Throw Back Thursday

16/05/2023

11/02/2023

The Terracotta Army

It was built between 246 and 206 BC. and is a faithful reproduction of the army that led the State of Qin, (end of the Warring States period, 476 - 221 BC), to victory over the adversaries and to the unification of the Chinese Empire.

www.ancient-origins.net/terracotta-army

29/01/2023

30/11/2022

❤️

20/11/2022

Pic of the year by Louis Vuitton.

23/05/2022

A student in University of Madras, India in 1948 with his pony tail tied to a nail so that he doesn’t fall asleep while studying.

20/05/2022

In 1535, King Henry VIII, who sported a beard himself, introduced a tax on beards.

It was a graduated tax depending on the beard wearer’s social position; the higher was the wearer’s standing in society, the larger amount of money he had to pay, making facial hair a symbol of status.

After the beard tax was dropped, Henry’s daughter, Queen Elizabeth I of England, re-introduced it again and began taxing every beard of more than two week’s growth.

In 1698, Emperor Peter I of Russia, as part of his efforts to modernize Russian society following European models, instituted a beard tax for everyone who sported a beard or mustache.

17/05/2022

29/04/2022

After his niece became extremely ill from bad milk, the powerful Chicago gangster lobbied aggressively for expiration dates to be put on milk for the safety of children and pregnant women.

24/05/2021

Hiroshima, rebuilt brighter and stronger than it was before in less than a single lifetime! 4biddenknowledge.com

📸: Otto Bettmann .
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23/05/2021

20/05/2021

11/05/2021

Remembering Bob Nesta Marley 🕯️

19/04/2021

18/01/2021

If anyone had a right to question whether our democracy was worth redeeming, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because in the face of billy clubs and lynchings, poll taxes and literacy tests, he never gave in to violence, never waved a traitorous flag, never gave up on the country he called home, despite all of the injustices and indignities it brought upon him.

Instead, he set out to realize his dream the most effective—and the most radical—way he knew how, by working with others to march, boycott, and sit in, recognizing that, as he said, “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

The seeds of his courage, his discipline, his vision, and the resilience of all who joined with him took years to bear fruit. But they gave us the Civil Rights Act. The Voting Rights Act. And an American tradition of nonviolent resistance that has rung through the generations, as we saw this summer when Americans of all races echoed his example in standing up to declare that Black Lives Matter—no more but also no less.

On , we celebrate his life but we’re also called to live out his values through service of our own. Here are some ways you can get involved in your community: bideninaugural.org/day-of-service/

We’re in the middle of a tough chapter for our country, but should serve as a reminder that we have been through tough times before—and emerged from them stronger. But only because we never stopped believing in our democracy. Only because we never stopped working to perfect it. And only because, even in the face of intimidation, discrimination, and unimaginable suffering, we never stopped dreaming of a better day—and never stopped doing the long, hard, essential work of ushering it in.

01/01/2020

New Beginnings 🌱

27/12/2019

2020 will be fantastic!

Happy Holidays!!!

25/11/2019

Count your blessings, name them one by one...

Invite your friends to like our page Your View.... only the deep can call upon the deep.

26/10/2018

Such is life nowadays.

22/09/2018

19/09/2018

14/09/2018

Indeed 💭💭💭

13/09/2018

Late Night Tales 🌃 💫

12/09/2018