“In manners, aristocratic; in religion, ritualistic; in art, traditional.”
Chattanooga, TN
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Lake Winnepesaukah, circa 1971. I sometimes stepped into frame at times. Dad, as a photographer, took way more pictures than I cared to be portrayed.
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Join us for @astro_anil and @astro_kutryk’s next spacewalk!
Tune in here on Nov. 5 at 8:30am ET (1330 UTC) to watch the astronauts install and deploy the second of two new solar arrays on the @Space_Station.
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Copperhill, Tennessee, this is catastrophic and it's happening right now. The Ocoee River just hit major flood stage, only 3 feet from its all time peak, with homes and businesses underwater and being evacuated. If you're anywhere near that river, get to higher ground immediately and do not drive into water.
Shocked.
🚨 EL-SAYED REFUSES TO BACK SCHUMER FOR SENATE MAJORITY LEADER
Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed declined to endorse Chuck Schumer for Democratic Senate leader, despite Schumer’s support for his campaign.
“I do believe we need new leadership and I think people are hungry for it,” El-Sayed declared.
The outspoken Israel critic signals growing divisions within the Democratic Party over its leadership and direction.
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I don’t know why this reporter included a dig at the Institutes for Noble Maidens, but this painting of a young woman using a scientific instrument was part of the “Smolyanki” series of paintings (1772-76) meant to highlight the Russian girls’ schools’ enlightened curriculum.
Why is Russia teaching young girls to be tradwives?
In tsarist times Russia’s aristocracy sent its daughters to finishing schools known as Institutes for Noble Maidens, where social graces and domestic skills were honed in preparation for an advantageous marriage.
Similar academies are springing up around the country for the purpose of training the next generation of wives and mothers. Like their forebears these girls are taught floristry, cooking and dancing. And so too they are referred to as “noble maidens”. In the parlance of the 21st century though, a closer translation may be “tradwife”.
The Traditional Education of Girls course was founded two years ago in Udmurtia, a region in central Russia, for girls aged 10 to 16. Launched in four schools around the regional capital of Izhevsk, the programme has expanded with support of local government funding to schools across Udmurtia as well as to Krasnodar, in southern Russia, and Crimea, the peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.
🔗 Tap here to read more: thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
Wow!
In 1971, an Apollo astronaut carried tree seeds around the Moon. Back on Earth, they grew into trees planted across the US futura-sciences.com/en/in-19…
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4 Nov 1922: British #archaeologist Howard #Carter discovers the entrance to #Tutankhamun's tomb, aka King Tut, in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. #History #OTD #Egypt #KingTut #ad amzn.to/2TPjWrC
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When he tumbles down the stairs, I honestly can’t stop laughing. I showed this to a 15-year-old who had never heard of Peter Sellers or The Pink Panther, and when she saw this scene, she nearly peed herself laughing so hard!
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A midterm post-mortem with my longtime interlocutor, @donnasedgetalk. youtu.be/xRjrqJg_6Xo?si=72y8…
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Pope Leo XIV met with American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in a private audience on Wednesday, November 4.
Amazing conductor, without using a score.
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Not a huge shift on its face for TN offices (GOP governor, supermajority retained, 8-1 congressional hold) but this AP analysis shows that every Tennessee county shifted left by double-digit margins compared to 2024 elex results apnews.com/projects/election…
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In a shocking upset, Democratic tech support professional Victoria Broderick has narrowly defeated longtime incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais in Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District.
nashvillescene.com/news/pith…
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Children deserve more than See Spot Run. The Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, Beowulf, and Shakespeare all have retellings they can enjoy now and prepare them for the originals later.
@jarobinson1 on six children's retellings of Western classics:
URL: ayaan.restoringthewest.com/w…
#RestoringTheWest #Books #Classics
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Haley Stevens has displayed courage, integrity and leadership. She understood that the Democratic Party would punish her publicly and privately. And still did the right thing. To stay silent about El-Sayed’s Leninist-Islamist, antisemitic and anti-American agenda would be to be complicit in it. Heaps of shame on all those within that party that endorse him and his ilk in the vain hope that somehow actual power will change him.
Well Done Haley! BRAVO 👏
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St Hubert was an 8th century French nobleman who cared little for church and preferred hunting. One day, in the Forest of Ardennes, he was pursuing a stag which suddenly turned to him, with a glowing crucifix between its antlers, and spoke.
Hubert later became a bishop.
ALT The Conversion of Holy Hubertus by Wilhelm Räuber (1849–1926)
