lady-davison:

lostinhistory:

qichi:

minutemanworld:

Tea leaves collected from Boston harbor the morning after the Boston Tea Party. 

Label reads:

“Tea that was gathered up on the Shore of Dorchester Neck on the morning after the destruction of the three Cargos at Boston December 17, 1773.”

i’m so pleased that this means someone during the event was like “yeah this is probably gonna be historically interesting” and just ran out there with, like, what, a net? some cloth? fishing around in the fucking bay to collect tea to put in a bottle? you go, buddy

Good job, anonymous 18th century person.  Your commitment to historic preservation pleases me.

I would shit myself in public if I could own this

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dailyoddcompliment:

“Flying Dogs”

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cracked:

You’ll react the same way to hearing the lyrics.

5 Famous Works That Were Just Half-Assed Copyright Abuses

#5. The Unused Star Trek Lyrics Were Created to Screw the Composer

Composer Alexander Courage … agreed to work on this then-obscure show about space malarkey and what have you on the understanding that he would get royalties every time a Star Trek episode aired using the song. Obviously, thanks to the many spinoffs and feature films, Courage is now neck deep in cash and green-skinned strippers of the gender of his fancy.

Or he would be, if there wasn’t a small note in one of the contracts he signed stating that if Gene Roddenberry ever added lyrics to the song, they’d have to split the royalties. Good thing there are no lyrics, then! That would not only shaft a talented composer, but utterly ruin that classic instrumental theme. Ah, but here’s the rub: Nobody said the lyrics had to be used.

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Nichelle Nichols sang these lyrics at STLV last year at the end of her panel. We were speechless.

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birras0:

I like to come to DS9 for the scenery.

I don’t know what is happening here, but I want to draw Jadzia doing it.

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