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My coffee blends right into this painting that my father-in-law had… it’s from 1918 😱☕️🍁 #art #painting #fall #autumn #coffee

On THIS Date in Women's History ~ March 29: 1918: Pearl Bailey, Jazz Singer, Actress & Author was born. Pearl made her Broadway Debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She received a Special Tony Award for the title role in the All-Black Production of 'Hello, Dolly!' In 1968. I

— Lionesses do most of the hunting, while the males guard the pride and hunt occasionally. ~The lionesse does not concern herself with the lion as shes known to hunt and strike anyway (no more gathering and mothering man-childs ladies) ————————————————————————————— National Days: -Absol

Explore a real ghost town Garnet Ghost Town Today, you will follow a short trail to Montana ’s most intact ghost town. Once a booming mining town home to 1,000 people Garnet , a town named by the colored stones found in the area. In 1912 a fire destroyed half the town and by 1918 it was

✨ Born in Barnwell, South Carolina ✨ Graduate of Benedict College and Howard University ✨Married Virginia Ryan in 1918 and had two children, Martha Audrey and David Ryan ✨ Practiced medicine in his hometown for more than 50 years and is believed to be the area’s first black dentist.

When Death Comes Knocking, she opens the door. 1918. The Spanish Flu has turned Millbrook into a town of ghosts. Widowed and desperate, Florence Harrow takes on forbidden work—preparing the dead for their final rest. But when Death himself appears with an offer she can’t refuse, Florence learns t

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In the spring of 1917, at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, a 19-year-old art student named Jeanne Hébuterne met Amedeo Modigliani. He was 33. An Italian painter. Jewish. Bohemian. Known for his wild temperament. His addiction to alcohol and drugs. His haunting, elongated portraits. She wa

Happy Friday Jr. everyone :) I’ve been seeing more and more quaker parrots in my area and as much as they warm my heart and soul, it did get me wondering how these little guys got here. Technically speaking, there isn’t a single species of Parrot that is native to FL since the Carolina Parak

Alexander Miles, A Brief History: 1838- 1918 Alexander Miles was a Black American inventor whose work made elevators dramatically safer and helped shape modern city life. Background: Alexander Miles worked primarily as a barber and businessman, inventing outside of formal engineering inst

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1918 The Woman Who Ran the Steel Mill When the Men Went to War When the United States entered World War One in April 1917, Bethlehem Steel lost 3,000 workers to the draft in sixty days. 3,000 men. Gone. The mills still running. The orders from the government — artillery

February 8, 1918 - World War I: "Stars & Stripes," a weekly US armed forces newspaper, is first published... #worldwarone #todayinhistory #ushistory #history #starsandstripes

Aunt Caroline Dye (c. 1836–1918) was one of the most respected Hoodoo practitioners of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into slavery in Tennessee and later living in Arkansas, she became known as a powerful clairvoyant, rootworker, and spiritual advisor whose reputation traveled far bey

FOR THESE $8 CHRISTMAS TREES You can get green or flocked and I had to grab the flocked! It looks so nice set up for only $8 and will be perfect for my mantel They had so much new Christmas too but this was worth for! They just came out today and will sell out in stores! Go grab yours too! ← Fol

He built a mansion for children who would never come—then gave away his entire chocolate empire so that empty rooms would be filled with children forever. Hershey, Pennsylvania. Milton Hershey sat in a mansion designed for a family he'd never have. Forty-three years old. Self-made million

Military Honor of the Day: This Marine survived the Bataan Death March, a ship sinking, and an atomic bomb - Marine Cpl. Kenneth Rice survived incomprehensible cruelty during World War II. At first, U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Kenneth Rice did not know what to make of the bright orange and green fla

Peryl Woodson was born in 1892 in Kansas. She obtained her homestead acreage (440 acres) in DeWitty, Nebraska, getting a patent in 1918. This ranch land was part of an African American community of Homesteads, on poor quality land. She successfully farmed the land, and used it for grazing for

THIS … is international women’s day - 1. Marital r*p* – Criminalised in the UK in 1991 by the landmark case R v R, ruling that a husband cannot legally r*p* his wife. 2. Bank accounts – Before the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, many banks required a husband’s permission for a woman to open her