Born in 1894, physicist Marietta Blau’s research led to a way to capture the tracks of speeding subatomic particles.

In 1937, Blau & Hertha Wambacher made a discovery that launched the field of particle physics. But she was forced to pause her work in 1938 bc of the Nazis.

Blau was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize but never won. Cecil F. Powell later built on her work & earned the Nobel Prize in Physics. https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/the-dark-stars-of-marietta-blau/ #history #science #historyremix

SPUNGE. A thirsty fellow, a great drinker. To spunge; to eat and drink at another's cost. Spunging-house: a bailiff's lock-up-house, or repository, to which persons arrested are taken, till they find bail, or have spent all their money:

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #crime #language #slang @histodons

According to the National Museum of American History, more than half of all nail salons in the U.S. are owned by Vietnamese Americans. JoySauce tells the story of why that's the case — it all started with actress Tippi Hedren.

https://flip.it/Pcz.AX

#AAPIHeritageMonth #History @histodons #Beauty #Culture

For more stories like this, follow @Joysauce

442: The story behind Vietnamese nail salons - JoySauce.com

Vietnamese-owned nail salons make up more than half of the industry in the United States, and it all started with actress Tippi Hedren.

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#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.

She's never captured.

She died in 2023, in New Zealand.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2
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Many Jewish Americans’ names are radically different from the ones their ancestors were known by in ‘the old country’.

But this taking of a new name for a new country was a choice – not one forced on them, as family lore often has it, by uncaring immigration bureaucracy at Ellis Island.

Here’s the history obscured by the quest for authenticity:
https://theconversation.com/jewish-americans-changed-their-names-but-not-at-ellis-island-96152
#JewishHeritageMonth #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth #History @histodons

Jewish Americans changed their names, but not at Ellis Island

Thousands of Jewish immigrants and their children changed their names in America – but not at Ellis Island. The reasons are complicated and part of the Jewish struggle with their identity in America.

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New podcast episode! This week I talk to Susan Wands about the lives of Florence Farr and Ellen Terry—divorce! Affairs! Illegitimate kids! Careers!

The leader of the Golden Dawn and an actress, these ladies were so iconic that they may have inspired tarot cards

Streaming everywhere 🎧

#history #podcast #historypodcast #19thcentury #tarot

Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she is never captured. She died in 2011.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

#TIL about Internet Underground Music Archive, "the internet's first free hi-fi music archive", which "existed as FTP and Gopher sites, before the World Wide Web was widely used."

https://www.iuma.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Underground_Music_Archive

#history #internet #music #IUMA

"A Roman cavalry helmet unearthed as part of the most important Iron Age discoveries ever made in the UK has been replicated to show how it might have looked some 2,000 years ago."

https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2024/march/dmu-artisan-re-creates-roman-cavalry-helmet-for-iron-age-exhibition.aspx
#history #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ironage #ancientromans

Have you heard the story of #LXDE, and how it morphed into #LXQt?

You haven't!?

Enjoy it here! 😉

#Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #History
https://tilvids.com/w/g6SAr8Q24RhuQM9LUASLRQ

The History of LXDE (and LXQt)

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@CarlG
#US #History

...root of all evil.

On the other hand, it is clearly the greed of plutocrats, be it in the form of feudal lords, multinationals (#BigOil, #BigTech, ...-》 #Technofeudalism) that has brought human society to the brink of extinction and caused mass-extinction for thousands of species that were intrusted to us, at least if you belong to any religion having originated in the Middle East.

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#History #Legal

Inventive.

I recently took an "internet trip" down the bills of rights, #MagnaCarta, etc.
I realized that there is much more to it than is usually taught. It got too much, so I dropped it eventually.
(I think I was trying to track down the first bill that awarded the right to vote 🗳 in #AngloSaxon culture.)

A photo a student sent me.

Greetings from Aarhus, Denmark.

#history #vikings #scandinavia #fun #traffic @histodons #histodons

Regular Haunt

This old tower at Workington I get to a lot, always brings something different depending on the day.

#cumbria #fujifilm #photography #workington #harbour #history #blackandwhitephotography #landscapephotography #lakedistrict #urbanphotography #building #abstract #sunlight #monochrome #photographer

Via the #DailyBeast

#DonaldTrump’s #legal payroll is easily the largest and most diverse of any political figure in modern U.S. #history. But while most of the attorneys that #Trump’s various fundraising committees have paid over the years are a matter of public record, one of the top recipients still poses a mystery—with more than $8 million in legal costs going to an unknown firm, or firms, through what appears to be a corporate intermediary.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-legal-bills-are-hiding-an-dollar8-million-mystery

Since people are talking about Kent State, Ohio, 1970, it's a good time to talk about Jackson State, Mississippi, 1970.

Similar situation, except there was no active protest, just a bunch of students hanging out. The mayor of Jackson declared a riot and called in the pigs. Someone threw a glass bottle, not at the pigs, but they still opened fire. Phillip Gibbs, a student at Jackson State, and James Green, a high school student who was walking home from his job, were murdered by cops. Many others were wounded.

Left: photo of James Earl Green, age 17

Right: photo of Phillip Gibbs with his wife, Dale

#ACAB #BlackHistory #history @histodons @blackmastodon

https://www.jsums.edu/margaretwalkercenter/gibbs-green-50th-commemoration-exhibit/the-gibbs-green-tragedy/

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/2986/i-saw-all-the-carnage-jsu-remembers-gibbs-green-tragedy-in-virtual-town-hall

Today (23 April) England will be celebrating St. Georges Day.

A rather dubious character in history. I'm more a follower of St Edmund a King of East Anglia known as Edmund the Martyr - at least he was English - Unlike George.

The true celebration on the 23 April should be William Shakespeare who enriched the nation.

He was born on 23 April 1564 and died on 23 April 1616 - yes, his Birthday!

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279839/

#history #Saints #education
#actors #writers #family #england

#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #Histordons

#Photos are our modern #memory.

#quote #history #photo

"The Computer Girls", published in Cosmopolitan magazine in April 1967 was originally brought back to public attention during @nensmeng's research for his book "The Computer Boys Take Over". For years only the first page was available online. Now the full article has emerged: https://archive.org/details/the-computer-girls-cosmopolitan-magazine-april-1967

http://thecomputerboys.com/

#Histodons #computer #history #SocialHistory #HistoryOfComputing

65th birthday today

Happy Birthday Robert Smith, lead guitarist of Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1982 to 1984 and continuous member of post-punk band The Cure since 1978, born on this day in 1959 in Black Pool, UK

📸 Tom Sheehan

#robertsmith #postpunk #history #otd

Born in 1750, Caroline Herschel worked as assistant to her astronomer brother William. But she also made her own discoveries of nebulae, stars & 8(!) comets.

In 1787, King George III employed Caroline as her brother's assistant, including a small salary that made her one of the first women paid for their contributions to #science.

Caroline submitted over 550 stars to the existing star catalog & received honorary membership in the Royal Society. https://www.space.com/17439-caroline-herschel.html #history