Stubborn trees who refuse to give up no matter what

Trees are pretty amazing. They’ve been on Earth for 370 million years. From the redwoods of California to the Tree of Tenere, they’ve long fascinated humans. Some, like the redwoods are respected for their size — some of them big enough to drive a car through. Others, like the Ashbrittle Yew, are famous because of their long history — already old when Stonehenge was built.
As humans, we have an important relationship with trees. In return for creating oxygen for us, we support them. It’s estimated there are about 3.04 trillion trees in the world. Of those, there may be as many as 100,000 different species that account for 25 percent of all plant life on Earth.
One of the reasons trees have such a long lifespan is their ability to adapt to their environment, some even growing after they’ve been chopped down or uprooted. Here are 60 trees that refused to give up even in the harshest conditions.


This palm tree fell over but wasn’t bothered in the slightest. It just curved back up and like a trooper, continued growing.



This tree was planted in a narrow box of soil and surrounded by pavement. But it refused to stay in its box. Instead, its roots crisscrossed the sidewalk.



This tree was on a ledge too far away from adequate nutrients. So, it came up with a plan: grow its roots across to the mainland, where there was plenty of water.



Many decades ago, a man hung his ice skates on this tree and forgot about them. He rediscovered them in his old age and was amazed at how the tree adapted.



When someone left an old piano in the woods, this tree wasn’t about to be deterred. It just continued to grow — straight up through the keys.



This tree was growing alongside a fence. Come to find out, paper beats metal. The result looks similar to a face that’s chowing down on the rail.



This is a little unnerving until you realize what it is: the tree grew around a statue, making it look like a person’s trapped inside. Okay, maybe it’s still unnerving.



This tree barely has any ground underneath it — you can see half its roots dangling in the air. You’d think it couldn’t grow at all.



This tree grew straight up around a fire hydrant. It’s a testament to how safe the neighborhood’s been, I guess. Hopefully, they never need that hydrant.



This tree might just hold a record for the number of extra trees grown from a single trunk. It fell over and grew seven new trees. Take that, Mother Nature.



We’ve learned that trees growing on top of silos is a lot more common than initially thought. This one looks eerily like an enormous carrot, thanks to the color of the silo.



This tree’s roots had to adapt to unusually rocky soil, and the result is pretty cool. Is it just me or does it look like it’s walking across the sand?


Many more at:
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Historical Facts Will Mess With Your Perception Of Time

When we try to put historical events into perspective, we often simplistically divide things into 'old days' and 'modern times,' because our brains can often struggle with the perception of time, and since most of us don't live to be centenarians, we cannot know what it really means 'a hundred years ago.'
But what happens when some of the history facts that you would consider to belong to the contemporary world are much older than we think or vice versa?
The amazing fact is that it jolts us out of our easy categorization and forces us to reassess our comfortable time perception.


Marilyn Monroe And Queen Elizabeth Were Born In The Same Year. Here They (Both 30 At The Time) Meet At A Movie Premier In London In October 1956

The two were both born in 1926 and once met each other, at the premiere of The Battle of the River Plate in London’s Leicester Square. Monroe was there to accompany her then husband Arthur Miller. You can see her here in the receiving line of guests waiting to shake the young Queen’s hand.


Woolly Mammoths Were Still Alive While Egyptians Were Building The Pyramids (2660 BCE)

Scientists have determined that wooly mammoths were still roaming the Earth until about 1650 BC, the giant creatures could be found on an island off the coast of eastern Russia at the time. Meanwhile, the oldest of the 'Great Pyramids' in Egypt, the Pyramid of Djoser was constructed between 2630 BC–2611 BC, meaning that while man was busy building some of the most incredible structures ever made, wooly mammoths were still doing their thing.


George Washington Died In 1799. The First Dinosaur Fossil Was Discovered In 1824. George Washington Never Knew Dinosaurs Existed

George Washington died peacefully at home on December 14, 1799, aged 67 years old. A soldier, farmer, and statesman, as well as the first President of the United States under the U.S. Constitution, Washington was commonly referred to as the "Father of His Country" by his compatriots. He, like anyone else at the time, didn't know that dinosaurs existed because they were not scientifically recognized as such until 1824, when British naturalist William Buckland first described Megalosaurus, now regarded to be the first dinosaur to be scientifically named.


Anne Frank And Martin Luther King Junior Were Born In The Same Year (1929)

One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, Anne Frank gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's most widely known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire. Both of these symbols of resistance were born in the same year, 1929.


