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[Jasmine Taylor @JasmineTaylorTV]

First person I thought of when it happened yesterday 🩷!!

[Miley Official @MileyCyrusBz]

It was revealed that Dolly Parton was secretly battling cancer but she didn't say anything and instead released this song as one of her last to raise funds for children with cancer. Even while she was sick she was still thinking about others. I’m absolutely devastated.

[Jasmine Taylor @JasmineTaylorTV]

Audrey Hepburn ❤️ ❤️

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In the winter of 1944, a fifteen-year-old girl danced in a blacked-out room in occupied Holland. The windows were covered. The audience made no sound -- not during the performance, not after. Any noise could alert the Nazis. Any light could mean death.

These were the "zwarte avonden" -- the black evenings -- secret performances held across the Netherlands to raise money for the Dutch Resistance. The money fed families in hiding. It bought forged documents. It kept people alive.

The girl dancing was Audrey Hepburn.

"The best audiences I ever had," she said decades later, "made not a single sound at the end of my performance."

Born in 1929 in Brussels, Audrey Hepburn spent most of her childhood moving between Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. Her mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra, was Dutch aristocracy. Her father, a British banker, abandoned the family when Audrey was six. He would spend the war interned on the Isle of Man after being arrested as a member of the British Union of Fascists.

In 1939, with war looming, her mother moved them to Arnhem in the Netherlands, believing it would stay neutral as it had in the first World War.

She was wrong. In May 1940, the Germans invaded. Audrey was eleven years old.

To hide her English-sounding name, she began going by Edda van Heemstra. She enrolled at the Arnhem Conservatory and threw herself into ballet, dreaming of becoming a professional dancer. For a while, life went on -- performances at the city theater, lessons, practice. But the occupation darkened everything. Jewish musicians and dancers disappeared one by one. German officers sat in the front rows.

"I remember, very sharply, one little boy standing with his parents on the platform, very pale, very blond, wearing a coat that was much too big for him," she recalled years later. "And he stepped on the train."

In 1942, the Nazis executed her uncle Otto van Limburg Stirum in retaliation for resistance activities. His body was dumped in a mass grave. One of her half-brothers was deported to a forced labor camp in Berlin. The other went into hiding. Whatever sympathy her mother had once held for the Nazi regime died with Uncle Otto.

The family moved to the village of Velp and began working with the local resistance. Dr. Hendrik Visser 't Hooft, the resistance leader, used children as couriers because the Germans tended to ignore them. Audrey, who spoke fluent English, was perfect for the job. She carried messages. She delivered food and instructions to downed Allied pilots hiding in the forests. Once, when a German patrol approached while she was on a mission, she bent down and pretended to pick wildflowers. They passed without stopping.

"We saw young men put against the wall and shot," she said, "and they'd close the street and then open it and you could pass by again. Don't discount anything awful you hear or read about the Nazis. It's worse than you could ever imagine."

In September 1944, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden -- the disastrous attempt to capture the bridge at Arnhem. British paratroopers were stranded behind enemy lines. Audrey's family hid one of them in their cellar for nearly a week, bringing him food, knowing that discovery meant execution.

Then came the Hunger Winter. After Dutch railway workers went on strike to support the Allies, the Germans cut off food supplies to the western Netherlands. Starvation spread. Audrey's family ate tulip bulbs. Then grass. Then whatever they could find.

"I went as long as three days without food," she recalled. "For months, breakfast was hot water and one slice of bread made from brown beans."

She developed edema and anemia. She grew too weak to dance. More than 20,000 people would not survive the winter. By the time the Canadians liberated Velp on April 16, 1945, Audrey was near death herself.

