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I should have posted this yesterday -


A somewhat grudging award to a pioneer campaigner for women's education in her old age - just an honorary MA, not a Doctorate (as nearly all Honorary degrees are), and not awarded at the Encaenia, the pompous ceremony when honorary degrees are normally awarded, just in some low-key private event. Still, it was a step on a long, hard road ...
 
Today, 16 June:
Ford Motor Company incorporated - 1903
IBM incorporated (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company) - 1911
Oracle Corp incorporated (as Software Development Laboratories (SDL)) - 1977
So, if you incorporated your company today, congratulations!
 
At least the people in the land of ice are wise enough to choose National Day near the Summer Solstice!
It actually commemorates independence from Denmark in 1944 - though it had been a largely autonomous part of a 'united kingdom' since 1918, and when Denmark was occupied by the Nazis in 1940, British forces moved into Iceland, subsequently replaced by US, while the Althing remained in charge of civil administration, so formal independence was simply confirming what was already the situation in fact.
 
The US has a new national holiday, Juneteenth National Independence Day, as it is officially known. It's tomorrow, June 19th, though because that is a Saturday, it is being celebrated today (though since it was just signed into law by President Biden yesterday, most places that would normally be closed are open. Apparently the Post Office needs at least 48 hours notice to stop mail delivery so the junk mail will keep coming).

The holiday celebrates the freeing of the last slaves in the Confederacy on June 19, 1865. The slaves in the Confederacy were technically freed by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, but that could only be applied in practice to areas occupied by the Union Army. Though Lee had surrendered at Appomattox in April 1865, it took more than two months for Union forces to make their way to Galveston, Texas and announce that the slaves in that state were henceforth free.

They actually were not the last slaves freed. The Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to slave-holding states that remained in the Union. Slaves in those states-Delaware and Kentucky were freed in December 1865 when the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.
 
You may have noticed that the princes Harry and William have unveiled a statue to their mother Diana to mark what would have been her 60th birthday. To my eye it is a rather uninspiring work, which is all the more sad as the artist is capable of producing much more interesting pieces.


LORD ROCHESTER, HIS WHORE AND A MONKEY

JOSEPHINE BAKER

and one for Jolly, DEATH & THE MAIDEN
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You may have noticed that the princes Harry and William have unveiled a statue to their mother Diana to mark what would have been her 60th birthday. To my eye it is a rather uninspiring work, which is all the more sad as the artist is capable of producing much more interesting pieces.
Yep, a nude statue of Diana would've been much better. :tits:

Not that the Windsors could've countenanced that. :goofy:
 
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