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#OnThisDay, 28 April 1730 OS*, Anna Ivanovna is crowned the Empress of the Russian Empire.
The Privy Council picked Anna as she was widowed and childless. They imposed a set of Conditions through which they would control her.
She literally tore them up, and continued her uncle Peter the Great’s modernisation.
Like many Russian rulers, she could be cruel, vindictive and abuse her power.
*Old Style date
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory
Robert Reich:
"I thought Alito was history’s worst supreme court justice. But Thomas has outdone him. "
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
> The supreme court justice recently condemned an entire philosophy of government. How can we believe in his impartiality?
#SCOTUS #Thomas #Project2025 #TrumpVirus #corruption #justice #democracy #history #oligarchy
#OnThisDay, 27 Apr 1992, Betty Boothroyd was elected Speaker of the UK House of Commons. She was the first - and to date only - woman to hold the role.
A working class woman, Betty had been a dancer before working for JFK and becoming an MP. She went on to sit in the House of Lords.
Watch: buff.ly/38djBcP
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
#Scotland #history #legend #folklore #blackandwhitephotography
Byte Magazine Volume 00 Number 01 - The Worlds Greatest Toy : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Foreground p.20 RECYCLING USED ICs [theme Hardware] [author Mikkelsen] p.62 DECIPHERING MYSTERY KEYBOARDS [theme Hardware] [author Heltners] p.72 LIFE...Internet Archive
If you're not up on your #sports trivia:
A sub 2 hour #marathon has been a long time dream
It just happened in #London
#Kenya's #SabastianSawe
He just made sports #history
1 hour, 59 minutes, 30 seconds 😲
2nd place was also sub 2 hour!
#Ethiopia's #YomifKejelcha: 1:59:41
*And* 3rd place #Uganda’s #JacobKiplimo broke the previous record with 2:00:28 (2:00:35 set by the late great #KelvinKiptum at the 2023 Chicago marathon)
The weather was perfect
nbcsports.com/olympics/news/sa…
Sabastian Sawe runs first sub-2-hour marathon race, shatters world record in London
Kenyan Sabastian Sawe broke the 2-hour barrier in the marathon.Nick Zaccardi (NBC Sports)
40 years since April 26, 1986:
The worst #nuclear #disaster in human #history
You can still find traces of cesium-137 and strontium-90 in #Europe's wild mushrooms
#Soviet govt arrogance led to Chernobyl and that warped into Russian govt arrogance leading to the #UkraineWar
And #Russia endlessly threatens to nuke nations
"Ukraine calls on world to stop Russia’s nuclear blackmail on #Chornobyl anniversary"
ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/…
Ukraine calls on world to stop Russia’s nuclear blackmail on Chornobyl anniversary
In a statement marking the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged states that value stability to stop Russia’s nuclear blackmail. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
This is Black Thunder, a Sioux man taken around 1908. Across the 18th and 19th centuries, boundaries between Black and Native worlds were not fixed but lived through enslavement, escape, intermarriage, alliance, and shared confrontation with a nation expanding over both. Yet records rarely capture that complexity. The portrait names him but does not explain. A man made visible, a history only partially told. Library of Congress. Source: loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.…
What a Geisha Really Is and How Her Role Has Changed
What is a geisha? More than skilled entertainers in dance, singing, and refined conversation, they are custodians of traditional Japanese arts and culture.
thecollector.com/what-is-geish…
Books about geishas at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/…
#history #japanesehistory #culture
This story is amazing.
Giant octopuses of the Cretaceous were up to 19 meters (60 feet) long.
They were the apex ocean predators of their day, eating up plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.
And they were apparently quite intelligent.
Sorry we missed you!
science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc… #science #nature #history