© A Mighty Girl

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[Jasmine Taylor @JasmineTaylorTV]

@Dr_TheHistories Thank You for this! I only have one picture on the walls b/c I've been renting for a couple yrs & it's a canvas of her side profile looking towards the sky. Audrey Hepburn❤️

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Beily. He was miraculously found alive under rubble 29 days after the Venezuela earthquakes. He has since been reunited with his 11-year-old human Victoria and is expected to make a full recovery. 14/10 for all

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

Filmed last week in Tampa. Senior dog wing. Elderly man named Robert, 82, visiting shelter with walker. Moving slowly. Carefully.
Daughter brought him. "Dad, you need companionship. Maybe a senior dog?" Robert skeptical. "I'm too old. Can barely walk." Staff brought Robert to senior wing. Five older dogs.
Robert looked at 13-year-old Beagle named Walter.
Both gray. Both moving carefully. Both slow. Robert knelt slowly beside Walter. Took two minutes to get down. Walter watched patiently. Waiting. When Robert finally down, Walter walked slowly into Robert's arms. Both gray faces pressed together.
Both breathing heavy from effort. Daughter filming.
Crying. "Dad, Walter moves exactly like you. Same pace. Same careful steps." Robert started crying.
"Walter's old like me. Walter understands." Robert told us: "My wife passed away last year. I'm 82. Can barely walk. Thought I was too old for a dog. Then I see Walter. 13 years old. Gray. Slow. Careful. Just like me. Walter doesn't need someone young and energetic. Walter needs someone who moves at his speed. That's me." Robert adopted Walter last week .
They walk together every morning. Both using slow, careful steps. Same pace. Matching. Robert posted on X: "I'm 82 with walker. Adopted
13-year-old dog. We're both old. Both slow. Both gray. We match perfectly. Walter and I will grow old together at the same pace." Post went viral. 5 million views. Comments: "Perfect match." "Two seniors helping each other." Veterinarian said,
"Robert and Walter will extend each other's lives.
Companionship and purpose. They need each other."

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Zendaya’s look tonight for the LA premiere of #SpiderMan: Brand New Day 🖤

[The Secret LOA @TheSecretLawofA]

Grandpa’s, you don’t realise till they’re gone ❤️

[Entertainment Weekly @EW]

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ team describes the new Marvel film as ‘a beginning.’ ‘It’s a brand new...thing,” Tom Holland says. https://t.co/kj6SDVUhDV

[2000s @PopCulture2000s]

when michael jackson and britney spears performed together in 2001... the stage had never seen so much pop power. HISTORY.

[Texts From Last Night @TFLN]

25 Amazing Posts That Felt Like A Mug Of Hot Chocolate Monday (April 7, 2025) 👉 https://t.co/sxEzjwCXQP

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Creative panorama photo tricks

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[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

The media focus moves on but the horses still die after the cruel Grand National Festival @LeagueACS @AnimalAid #grandnational2025

[Prayerbullets @prayerbullets]

Lord, put forth Your hand to touch me. Put Your life-giving and healing words in my mouth -Jer. 1:9 #Prayer

[People @people]

Stranded Astronaut Suni Williams Shares Footage of Emotional Reunion with Her Dogs After 9 Months in Space https://t.co/lO9c8QjlcL

[Brian Tracy @BrianTracy]

The most successful people are crystal clear on what they want; they write down their goals, make them time-bound, and define the outcome they desire. When you clarify your goals, you simplify your path. ⁠
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#SuccessMindset #GoalSetting #BrianTracy

[Jasmine Taylor @JasmineTaylorTV]

Have A Wonderful Day!

[Jasmine Taylor @JasmineTaylorTV]

@EdKrassen I get that it's AI but there are 2 ppl in it that don't need to be. 💕

[Jasmine Taylor @JasmineTaylorTV]

😂 Too Cute!!

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

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[Jasmine Taylor @JasmineTaylorTV]

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[SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @COVID19_disease]

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COVID-19 Cases Reach Critical Levels: 1 in 37 Americans Infected According to JP Weiland Statistics

The United States 🇺🇸 is grappling with a staggering surge in COVID-19 cases, with a alarming 1 in 37 people currently infected.