A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]
Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]
Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the U.S. [1907]
A 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]
Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]
Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]
Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]
Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]
Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961] (freakin’ immaculate)
Now with more awesomesauce!
Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 - 1945]
The first basketball team from Smith college. [1902]
Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]
Afghani medical students. [1962] (man, screw fundamentalism.)
A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]
and just to wrap up…
Nina Simone, one of the most talented vocalists of the 20th century.
Occitan, also known as Provençal, is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful languages in the world. The language of the troubadours, and the origin of most literature of the rest of Romace language-speaking nations.
Nowadays, Occitània is politically divided in 3 states: France, Italy and Spain (Catalonia), though most of its land and speakers are in the area in France.
The UNESCO Red Book lists some of the dialects of Occitan as “seriously endangered.”
If you speak another Romance language, it will be a lot easier to learn Occitan from that language than from English. Occitan is very close to Catalan, so it will be considerably easier if you speak Catalan (in that case check out the Catalan gov’t’s website regarding Aranese. Full of resources!).
General resources:
Orbilat - overview of the language and basic grammar. Page in English.
Occitan at Omniglot - general info about the language, pronunciation of the alphabet and difference among the dialects. In English.
occitanet.free.fr - you can access the website in English, French, or Occitan itself. Includes info on the language and a course from French.
Bàbel - basic grammar and pronunciation. Page in English.
PDF Els Elements Bàsics de la Llengua Occitana to learn Occitan from Catalan. Includes very good explanations and examples, grammar, vocabulary and everything you need. This is the best resource I’ve found so far.
Langoland - vocab lists in different dialects of Occitan (Auvergnac, Languedocien, Aranese…) with translation in English and French (click on the topic in the left margin).
Academia Occitana - website in Occitan and French. Includes vocabulary lists, verb conjugator, rules of the language, literature examples…
PanOccitan - website in Occitan and French. Includes flashcards for vocabulary on many different topics, a verb conjugator, and a course from French.
Viure a Catalunya versió en aranès - flashcards with drawings and the word in Aranese Occitan. They give you many topics to choose from and the pictures with and without the names. Useful for practise.
Provençal Phrasebook - useful sentences and vocabulary. English-Langedocian Occitan.
Freelang Fr - dictionary Occitan-French and viceversa
itranslate4.eu - automatic translator with 39 languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Russian, Hungarian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, etc
Softcatalà - automatic translator to/from
English, Catalan, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Aragonese. (The translations to English sometimes have the sentence structure messed up, but it works well with the other languages)
Traductor Gencat - automatic translator to/from Catalan and Spanish (based on the Aranese dialect of Occitan)
PanOccitan - dictionary French-Occitan and Occitan-French
Fabrica - website in Occitan, French, and Catalan. Here you can find a lot of Occitan music, though part of the info is only accessible in French.
Òc Revista - magazine (also have the page in English, French, and Catalan)
Also, since Occitan was the main language of culture in the Middle Ages, it’s possible that your uni or city’s library has some books on it. And if you live in Catalonia check out Cercle d’Agermanament Occitano-Català if you’re interested in presential courses.
I also recommend checking out this page where you can find a lor of info about Occitan’s history, comparison to other languages/cultures, the oppression it went through, popular sayings, and many more.
i love comforting nihilism. who cares, we’re all gonna die. eat that cake. buy that eyeshadow. be nice to people. you dont owe the world shit. the stars dont care about what we do. give anyway because why spend your eighty years on this rock miserable and making other people miserable. the sun is going to blow up and we’re all gonna die someday. make the most of what time you do have. use the fine china for taco night and microwave lunch. smell the flowers. tell a stranger they are beautiful.
You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and you’re for us.
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Someone who’s black or supports black people and their human rights. it literally says that in the description. “You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and you’re for us.”
On Monday night, 15-year-old James Means was reportedly shot and killed by a man he “bumped into” outside of a Dollar General store in Charleston, West Virginia.
Means, a black teenager, was said to be unarmed.
That same night, police arrested William Pulliam, 62, in connection with the shooting. Pulliam had gone to dinner after the shooting.
Pulliam was white and carrying a gun, despite no permit to own a firearm due to a previous conviction for domestic violence
Pulliam reportedly “admitted” to fatally shooting Means, telling police, “The way I look at it, that’s another piece of trash off the street.”