November 19, 1926: A parade through Times Square celebrating the 300th anniversary of Broadway. The route was south from 72nd St. to 38th St.—just a fraction of the avenue's length.

The Times noted, "The parade was to bring back to the famous street the days of long ago, and the barouches, victorias, and other carriages of other days looked sufficiently incongruous as they passed through the Great White Way behind automobiles. But most of it was devoted to modern advertisements of light, heat, and power, orange juice, and the moving pictures that are now current. … When an elephant tried to pull the spare tire from a New York Times automobile and wrapped its nose about a dog along side of it during the wait the crowd roared its appreciation of elephantine humor."

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On This Day in New York City History February 20, 1895: Former slave, abolitionist and civil rights advocate Frederick Douglass (February 1818 - February 20, 1895) passes away at the age of 77 or 78.

Douglass escaped slavery via the Underground Railroad arriving in NYC in 1838. Douglass would figure heavily in the history of NYC's abolition movement leading up to and during the Civil War. Douglass gave a series of speeches at Cooper Union including The Proclamation and the Negro Army which was given on February 3, 1863.

Post Civil War, Douglass continued to work for the freedom of not only blacks but of women in the areas of voting rights and would lend his support to Ida B. Wells' anti-lynching campaign.

Douglass would pass away at either the age of 77 or 78 in Washington D.C.

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A selection of strange and cryptic personal ads from The New York Herald, 1860s to 1890s. 14/?

Did you know? The first residents of New York...

Did you know?

The first residents of New York were Jews from Recife, Pernambuco (the state in the northeastern region of Brazil).

Known in the world for harboring descendants of the most varied cultures. NY is one of the largest multicultural metropolises in the world, 3rd most populous on the American continent, behind São Paulo (South American continent, Brazil) and Mexico City (Central America, Mexico).

What few people know is that the origin of the Jewish community there mixes a shipwreck and the history of Brazil. Rabbi Lopes Cardoso's ancestors lived in Recife almost four centuries ago. He still knows songs in Portuguese and Ladino, the language of Jews of Iberian origin. The rabbi is descended from the first Jews who arrived in New York. It was 350 years ago, on September 7, 1654. A monument honors the small group of 23 refugees who survived the sinking of a ship that left Recife a month earlier.

During the occupation of northeast Brazil by the Netherlands, Jewish traders of Portuguese origin settled in Recife, where they founded the first synagogue in the Americas, recently restored. After the reconquest of the Northeast by Portugal, Dutch and Jews were expelled.

With the end of Dutch Brazil, the Jews expelled from Recife had to return to Holland. But one of the ships sank during a storm in the Caribbean. The survivors had all their goods stolen by pirates but managed to get a ride on a caravel to reach New Amsterdam, now New York.

They disembarked at the port where boats with tourists leave today to visit the Statue of Liberty. These Brazilian Jews in New York founded the Jewish community that became the largest in the world. The city's first Jewish cemetery still exists. There are buried descendants of Portuguese, with names like Lopes, Mendes, Homem, and Cardoso, but time has almost erased the names on the tombstones.

It is the oldest historical place in New York. The congregation founded by them, Sheharit Israel, today occupies the synagogue where the ancestors of Portuguese and Brazilian origin are remembered. The constitution of the congregation was written in Portuguese and the prayer room exactly reproduces the synagogue in Recife.

The Goddess Kybele Formiae in Campania, ca. 60 BCE

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Looking out the window of an old warehouse

WHY DOES THE WORLD OF DARKNESS HAVE SO MUCH LORE???? HOW DOES IT HAVE SO MUCH LORE????? WHO IS WRITING ALL OF THIS FUCKING LORE???? HOLY SHIT IM GONNA LOSE MY MIND

He's just sitting there... ✨menacingly✨

Please enjoy meeting our resident Slowly Melting Wax Nixon Head, he lives in the California History Room and he does not have eyes.

I like it when NY shanks Trump hard. Makes me smile. Imagine being lucky to enough to be NYC born and bred and then growing to be such a tremendous pile of stinking hot garbage that the 2nd greatest city in the world disowns you and comes after you.

April got a job as a museum docent so she snuck the boys in one night for a free tour (the Archelon fossil was of course the clear favorite) 💚💜🧡💙❤️

Here's two Chicagoland expatriates, the former BN 9921 and 9915, running for their next owner NYS&W, powering a northbound BH-2 double stack consist up the Syracuse side at Tully Center Road on the morning of 15 February 1997, assisted by an SD45 and an F45.

I have so many thoughts about Noah/Mirage, but most of them revolve around how generally on cybertron same sex couples are a normal thing, but the action on earth takes place in 1990's, where being gay wasn't that widely accepted and stuff so Noah wouldn't have been too like familiar with it, I think he never really gave it much thought, because he was too busy trying to find a job and earn money for his brother, but he knew like general opinion of the public which wasn't too positive, so he probably wouldn't pick up on like Mirage's flirting and stuff because he's not that familiar with the mlm or stuff idk I just think this would is an interesting dynamic, and I think when Noah would finally get it he would panic and need some time to like reevaluate his relationship with Mirage and to what conclusion he'll come up with I will leave to you

Sorry if this is very incoherent, like I said I have many thoughts, and none of them want to be compressed into logical sentences

On This Day in New York City History February 2, 1935: Dancer Anne Raven Wilkinson (February 2, 1935 – December 17, 2018) was born in New York City, New York. Wilkinson has the distinction of being the first African-American woman to dance for a major classical ballet company.

Wilkinson was born into a middle class black family in Harlem. Her father was a medical doctor and her mother a ballet dancer. Her love for ballet was born from watching a performance of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, a dance group that she would make history with.

Wilkinson would face difficulties in getting accepted to the Ballet Russe de Monter Carlo. Twice she was rejected before she was accepted at the age of 20 in 1955 by the director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Serge Denham.

After leaving the group in the early 1960, Wilkinson would dance with a number row groups before retiring in 1974. That would be a short lived retirement. In the same year Wilkinson would join the New York City Opera and dance for them until 1985. In her later years she would serve as mentor to Misty Copeland who was a trailblazer in her own right. Copeland was the first African American to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.

Wilkinson passed away on December 17, 2018 at the age of 83.

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A hoplite stands in attacking position over a (now lost) fallen foe. Ancient Greek marble relief (possibly part of an Athenian state memorial), ca. 330 BCE; artist unknown. Now in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen. Photo credit: ChrisO/Wikimedia Commons.

Model of workers grinding grain and butchering cattle Egypt, Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1650 BCE)

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