On this day, 3 May 1938, British colonial police massacred construction workers striking for a pay increase at the Frome sugar factory in Jamaica. Three were killed by gunshot, one by bayonet and at least 25 were injured. They also arrested 109 workers and charged them with “riotous assembly”, sentencing many to up to one year’s imprisonment. But the repression sparked widespread demonstrations and strikes by other workers across the island.
More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10227/Frome-Estate-strike-massacre
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Pictured: the factory https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=619704806869405&set=a.602588028581083&type=3
What was the point in animal planet airing those incredibly convincing fake documentaries about dragons and mermaids
If the aim was to convince incredibly gullible children that they were real it worked on me
I distinctly remember watching these and being like why is no one talking about this this is INSANE and then my mom had to explain that it’s fake
Sorry for believing animal planet. The channel that tells me facts about animals 99.9% of the time
To be completely fair to the dragon show:
It was titled Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real in North America
There’s a big disclaimer at the start of the program that it’s all fake
The narration calls them “the most incredible animals that never existed”
Most of it takes place in the distant past (there is a long segment of footage that takes place in the Cretaceous) and would have needed to be faked for the show anyways
There was an attached making-of program that showed how they made it all up, as well as a promotional magazine (which I own a copy of) that also shows how they made it all up
Pretty sure the website back in the day also included info about how they made it all up
The credits clearly list the VFX team and creature designers (one of whom was John Sibbick!), as well as who the actors were during the live-action segments
The back of the DVD makes it clear: “[Dragons] never existed in real life. But what if they had?”
The mermaid show was not this open about its true nature.
And yet I fell for the dragon one and not the mermaid one lmao
This video is all about the terrible and powerful generation of gods in Greek myth known as the Titans, and their battle for dominance over the universe. When it comes to Greek mythology, we are probably most familiar with the Olympian gods, the young family of divinities that included figures like Zeus, Athena and Hades. The Olympian gods were dominant over the universe and were responsible for aspects of the world like the skies, the seas, the sun, and agriculture.
The term Titan is used for two generations of these gods which can be fairly easily split between elder and younger titans.
