History
I don’t know… when has fascism ever been a dealbreaker for all Americans? Was it during the Native American genocide? During slavery? Segregation? During the current genocide in Gaza? When? #USA #UnitedStates #fascism #history #slavery #segregation #israel #gaza #apartheid #genocide
"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel … it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags." Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre was published #OnThisDay in 1847. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre) #JaneEyere #CharlotteBronte #feminism #books #bookstodon #literature #history #OTD
Learn about the #history of the #openSUSE.Asia #Summit from beginning to #present. It's a fantastic #journey that continues along with a #cultural #tradition. <https://youtu.be/t7OASyKx63Q?si=VMp2KbYZlTg3j0P0>
"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel … it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags." Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre was published #OnThisDay in 1847. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre) #JaneEyere #CharlotteBronte #feminism #books #bookstodon #literature #history #OTD
700,000 years of Egyptian history finds enormous new home. NBC News reports: "The public has finally been allowed to visit part of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is the size of 80 football fields." <https://flip.it/kjvSCo> #Archaeology #Egypt #Museum #History #AncientEgypt
Archaeologists discover 12 skeletons at a buried tomb in Petra, Jordan. From @npr: "The remains were found beneath the Treasury, also called Al Khazneh, in the ancient city of Petra — famous as a landmark seen in the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." [https://flip.it/_uNuOZ](https://flip.it/_uNuOZ) #Archaeology #Petra #Jordan #History #Anthropology
The Black Panther Party was founded #OnThisDay in 1966. From a 2016 article commemorating its 50th anniversary: "The work of the Black Panthers remains important for several reasons. First, they remind us that the problem of police brutality has long been with us [...] Second, the BPP offers a good model of grassroots activism and ideology in practice." <https://jacobin.com/2016/10/black-panther-party-fifty-year-anniversary-founding> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party) #history #BlackHistory #BlackPanther #BlackPantherParty
in celebration of ward christensen's life and contributions to the BBS, i've uploaded the raw, uncut, extended three-hour interview @textfiles conducted with him in 2002 for the BBS Documentary warning: the files are 15gb each just as they came off of the camera tapes without further recompression. <https://pixeldrain.com/l/cFtC5YE4> these are the same interviews included in the BBS Documentary archive.org collection - unfortunately IA is still down at the moment. #bbs #history #retroComputing
Howard Zinn quoting Columbus' diary after first encountering native people on Hispaniola: "They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane... They would make fine servants.... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want." #Columbus #IndigenousPeoplesDay #colonialism #genocide #history
"Red Deer Cave People: Mysterious Humans With "Archaic" Features Lived Just 14,000 Years Ago" #RespectForTheAncestors #archaeology <https://www.iflscience.com/red-deer-cave-people-mysterious-humans-with-archaic-features-lived-just-14000-years-ago-76371> #history
Also #OnThisDay, but in October 1940, Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator debuted in New York. "We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone." <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20> <https://libcom.org/library/great-dictator-speech-charlie-chaplin> via <https://mastodon.social/@workingclasshistory/113311136536087621> #history #film #antifa #antifascism #otd
“The most moral army in the world.” #israel #settlerColonialism #colonialism #apartheid #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #genocide #gaza #palestine #lebanon #middleEast <https://spore.social/@ayoub/113304991029030735> #history
The first live TV broadcast from an American spacecraft was performed by the Apollo 7 crew #OnThisDay in 1968. "It began with a view of a card reading "From the Lovely Apollo Room high atop everything", [a reference to 1930s radio broadcasts] [...] During the seven-minute broadcast, the crew showed off the spacecraft and gave the audience views of the southern United States." <https://youtube.com/watch?v=z8-M5Z-Ipro> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7) #OTD #space #history #nasa #LiveTV
The Beatles’ 1964 trip to America was a before/after moment in rock music history. And it will be chronicled in a new documentary from Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi. “Beatles ‘64” will be released in late November on Disney+ and feature never-before-seen footage of the band and the hysteria the members created at the height of Beatlemania. @Variety has more: <https://flip.it/IQiUuN> #Culture #Music #Entertainment #TheBeatles #RockMusic #History
#TIL about the British suffragette Margaret Travers Symons who, #OnThisDay in 1908 became the first woman to speak at the UK parliament. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Travers_Symons](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Travers_Symons) #OTD #history #women #WomensHistory #WomensRights #suffragette #feminism
