emilya23

She even PLAYED Helen Chavez in the Cesar Chavez movie.

It takes five minutes to make my percolated coffee in the morning.

In re: Paul Revere getting captured. He got stopped, detained, and let go after a few hours without his horse because all express riders were getting stopped by the Regulars. He got stopped with two other people (William Dawes and Samuel Prescott), and it’s not to diminish anything… Read More

@lisa the Acoma Pueblo has been continuously inhabited since 1150 AD . Taos is as well. When you read Brave New World, Aldous Huxley based where the “Savages” lived on the Taos Pueblo, which is a UNESCO Heritage Site. The current site was built in (estimated) 1400ad, but the original… Read More

The life expectancy one is only sort of correct. We do live longer because we have vaccines, and around the turn of the twentieth century, global life expectancy started climbing. There were a TON of women who died in childbirth, and we didn’t know anything about germ theory.

But they probably have never tasted Laura Scudder’s brand peanut butter, which has been a thing since the 30s. It’s peanuts and salt.

I’m pretty sure the Norwegians do that too, because my great grandparents had a portrait of King Haakon next to whoever the current president was in their dining room when my dad was growing up.

She fell off a 22 foot stage in Tahoe in 1972 and broke half of her body.

@somuchsong I’ve given mine to people who aren’t necessarily able to get a meal on their own. Usually in my neighborhood, there are a few who hang around. So a box of food and a few bucks.

I was about to say, I went to school in a beach town and we never went to the tide pools.