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Frederick Douglass cited it.
So did Lincoln, FDR and MLK.
The Declaration of Independence has been a rallying cry in every major American crisis.
With its 250th birthday coming up, its promise that “all men are created equal” is again in the spotlight.
theconversation.com/declaratio…
#history #Histodons @histodons
Declaration of Independence’s promises ring out today as loudly as they did for Lincoln, FDR and through 249 years of US history
Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems and create new visions for the country’s future.The Conversation
BREECHES BIBLE. An edition of the Bible printed in 1598, wherein it is said that Adam and Eve sewed figleaves together, and made themselves breeches.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
The Misunderstood Roman Empress Who Willed Her Way to the Top
A fresh view of Galla Placidia, who married a barbarian and ruled when the world power fell into chaosTony Perrottet (Smithsonian Magazine)
Paul Laurence Dunbar elevated the Black experience through poetry that challenged, comforted, and confronted America.
His legacy remains foundational. ✊🏽📚
#History #BlackHistory #Poetry #Brewminate
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Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Black Experience
Discover how Paul Laurence Dunbar gave voice and dignity to the Black experience in the 19th century through powerful poetry that reshaped American literature.Matthew McIntosh (Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas)
“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”
#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Her refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#huntergatherer #anthropology #scarcity #society #history #sahlins #graeber #+
Just read @pluralistic 's article on the Eurostack, and de-Americanization.
Here's a brief piece on the topic I wrote 12 years ago, that has aged well.
web.archive.org/web/2016030405…
#foss #opensource #GNU #GNULinux #China #India #History #Tech #Software
New study unifies genetic and archeological evidence that humans arrived in Australia about 60,000 to 65,000 years ago.
abc.net.au/news/science/2025-1…
#History #Science #Australia #GeneralNews
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Jacinta Bowler (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.
Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
🇱🇧 An 1920s grand theatre, somewhere in Lebanon. This once-beautiful venue is now little more than a shell due to decades of civil war damage.
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#History #Photography #Abandoned #Lebanon #1920s #Architecture #Urbex #UrbanExploration
1920s Grand Theatre, Lebanon - Obsidian Urbex Photography | Urban Exploration | Abandoned Places
The 1920s Grand Theatre was once a thriving cultural venue in Lebanon. Now it is little more than a shell due to decades of civil war damage.Obsidian Urbex Photography
Learning Some Greek — Grammar Basics
Greek grammar basics: My suggestions for learning some Greek to make your travel easier and more rewarding.Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
"History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans, ranging from ostracism to death. Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."
Will Teague on #AI (#GenAI / #ChatGPT) and #history education.
huffpost.com/entry/history-pro…
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."Will Teague (HuffPost)
Pecans weren’t always holiday pie royalty 🥧
They spent thousands of years being traded, poached, ignored and reinvented. But they’re nutritious and versatile and even went to the Moon on Apollo missions (yes, literally 🚀)
theconversation.com/how-pecans…
#Thanksgiving #history #Histodons @histodons
How pecans went from ignored trees to a holiday staple – the 8,000-year history of America’s only native major nut crop
Pecans are a truly American nut: They grew on George Washington’s estate, and they flew to space on an Apollo mission.The Conversation
#OTD 50 ago, Spain’s dictator Francisco Franco died.
Spaniards are still healing from the scars of his regime, and dealing with the intergenerational trauma caused by an authoritarian regime reaching into the most intimate parts of life.
theconversation.com/50-years-a…
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50 years after Franco’s death, giving a voice to Spanish dictator’s imprisoned mothers
Women were often jailed for their association with anti-Franco male relatives. Behind bars, they suffered mental and physical torture.The Conversation
#OnThisDay, 19 Nov 1933, women across Spain voted for the first time.
Franco was in power from 1939, after the Spanish Civil War. Under his dictatorship only the heads of households could vote, radically reducing women's rights until after his death in 1975.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #SpanishHistory #Histodons
The Grand Canyon & the Kolb Studio, which was begun in 1906 by photographers Emery & Ellsworth Kolb. The Kolb's were hardcore canyoneers. They carried their early--big & heavy--photographic equipment all over the Canyon. Sadly, the building is now a gift shop & the Kolb brother's history has been relegated to a tiny closet featuring a couple of their photos & a short video about their lives.
#Canyon #Desert #History #NationalPark #Travel #RoadTrip #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
"We may not all be equally guilty. But we are all equally responsible for building a decent and just society."
- Ruby Bridges
On this day in 1960, Ruby Bridges walked into a New Orleans school and sparked change that still shapes classrooms today.
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#BlackHistory #BlackVoices #History #Histodons #USHistory #CivlRights #Education #OTD #OnThisDay
@xmuse_ #globalmuseum #history #Scotland
#OnThisDay, 13 Nov 1931, Democrat Hattie Wyatt Caraway is appointed as a US Senator for Arkansas.
The first woman to sit in the Senate for more than a day, she'd been selected by the party on the understanding that she would serve out her late husband's term and not stand for re-election in 1932.
Instead she stood again, and remained a Senator until 1945.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Happy birthday to Kathleen Hanna, American singer, pioneer of the feminist punk riot grrrl movement, lead singer of the feminist punk band Bikini Kill, frontwoman of Le Tigre in the late 1990s, born this day 1968 in Portland
📸 Allison Michael Orenstein
#womenofpunk #kathleenhanna #riotgrrrl #history #otd
#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1906, British composer Ethel Smyth's opera 'The Wreckers' opens in Leipzig. Appalled by cuts made by the production, she removes all copies of the score from the orchestra pit to prevent further performances.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #MusicHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.
A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice. "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes," she said.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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I find this remarkable:
The Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving Mayan manuscripts, contains tables that give highly accurate timings of solar eclipses over more than 700 years, from 350 CE to the 12 century.
science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv… #history #science #astronomy
A Yucca brevifolia (Joshua tree) near the Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness south of Las Vegas. Here's a funny story: When German immigrants settled in the Mojave desert near the San Andreas fault at the base of the Sierra Pelona Mountains they called their settlement "Palmdale." They had heard that there were palm trees in SoCal. Having never seen a palm tree they mistook the Joshua trees for palm trees hence the town's name.
#Travel #Desert #History #Botany #Photography #Darktable
Today is the *#DayOfDestinyForTheGermans*
On @Wikipedia, there are many historic events listed for today, #9November.
I will highlight 4 that are relevant to #democracy:
1. 1918: #FakeNews leads 2 proclamation of 1st #GermanRepublic
2. 1923: Bloody suppression of the #Hitler's #BeerHallPutschPutsch
3. 1938: #NS-#NightOfBrokenGlass with #deportation of #Jews from 11/10
4. 1989: Fall of the #BerlinWall: beginning of the collapse of the #GDR's unjust regime
#knowledge #wissen #history #Geschichte #wissenschaft #science #physik #physics
Rätsel um blaue Aurora
Erste genaue Höhenmessung des seltenen blauen Polarlichts wirft neue Fragen auf 🤓
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Neues Rätsel um blaue Aurora - Erste genaue Höhenmessung des seltenen blauen Polarlichts wirft neue Fragen auf - scinexx.de
Das seltene blaue Polarlicht überrascht erneut. Höhenmessungen mit einer speziellen Hyperspektralkamera zeigen, dass das Maximum dieses Polarlichts inNadja Podbregar (Scinexx - Das Wissensmagazin)
