A coffee shop in Singapore invented the "Sweet Little Rain."
This coffee or tea is served with a puff of cotton candy.
The steam from the coffee rises to dissolve the cotton candy, and the puff begins to "rain" onto the coffee cup.
Jimi Hendrix served in the U.S. Army as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division before becoming a guitar legend.
He was honorably discharged due to back problems.
@MrGeorgeWallace Alex Haley also lived in Knoxville, taught at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, has a square named after him with his statue in Knoxville but kids in Knoxville can't study his most famous work in their schools? Make it make sense!
Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.
Malcolm X and Maya Angelou in Ghana, 1964.
Malcolm X on his last visit to Accra had announced a desire to create a foundation he called the Organization of Afro-American Unity. His proposal included taking the plight of the African-Americans to the United Nations and asking the world council to intercede on the part of beleaguered blacks.
Malcolm��s last letter to Maya.
Dear Maya,
I was shocked and surprised when your letter arrived but I was also pleased because I only had to wait two months for this one whereas previously I had to wait almost a year. You see I haven’t lost my wit. (smile)
Your analysis of our people’s tendency to talk over the head of the masses in a language that is too far above and beyond them is certainly true. You can communicate because you have plenty of (soul) and you always keep your feet firmly rooted on the ground.
I am enclosing some articles that will give you somewhat of an idea of my daily experiences here and you will then be better able to understand why it sometimes takes me a long time to write. I was most pleased to learn that you might be hitting in this direction this year. You are a beautiful writer and a beautiful woman. You know that I will always do my utmost to be helpful to you in any way possible so don’t hesitate.
Signed
Your brother Malcolm
Happy birthday to the one who made us fall in love with reading.📚🌈
“Tight Times” was the very first episode of Reading Rainbow to ever air.
Thank you, LeVar, for inspiring generations of readers. 💙
The day after she graduated high school in 1964, Dolly Parton left her home in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains and boarded the first bus to Nashville with a suitcase made of cardboard — and filled with songs.
She quickly impressed Nashville's country music moguls with her compositions, but they insisted that her voice just wouldn't make her a star. They were soon proven wrong.
See iconic photos the young star: https://t.co/D81JXWUw27
The Sphinx sits in a low depression on the Giza Plateau, meaning that for centuries it was particularly vulnerable to being buried under shifting desert sands. By the time European travelers began documenting it in the Middle Ages and early modern period, only the head was visible, with the immense lion’s body hidden beneath layers of sand.
Excavations to uncover the Sphinx began sporadically in antiquity and continued into 19th-20th Centuries. It wasn’t until 1920s and 1930s, under Egyptian archaeologists such as Selim Hassan, that the full body of the Sphinx was systematically revealed. These historic photographs capture how dramatically different monument appeared before those excavations, an isolated head rising from the desert, dwarfed by the surrounding landscape.
Measuring over 240ft long and 66ft tall, the Sphinx is among the largest monolithic statues ever created. Most scholars attribute it to Pharaoh Khafre (2500 BC), but its weathering and enigmatic expression have fueled endless debates about its age, purpose, and symbolism.
Once buried and forgotten, the Sphinx has become one of the most recognizable icons of Egypt. Its survival across millennia reflects both the fragility of monuments against nature and the endurance of human cultural memory.
#archaeohistories
Beautiful Colombian Child reciting a poem and saying how proud she is of her black skin and black blood, she is American, African, Colombian, from the coast and proud. She urges people to call her black because it's nothing to be ashamed of BUT Proud of!✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