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‘For instance,’ [Meryl Streep] says, forking at a bread-crumbed oyster, ‘we are taught about Benedict Arnold, the first traitor in America, but I’ve never heard—until I went onto the [National Women’s History Museum] Web site—about Deborah Sampson, the first woman to take a bullet for her nation. She was 21 years old in the Revolutionary War. She enlisted on the American side under a man’s name, wore boys’ clothing, was cut with a British saber across her forehead, and took a musket ball in her thigh.’ She’s a good storyteller, with a warm, urgent voice. ‘And her compatriots carried her six miles to the doctor’s, and he stitched up her head and she wouldn’t let him take her pants off—because he would discover she was a woman!’ So did she die of her wound? ‘No—she was very good with her needle, so she cut the musket ball out and sewed her own leg up and served another eighteen months. In 1783 she was discharged, went home and had three children.’ Sampson was granted £34 by the state of Massachusetts for exhibiting ‘an extraordinary instance of feminine heroism by discharging the duties of a faithful, gallant soldier, and at the same time preserving the virtue and chastity of her sex unsuspected and unblemished.’ Amazing story. ‘And I am 60 years old and I learn this story,’ says Streep. ‘I should have learned that story in the fourth grade. Because it helps you as a child to know that it is not just Paul Revere riding a horse and calling, ‘The British are coming, the British are coming.’ It’s not just Benjamin Franklin and George Washington and the battles won, it’s the bravery of all these people that are undiscovered, unknown.’

nprfreshair:

Dutch drum maestro Han Bennink plays a drumkit made of cheese.

Bennink drums cheese 2 (by squiddity of toronto)

(via npr)

Totally delightful. Here to hear my friend Nathan talk about his new book _What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank_. (Taken with instagram)

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1258 Plays

oldhollywood:

Dinah Washington - Me And My Gin

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264 Plays

theyeofabengal:

Asa | Dreamer Girl 

Going on the next podcast. 

(via dynamicafrica)

The insular cortex of the brain, he argues, is the area of our brains where we become our ‘sentient selves,’ consciously aware of the emotions connected to our internal bodily states. It is the core brain region where our sense of being a body gripped by good or bad feelings emerges moment to moment, alone and in complex social interactions with others. And remarkably, Caltech’s Allman proposes, the emotional logic ‘evolved out of the neural circuitry that gave us the ability to make food-relation decisions’–-the circuitry of taste, in other words, is at the core of how we emotionally experience the world around us.
“The (Neurobiological) Sweet Spot,” Geoffrey Montgomery in Lucky Peach, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2011.  (via getladle)

And here’s the number itself. Ann Miller can really tap. 

oldhollywood:

Ann Miller in a Busby Berkeley-choreographed dance sequence from Small Town Girl (1953, dir. László Kardos) (via)

Oh, Busby Berkeley. 

futurejournalismproject:

ofthewaves:

Mmm, oxford commas

Use it, don’t abuse it. 

futurejournalismproject:

ofthewaves:

Mmm, oxford commas

Use it, don’t abuse it. 

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