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The Devil's Footprints - Devon's Diabolical Hoofmarks in the Snow - David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
Single, miles-long lines of hoofprints left overnight in the Devon snow were blamed on the Devil. The tracks went up house walls & over roofsDavid Castleton (David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen)
Out on Orford Ness last week, getting insights into the work of the rangers. I didn't have a camera with me, so just this phone shot.
#coastal #landscape #landscapes #seaside #LandscapePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #suffolk #orford #OrfordNess #NationalTrust #NT #NationalTrustEastOfEngland #history#monochrome #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #ruins @nationaltrust
Southern #Lebanon is actually northern #Israel - opinion
Source: m.jpost.com/opinion/article-82…
Indeed, back in biblical times, southern Lebanon was clearly part of the Land of Israel. In the Book of Genesis (10:19) it says, “and the borders of #Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as #Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Tsevoyim as far as Lasha.” Sidon, a city in Lebanon, is about halfway between the current Israeli border and #Beirut.
On that basis, the whole of America and Australia would have to be returned to the indigenous peoples, and their claims don't even date back to antiquity.
#war #history #politics #Bible #Religion #border #Problem #news #internationalRight #military
Michael Freund on southern Lebanon's history of belonging to the Jews
Historically speaking, southern Lebanon is in fact northern Israel, and the roots of the Jewish people in the area run deep.By MICHAEL FREUND (The Jerusalem Post)
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One alarming possibility about the USA potentially becoming an autocracy: extremist acts—many driven by fascist ideologies—could gain significant influence in other nations. Just as the US shapes global societies culturally, scientifically, politically, militarily, and artistically, its descent into authoritarianism might amplify similar movements worldwide, which is a trend since a long time and the far right movement is one of the biggest menaces to the democratic world.
When Hitler rose to power, fascism and tyranny was sparking across Europe. His regime was the most notorious fascist government in history. As nazi Germany became a dominant force that precipitated World War II, how did its relative success embolden fascist movements in other countries? References welcome.
#USPolitics #FarRight #Autocracy #Fascism #democracy #History #nazism #Germany
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New Orleans schools still separate and unequal 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education
On Nov. 15, 1960, four Black first graders desegregated New Orleans schools. One of them was Tessie Prevost, who died in July 2024 with the promises of the post-Brown era still unfulfilled.The Conversation
43 years ago
Social Distortion at the Cuckoo's Nest, Costa Mesa, California, 1981
Photos by Edward Colver
#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #punklegends #socialdistortion #mikeness #history #punkrockhistory
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The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
In 1811, a New Yorker was sentenced to 3 months in prison and fined $500 (about $12,000 today) for publicly insulting Jesus and Mary. The judge said only attacks on Christianity were punishable.
Much has changed since then but it wasn’t until 1952 that the Supreme Court ruled blasphemy was protected speech.
theconversation.com/what-the-h…
#freespeech #law #history #religion
What the history of blasphemy laws in the US and the fight for religious freedom can teach us today
The US has a long history of blasphemy laws, which reflect the complex fight for freedom of religion and speech.The Conversation
About damn time.
“Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.
Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in Maryland’s Dorcester County for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier general in the state’s National Guard.”
#history
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Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general on Veterans Day
Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman has been posthumously awarded the rank of general. Tubman was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war.AP News
A huge likeness of Benito Mussolini on the facade of the Palazzo Braschi in Rome in 1934. Behind him, the word si (yes) is repeated, reminding the population to approve the National Fascist party’s candidates in the March general election, the last under fascist rule.
Photograph: Brandstaetter Images/Getty Images
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#fascism
#Mussolini
#history
Art Direction: @thibautmathieuad
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The Romans loved a good wall. So much so that by the time of Hadrian’s imperial rule (117-138 CE), Rome had constructed over 10,000 kilometres of walls 😮
That’s longer than the distance between New York and Moscow!
#CheekyFacts #AncientRome #History
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By #EarthsTreasures
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces
Piccadilly Circus's Eros - Statue of Sin or Figure of Morality? - David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen
Eros is a surprisingly controversial London landmark. The statue - linked to prostitutes, naughty GIs and opium - may not even be of Eros ...David Castleton (David Castleton Blog - The Serpent's Pen)
A century ago, this woman, pioneering sex researcher Katharine Bement Davis, challenged the idea that respectable women did not – and should not – experience sexual desire, or have sex except to please men and have children.
But while Americans’ understanding of sex has improved over the past century, the “orgasm gap” between men and women is still very much with us.
theconversation.com/how-a-surv…
#womenshistory #history
How a survey of over 2,000 women in the 1920s changed the way Americans thought about female sexuality
A century ago, a pioneering sex researcher challenged the idea that respectable women did not – and should not – experience sexual desire or have sex, except to please men or have children.The Conversation
#AI #song for #Grammy
Source: grammy.com/news/2025-grammys-n…
#Record Of The Year
#Award to the Artist(s), Album Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s), and/or Mixer(s), and Mastering Engineer(s) if other than the artist.
NOMINEES:
"Now and Then" – The #Beatles
Giles Martin & Paul McCartney, producers; Geoff Emerick, Steve Genewick, Jon Jacobs, Greg McAllister, Steve Orchard, Keith Smith, Mark 'Spike' Stent & Bruce Sugar, engineers/mixers; Miles Showell, mastering engineer
...
The Beatles song was generated with AI.
