⭐ Youth Mentor/Recording Artist/Author ❤️ #CarterCares @ryan_foundation 🎥 Cameo available. DMs CLOSED. 🚫
Detroit, Michigan USA
Joined August 2011
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Thank you @HaroldPerrineau 🙌🏾🤩 for the words of encouragement! I'm watching S4E1 of @FROMonMGM right now! 😎 #FROM
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These are my great-grandfather Dr. Sam Aykroyd’s transcripts from the Seances he hosted in the Old Farmhouse. It was the spirit of his work passed down through the generations that inspired my interests. He’s the original Ghostbuster.
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John Goodman has a boisterousness that lights up whatever role he’s playing, whether a working-class dad, a one-eyed Bible salesman, Babe Ruth, the King of England, or Fred Flintstone. His latest part is the oafish, ailing President of the United States, in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s dystopian satire, “Digger,” starring Tom Cruise as a rootin’-tootin’ oilman who lays waste to Planet Earth. The film opened this month, to sharply polarized reviews, and is on track to lose some 250 million dollars, though it has its defenders, including The New Yorker’s Justin Chang. Goodman spoke with Michael Schulman about working with Cruise, his tumultuous years on “Roseanne,” his collaboration with the Coen brothers, and his lifelong quest to feel at ease in his own skin. Read their full conversation: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oy…
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In 1980, before marrying Prince Charles, 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer worked as a nursery teacher's assistant at the Young England Kindergarten in Pimlico, London; helping children with games, music, and daily activities. She also babysat, earning about £5 an hour. She spent afternoons cleaning homes, washing dishes, and cooking simple meals. She left the job shortly before her royal wedding in 1981, as royal duties required her full-time commitment. Her natural patience and warmth with the children at the kindergarten laid the foundation for her lifelong empathy and advocacy for youth...
Many people around the world know her as the iconic People's Princess, but few realize that her early adult years were spent working ordinary jobs, caring for small children, and living a surprisingly simple life in the city. During the late 1970s, Diana shared a cozy London apartment with flatmates and took real pride in her daily work at the kindergarten in Pimlico. She loved spending time with young children, devoting her mornings to reading stories, setting up art projects, organizing outdoor games, and helping young boys and girls learn through creative play. To supplement her income, she took on extra work as a nanny and babysitter for close family friends.
A former employer once spoke about Diana during those early London years: "She was absolutely wonderful with children. She was naturally soft-spoken, completely grounded, and had a genuine warmth that made every single child feel completely safe and cherished around her." This early experience working hands-on with little ones helped shape the deep empathy and instinctive tenderness that later defined her legendary charity work across the globe. Her initial introduction to the royal family was equally surprising and unexpected. Back in 1977, Prince Charles was actually dating Diana's older sister, Lady Sarah Spencer.
During a weekend shooting party hosted at Althorp, the historic Spencer family estate, Charles visited as Sarah's guest. That exact weekend marked the very first time Charles and Diana met, even though Diana was only sixteen years old at the time while Charles was nearly twenty-nine.
Reflecting on that initial encounter years later, Diana recalled the moment during an interview: "I remember thinking what a sad man he was. He came with his dog, and my sister was all over him, but I stayed out of the way. I was quiet, but I definitely noticed him."
Lady Sarah herself later joked about her key role in connecting the future royal couple, famously stating: "I introduced them. I'm Cupid!"
As time went on, Charles and Sarah ended their romantic relationship on friendly terms and remained good friends. A few years later, Charles began seeing Diana in a completely new light. Their paths crossed again at a country weekend house party, leading to a swift courtship that quickly captured the relentless attention of the global media and eventually led to their historic royal wedding in 1981.
Looking back at these lesser-known details of Diana's early life shows just how human and relatable her story truly was before the endless cameras and heavy crowns took over. Perhaps Diana was meant to walk among us to teach the world that unconditional kindness is our highest calling.
Even through all her personal pain and early loss, she never forgot her humble beginnings as a simple kindergarten teacher, never stopping her care for people or letting her heart stay open to those who needed her most.
