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minho’s reaction after stylist said he looks like a grandma with that hair

What a beautiful song.

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“Drapery Studies”, c. 1545

 By: MICHELANGELO….

can you give us more lafayette facts???? id like to know more about him and you seem to know what youre talking about

Ahh thank you!! I’ve loved him for years so I have a strangely large amount of knowledge about him and I’m happy to share it! <333

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Lafayette Fun Facts: American Revolution Part Two 1778-1781

Lafayette returned home to France on February 12, 1779

He was greeted as a hero!!!

But King Louis XVI still put him under house arrest to show other nobles they couldn’t just disobey his orders

Lafayette did not abide by the house arrest lmao

He frequently met with Benjamin Franklin and became a diplomat for both France and America

He also sought the command of the French forces that were to set sail for America

But command was given to Rochambeau, who’d been fighting in wars since before Lafayette was born! 

Lafayette was heartbroken and embarrassed that he, who knew the American army so well, was not given command of the French Army in America

While he was home he was with his wife, Adrienne, and they mourned the loss of their first child, Henriette, who had died in Spring 1777

He also got a portrait of Washington done based off of an American one he already had

He was seriously obsessed with getting portraits of Washington

He absolutely idolized the man

In Spring 1780 Lafayette set sail for American again

He had gone to the King’s Court in his American uniform to prove a point: that he’d been denied a place in the French Army, so he was taking up his one in the American Army again

America was super excited to have Lafayette back!

(While he was gone he missed one of his close friend’s, Alexander Hamilton, engagement!!) 

Lafayette at first acted as a go-between for Washington and Rochambeau, but he proved to be too forthright (this is a theme for him)  for the job and ended up accidentally insulting Rochambeau 

They all thought they would be attacking New York City once the French Fleet arrived

That plan started to look less and less likely, and they turned their attention to the southern theatre of the war

Washington gave Lafayette command of some 1, 200 men, mostly light infantry, with the order to take them to Yorktown and harass Cornwallis 

Lafayette did an excellent job of it!!

Eventually he was told to really keep Cornwallis busy as the American and French forces secretly descended upon Yorktown, where Cornwallis was camped out

Cornwallis was soon trapped, and the Siege of Yorktown began 

Lafayette was the commander of the charges on Redoubts 9 and 10

Hamilton was under his command, and led the charge of Redoubt 9

They won the redoubts in under 20 minutes!!!

This was a crucial part of the battle

And Lafayette emerged from it a true hero

Two days after this, Cornwallis surrendered 

Lafayette, at the age of 24, had helped lead the American Army to victory

This forever endeared him to the American people, who at times over the course of Lafayette’s life, appreciated him more than the French

After this battle, Lafayette went back north with Washington before heading home, his service to America as a major general done

He embarked on his next mission: helping America and France become and remain great allies!

Thank you for reading!!! If you want more on Lafayette post-American Revolution let me know and I’d be happy to do a post on it! I’m always happy to talk about anything in early American history! <333

Three of Jupiter’s moons may have liquid oceans.

Aoede is a moon of Jupiter.

Be Glad You Don’t Have to Dust in Space!

Throw open the windows and break out the feather duster, because spring is here and it’s time to do a little cleaning! Fortunately, no one has to tidy up the dust in space — because there’s a lot of it — around 100 tons rain down on Earth alone every day! And there’s even more swirling around the solar system, our Milky Way galaxy, other galaxies and the spaces in between. 

By studying the contents of the dust in your house — which can include skin cells, pet fur, furniture fibers, pollen, concrete particles and more — scientists learn a lot about your environment. In the same way, scientists can learn a lot by looking at space dust. Also called cosmic dust, a fleck of space dust is usually smaller than a grain of sand and is made of rock, ice, minerals or organic compounds. Scientists can study cosmic dust to learn about how it formed and how the universe recycles material.

“We are made of star-stuff,” Carl Sagan famously said. And it’s true! When a star dies, it sheds clouds of gas in strong stellar winds or in an explosion called a supernova. As the gas cools, minerals condense. Recent observations by our SOFIA mission suggest that in the wake of a supernova shockwave, dust may form more rapidly than scientists previously thought. These clouds of gas and dust created by the deaths of stars can sprawl across light-years and form new stars — like the Horsehead Nebula pictured above. Disks of dust and gas form around new stars and produce planets, moons, asteroids and comets. Here on Earth, some of that space dust eventually became included in living organisms — like us! Billions of years from now, our Sun will die too. The gas and dust it sheds will be recycled into new stars and planets and so on and so forth, in perpetuity!

Astronomers originally thought dust was a nuisance that got in the way of seeing the objects it surrounded. Dust scatters and absorbs light from stars and emits heat as infrared light. Once we started using infrared telescopes, we began to understand just how important dust is in the universe and how beautiful it can be. The picture of the Andromeda galaxy above was taken in the infrared by our Spitzer Space Telescope and reveals detailed spirals of dust that we can’t see in an optical image.

We also see plenty of dust right here in our solar system. Saturn’s rings are made of mostly ice particles and some dust, but scientists think that dust from meteorites may be darkening the rings over time. Jupiter also has faint dusty rings, although they’re hard to see — Voyager 1 only discovered them when it saw them backlit by the Sun. Astronomers think the rings formed when meteorite impacts on Jupiter’s moons released dust into orbit. The Juno spacecraft took the above picture in 2016 from inside the rings, looking out at the bright star Betelgeuse.

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And some space dust you can see from right here on Earth! In spring or autumn, right before sunrise or after sunset, you may be able to catch a glimpse of a hazy cone of light above the horizon created when the Sun’s rays are scattered by dust in the inner solar system. You can see an example in the image above, extending from above the tree on the horizon toward a spectacular view of the Milky Way. This phenomenon is called zodiacal light — and the dust that’s reflecting the sunlight probably comes from icy comets. Those comets were created by the same dusty disk that that formed our planets and eventually you and the dust under your couch!

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