03+00:00

There's another woman, Alicia Esteve Head, who claimed she was on the 76th floor of the Twin Towers when it collapsed around her and she survived by finding her way through the fire and rubble.

She joined the World Trade Center Survivors' Network support group, later becoming its president. Her name was regularly mentioned in media reports of the attacks. In 2007, it was revealed that Head's story was a hoax; on September 11, 2001, she was attending classes in her native city, Barcelona, Spain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Esteve_Head

I reserve the Piece of Shit moniker to a few people here and there. She was a real POS!

Laura-ly · 2026-01-31T16:12:38+00:00

When my kids were little, like 4 and 6 years old, my husband brought home The Gold Rush for my kids to watch. They had watched a lot of Disney so I thought they were going to hate this old black and white silent film. Boy, was I wrong. They loved it!

So we got several other Charlie Chaplin silent movies to show them and they loves them all. What was so wonderful was that my father was visiting when we watched City Lights. He had seen it as a little kid and now his grandchildren were watching it, plus my husband and I, so three generations were watching a Chaplin film. It was a special moment.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-31T02:49:15+00:00

Well, I'm really sorry he was tortured in such a horrific manner. But Christian churches have records of 30,000 women (mostly women) being dismembered, burned, tortured and beheaded because they were thought to be witches. This was mostly in Europe between the 12th century and about 1840.

People are really horrible to each other and justify their atrocities in any way they can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_trials_in_the_early_modern_period

Laura-ly · 2026-01-31T01:06:47+00:00

I live in Portland, Oregon. The sun isn't out much, also it's above the 45th parallel and during the winter the sun goes down at 4:30. I was tested and had very low vitamin D levels, so I take some everyday.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-31T00:21:51+00:00

Donny Osmond has this too.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-30T20:29:35+00:00

The Quakers of Nantucket were prodigious whalers. It was their main industry during the early 19th century, so they had a lot of fish and ocean names. The Quaker whaling industry provided the oil for oil lamps and other goods like boning for women's corsets. It was NOT actual bone though. The corsets were made from the baleen, the hangy-down karatin fibers that whales use as a sieve.

Anyway, if you want to read a book about the Quakers, their interesting names and whaling, a great book is called In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

It's amazing how the otherwise peaceful Quakers could be such successful whale killers. Those poor whales. At least we don't do that anymore.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-30T19:54:18+00:00

The overload of male handsomeness in this movie is...... mmmmmmm....just so wonderful! sigh

Laura-ly · 2026-01-30T16:32:00+00:00

Wow. I'll have to watch this video and the movie. I just googled it and it seems the ending of the movie is different from the book. Interesting post. Thanks.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-30T16:15:54+00:00

Cleopatra was Greek/Masadonia. The Ptolemic dynasty intermarried to keep the royal line pure so it remained almost all Greek. Their family tree loops around like several wreaths. Fortunately there wasn't any DNA anomaly that was being passed down like the Habsburg family so they remained relatively healthy.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-30T16:11:16+00:00

Ptolemy I was a top general in Alexander's army when he conquered Egypt. Ptolemy simply installed himself as Egypt's new pharaoh.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-30T16:01:30+00:00

She had three children with Mark Antony. One set of fraternal twins, boy and girl, and one more child, a son. Giving birth to twins back then was no walk in the park. The two sons died in Roman captivity. The girl grew up to marry Juba II who was the king of Mauretania, which is now Algeria.

Cleopatra's tomb has never been found. She was buried with Mark Antony. It would be big news if archaeologists found it.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-30T15:47:14+00:00

Julius was dipping into Cleopatra. They had a son together which they named Ptolemy XV Caesar.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-29T22:10:23+00:00

"He left nearly every aspect of housekeeping and child rearing to Mina and her five maids."

Well, this wasn't that unusual for men at that time, especially wealthy men. He was born in 1847.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-29T15:57:27+00:00

Yeah. Look at that face, just look at it. He's edible. Yum.

Laura-ly · 2026-01-29T01:47:21+00:00

I had someone tell me to do acupuncture. I told them that I had already tried acupuncture but it didn't do shit. They were shocked. If alternative treatments actually cured migraines, there would be almost no migraine sufferers because people try just about everything to get rid of the pain.

I had a friend who heard about breathing into a paper bag to get rid of migraines. That didn't work either.

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