wirta:

U.U

awwww…

todaystie:

Here are some interesting facts about him, though:

• He basically saved public television. In 1969 the government wanted to cut public television funds. Mister Rogers then went to Washington where he gave an amazing merely six minute speech. By the end of the speech not only did he charm the hostile Senators, he got them to double the budget they would have initially cut down. The whole thing can be found on youtube, a video called “Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate.”

• “Certain fundamentalist preachers hated him because, apparently not getting the “kindest man who ever lived” memo, they would ask him to denounce homosexuals. Mr. Rogers’s response? He’d pat the target on the shoulder and say, “God loves you just as you are.” Rogers even belonged to a “More Light” congregation in Pittsburgh, a part of the Presbyterian Church dedicated to welcoming LGBT persons to full participation in the church.”

• According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”

• Once, on a fancy trip up to a PBS exec’s house, he heard the limo driver was going to wait outside for 2 hours, so he insisted the driver come in and join them (which flustered the host). On the way back, Rogers sat up front, and when he learned that they were passing the driver’s home on the way, he asked if they could stop in to meet his family. According to the driver, it was one of the best nights of his life—the house supposedly lit up when Rogers arrived, and he played jazz piano and bantered with them late into the night. Further, like with the reporters, Rogers sent him notes and kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.

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abridgedhistory:

…1968

Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot and killed by James Earl Ray outside the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

King’s last public appearance was the previous night; he made a speech in which he said the following:

“We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop…And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.”

i. - Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington, D.C.
ii. - The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
iii. - Rev. Jesse Jackson walking through O’Hare Airport in Chicago, holding the paper from April 5, 1968 with the headline, “King Murdered.”

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theinturnet:

Diabetes here I come!

What the

wow… too far, SRSLY

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lacewings:

Yup, clearly ruining the sanctity of marriage.

This picture is too cute

AWWWWWWH

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dimanda:

hahahaha

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twerkmasterfeli:

I may or may not be tearing up.

MY HEART

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diy:

Become an Astronomer

Astronomers investigate everything between Earth and the farthest reaches of the Universe. If instruments can collect it, Astronomers will analyze it. While professionals use expensive cutting-edge technology, this is still a field where amateurs with simple tools discover new things all the time.

A few sample challenges: 

• Make a Telescope
• Build a Model Solar System
• Make a Solar Viewer
• Build an Astronomy Flashlight 

burekevan:

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on the defunding of NASA.

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betype:

Bold & Justified: The Huge World of Typography [infographic]

See it larger here

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knightoftaurus:

If you can look at this and say the media is not controlled by people who want to keep you docile and ignorant, I don’t know what else to tell you.

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