making edward scissorhands house crowns for me n petra
tavi
Pic of Weeki Wachee Mermaids c. 1947. It’s a long running and totally kitch-mazing “live” “mermaid” show in Florida. Some history and vintage photos here, video of what it’s evolved into here. What if that was your job? Doing choreographed swimming routines (an patriotic water dance revue) while wearing full-on mermaid tail costume, performing in a giant aquarium for other humans. What are the stresses of that job?
—Jessica H
I believe, however, that the entrance of Regulus into Virgo heralds two thousand years of female dominance.
–—Astrologer Michael Lutin explains why we are about to leave 2,000 years of patriarchy behind, and enter the era of ‘the common woman’, as in super-duper soon. I COULD TOTALLY HANG WITH THAT.
—Jessica H.
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for those not in the know, night witches were russian lady bombers who bombed the shit out of german lines in WW2. Thing is though, they had the oldest, noisiest, crappest planes in the entire world. The engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid flight to restart the props. the planes were also so noisy that to stop germans from hearing them combing and starting up their anti aircraft guns, they’d climb up to a certain height, coast down to german positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair, and get the fuck out of dodge.
their leader flew over 200 missions and was never captured.
suck on that rick santorum
-naomi
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Mercury 13: The First [American] Lady Astronaut Trainees
The First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLATs, also known as the “Mercury 13”) was a group of women who trained to become astronauts for America’s first human spaceflight program in the early 1960s. Although FLATs was never an official NASA program, the commitment of these women paved the way for others who followed.
In the first photo, Jerrie Cobb poses next to a Mercury spaceship capsule. Although she never flew in space, Cobb, along with twenty-four other women, underwent physical tests similar to those taken by the Mercury astronauts with the belief that she might become an astronaut trainee. All the women who participated in the program were skilled pilots. Dr. Randy Lovelace, a NASA scientist who had conducted the official Mercury program physicals, administered the tests at his private clinic without official NASA sanction. Cobb passed all the training exercises, ranking in the top 2% of all astronaut candidates of both genders.
While she was sworn in as a consultant to Administrator James Webb on the issue of women in space, mounting political pressure and internal opposition lead NASA to restrict its official astronaut training program to men despite campaigning by the thirteen finalists of the FLAT program. After three years, Cobb left NASA for the jungles of the Amazon, where she has spent four decades as a solo pilot delivering food, medicine, and other aid to the indigenous people. She has received the Amelia Earhart Medal, the Harmon Trophy, the Pioneer Woman Award, the Bishop Wright Air Industry Award, and many other decorations for her tireless years of humanitarian service.BADASS.
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