06 setembro 2015
Earthrise
What's that rising over the edge of the Moon? Earth. About 47 years ago, in December of 1968, the Apollo 8 crew flew from the Earth to the Moon and back again. Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders were launched atop a Saturn V rocket on December 21, circled the Moon ten times in their command module, and returned to Earth on December 27. The Apollo 8 mission's impressive list of firsts includes: the first humans to journey to the Earth's Moon, the first to fly using the Saturn V rocket, and the first to photograph the Earth from deep space. As the Apollo 8 command module rounded the farside of the Moon, the crew could look toward the lunar horizon and see the Earth appear to rise, due to their spacecraft's orbital motion. Their famous picture of a distant blue Earth above the Moon's limb was a marvelous gift to the world.
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saturn, rings & shadows, photographed by cassini, 4th...
saturn, rings & shadows, photographed by cassini, 4th september 2015.
16 monochrome frames, colourized with a 3-image rgb composite (the colour balance is probably not naturalistic).
i think you can just see a moon in one frame, below the rings & to the left of the terminator.
image credit: nasa/jpl/ssi. animaton & composite: ageofdestruction.
ageSeptember 6th 1966: Hendrik Verwoerd assassinatedOn this day in...
Hendrik Verwoerd (1901 - 1966)
Verwoerd's body is removed from Parliament - the assailant's dagger is held by the second figure from the left
September 6th 1966: Hendrik Verwoerd assassinated
On this day in 1966, the Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, Hendrik Verwoerd, was assassinated. Verwoerd became Prime Minister in 1958, and was responsible for introducing the apartheid laws rigidly separating white colonial settlers and black Africans, with the intention of promoting white Afrikaner supremacy and subjugating blacks. He had begun these policies during his tenure as minister of native affairs in the early 1950s, but it was during Verwoerd’s tenure as Prime Minister that apartheid completely came into being, as a series of laws were passed severely curtailing black liberty. Verwoerd’s government brutally suppressed opposition to these racist policies, forcefully sending Africans to reservations, and arresting anti-apartheid leaders like Nelson Mandela. Verwoerd survived an assassination attempt in 1960, when he was shot twice in the head. The Prime Minister was attacked again in 1966, this time by Mozambique immigrant and parliamentary messenger Demetrio Tsafendas during a parliamentary meeting in Cape Town, but this encounter was fatal, and Tsafendas stabbed Verwoerd to death. Tsafendas claimed his actions were not in protest to apartheid, instead insisting he received instructions from a tapeworm in his stomach, eventually being ruled insane and sent to a mental hospital. However, in later interviews, Tsafendas suggested that he was motivated to kill Verwoerd by his resentment of the racism bred by apartheid.
"I have said that President Lincoln was a white man, and shared the prejudices common to his..."
“I have said that President Lincoln was a white man, and shared the prejudices common to his countrymen towards the colored race. Looking back to his times and to the condition of his country, we are compelled to admit that this unfriendly feeling on his part may be safely set down as one element of his wonderful success in organizing the loyal American people for the tremendous conflict before them, and bringing them safely through that conflict. His great mission was to accomplish two things: first, to save his country from dismemberment and ruin; and, second, to free his country from the great crime of slavery.
To do one or the other, or both, he must have the earnest sympathy and the powerful cooperation of his loyal fellow-countrymen. Without this primary and essential condition to success his efforts must have been vain and utterly fruitless. Had he put the abolition of slavery before the salvation of the Union, he would have inevitably driven from him a powerful class of the American people and rendered resistance to rebellion impossible. Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.”
- Frederick Douglass, commenting on Abraham Lincoln’s prejudice compared other Americans of his generation. The occasion was an oration he gave on the eleventh anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination in coordination with the unveiling of the Freedmans’ Memorial in Washington DC.
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To do one or the other, or both, he must have the earnest sympathy and the powerful cooperation of his loyal fellow-countrymen. Without this primary and essential condition to success his efforts must have been vain and utterly fruitless. Had he put the abolition of slavery before the salvation of the Union, he would have inevitably driven from him a powerful class of the American people and rendered resistance to rebellion impossible. Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.”
- Frederick Douglass, commenting on Abraham Lincoln’s prejudice compared other Americans of his generation. The occasion was an oration he gave on the eleventh anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination in coordination with the unveiling of the Freedmans’ Memorial in Washington DC.
FREE ON KINDLE TODAY! (6th...
FREE ON KINDLE TODAY! (6th September)
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