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nezua:

hardcoregurlz:

Slave gravesite in New York City

“SOMETHING YOUR TOUR GUIDE MIGHT NOT TELL YOU:

The heart of NYC’s Financial District is built on a huge 18th century African Burial Ground. Some 419 Africans were discovered in 1991, a large portion women and children.

The burial ground extends from Broadway Southward under City Hall, and almost to the site of the former World Trade Center. It is believed that there are as many as 20,000 slavery-era Africans in graves under the buildings in Lower Manhattan.

Abolish historical amnesia and ponder for a moment the fact that this financial epicenter of the world is built on slavery, oppression, and death.”

Literally, and daily.

yo. that last sentence hits you in the face like a brick.

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zerofucksgivendaily: blackmanonthemoon: thechanelmuse: Photos...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:49:34 -0400

zerofucksgivendaily:

blackmanonthemoon:

thechanelmuse:

Photos that speak: Fuck your fountain. Fuck your tree. Fuck voter suppression. Fuck your labels. Fuck your stereotypes. Fuck your hatred. Fuck your restaurants. Fuck that dude. Fuck police brutality. Fuck white supremacy.

“How come Black people just didn’t fight back”

That last pic is so powerful

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:47:07 -0400

radical-cunts: “They say I gotta respect a system but there...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:46:19 -0400

radical-cunts:

“They say I gotta respect a system but there ain’t no respect in that system for me”

mmmmhmmm

timelordcyborg: muhrissriss: willgrahammys: So I don’t know...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:04:29 -0400

timelordcyborg:

muhrissriss:

willgrahammys:

So I don’t know if you guys know this about me but my parents are both huge Disney freaks (we actually have a Mickey Mouse-themed bathroom, but that’s another story) and basically have every Disney World travel guide published in the past ten years. This is my personal favorite - it tells you how to steal from the parks and where you can have public sex at the parks without getting caught and where you can buy drugs and other really depraved things you can do at Disney basically it’s the least moral piece of literature I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

Bought this today and read it today. Holy shit.

WHO’S WITH ME?

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Wed, 12 Jun 2013 16:50:35 -0400

tennine: thatguygeorge: One of my all time favorite movies. No...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:37:39 -0400

tennine:

thatguygeorge:

One of my all time favorite movies. No matter what I’m doing/watching, if this is on, then I’m watching.

One of the best films ever made.

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Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:54:50 -0400

goldnude: The Notorious B.I.G

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:53:19 -0400

goldnude:

The Notorious B.I.G

atomstargazer: Voyager Golden Record Pioneers 10 and 11, which...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:36:27 -0400

atomstargazer:

Voyager Golden Record

Pioneers 10 and 11, which preceded Voyager, both carried small metal plaques identifying their time and place of origin for the benefit of any other spacefarers that might find them in the distant future. With this example before them, NASA placed a more ambitious message aboard Voyager 1 and 2-a kind of time capsule, intended to communicate a story of our world to extraterrestrials. The Voyager message is carried by a phonograph record-a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth.

The contents of the record were selected for NASA by a committee chaired by Carl Sagan of Cornell University, et. al. Dr. Sagan and his associates assembled 115 images and a variety of natural sounds, such as those made by surf, wind and thunder, birds, whales, and other animals. To this they added musical selections from different cultures and eras, and spoken greetings from Earth-people in fifty-five languages, and printed messages from President Carter and U.N. Secretary General Waldheim. Each record is encased in a protective aluminum jacket, together with a cartridge and a needle. Instructions, in symbolic language, explain the origin of the spacecraft and indicate how the record is to be played. The 115 images are encoded in analog form. The remainder of the record is in audio, designed to be played at 16-2/3 revolutions per minute. It contains the spoken greetings, beginning with Akkadian, which was spoken in Sumer about six thousand years ago, and ending with Wu, a modern Chinese dialect. Following the section on the sounds of Earth, there is an eclectic 90-minute selection of music, including both Eastern and Western classics and a variety of ethnic music. Once the Voyager spacecraft leave the solar system (by 1990, both will be beyond the orbit of Pluto), they will find themselves in empty space. It will be forty thousand years before they make a close approach to any other planetary system. As Carl Sagan has noted, “The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet.”

The definitive work about the Voyager record is “Murmurs of Earth” by Executive Director, Carl Sagan, Technical Director, Frank Drake, Creative Director, Ann Druyan, Producer, Timothy Ferris, Designer, Jon Lomberg, and Greetings Organizer, Linda Salzman. Basically, this book is the story behind the creation of the record, and includes a full list of everything on the record. “Murmurs of Earth”, originally published in 1978, was reissued in 1992 by Warner News Media with a CD-ROM that replicates the Voyager record. Unfortunately, this book is now out of print, but it is worth the effort to try and find a used copy or browse through a library copy.

Photo Captions

Image 1 | The Voyager Golden Record

Image 2 | Cover of the Voyager Golden Record

Image 3 | A copy of the record on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington Dulles International Airport

Image 4, 5 | Voyager Space Craft carrying Golden Records

Links

Voyager Golden Record on Wikipedia

Contents of the Voyager Golden Record on Wikipedia

NASA officials JPL/Caltech

› Scenes from Earth

› Greetings from Earth

› Music from Earth

› Sounds from Earth

On How stuff Works

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