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February 2, 2016
This is Jack Johnson, the first ever black heavyweight champion
Born in Texas in 1878, deep in the Jim Crow South, his parents were former slaves. He would go on to be the most famous black person of the era, covered in the press more than every other notable black person combined.
In 1903 he won The World ColoredHeavyweight Championship. At this point The Heavyweight Championships were not open to black people. Johnson requested matches with white heavyweight champions but they all refused.
James Jeffri...
queerwatson:
a list of things that arthur conan doyle did that totally mean that intent is...
a list of things that arthur conan doyle did that totally mean that intent is worthless:
made it july on one page and september like two pages later named everyone james and forgot that john’s name wasn’t james literally forgot when watson was married and when he wasn’t so that if you try to figure out how he could have done all that without getting divorced and remarried to the same woman or not been wrong about dates, watson has like five or six wives almost named john watson...
February 1, 2016
please do make a real post about how much you love baron von steuben
ok here’s some facts about my guy baron von steuben
very dubious claims of nobility. i’m too drunk and lazy to look it up right now but i’m pretty sure he shouldn’t have actually been called a baronanyway he served in the prussian army under frederick the great but he was discharged because of some big gay sex scandalhe spent a while in germany but - you guessed it - got into another big gay sex scandal
eventually he realized his best option, to avoid prosecution for all these big gay sex scand...
JRR Tolkien: writes three thousand-page books taking place in a fantastic world which takes a whole book to detail the history of with interesting, developed characters
JRR Tolkien: invents a whole language
JRR Tolkien: mount doom
Today In Black History
Today, February 1st, is the beginning of the so-called Black History Month. I think I’ve said it on here before, but I’ll say it again - no month is a Black history month for me, every second of every minute and every minute of every hour is Black History, but it’s kinda official, so let’s celebrate. I wanna start by bringing to you the story of the Greensboro sit-in’s in case you haven’t heard about them before.
On February 1, 1960, at 4:30pm four black stude...
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“A Centaur in Disguise” by Michelle Tolo
This is the most precious Centaur art I’ve ever seen.
What really makes it is the fact that the dude and the horse are both going “something here ain’t right…”
I guess he’s trying to blend in and not be the
centaur of attention
Go to your room and think about what you have done.
who you should fight: Gotham villains edition
harley quinn: i know that harley has done a lot of bad things, but please don't f...
Somebody put the 80s Russian Sherlock Holmes up on YouTube and since everyone who’s ever seen...
Somebody put the 80s Russian Sherlock Holmes up on YouTube and since everyone who’s ever seen it says it’s good I watched it and what the heck why did none of you warn me Livanov’s voice is like rubbing sandpaper on your eardrums??? I hold you all personally responsible.
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