Life threw a lot of hardship her way, but Diana showed that real kindness can't be washed away by sadness. That simple, genuine love is what people still remember her for today, inspiring us to keep choosing empathy no matter how difficult our own struggles might feel.
#archaeohistories
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This mailman started writing fake letters for a dog because he could not stand seeing her disappointed. Back in 2016, Australian mail carrier Martin Studer had one very enthusiastic customer, a golden retriever named Pippa, who every morning would wait by the gate for Martin, gently take the family’s mail from his hand, and proudly carry it back inside as if collecting the post were her official job.
On days when there was no mail, Pippa would be left waiting with nothing to collect, and Martin could not bear to disappoint her, so he started carrying blank postal cards in his bag and writing “Mail for Pippa” on them [1]. Whenever there was no real post, he would hand Pippa one of the fake letters so she could still complete her daily mission.
One mailman, one golden retriever, and zero real letters were needed to make her day. Sometimes the smallest act of kindness can mean everything to a dog
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In medieval times, the city of Bologna in Italy featured up to 180 tall tower structures built by wealthy families to display their social and economic power....
Medieval Bologna looked a bit like a stone Manhattan. Between the 12th-13th Centuries CE, the city’s richest families competed to build tall brick towers next to their homes. The towers served as lookouts and safe places to retreat during the violent feuds between rival families, but they were also status symbols. The taller your tower, the more powerful your family looked.
Older accounts claimed there were as many as 180 towers, though most historians now think the real number was closer to 80 to 100. Building one was a huge job that could take up to ten years, with foundations dug several meters deep and walls that got thinner as they rose.
Over the centuries, most were demolished, collapsed or were cut down to a safer height. The two most famous survivors stand side by side in the city center. The Asinelli Tower, finished around 1119, rises about 318 feet and has 498 steps to the top. Its shorter neighbor, the Garisenda, leans sharply and had to be shortened in the 1300s because the ground beneath it was sinking.
In 2023, the area around the Garisenda was closed off after sensors picked up worrying movement, and the city launched a major project to stabilize it.
The leaning Garisenda is mentioned in Dante’s “Inferno.” Dante, who spent time in Bologna, compared a giant bending down toward him to the tower as it looks when a cloud passes over it and it seems to be falling.
#archaeohistories
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The album cover and track list for Kid Rocks soon to be released album "HALFWAY 2 JESUS" is here!
“JAMES 1:17" (Jesus Is King) is available everywhere NOW! The official video premieres TONIGHT!
Video - youtu.be/JdXdQsP2_9M?si=AqOI…
All info and more available @ KidRock.com
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Charles Barkley confirms that this will be his last year on TV doing 'Inside the NBA'.
"I'm going to take a step back from public life...I've had the greatest life a person can have."
@wsfa12news @wsfa12sports
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Dolly Parton earned her first substantial royalty checks in the late 1960s, but she did not spend the money on cars, diamonds, or designer clothes.
Instead, after gaining national visibility on The Porter Wagoner Show and signing with RCA Victor, she put her savings toward buying a modern home for her parents in Sevierville, Tennessee. The gift answered a quiet promise Dolly made at eighteen when she boarded a bus for Nashville. Her family had spent decades inside a cramped Locust Ridge cabin that lacked electricity and indoor plumbing, relying on an outdoor privy and buckets hauled from a mountain creek.
For years, her father, Robert Lee Parton, had trekked down frozen hillsides in winter storms to carry heavy metal pails of water back to the house, his hands cracking and bleeding from the cold. The new home in town changed daily life completely, featuring indoor pipes, an electric water heater, and a porcelain bathtub.
Walking through the front door, Robert Lee stopped at the threshold of the bathroom. He hesitated to step onto the clean tile, worried his worn work boots would track dirt across his daughter's gift. Dolly took his weathered hand and showed him how to turn the brass handle. Warm water poured instantly from the tap without chopping firewood or waiting over an open flame.
The mountain farmer, known for weathering hard years without complaint, sat down and wept. Those early pay stubs, the deed to the Sevierville property, and the private conversations surrounding the purchase remain the foundation of how that family moved out of the mountain cold.
#drthehistories
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Happy 101st heavenly birthday to the legendary King of the Blues, B.B. King.
