In 1941 a young couple in Amsterdam were married. One wedding guest with a camera shot a home movie of the bride and groom coming out of an apartment building. The camera pans up for a few moments, about six seconds. From this view we see several neighbors leaning out of their windows to watch the wedding party down below. One of these people is a young girl, twelve-year-old Anne Frank. This is the only known footage of her.
A year later Anne would receive her famous diary for her thirteenth birthday. Only a month afterwards, the Frank family and four others would be forced into hiding due to the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. It was here that Anne would write page after page of her thoughts in her diary, which she later intended to rewrite as a novel. Two years after going into hiding they would all be discovered by the police, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp.Â
Anne would die, days after her sister Margot, of starvation and disease in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp around February or March of 1945. It is believed that she died just weeks before the camp was liberated by British soldiers.Â
Today Anne’s diary has sold over 30,000,000 copies and has been translated into 67 languages. The young girl filmed at her window has become an international symbol of hope and faith in the goodness of humanity, even in the face of the most extreme adversity.
Associate’s degrees are awarded by community colleges and
Bachelor’s degrees are awarded by four year colleges. Four year universities
also offer advanced degrees (Master’s, Doctorate’s, etc.) that you can work
towards after completing your bachelor’s.
There are a few ways
that people approach community college:
They are completely undecided on a
major, so they try out a bunch of random classes for a year or two until they
figure out what they want to do. Then they transfer all their credits to a four
year school. They probably have a few major specific courses, credits for their
core curriculum, and electives on their transcript, but they also probably have
a good amount of credits that will end up not counting towards their degree at
all.
They don’t know exactly what they
want to major in, but they at least have it narrowed down. They sample classes
from a few related majors and work on their core curriculum. When they are
ready to transfer to a four year school they have all or most of their core
classes complete, have met most of the prerequisites for their major specific
courses, and have a few extra credits (some of which might count as electives).
They know exactly what they want
to major in so they complete their associate’s degree. They graduate from the
community college and when they transfer to a four year college they are
usually core curriculum complete, have taken all/most of the prerequisites for their
major specific classes, and have met their elective requirements.
In order to earn your
associates, you have to take more than just your core classes. You need to
know what you want to major in and complete courses in that subject, as well as
take elective courses.
If you take a few classes at community college, but don’t
complete your associate’s degree, when you transfer you’ll just have one degree
from the four year school after you complete your bachelor’s.
ok can we talk about the hogwarts â„¢ branded pyjamas like headcanon that all students received these pyjama sets after they were sorted
and everyone would wear these aDorAble slippers in the common room like LOOk at that lil badger and the lil danger noodle with its terrifying lil hissing tounge and the lil birb and lion with its cute Afro mane THIS IS TOO MUCH FOR ME TO HANDLE MY HEArt
Asteroid Day (also known as International Asteroid Day) is an annual global event that aims to raise awareness about asteroids and what can be done to protect the Earth, its families, communities, and future generations. Asteroid Day is held on the anniversary of the June 30, 1908 Siberian Tunguska event, the most harmful known asteroid-related event on Earth in recent history.
Because this post has exploded recently, and I’m seeing lots of questions/surprise in the tags, some info on Guinea Pigs:
Yes, they are born eyes open and fully furred and capable of running which is very much unlike the rodents most people are used to. These babies were literally born the night before, so they’re a little over 15 hours old in these photos.
This is in part due to their unusually long gestation period (~60 to 70 days as compared to about 20-23 days for a mouse or rat.)
They can fully wean just after 2 or 3 weeks.
When they’re little like this and they become excited or playful, they will popcorn around. I’m sure you can all imagine what that looks like, and how ridiculously cute these things are when doing it.
While these guys are about 90% head, almost the entire remainder is legs. They are very disproportionate babies. When you see them run you begin to wonder just where exactly their body is as there’s nothing but head and startlingly long legs.
@talesfromtreatment – are they born already able to VWEEP like the adults, or is that a later systems update?
The vocal cords are able to function at full volume from the get go. Piglets did not like being taken out of their carrier and let me know that they Had Opinions.
My all time favorite animal.
The red-bearded vulture.
The bearded vulture, or lammergeier, lives on a steady diet of bones (more specifically the marrow) and dyes its own feathers blood red.
Bearded vultures come in various shades, from pure white to orange-red. Soils stained with iron oxide give the birds their fiery appearance. Lammergeiers apply the dirt with their claws and then preen for about an hour to ensure a bright orange/red glow. They are also attracted to other red things, like leaves and red wood. Captive birds also partake in this behavior, which suggests the activity is instinctual, not learned.
The soil doesn’t have any practical purposes; it certainly doesn’t make for good camouflage (though the birds have no natural predators anyway). Scientists have noticed that the birds’ age and size are directly correlated to the intensity of color. It is theorized that the hue is a status symbol. More soiled feathers indicates that the lammergeier had the time and resources to find an adequate place to bathe; the brightest-colored vultures should have the most territory and knowledge of their surroundings. Interestingly, these baths are done in secret, so most of the information gathered has been through spying on captive birds.
Bearded Vultures are most commonly monogamous, and breed once a year. Sometimes, especially in certain areas of Spain and France, bachelor lammergeiers will join a pre-existing couple to create a polyandrous trio. Females accept secondary mates because it increases the chances of producing offspring and doubles her protection. The birds usually don’t lay more than three eggs, so they can use all the help they can get.
These giant birds can grow up to 4 feet tall. They have a wingspan between 7 and 9 feet and usually weigh around 10 to 15 pounds.
In other words, this bird is awesome and I love it forever.
This is it. This is the moment I have found my patronus. I love these vain fluff faces forever.
HE IS SMOOCHING THE DEATHMUPPET!!! I’m so jealous!
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 