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Man, moving between a bear mauling a 9 year old little girl and an 11 year checker game-you sir are a maestro
Anna Lapwood is doing something Winston Churchill never did-visiting Texas! Her 2 city Texas tour is all sold out and she’s bringing the power and passion of her music to her performances in the same way the PM used to awe audiences with his words. #annalapwood #texas #classical #organ
60 years after the Beatles first played in Dallas, Anna Lapwood is leading a 2nd English Invasion-this time led by the power of the Pipe Organ and her Masterful Playing and Arrangement. Both legs of her Texas Tour are sold out. She is classical music’s bomb diggity! #annalapwood #texas #beatles
Or this brilliant collaboration at the BBC overnight proms, Anna Lapwood managed to merge soooo much music into magic (and crushes it with the organ) m.youtube.com/watch?v=50xa...
Sleeping At Last Saturn Live with the Symphony Orchestra
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Dear #Texas, we are so lucky! 2 shows of Anna Lapwood are inbound! She absolutely is the 💣!!! And she has been slaying all summer-2 packed shows at the Koln Cathedral (and SRO in the streets outside); Overnite Proms, and killing it at the Royal Albert every chance she gets. #dallas #collegestation
This 1790 print might be the first recorded incident to accurately capture the reactions of wargamers in the middle of play.
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#wargame #gaming #wargaming
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Chinese and Tartar Boys Quarreling over a Game of Go https://www.artic.edu/artworks/86971/
Clarence Buckingham Collection
On this day in 1775, the Continential Congress didn't have a quorum. #txlege
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Sept. 5, 1775: The Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia according to adjournment, but "there not being sufficient to enter upon business,” the body is adjourned until Wednesday the 13th.
The Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall), where Congress met
Wait..you buried the lede. Your child held on to something about you for 15 years and wanted to show it to you before she left home. Man, I’m crying like when they break out “Sunrise, Sunset” in Fiddler and I realize I’m the old man
a man in a top hat is standing in front of a sunset with the words `` sunrise , sunset '' above him .
ALT: a man in a top hat is standing in front of a sunset with the words `` sunrise , sunset '' above him .
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When people tell you correctly that the Texas Senate is full of insufferable, entitled, craven, self centered, stupid jackasses who are out of touch with the common man, remember that French politicians have been doing it better, more in style, and for so much longer. #txlege #theFrenchpsst
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Sept. 4, 1925: A French panel headed to the U.S. to negotiate on WWI debt is being offered a courtesy supply of champagne from the country's leading vineyards. There is concern that the officials led by Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux would otherwise suffer from Prohibition.
New York Times Caillaux
I can’t tell you how much it hurts me that my younger staff will never know about the “Labor Day of Love”, or wondering if Dean and Frank were going to turn up, or running a bake sale and putting the money in the boot of a fireman standing in the middle of a busy intersection. #txlege #mda
Hedda Hopper was wife #5. Knowing the shy gossip columnist she would become, it is unlikely she thought much of this union.
They weren’t done with newspaper headlines. In 1945, the then 72 year old millionaire sought to divorce his child bride, charging desertion and infidelity. He died in 1948. She appears to have passed away in the early 1950’s
3rd, someone should totally photoshop military figures in Hawaiian shirts-Clausewitz in something super floral; maybe he and the missus in matching shirts; the surrender of Appomattox with the general officers only rocking full hawaiian (board shorts and sunglasses)
1st, you are absolutely rockin’ that shirt;
2nd, everyone should have a thinking vibe hoody or shirt that they can throw on when the stuff is going down-it’s not scientific but I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t carry around a talisman of hard times and imaginative thinking
Should wearing a Hawaiian shirt to a wargames be known as Bae-ing or Brown-ing? what type of outfit would be known as “going Full Bae”? Maybe we need a article “History of Hawaiian Shirts by Participants in Military Simulations” @sebastianbae.bsky.social @iantb.bsky.social @guws.bsky.social
Just proves what you already knew, you married waaaay above your pay grade
More importantly, it violates Asimov’s 1st rule of robotics
The thought that Scott Brister (or any 15th COA judges) appointed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is “Beto-Lovin” is hysterical.
They may be writing them, but they ain’t submitting them to comm coordinator’s office. The house rules set up the comm. Chair & the author as the circuit breakers and a guarantors of some semblance of truth in committee reports. You don’t have to publish lobby bullshit. #txlege