He was a major influence on Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many others.
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Michael J. Fox's heartfelt speech at the #Emmys earned a huge ovation and inspired tears in the audience.
"Accepting Parkinson’s didn’t mean I had to surrender to it. It just meant I had to do everything I could for everyone living with this disease," the actor said while accepting the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award for his “transformative contributions to Parkinson’s disease research and advocacy.”
“I set out to advocate for Parkinson’s disease and raise money. I found people to lead the effort for me and vowed to fund the best science in the world. I’m proud of the progress we’ve made to benefit Parkinson’s patients and families. We move closer to eradicating this disease forever."
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Meet Otter, the cat who wore a tiny helmet until he could have surgery.
Born with an incomplete skull, Otter wore a tiny protective helmet while he grew. He later underwent surgery to repair the opening with titanium mesh, giving him a chance at a normal life.
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Sara Bareilles is opening up about how a podcast conversation between Stephen Colbert and Anderson Cooper inspired “Home,” the opening song of her new album, “Good Grief”:
“It was very moving to me to hear two men discuss grief in great detail, and how the echoes of loss lived inside their physical homes as children and then as adults… One of them starts talking about just how important it is to tell the story. How important are the stories about our own lives, about what we lose, about just who we are — that’s what we have to gift each other. It became sort of a thematic cornerstone to the record.”
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Los Angeles artist Skid Robot became known for painting dreamlike rooms and homes around people experiencing homelessness.
By 2014, he had created more than 100 murals, turning sidewalks and city walls into imagined bedrooms, living rooms and other scenes of comfort. ❤️
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Edmonton once had a waterfall seven metres higher than Niagara Falls.
The water fell at a rate of 50,000 litres per minute but did not come from a natural feature. It came from a bridge.
This is the story of the Great Divide Waterfall.
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ALT A scenic view of a cityscape at dusk with a river running through it, featuring a bridge from which water is cascading down like a waterfall. The bridge is surrounded by lush greenery and a crowd of people gathered below. In the background, numerous high-rise buildings with illuminated windows are visible, creating a vibrant urban skyline.
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Two Klansmen drove around Mobile, Alabama looking for any Black person to kill. They found a 19-year-old walking to the store for cigarettes.
His mother spent the next six years dismantling the Ku Klux Klan in a courtroom. Michael Donald. March 1981.
They beat him, killed him, and hung his body from a tree on a residential street, across from a Klansman's house, so the city would see it in the morning.
Police initially suggested it was a drug deal.
It was not. It was a Klan retaliation for a jury's failure to convict a Black defendant in another case — a life taken at random to send a message.
Beulah Mae Donald refused every version of the story except the true one. She pushed until the FBI reopened it. One killer confessed. The other was executed in 1997 — the first white man executed in Alabama for killing a Black person since 1913.
Then she did the thing nobody expected. She sued the United Klans of America itself.
In 1987 an all-white Alabama jury awarded her seven million dollars. The Klan had no money — so it handed over its national headquarters building. The organization was finished.
A mother buried her son and bankrupted the Ku Klux Klan.
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Ben Wallace says the Pistons would’ve never won an NBA championship had they drafted Carmelo Anthony instead of Darko Milicic
“If we would've drafted Carmelo, I honestly don't think we would’ve ever won a championship. Melo would've wanted to play right away. It would've had the potential to disrupt the team chemistry. By drafting Darko, Darko was the guy who came in and said, ‘I can’t play on this team. I’m not ready to play on this team. Who am I going to play in front of?’”
“By him accepting his role, it allowed us to build and grow, get stronger and stronger, and eventually win a championship. If he would've came in saying, ‘I want to play. I need to be playing.’ He would've called his agent. His agent would've been calling Joe [Dumars]. Darko would've been talking to the media. The media would've come and asked those crazy questions. Then we would've had to say something crazy. They would've taken it back to Darko. The whole divide and conquer”
“If we would have drafted Melo, Tayshaun [Prince] would’ve never blossomed to be the type of player that he became. We won a championship off the back of the best block that I ever seen in my life. And I’ve blocked a lot of shots. That’s the type of grit and grind that that team was about”