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#TodayILearned something I wouldn't have if I watched shows with closed captioning off. In the final episode of the the first season of #GhostsAU, Kate, the woman who can see ghosts, has pre-European ancestry.
Her boyfriend, Sean, has been dithering about proposing since Kate found the ring he'd hidden.¹ So Kate tells the ghosts “Well, just so you know, I'm going to propose.”
The ghosts don't want her to do that, so, babbling, they say “You can't do that! Yeah, you can't because of the patriarchy…”
To which Kate replies, “Well, I'm Blak and we're a matriarchy, so who's coming?”
Some research shows that #Blak is an accepted spelling for the original inhabitants of Australia. #TIL #Ghosts
[1] Actually, Sean did propose when Kate found the ring, but it was rushed and unromantic, so she told him to do it again, but to “make it super soppy, super cringe” and it's the do-over proposal that's been taking time. Sean had arranged a whole song and dance with the ghosts, which Kate proposing would make impossible.
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Today I learned that Errol Flynn was a Tasmanian.
#Hollywood #ErrolFlynn #Film #MovieStars #Tasmania #Australia #TIL #TodayILearned
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Die Brennhaare sind mit dem Gift Moroidin gefüllt, das bei Berührungen einen starken Juckreiz bis heftige brennende Schmerzen beim Menschen hervorrufen kann, die einige Tage, in Einzelfällen auch bis zu mehreren Monaten andauern können und nicht auf Morphin ansprechen.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australische_Brennnessel?wprov=sfla1
#australien #AustralischeBrennessel #Morodin #DendrocnideMoroides #Gympie #GympieGympie
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Quobna Ottobah Cugoano était un esclave affranchi d’origine ghanéenne, figure de la lutte abolitionniste.
Son ouvrage "Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery" (1787) ferait de lui le premier auteur anti-esclavagiste noir.
Conférence de Jennifer Pitts, Collège de France, 14 mai 2024 :
"Les Lumières et l’esclavage : Cugoano, Condorcet et les débats sur l’abolition à la veille de la Révolution"Richard Cosway, "Richard and Maria Cosway, and Ottobah Cugoano", 1784
#til #TodayILearned #QuobnaOttobahCugoano #Condorcet #AntiEsclavagisme #abolitionnisme #esclavage #CollegeDeFrance #JenniferPitts #Lumieres #XVIIIe #histoire