#news #technology #Software #music #art #artist #history #future
2025 GRAMMYs: See The Full Nominations List | GRAMMY.com
The 2025 GRAMMY nominations have been announced. See the full list of nominees in all 94 categories ahead of Music's Biggest Night on Sunday, Feb. 2.www.grammy.com
Has anyone read "They Thought They Were Free"? I haven't, but I just saw it mentioned & looks like I should.
"They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 is a 1955 nonfiction book written by Milton Mayer, published by the University of Chicago Press. It describes the thought process of ordinary citizens during Nazi Germany.
August Heckscher, the chief writer of editorials of the New York Herald Tribune, wrote that the book "suggests how easy it is for human beings in any society to fall prey to a dynamic political movement, provided their lives are sufficiently insecure, frustrated or empty."[1] He stated that the book is simultaneously a discussion on ethics, on "how political tyranny is established", and on issues in Germany and the "German mentality".[1]"
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#AntifaAF #ArtFED #ResInt #History #Nazi #Germany #Fascism #Books
Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed the 1938 Kristallnacht attack on Hamburg’s Bornplatz Synagogue. The windows shattered and Torahs lay burning in the street.
Now, plans to rebuild the synagogue are dividing Germans: is it a symbol of Jewish revival or painful erasure of #history?
theconversation.com/kristallna…
#histodons #holocaust #jewstodon #krystallnacht
Kristallnacht’s legacy still haunts Hamburg − even as the city rebuilds a former synagogue burned in the Nazi pogrom
Questions about how to represent German Jews, past and present, have complicated plans to rebuild the destroyed temple.The Conversation
Interessiert an Geschichte in Filmen, Serien, Comics, auf Social Media, in Games, Podcasts oder VR?
Am Montag um 20 Uhr startet meine neue Online-Vortragsreihe mit tollen Gästen aus Forschung, Bildung & Öffentlichkeit.
Erstes Thema: Geschichte & Social Media mit @Kristin_oswald von #SocialMediaHistory und Ato Schweizer von #lautseit1525 @LMWStuttgart
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@histodons #PublicHistory #history @historikerinnen
Geschichte – Popkultur – Public History (Online-Vortragsreihe)
In dieser Vortragsreihe zu „Geschichte – Popkultur – Public History“ stehen moderne Formen der Geschichtsvermittlung im Zentrum.Eventbrite
#history #histodons @histodons
How a newspaper revolution sparked protesters and influencers, disinformation and the Civil War
The most politically divided time in US democracy coincided with a boom in new communications technologies, confrontational political influencers and widespread disinformation. It wasn’t 2024.The Conversation
The untold story of the world’s biggest #nuclear #bomb
Source: thebulletin.org/2021/11/the-un…
Designed to have a maximum explosive yield of 100 million tons (or 100 megatons) of #TNT equivalent, the 60,000-pound monster bomb was detonated at only half its strength. Still, at 50 megatons, it was more than 3,300 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that killed at least 70,000 people in #Hiroshima, and more than 40 times as powerful as the largest nuclear bomb in the US arsenal today. Its single test represents about one tenth of the total yield of all nuclear weapons ever tested by all nations.
#history #coldwar #usa #Military #explosion #weapon #sundail #project #science #apocalypse #endoftheworld #doomsday
The untold story of the world’s biggest nuclear bomb - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The secret history of the world’s largest nuclear detonation is coming to light after 60 years. The United States dismissed the gigantic Tsar Bomba as a stunt, but behind the scenes was working to build a “superbomb” of its own.Thomas Gaulkin (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
‘When emancipation comes, it was a shock to a lot of white people in this country to see formerly enslaved people so eagerly embrace democracy—embrace the right to vote. Eighty percent of Black males registered to vote immediately after emancipation and began using the ballot to create real opportunities and power,” says Bryan Stevenson.
“Violence became the primary tool for pushing against that Black participation.”’
#history #histodons #blackhistory
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smithsonianmag.com/history/the…
These Black Americans Were Killed for Exercising Their Political Right to Vote
In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to fight for equality and freedomTracy Scott Forson (Smithsonian Magazine)
Nielsen Grist Mill built in 1893 by Niels Hansen for Hans Peter Nielsen. The mill was powered by water from the Fremont River. Farmers would receive one sack of flour for three sacks of wheat. The mill operated until the 1930s. Apparently, the mill still contains its original equipment. It is on private property and not open to the public. (West of Torrey, Utah, 10/25/2024.)
#Abandoned #Mill #History #Farming #Photography #Darktable
Islands of the Feral Pigs | Hakai Magazine
In Hawai‘i, people, pigs, and ecosystems only have so much room to coexist, and the pigs exist a little too much.Hakai Magazine
53 years ago
A band called 'Death' was punk before punk was punk
Formed in Nov. 71' by the 3 Hackney brothers, they were influential pioneers of the genre and, along with Pure Hell, the first all-black proto-punk/punk band.
#protopunk #history #punkrockhistory
"The museum has removed references to Martin Luther King Jr., Japanese internment, Native Americans, union organizers, and birth control, because presenting American history honestly would make Republicans upset. "
Do not yield in advance. This is a bow to the far-right as much as the block on the endorsement of Harris in the Washington Post.
currentaffairs.org/news/its-go…
#whitewashing #fascism #farright #history
It’s Going to Take a Constant Fight to Preserve the Historical Record
The National Archives museum is backsliding into a sanitized mythological retelling of American history. Don’t assume the truth will prevail.Nathan J. Robinson (Current Affairs Inc)
The Emergence of Climate Politics
Tracing the Roots of Modern Environmental PolicyThe Climate Historian
