Professor Cat says, “I CAN SEE YOU FACEBOOKING IN CLASS”
“KNOCK IT OFF.”
Gif via Animals Being Dicks
When People Think That “Not Teaching” Means “Not Working”
Inside of my head I’m like:
But outside I’m like:
The Great Fashion War
World War Two could have been started by anything. For all we know, it could have been because Hitler didn’t like Winston Churchill’s shoes that day.
“Indian Territory That Garden of the World, Open for Homestead and Pre-Emption”
Sunday, May 20 marks the 150th Anniversary of the Homestead Act, passed on May 20, 1862. It greatly accelerated settlement of the western United States, providing 160 acres of free land to qualified citizens, but this often came at the expense of displaced Native Americans.
via DocsTeach (Use the DocsTeach app? You can find Homestead Act activities under the “Rise of the Industrial US” topic.)
When reading this, I automatically thought of menstrual shows and how similar they were. No they weren’t dressed in a specific way or making fun of themselves, but what they were doing still provided entertainment for their white audiences. These menstrual groups were formed in the 1840s, and…
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Every man his own Letter-Writer: Or, the New and Complete Art of Letter-Writing made plain and familiar to every Capacity. Containing a Collection of upwards of Two Hundred Original Letters, On the most interesting, important, and instructive Subjects, and adapted for general Use and Benefit, by directing every Person to indite Letters, without any other Assistance, on all the various Occasions of Life. But more particularly on the following Heads, viz. Adversity, Advice, Affection, Ambition, Anger, Avarice, Benevolence, Business, Censure, Charity, Confidence, Condolance, Courtship, Dependance, Diligence, Duty, Education, Emulation, Excellence, Fame, Fidelity, Flattery, Folly, Friendship, Frugality, Generosity, Gratitude, Guilt, Happiness, Honour, Hope, Humanity, Indiscretion, Indolence, Integrity, Industry, Justice, Learning, Love, Marriage, Modesty, Moderation, Morality, Negligence, Passion, Patience, Peevishness, Piety, Pleasure, Politeness, Pride, Prodigality, PRudence, Reproof, Religion, Retirement, Secrecy, Shame, Sobriety, Solitude, Temptation, Trade, Truth, Variety, Vice, Virtue, Understanding, Wisom, Wit, Letter-writing. To which is added, A Collection of Complimentary Cards, with Directions for addressing Persons of all Ranks and Conditions. Likewise a new System of English Oratory, containing the Art of speaking in Public with Propriety and legance. Also the Art of pleasing in Conversation, with Rules and Maxims to form the polite and entertaining Companion. To which are prefixed, a Plain and Familiar Grammar, or an easy Guide to the Knowledge of the English Tongue. With general Directions for writing Letters to all Ranks of People. The Whole adapted to the Genius, Taste, and Manners of the present Times, and containing a greater Number of Original Letters than were ever published in a single Collection before. By the Reverend James Wallace, D.D. and Charles Townshend, A.M. London: Printed for J. Cooke, No 17, Pater-noster Row. [Price Bound Two Shillings.]
