July is Here.
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
–Frederick Douglass (1818–95), American social reformer and abolitionist, speaking on the 24th Anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation
Tips on Homeschooling, Danica Miller
Pony Express Prodigy.
Look back at earlier Blog Post about Gold Rush, and the World record trip of the Flying Cloud, With Women Navigator, the Copper King, and Continental Railroad too.
16 year old, Quirt Rice, a new kind of Cowboy leads the Historic Pony Express Expedition.
It would be a lesson in the history of the American West—part empirical grit and rawhide, part 19th-century lore. But first I needed a good hand. Quirt fit the bill.
Keith Haring (May 4, 1958–February 16, 1990). I knew nothing about the bittersweet beauty of his courageous life, nothing about the tenacious activism behind his art, nothing about the enormous uninterrupted chain of human figures bonded in kinship, which he had painted on the remnants of the very wall whose collapse had placed this miniature monument to joy on my desk.
SPACE Apollo Missions
We went to the moon more than once. Look back at Post on the team of the Computers who made this Possible. Hidden Figures. The movie and book about https://www.nasa.gov/content/katherine-johnson-biography
We would not have made it to the Moon without these women of color.
We would not have made it to the Moon without these women of color.
Apollo 10 went just 47,000 steps from the place Apollo 11 went.
An older article and good on the history of the space program. Incredible when you think of what they accomplished 50 years ago.
The movie.
The article
Space.
Earth Rise
This photograph was taken on Apollo 10 Mission to the Moon. It was the Dress rehearsal Mission to the Moon one Month before the actual Moon Landing. 50 years ago.
This photograph shows how we look in space.
It is amazing and thought provoking.
Young Adult Literature.
“Knowledge sets us free… A great library is freedom,” Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in contemplating the sacredness of public libraries. “Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be,” her contemporary James Baldwin — who had read his way from the Harlem public library to the literary pantheon — insisted in his courageous and countercultural perspective on freedom.
Ronald McNair (October 21, 1950–January 28, 1986) was nine when he took his freedom into his own small hands.
Unlike Maya Angelou, who credited a library with saving her life, McNair’s triumphant and tragic life could not have been saved even by a library — he was the age I am now when he perished aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger before the eyes of a disbelieving nation. But his life was largely made by a library — a life equal parts inspiring and improbable against the cultural constrictions of his time and place; a life of determination that rendered him the second black person to launch into space, a decade and a half after a visionary children’s book first dared imagine the possibility.
36 unusual measurements
Science
Butterfly tongues help with Cancer treatments
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Hilleman became convinced that the virus in Hong Kong could be substantially different from existing strains, and thus could be deadly if it came to the United States or other nations. When he picked up a copy of The New York Times on April 17, 1957 and read about the situation in Hong Kong, he exclaimed, “My God. This is the pandemic. It’s here!” The next day he asked the military to collect virus samples there.
Order local food. Farm standing
Child names that mean strength, hope
P.S. 22. Chorus.
Uplifting beyond words.
A moon-flooded prairie; a straying
Of leal-hearted lovers; a baying
Of far away watching dogs; a dreaming
Of brown-fisted farmers; a gleaming
Of fireflies eddying nigh, —
And that is July!
Of leal-hearted lovers; a baying
Of far away watching dogs; a dreaming
Of brown-fisted farmers; a gleaming
Of fireflies eddying nigh, —
And that is July!
–James N. Matthews (1852–1910)
Thanks for stopping by,
Eliza
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