OK, this happened to us, we promise. Driving through the suburbs one night, we saw a young woman in a white dress on the side of the road. We pulled over and asked if she needed a ride, which she accepted. After a short drive, she asked to be dropped off just past the gates of a cemetery. By the time the car stopped, she was gone. Vanishing hitchhiker legends are just the latest version of a folktale that may go back millennia — and continue to spread and evolve. Atlas Obscura explores the history of these classic creepy stories: <https://flip.it/.pzoi5> #Culture #Folklore #History #Halloween #ScaryStories
"The first American alarm clock was created in 1787 by Levi Hutchins [...]. This device he made only for himself, however, and it only rang at 4 am, in order to wake him for his job. The French inventor Antoine Redier was the first to patent an adjustable mechanical alarm clock, in 1847." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_clock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_clock) via <https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/g38300892/who-invented-these-everyday-items/?slide=2> #TIL #technology #inventions #history #AlarmClock
"On October 12, 1964, [engineer and electronic music pioneer] Bob Moog unveiled the first modular voltage-controlled synthesizer [...] What Bob designed was not wholly new, it sprung from a powerful new combination of existing ideas. The concepts, when combined with some elegant design choices, made a very powerful and revolutionary new system." <https://www.moogmusic.com/news/early-years-moog-synthesizer> #OnThisDay #OTD #music #history #MusicHistory #moog #BobMoog #synth
Violent protests in Martinique prompt airport closure and curfew <https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v69d4yzjjo> #France #Martinique #Colonialism #history
Canadians will be celebrating their Thanksgiving this weekend. Here, @thecollector explains the holiday's origin, traditions and more. Click the second link to discover what satirical site The Beaverton says is the most popular side in your province (we're "Some bullsh** from their home garden"). <https://flip.it/wU7519> <https://flip.it/CFkggd> #Canada #Thanksgiving #CanadianThanksgiving #History #Culture #Satire
100 years ago, Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine vanished when attempting to climb Everest with George Mallory, whose body was found in 1999. Last month, a team of climbers filming a documentary for @NationalGeographic found a preserved boot and foot, with a sock labeled "A.C. Irvine." Now, the search is on for the rest of Irvine's body — and the camera and undeveloped film he is said to have been carrying. "It could potentially help solve one of mountaineering's biggest mysteries: whether or not the pair succeeded in becoming the first people to summit Everest, 29 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top," write @BBCNews's Tessa Wong and Flora Drury. [https://flip.it/_4shbM](https://flip.it/_4shbM) #History @histodons@a.gup.pe #AndrewIrvine #GeorgeMallory #Everest #Mountaineering #Exploring #Photography #Documentary
DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville | Spain | The Guardian <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/11/dna-study-christopher-columbus-remains-seville-cathedral> #History
The fuckers (Israel) have attacked the UN *again* today. Third attack in three days. Who’s going to stop these fuckers? <https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/oct/11/middle-east-crisis-live-eu-israel-iran-lebanon-blog-news-updates-hezbollah-hamas-unifil> #israel #rogueState #pariahState #terroristState #IDF #IOF #warCrimes #settlerColonialism #colonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #UN #UNIFIL #history
New images show remarkable state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton’s ship | Antarctica | The Guardian <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/10/images-remarkable-preservation-ernest-shackleton-ship-endurance> #History
What's happening to archive.org? Is it the end of an era? Or, a sign that someone should put up an archive of Web Archive somewhere? #Archives #Archiving #WebArchive #WebHistory #Records #History #Internet
Barbado's PM SHUTS DOWN an ARROGANT Journalist Asking a Dumb Question! - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPiwH5vENnA> #Colonialism #ClimateCrisis #MiaMottley #history
Lily Ebert, the Auschwitz survivor who became famous when she tried to find the family of a soldier who saved her, has died at age 100. Ms. Ebert, whose mother and two sisters died in the concentration camp, set up a TikTok account where she shared videos of her Holocaust reflections. “I would talk for my own sake, and I would also speak for those I loved who hadn’t survived,” she wrote in her memoir. “And for all the millions of people I never knew who died with them, all over Europe, I want the world to never forget this terrible crime against humanity.” Here's more from @newyorktimes. [Story may be paywalled] <https://flip.it/AANphm> #LilyEbert #History #Auschwitz #RIP #InMemoriam #HolocaustSurvivor
Lily Ebert, the Auschwitz survivor who became famous when she tried to find the family of a soldier who saved her, has died at age 100. Ms. Ebert, whose mother and two sisters died in the concentration camp, set up a TikTok account where she shared videos of her Holocaust reflections. “I would talk for my own sake, and I would also speak for those I loved who hadn’t survived,” she wrote in her memoir. “And for all the millions of people I never knew who died with them, all over Europe, I want the world to never forget this terrible crime against humanity.” Here's more from @newyorktimes@flipboard.co. [Story may be paywalled] <https://flip.it/AANphm> #LilyEbert #History #Auschwitz #RIP #InMemoriam #HolocaustSurvivor