Prisoners Arrived At Auschwitz Just Days After Mcdonald's Was Founded (1940)

While McDonald's is traditionally associated with the good times and affluence of 1950's America, the very first restaurant was opened much earlier, on May 15th 1940. Just 5 days later, the first prisoners arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp in what is now Poland.


Orville Wright Was Still Alive When Hiroshima And Nagasaki Were Bombed (1945)

The Wright brothers are rightly credited with inventing what we know as airplanes, and it must have been tremondously difficult for Orville Wright, whose brother Wilbur died back in 1912, to see his life's great acheivement be responsible for the greatest single act of destruction man has ever seen. In 1945 U.S. Airforce planes dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing at least 129,000 people, mainly civilians.

Orville died in 1948 and expressed sadness in an interview about the death and destruction brought about by the bombers of World War II: "We dared to hope we had invented something that would bring lasting peace to the earth. But we were wrong ... No, I don't have any regrets about my part in the invention of the airplane, though no one could deplore more than I do the destruction it has caused. I feel about the airplane much the same as I do in regard to fire. That is, I regret all the terrible damage caused by fire, but I think it is good for the human race that someone discovered how to start fires and that we have learned how to put fire to thousands of important uses."


The Brooklyn Bridge Was Being Built During The Battle Of Little Bighorn (1876)

'Custer’s Last Stand” at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 took place at the same time that the world's first steel wire suspension bridge, the iconic Brooklyn Bridge, was under construction.
The battle was fought between forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the United States Army. The defeat of US forces, led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.
The Brooklyn Bridge still stands proud, having undergone major renovation works between 2011-2015, and carries roughly 150,000 vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians between Manhattan and Brooklyn each day.


Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated On April 15, 1865, Just A Few Months Before The Secret Service Was Created

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15th, 1865, just months before the Secret Service was founded. The legislation to create the Secret Service was on Lincoln's desk on the night he died, perhaps if they were created a few months earlier they might have foiled the plot to assassinate him.


Much more at:
https://www.boredpanda.com/interesting-history-facts-events-happened-same-time/?utm_source=pinterest91&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=rider

Amazing furniture (and such)

These Gorgeous Photos of Victorian Women of Color Will Change Your View of History

“But there weren’t any black people back then!”

When people of color are erased from popular depictions of historical eras, some folks can come up with a lot of excuses for why their images are absent.

But here’s an awesome collection of Victorian Era photographs that blow those excuses away. We came across these images on Downtown LA Life. They date from 1860 to 1901, and they show some of the gorgeous and diverse ways that people of color have existed throughout history.

Unfortunately, many photos from this period have no names attached to their subjects. Some of these were taken during the time of slavery in the United States.

But we’re so glad for this glimpse back in time to help us recognize and celebrate the lives of people who are too often excluded from our history books and media.
















https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/03/young-black-and-victorian/


Many more beautiful pics at website

Negroes in Mexico before Columbus

The Olmecs, a Negroid Afrikan race, were highly talented sculptors and artists who were best known for their cave paintings and carved colossal stonework. The Olmec was the first great ancient Mesoamerican civilization that flourished along Mexico's gulf coast region. Ancient Mexican wall paintings clearly depicted these "Negroid" rulers as Afrikan.

The Olmecs were Moors from the Dogon tribe in Mali, Afrika, who migrated over the Bering Strait as early as 100,000 years ago to America, which they called Utla in their Cushite language. This migration included Pygmies, Negroes and Black Australoids similar to the indigenous Black people of Australia, parts of Asia and India. The Mayans were the descendants of these Malian Moors who were referred to as Black Mexicans or Quetzacoatl.

When the Dogons migrated to America, they also brought the rubber tree with them which is native only to Afrika. The Dogons utilized the sap from the rubber tree to make shoes and coats, being the first to introduce soles on shoes to the new world. The term Olmec means Rubber People.
The Olmecs established empires and cities predating the Inca, Aztecs and Mayans, and were also known as the Mound Builders, who constructed those great pyramids throughout South America, Peru, Canada, Alaska, and Georgia, spreading all over North America along the Mississippi River.

The step pyramids in the Americas closely match the step pyramids of the Egyptians. Also, the Double Crown which symbolizes the king’s rule over Upper and Lower Egypt with a cobra representing Lower Egypt and a vulture representing Upper Egypt (right) is also found in Olmec culture, symbolizing Northern and Southern America.
Furthermore, in Mexico, a type of paper made from a particular kind of wood pulp was discovered which scientists confirmed is only found in Egypt. Even the ceremonial dance of the Hopi Indians is identical to the Dogon’s Bado Dance of Afrika which have the same symbols and spirit names

https://blackhistory.neocities.org/mexican

Longer article, but really fascinating history with many photos.

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