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Branching into the future

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

He is amazing.

[Devin Heroux @Devin_Heroux]

WORLD RECORD 🇨🇦 SUMMER MCINTOSH

There have been four world records set at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre. Summer McIntosh has three of them. She's 17 years old.

Smashing her own 400m IM record by more than a second in 4:24.38. Special night at the pool.

[IRCC @CitImmCanada]

May is #AsianHeritageMonth in Canada! We’re celebrating the voices, stories and accomplishments of Asian Canadians and their impact on our society in areas like the arts, sports and social justice.

Here are a few examples:

• Dr. Feng Jiang is working to replace plastics with eco-friendly materials: https://t.co/xn1L5mPzlY
• Natasha Dhayagude co-founded a start-up made of 90% women in STEM that’s created jobs in Fredericton: https://t.co/h5CnQ6mdM6
• Jianyi Dong, a geologist originally from China, is using solar greenhouse technology to help farmers in Alberta prolong their growing season: https://t.co/jRqiEuJuaG

Learn more about Asian Heritage Month here: https://t.co/qH30J0CepX

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

easily the funniest thing I’ve seen happen all year.

[Chris Blackburn @Diligent_Seeker]

@Rainmaker1973 The Japanese culture of efficiency and design is fascinating. From the cultivation of the lumber to it’s assembly, they show enormous respect for every stage of the process.

[NPNS @NewPlayland]

Happy Vaisakhi !

[NPNS @NewPlayland]

@BE_JJ_7 Breathtaking 💜🤞🏽

[NPNS @NewPlayland]

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[NPNS @NewPlayland]

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[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Harriet Tubman's Last Portrait, 1911.

—Harriet Tubman (born Araminta "Minty" Ross) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made more than 19 missions to rescue more than 300 slaves using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era struggled for women's suffrage. As a child in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten by masters to whom she was hired out. Early in her life, she suffered a severe head wound when hit by a heavy metal weight. The injury caused disabling seizures, narcoleptic attacks, headaches, and powerful visionary and dream experiences, which occurred throughout her life. A devout Christian, Tubman ascribed the visions and vivid dreams to revelations from God. BACKGROUND: In 1849, Tubman became ill again, and her value as a slave was diminished as a result. Edward Brodess tried to sell her, but could not find a buyer. Angry at his action and the unjust hold he kept on her relatives, Tubman began to pray for her owner, asking God to make him change his ways: "I prayed all night long for my master," she said later, "till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me." When it appeared as though a sale was being concluded, she switched tactics. "I changed my prayer," she said. "First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way." A week later, Brodess died, and Tubman expressed regret for her earlier sentiments. Brodess' death increased the likelihood that Tubman would be sold and her family would be broken apart, as frequently happened in the settlement of an estate. His widow, Eliza, began working to sell the family's slaves. Tubman refused to wait for the Brodess family to decide her fate, despite her husband's efforts to dissuade her."[T]here was one of two things I had a right to," she explained later, "liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other." ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY: Tubman and her brothers, Ben and Henry, escaped from slavery on September 17, 1849. Tubman had been hired out to Dr. Anthony Thompson, who owned a large plantation in an area called Poplar Neck in neighboring Caroline County; it is likely her brothers labored for Thompson as well. Because the slaves were hired out to another household, Eliza Brodess probably did not recognize their absence as an escape attempt for some time. Two weeks later, she posted a runaway notice in the Cambridge Democrat, offering a reward of up to 100 dollars for each slave returned. Once they had left, Tubman's brothers had second thoughts. Ben may have just become a father. The two men went back, forcing Tubman to return with them. Soon afterward, Tubman escaped again, this time without her brothers and successfully.
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[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Hazel Scott playing on two pianos, 1943.⁣ https://t.co/YI1w4XmIdn