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On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked and used to attack the U.S. – two planes were flown into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City and a third into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Because of the actions of the 40 passengers and crew aboard the fourth plane, Flight 93, the U.S. Capitol was saved. The four aircraft strikes killed nearly 3,000 people, the deadliest attack on American soil by a foreign entity.

Today the National Park Service, its volunteers, and its partners work to honor their sacrifice and to try to understand more fully the legacy of Flight 93 and the other events of 9/11. We will #NeverForget.

February 28th 1953: Watson and Crick discover DNA structure

On this day in 1953, scientists James D. Watson and Francis Crick discovered the chemical structure of DNA. They made the discovery of the double helix structure while building a cardboard model of the molecule in their laboratory at Cambridge University. Their model of DNA was based on an X-ray diffraction image taken by Rosalind Franklin and the fact that DNA bases are paired; due to her gender, Franklin is often forgotten in narratives of scientific history. Watson and Crick first announced their discovery to friends and it was not formally announced to the wider scientific community until April 25th. Watson, Crick and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries. The discovery was a groundbreaking moment for science, and lay the foundations for the research into DNA and the investigation of human genetics.

"Watson and Crick..."

"...discover DNA structure"

Stephen Hawking, modern cosmology’s brightest star, dies aged 76

Olympics Announcer: AMAZING! She was the first to land a quadruple french toast raincoat ollie oop backslide September 11th in competition since Lwaxana Vetrovya invented the trick in 1982!

But Knierim/Knierim are praised for “saving the US in the team event” by getting thE EXACT SAME PLACEMENT AS CHEN simply because “they weren’t expected to do this well”.

Every athlete at Pyeongchang is representing their country. They worked their asses off to get there. They are Olympians. They are worthy. All of them.

Olympics Opening Ceremony, Pyeong Chang 2018

The five children of Gangwondo, lead by the White Tiger into the Land of Peace, where they meet other guardians (a dragon, bird, turtle, and mantis).

Korean legend of the ‘Bear Woman’.

Are all you bitches ready for motherfucking Yuri!!! On Ice at the Olympics? IT’S TONIGHT, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!

Everyone better throw down for my homies Miu Suzaki and Ryuichi Kihara, who, posessing no chill whatsoever, saw there was a mega popular figure skating anime last year, and thought to themselves, “Hmm, why should not we, Japan’s top Pairs team, take this anime to the G D Olympics?” And TheY Did iT.