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Sandy Salisbury of Stratford Junior High School with Barbara Harrison, who hopes to be admitted to Stratford, at an integration dinner party, Arlington, Virginia 1958, photographed by #EveArnold. Stratford was the first public secondary school in Virginia to desegregate in 1959.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford_Junior_High_School
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#minoancivilization
We also casually inspected the mysterious #PhaistosDisc and theorised its meaning, which has puzzled archeologists for years: It might be a calendar! Specifically a calendar of tributes to be paid by the workforce to the elite society of uptown Knossos.
This is taking into account that the discus was revised a few times. In fact it's the first movable type system in history (1850-1600 BC), using stamps in wet clay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc #kphoto #khistory -
Few facts are known about the first European high culture created by the #Minoans. One thing is for sure though, they appreciated their #CatContent.
Here is a ceremonial bronze shield with a hissing cat head and a small clay figurine depicting a cat, presumably begging for food. #kphoto #khistory