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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Genealogy Roundup, November 13 – Megan Smolenyak

Genealogy Roundup, November 13

How technology is being used to preserve memories at risk from climate disasters – Please take 2-3 minutes to watch this. You won’t regret it.

Why didn’t people smile in old photographs? It wasn’t just about the long exposure times. – Why our ancestors didn’t smile in photos (and it’s not just because they had to be still)

Meet the First and Last Immigrants Who Passed Through Ellis Island – Annie & Arne: First and Last through Ellis Island 🗽

Reluctantly Practicing the Art of the Obituary – Suspect this might resonate with a lot of genealogists.

‘I didn’t think it was possible’ – This piece is about one of the soldiers I researched for the Army, and his nephew – one of the most enthusiastic family members I’ve reached out to in a while – is right about DNA. Y-DNA in this instance had died out going back more than 200 years. Fortunately, there were other options.

How Britain’s ‘brown babies’ were hidden away: the secret history of the first mixed race orphanage – I’ve been gently fascinated with this topic ever since one of my Army cases was for a “brown baby” from Germany (sadly killed in Vietnam). Had to go to court to find his bio family, but managed to do so. So many unacknowledged pockets of our collective history.

Image: thumbnail from CBS News video

Source: Genealogy Roundup, November 13 – Megan Smolenyak

नदी / River  – Kaushal Kishore

 

एक नदी किसी को यदि अपने में समा लेती है, 

तो किसी के लिए सीना चीर रास्ता बना देती है…

यह हम पर निर्भर है कि हम डूब जाना चाहते हैं,

या उसको पार कर अपनी मंजिल पाना चाहते हैं…

⛵⛵⛵⛵⛵⛵

A river’s torrents can engulf us and hide,

Or splits itself open for the wise to glide…

It’s upto us to succumb to its swirling tide,

Or navigate its depths with a steady stride…

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–Kaushal Kishore  

Source: नदी / River  – Kaushal Kishore

Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts | The Guardian | The Guardian

The Guardian has announced it will no longer post content on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, from its official accounts.

In an announcement to readers, the news organisation said it considered the benefits of being on the platform formerly called Twitter were now outweighed by the negatives, citing the “often disturbing content” found on it.

“We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X,” the Guardian said.

The Guardian has more than 80 accounts on X with approximately 27 million followers.

The Guardian said content on the platform about which it had longstanding concerns included far-right conspiracy theories and racism. It added that the site’s coverage of the US presidential election had crystallised its decision.

Source: Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts | The Guardian | The Guardian

♫ What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted | Filosofa’s Word

The theme song from the 1992 Whitney Houston film The Bodyguard was Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You, but according to her leading man Kevin Costner speaking at her funeral in February 2012, the first choice was this song, which ended up being used in Fried Green Tomatoes (the Paul Young version).

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

Jimmy Ruffin

Source: ♫ What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted | Filosofa’s Word

Yulia Navalnaya discusses Putin, Ukraine, and political ambitions in first major Russian-language interview since her husband’s death — Meduza

TV Rain

On Russia’s defeat:

Of course, no, [I don’t wish for my country’s defeat]. Your question sounds as if Vladimir Putin is my country. But Vladimir Putin is not my country. Vladimir Putin is a man who has seized control of my country. Who’s held on to power for almost 25 years, using any means necessary. That doesn’t mean I wish for my country’s defeat; it means I wish for Vladimir Putin’s defeat as soon as possible, immediately. Both within the country and, especially, after he’s invaded a neighboring state…

Source: Yulia Navalnaya discusses Putin, Ukraine, and political ambitions in first major Russian-language interview since her husband’s death — Meduza

 

Comma – Tanka 2024 – Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Suzette B’s Blog

Image credit: 1tamara2 | Pixabay

punctuating fall

Autumn an open book, leaves

Comma Butterflies

foretelling seasons turning

hyphens into Winter-ludes


Comma Butterflies hibernate in the woodlands in Winter, in tree bark. Image credit: Image by dae jeung kim | Pixabay

Source: Comma – Tanka 2024 – Moonwashed Weekly Prompt – Suzette B’s Blog

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