A fraught and ugly election period led to an attempted insurrection by anti-government conspirators, with the tacit and active encouragement of powerful men. We speak, of course, of the New York arson campaign in November 1864. Betsy Golden Kellem explains it all in this Atavist longread. <https://flip.it/37l8YK> #History @histodons #USPolitics #USCivilWar #AbrahamLincoln #Longreads
Sister Rosetta Tharpe died #OTD in 1973. "She was there before Elvis, Little Richard and Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. It was Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, who turned this burgeoning musical style into an international sensation." <https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE> <https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/544226085/forebears-sister-rosetta-tharpe-the-godmother-of-rock-n-roll> #OnThisDay #music #history #MusicHistory #WomenInMusic #BlackWomen #BlackHistory #RockNRoll
What's believed to be the most valuable shipwreck in the world has been lying at the bottom of the Caribbean sea for the past 300 years. The San José was discovered off the coast of Colombia in the 1980s, and ever since, there's been a battle over who owns it and its cargo, which could be worth as much as $18bn. The Colombian and Spanish states have laid claim to it, as have a U.S. salvage company and Indigenous groups in South America. Some archaeologists and historians also say it should be left where it is out of respect for the 600 people who died upon it. The case is now before the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Here's more from @BBCNews. <https://flip.it/tBaU1C> #History @histodon@a.gup.pe #Archaeology #Shipwrecks #Law #MaritimeLaw #SouthAmerica #Spain
What now? "[The industrialist Henry Ford] believed that Jews invented jazz as a plot to corrupt society. [...] As a result, he used his wealth to promote square dancing, through books and square dancing events. Ford also promoted square dance classes in public school, which were present in half of all American schools in 1928 as part of the standard physical education curriculum." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Western_square_dance#History_of_modern_western_square_dance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Western_square_dance#History_of_modern_western_square_dance) via <https://noc.social/@todayilearned/113273481758370176> #TIL #history #antisemitism #SquareDancing #HenryFord
“I do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, though he may have lain there for a very long time.” – Winston Churchill, UK prime minister and honorary US citizen (by act of Congress). Voted greatest Briton of all time in 2002 BBC poll. <https://anarcholatina.blackblogs.org/oh-no-you-dont-get-to-blame-netanyahu-against-germanic-bothsideism/> #colonialism #racism #apartheid #genocide #UK #USA #America #Germany #Israel #history
Sealed Etruscan sarcophagus found at Bisenzio – The History Blog <http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/71298> "An excavation at the Etruscan site of Bisenzio in central Italy has uncovered a rare sealed stone sarcophagus with rich funerary furnishings and an intact skeleton dating to the 7th or 6th century B.C." #History #Archeology #Etruria #Italy
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UK ‘resolutely committed’ to its overseas territories, says foreign minister | Foreign policy | The Guardian <https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/05/uk-resolutely-committed-to-its-overseas-territories-says-foreign-minister> #UK #Colonialism #FalklandIslands #Argentina #history
A surprisingly large part of my research of old German folk tales is trying to identify the places mentioned in these details. They are often not mentioned on Google Maps, although Open Street Maps frequently provides better results. But a particularly useful resource has been Arcanum Maps, which uses old survey maps from the 19th century or earlier as Google Maps layers - and these often do have period names for locations that have vanished from modern maps. This has been especially important for Silesia and other regions where German place names were common, but which now only use Polish names. If you are interested in historic maps, then check this site out! #cartography #history <https://maps.arcanum.com/>
UK agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius - YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnXB5LMuPKo> This was long overdue! But of course, the UK cares nothing for the people it evicted. #ChagosIslands #Mauritius #UK #Colonialism #history
Medieval IKEA church roof found on Dutch reclaimed land – The History Blog <http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/71248> "The beams date to the 15th century and were likely being transported by ship when they fell overboard or sank with the ship in the Zuiderzee, today a freshwater lake, but an open waterway on the North Sea in the 1400s." #History #Archeology
If you've ever wondered where the .io domain name comes from, it's this place (it refers to British Indian Ocean Territory). #Colonialism <https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/britain-to-return-chagos-islands-to-mauritius-ending-years-of-dispute> #history