Miss Russo

Eighth Grade U. S. History Teacher

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

REMEMBER THEM.

[Miss Russo @NMRusso12]

RT @neiltyson: Memorial Day 2025

Freedom isn’t free.

[Arlington National Cemetery @ArlingtonNatl]

Basilone is laid to rest in Section 12. We honor his service.

[Cathy Emerick @CathyEmerick1]

Great day of debating for BMS. Aarna, Trisha, and Radha finished second in the open division. Trisha finished 1st and Radha 5th in speaker points. AJ, Sri, and Justin went 3-0 in the novice division. #bmspride @ShannonMaricon1 @WatsonBryan7 @taranovichj1

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

What’s in your control:
- what you do
- what you say
- what you think

What isn’t:
- what other people do
- what other people say
- what other people think

[World War II History @WW2Facts]

British children taking shelter in a trench while watching an aerial battle overhead during the Battle of Britain on September 3, 1940.

#History #WWII

[J&L Historical @Jason_R_Burt]

The John Basilone statue in his hometown of Raritan, New Jersey. 🇺🇸

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

One of the greatest songs in music history, and there's no words

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1944, General Anthony McAuliffe of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division gives a famously succinct reply to a German ultimatum demanding the surrender of Bastogne: "Nuts!"

https://t.co/QwtvzZ7ZCH

[Miss Russo @NMRusso12]

I love this tradition! Thank you, talented students (and teachers) for this delightful music.

[Miss Russo @NMRusso12]

This is fantastic! #proudteacher Congratulations!

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Believe it or not the tv remote control was a major innovation. This 1958 tv commercial provides a look at what was considered cutting edge tech for its time.

[Chronicling America Historic Newspapers @ChronAmLOC]

On December 18, 1865, the 13th amendment abolishing slavery was proclaimed and officially went into effect. Explore our historic newspaper archive for more constitutional history. https://t.co/yPhIJ89gQk #ChronAm #OTD

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Tom and Jerry (1947)

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pictured above is Astronaut Leland D. Melvin's official NASA portrait.

When NASA astronaut Leland Melvin was assigned to a space shuttle mission in 2008, he was told he could bring his family for the official photo shoot wearing the famous orange "pumpkin suit." They didn't specify two-legged or four-legged family members, and even though dogs were not typically allowed on the NASA base, Melvin considered his dogs part of his family.

So, Melvin brought his rescue dogs, Jake and Scout, along with a neighbor who could hold them and keep them quiet in the back of his van. "I got to the guard shack, flashed my badge, and I gunned the van and drove to the photo lab," Melvin said.

He then climbed the back stairs, where the photographer was waiting. Melvin went into the photo lab with 100 MilkBones to keep the dogs busy while he changed into his suit and came out. "They (the dogs) ran toward me, and I told the photographer to hold his finger on the shutter, and that's how the photo was born." After the photo shoot, Melvin had to change, and the MilkBones had disappeared.

"The dogs started barking, and a security guard came in and asked if there were dogs in there," Melvin said. "We said, 'No, that's the doggy screensaver!'" After he changed, he was able to quiet the dogs and leave the area.

[Miss Russo @NMRusso12]

History comes alive at BMS! @tierneybethel @WatsonBryan7

[MrsSheehan @mrssheehan2]

@WatsonBryan7 @ShannonMaricon1 @taranovichj1 8b in Boston

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A child helps to break down the Berlin Wall, 1989.

After standing for 28 years and separating families for a long and painful period, the Berlin Wall finally fell in 1989, allowing East and West Berliners to meet each other. The wall has become an international symbol of death, oppression, and most obviously, it showed the failure of communism.

Due to new reforms in the Soviet Union at the time, the people got the opportunity to break down the wall after being oppressed by East German leader Erich Honecker, who was a hard-line Stalinist. Former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has even claimed to have told a friend that he thought Honecker was "a scumbag." No longer able to withstand the might of the people crowding around the wall, and with Western media filming the event, the gates were opened, and people from both sides began to meet in the middle. Some even brought sledgehammers to break down parts of the wall. This little guy did his part to help, and his face is full of determination!

As John Fitzgerald Kennedy once famously said, "Democracy is not perfect, but we never had to build a wall to keep our people in."

[Historyland @HistorylandHQ]

Alfred Hitchcock has dinner with MGM's Leo the Lion, 1958 [1200x898]

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to actor Jack Black.

Judith Love Cohen was, at various times in her fascinating life, an engineer who worked on the Pioneer, Apollo, and Hubble missions, an author & publisher of books about women in STEM and environmentalism in the 90s, a ballet dancer with the New York Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, an advocate for better treatment of women in the workplace, and actor Jack Black's mother. From an obituary written by her son Neil Siegel after her death in 2016:

“My mother usually considered her work on the Apollo program to be the highlight of her career. When disaster struck the Apollo 13 mission, it was the Abort-Guidance System that brought the astronauts home safely. Judy was there when the Apollo 13 astronauts paid a ‘thank you’ [visit] to the TRW facility in Redondo Beach.”

She finished her engineering career running the systems engineering for the science ground facility of the Hubble Space Telescope.

During her engineering career, she was a vigorous and tireless advocate of better treatment for women in the workplace. Many things that today we consider routine - the posting of job openings inside of a company so that anyone could apply, formal job descriptions for every position, and so forth - were her creations. She had a profound impact on equality in the workforce.