Auschwitz Memorial21 September 1924 | Norwegian Jew, Arne Kronik, was born. A sheet metal worker apprentice.
He arrived at Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was registered in the camp after the selection. He perished there in February 1943.
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DarcyThe last school shooting could have been prevented with 2 simple laws.
1. Red flag law:
When the FBI interviewed the shooter & father almost a year ago & saw the guns were not secure, the guns should have been taken from the house.
2. Background checks:
When the guns were confiscated the fathers & mothers names should have been placed on a federal background check list saying they could not buy guns.
adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)#WritersCoffeeClub 9/8. The Hero's Journey is garbage. Discuss.
I don't need to discuss it, the referenced article is sufficient, and far more informed than I could ever be.
The majority of folklorists hate it. It's utter bollocks.
But tl;dr:
It's racist/sexist shit. Campbell grabbed a bunch of tropes and rammed them together in a way that didn't even fit his own examples.
https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2020/12/31/the-heros-journey-is-nonsense/
The "Hero's Journey" Is Nonsense - Tales of Times Forgotten
In 1949, an American author named Joseph Campbell published a book titled The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in which he claims that, fundamentally, all the great stories that human beings have ever told follow the exact same pattern, which is innate in the human consciousness and therefore present in every culture during every time period. … Continue reading "The “Hero’s Journey” Is Nonsense"
Project GutenbergAmerican biochemist Florence Seibert died #OTD in 1991.
At age three, Florence contracted polio. She had to wear leg braces and walked with a limp throughout her life. She is best known for identifying the active agent in the antigen tuberculin as a protein, and subsequently for isolating a pure form of tuberculin, purified protein derivative (PPD), enabling the development and use of a reliable TB test.
18 August 1908 | A Pole, Karol Grzesiek, was born in Magdeburg.
He was deported to Auschwitz from Tarnów on 14 June 1940 in the first transport of Poles to the camp.
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He was released on 14 April 1942 & survived the war.
10 August 1903 | A Czech Jewish woman, Růžena Schneiderová, was born in Prague.
She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt Ghetto on 19 October 1944. She did not survive.
NetBlocks⚠️ Update: Network data show #Bangladesh has now been offline for over 48 hours after authorities impose a nation-scale internet shutdown in a bid to quell student protests ⏱️
The blackout continues to hinder human rights observers and independent media at a critical time.
Charlie Stross55 years ago, Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon.
Almost exactly 55 years before *that*, the first world war broke out.
The first Apollo landing is history: closer to the first world war than to the present day.
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Attached: 1 image On this day, in 1969, for the first time in thousands of years of human history, people walked on the surface of a celestial body that was not our world. First, tentative steps out of the cradle by those who really did go where no-one has gone before... "We came in peace, for all mankind" #Apollo11 #Apollo #science #OTD #1969 #history #NASA #SpaceExploration
studio craque 54 🏳️🌈From Ukraine, with love!
Chernobyl reactor no. 4, a 3D-printed humidifier that looks EVEN BETTER in person.
Can't wait to misunderstand the controls and fire this sucker up!!
SLAVA UKRAINI