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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

Mar 12

When I was 4 years old, I wrote a story about a family of rats who could not stand each other. I know, you'd expect a kid to write a lovely story about happy teddy bears or something like that, but at least the baby rats were cute...

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(I drew them too - one of them had a rubber duck pajamas).

I’m telling you this random, silly story just to say that I've always loved writing. As I ended up falling in love with a profession that requires me to use more of my visual than my writing abilities, I've had few...

... opportunities to do that over the years - but now that's changed, because this newsletter exists.

I won’t talk about mad rats here, unless they are involved in a historical event. It’s a place for us to share, interact and have fun.

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

Mar 11

#SXSW2022 update: the session in which we have been working for the last half-a-year while pouring our hearts into the goal of creating something amazing for you, is unfortunately taking place in a different form due to the war.

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@RTcreativeLab

Me and @RTcreativeLab, a group of very talented people, had the opportunity to work together in the last few years in several different projects that changed the way that people who have come across them think about history, not only showing that education and technology can...

... and need to walk together, but also spreading an anti-war and anti-violence message whenever we could. We always believed in the power of good stories, and I know we've made a difference. It makes me very sad to see this coming to an end.

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

Mar 8

Aimée Crocker is one of the women I'd like to highlight today. In the 1910s, the world press branded her the "Queen of Bohemia" for living an unfettered, sexually liberated, and non-conformist life in San Francisco, New York, and Paris. #InternationalWomensDay

Crocker refused to live a conventional life.

For example, she invited all of blue blood NY to a bday party for the Maharajah of Amber, laughed as the faint of heart in the crowd collapsed and screamed for the exits as they learned that the Maharajah was her pet boa constrictor.

Not to forget the day she orchestrated a drinking game with Oscar Wilde, and the day she went to the red-light district of Hong Kong by rickshaw, hung out at an opium den and paid to free an addicted slave prostitute.

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

Mar 4

Colorized by me: 🇺🇸Members of the 369th Infantry Regiment, better known as the Harlem Hellfighters, arriving in New York after fighting in World War I, 1919.

Print available: rdbl.co/3vEcS5u

The regiment's history, notably its mistreatment by American forces in France, has been thoroughly researched. At that time, many people in the United States, including military commanders, thought African Americans lacked the brains and guts to fight.

Their achievements and bravery, however, contrasted sharply with the racism and discrimination they experienced at home.

Read more in my newsletter (and please subscribe!): tcot.substack.com/p/and-they-tho…

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Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

Feb 23

This is one of the most iconic photos taken in World War II, showing US Marines raising the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima #OnThisDay in 1945.

Photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the moment. The original picture is now in the public domain.

Print available: redbubble.com/shop/ap/102555…

Before Rosenthal reached the summit of Mount Suribachi’s 554-foot volcanic cone, a team of Marines had already raised a small U.S. flag. Marine photographer Staff Sergeant Louis Lowery snapped the moment when the makeshift flagpole was erected, but...

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