Julia and her house of books

Comedy nerd with a sociological imagination. Wormer of books. Year-round Christmas enthusiast. Book marketer. Podcaster 📚 @wysr_podcast.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Matthew Henson was one of the first person in history to reach the North Pole in 1909 along with Robert Peary.

Matthew Henson was an African American explorer who was born in Charles County Maryland on August 8, 1866, At a young age, he was orphaned and lived with his aunt in Washington DC. However, he quit school in order to be a sailor. At the age of 12, he joined Captain Child's crew on the merchant ship Katie Hinds traveling around the world for six years. He became an expert at charting and navigating.
At age of 20, Henson was discovered by an explorer named Robert E. Peary, who was impressed with the breadth of his geographical knowledge and experience. As a result, Peary invited Henson to join him for an expedition designed to investigate the feasibility of a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Nicaragua.
After that expedition, Henson and Peary undertook seven more expeditions with the goal of becoming the first to reach the North Pole, which was Peary's dream.
Because of how difficult the mission was, they failed six times. Nevertheless, this didn't stop them from planning the seventh expedition. For it, Henson taught himself how to build sleds, how to master a team of dogs, and how to speak the Inuit language. Henson invested many hours of study to make the corresponding calculations.
All of the hard work and planning paid off because, on April 6, 1909, Matthew Henson arrived at the North Pole and planted the American flag. He arrived 45 minutes ahead of Peary whose progress was a lot slower because he lost several toes to frostbite.
Sadly, it wasn't until more than 30 years later in 1945 that Henson received the Navy Medal from Congress, and it wasn't until 1961 that a plaque was erected in his honor at the State House at Annapolis, Maryland.
Henson died in the Bronx, New York City on March 9, 1955, at the age of 88. In 1988, his remains were moved to Arlington National Cemetery, where he was buried with full honors next to his friend, Robert Peary.

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I just reviewed Happiness Falls by Angie Kim. #HappinessFalls #NetGalley https://t.co/xdRghtoShU

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The boy rang the doorbell and was shot. Twice. Horrifying and the shooter needs to be arrested and held without bail.

[🥀_ Imposter_🖕 @Imposter_Edits]

This black teen boy went to pick up his sibling but accidentally went to the wrong house, the owner of the home shot the kid in the head, then shot him again once he was down.
The neighbors won't speak, they "take care of each other"

[Peter Frampton @peterframpton]

I have posted this before but ..

26 years ago, a gunman entered
Dunblane Primary School in Scotland,
killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK
govt responded by enacting tight gun
control legislation. In the 9400+ days
since, there have been a total of O
school shootings in the UK.

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March Madness is truly mad this year. Loving it!

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Happy “Day we argue about daylight savings time leading to no changes whatsoever” to those who celebrate. Now time to prepare for “My sleep has been off all week”-mas.

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@hollowchatter Congratulations!!!

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Introduce myself with 7 books? 😎
The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
Fangirl
The other side of the story
Project Hail Mary
Persuasion
Wayward Children series
Good in Bed

[Kelloween @khager]

Introduce myself with 7 books?😩
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
VI Warshawski series by Sara Paretsky
Misery by Stephen King
Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

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@lindaholmes

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@shrananigans_ @minjinlee11 @chelseahandler It’s a beautiful novel, loved it so much!

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@blgtylr I’m partial to Juliet Stevenson’s narration of Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion especially!

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

The 10 richest men on earth have six times more wealth than the poorest 3.1 billion people.

Corporate greed is a disease in our country. Tax the rich.

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@regularguy I’m an early bird so I tend to get started on emails early in the morning to get them out of the way. But there’s that handy schedule to send feature so it doesn’t look like I’m a crazy boss!

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@NJSimmondsbooks To All the Boys I’ve Loved before! Fangirl!

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@hollowchatter Love Kate Beaton

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@regularguy Congratulations!

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@FanaticReel @Penserga25 @moviesandameal I’m so behind so I need this episode!

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@jaydee_ell 👀

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@jaydee_ell The Cutting Edge is one of my all time faves! Also I would Love to read a book set in the world of figure skating…just saying…👀

[Jupitah Dawl 🏳️‍⚧️ @thejupiterdoll_]

i don't think u guys are getting it. the main issue with AI is not "you could've commissioned an artist to do this," it's "the AI is trained to steal from actual artists' work and recreate it with zero credit or payment whatsoever so that a random app dev can make money"