24 5 / 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
To Queen Victoria, who was born 193 years ago.
She would go on to rule the world’s greatest empire and give her name to an age.
20 5 / 2012
66 years ago, Cherilyn Sarkisian was born. <3 Gotta love the Armenians.
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17 5 / 2012
One…
Year ago today, a relationship started that, when it ended, would cause the heartbreak that would make me start this tumblr.
Since then, I found love again… twice. I also found heartache again, but just once (so far).
I regret none of it, no matter how stupid I acted, because it made me who I am today and has lead me to where I am today.
It may not be perfect, but I’m definitely thankful.
05 5 / 2012
51 years ago today, a New Hampshirite became the (second person) first American in space. After growing up in Derry, NH, and graduating from Pinkerton Academy, Alan B. Shepard attended the US Naval Academy and served in World War II. He was later chosen by NASA to become one of the “original group of seven Mercury astronauts,” (Wikipedia). Later, he was meant to command Apollo 13 but needed further training and instead commanded Apollo 14, at the age of 47, which landed on the moon in February 1971 and was “the most accurate landing of the entire Apollo program” (Wikipedia) and the first to be broadcast in color.
04 5 / 2012
Best feeling ever :). I love waking up beside him, cuddling close, and being able to kiss him right when I wake up. I feel so alone when he’s not in my bed beside me.
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01 5 / 2012
1 May 1851
Today is the 161th anniversary of the opening of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, a “brain child” of (my favourite historical figure) Albert, Prince Consort, the husband of the reigning Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
The Exhibition was ”the largest trade show the world had ever seen… Some 6 million people between 1 May and 11 October 1851, many of them on railway excursions, visited 100, 000 exhibits. Queen Victoria, always keen on her husband’s achievements, visited 34 times. Profits secured land in Kensington, future sites for the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Science Museum, and the Natural History Museum,” (Oxford Dictionary of British History). The main attraction was the Crystal Palace, designed by Joseph Paxton, which also housed the Exhibition and was “a massive glass house, 1851 feet long by 454 feet wide and was constructed from cast iron-frame components and glass made almost exclusively in Birmingham and Smethwick. From the interior, the building’s large size was emphasized with trees and statues; this served, not only to add beauty to the spectacle, but also to demonstrate man’s triumph over nature.[1] The Crystal Palace was an enormous success, considered an architectural marvel, but also an engineering triumph that showed the importance of the Exhibition itself,” (Wikipedia).
17 4 / 2012
43 Years Ago
Sirhan Sirhan was found guilty for the assassination of Senator and former US Attorney General Robert Francis Kennedy thanks to the efforts of WWII veteran and prosecutor Lynn “Buck” Compton, who died a little less than two months ago.
Both Kennedy and Compton were great men.
