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https://podcastaddict.com/pontifacts/episode/57677130 #podcast #history #papacy
PONTIFACTS - 5. Anacletus - Podcast Addict
Listen to PONTIFACTS - 5. Anacletus by Pontifacts on Podcast Addict. Pope Anacletus... or Pope Cletus... or both? Our third pope has contributed quite a lot to the confusion of the early papal orders.Podcast Addict
This is just a reminder that, in 1631, Robert Barker in London misprinted a famous line of the Holy Bible, namely „Thou shalt commit adultery“.
The forbidden copies with the famous slip sold well, and a few survived in our catalogues. The edition was called the Wicked Bible afterwards. #bookhistory #histodons #history #bible
#OnThisDay, 18 Apr 1905, Baroness Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her activism.
As well as writing an influential novel, Lay Down Your Arms (1889), she founded the German Peace Society in 1892. In 1907 she was the only woman to attend the Second Hague Peace Convention, and warned that Europe was heading for war once again.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #EuropeanHistory #NobelWomen
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Date: early 1460s
Creator: Willem Vrelant, Flemish
Place: Bruges, Belgium
Size: 25.6 × 17.3 cm
Material: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/105VPY
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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The Last Judgment (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
The Last Judgment (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); early 1460s; Willem Vrelant (Flemish, died 1481, active 1454 - 1481); Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink; Leaf: 25.6 × 17.3 cm (10 1/16 × 6www.getty.edu
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a flying phallus! You can just spy the loop at the bottom that would enable this to be worn as a protective amulet.
Ah, Rome, the society where wearing a phallus bespoke good fortune, health, and warded off the evil eye.
#AncientRome #History @AimeeMaroux
#US #History #TerroristAttack #Fundamentalism
OffTopic:
These are some real pictures taken at the #Pentagon after the fatal #kamikazee attack of #Flight77:
https://www.military.com/history/25-intense-photos-pentagon-9-11.html
25 Intense Photos Captured at the Pentagon on 9/11
These vivid images offer a special glimpse into the events in and around the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.Military.com
#OnThisDay, 17 Apr 1964, Jerrie Mock touches down in Ohio to become the first woman to fly solo around the world. Press coverage of the time made much of her being a “housewife”. 🙄
Watch a newsreel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Pz2zGZ3To
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AviationHistory #AmericanHistory
Woman Flies Solo Around The World (1964)
Unissued / Unused Material -Title reads: "News Of Flight - Housewife Circles The Globe Alone". American voiceovered newsreel material.Oakland, California, Un...YouTube
Inside the world of hidden #Renaissance portraits: ‘It’s very playful’
A new exhibition at #theMet looks at the practice of hiding portraits 🖼 attached to other portraits and the many reasons artists 👩🎨 chose to be secretive with their work
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/16/hidden-renaissance-portraits-met
#art #glam #ArtHistory #history @histodons
Inside the world of hidden Renaissance portraits: ‘It’s very playful’
A new exhibition at the Met looks at the practice of hiding portraits attached to other portraits and the many reasons artists chose to be secretive with their workVeronica Esposito (The Guardian)
Africa & Byzantium - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition previously on view at The Metwww-metmuseum-org.translate.goog
I’m finally trying to clear out my dad’s stuff (which is extremely difficult) and I came across grandpa’s war souvenirs. There are lots of these, and also some ReichMarks, medals and pins, etc. It’s all very creepy.
I’d like to sell it to a history buff but not one with Nazi sympathies. #ww2 #nazis #history
"My comrades, who did far more and suffered more profoundly than I, are not here to speak. Because of this, I speak for them."
#OnThisDay, 16 April 1943, Special Operations Executive agent Odette Samsom is arrested by the Gestapo in France. The British SOE worked with the French resistance.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #WorldWar2
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#OnThisDay, 16 Apr 1912, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly a plane across the English Channel.
Quimby was the first American woman to receive a pilot’s licence and made her living doing exhibition flights in the US. She also made money as the advertising face of a grape juice. She died in July 1912 when her plane pitched forward at 1,000 feet and she was thrown out.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AviationHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Date: 1909
Creator: Edward Weston, American
Place: Los Angeles, California, United States
Size: 15.9 × 11.6 cm
Material: Gelatin silver print
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104M87
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[Edward Weston and Helen Cole at Griffith Park, posing for Kodak ad] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
[Edward Weston and Helen Cole at Griffith Park, posing for Kodak ad] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); 1909; Edward Weston (American, 1886 - 1958); Gelatin silver print; Image: 15.9 × 11.6www.getty.edu
https://podcastaddict.com/pontifacts/episode/57677131 #podcast #history
PONTIFACTS - 4. Linus - Podcast Addict
Listen to PONTIFACTS - 4. Linus by Pontifacts on Podcast Addict. Our second and lesser known Pope, Linus, had a big act to follow. But he was a talented preacher that drew many converts to the church, and irritated whole cities.Podcast Addict
https://theconversation.com/jackie-robinson-was-a-republican-until-the-gop-became-the-white-mans-party-181014
#JackieRobinsonDay #Baseball #History #Histodons @histodons #BlackMastodon
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
Like millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player Jackie Robinson was a republican. That changed when the GOP opposed voting rights for Blacks.The Conversation
#OnThisDay, 15 Apr 1960, Ella Baker convenes a conference of 126 independent student protest groups. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) forms as a result. SNCC coordinated and assisted direct-action challenges to segregation in the USA.
Baker was a civil rights activist for five decades, and advocated grassroots activism. She also criticised the misogyny she encountered within the movement.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #Histodons
Starting a new mini-series this coming week, exploring the history and construction of the Galloway Hydro Scheme. It was a bit of a trial to get going at first between weather and equipment issues, but it will be worth it!
PS, Could someone tell me about which would be the best Fediverse video platform for me to branch out into with my videos?
#history #video #YouTube #question #fediverse #engineering #20thcenturyhistory
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Date: 1899
Creator: Adolph F. Muhr
Size: 23.7 × 18.1 cm
Material: Platinum print
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/10436V
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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Kills Alone, Sioux (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
Kills Alone, Sioux (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); 1899; Adolph F. Muhr (American, died 1913), Frank A. Rinehart (American, 1861 - 1928); Platinum print; Image: 23.7 × 18.1 cm (9 5/16 × 7 1/8www.getty.edu
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Date: 1927
Creator: August Sander, German
Size: 11.3 × 16.2 cm
Material: Gelatin silver print
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/1042PK
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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[Untitled] / [Woman (working at a loom), Sardinia] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
[Untitled] / [Woman (working at a loom), Sardinia] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); 1927; August Sander (German, 1876 - 1964); Gelatin silver print; 11.3 × 16.2 cm (4 7/16 × 6 3/8 in.);www.getty.edu
Mycenaean terracotta jar ~ c. 1200–1100 BCE
Gaze into the hypnotic eyes of this ancient octopus and marvel in the Mycenaean artistry on display. The poor fish must be just as bamboozled really.
🏛 The Met
#AncientMediterranean #History
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Date: 1907–1943
Creator: Louis Fleckenstein, American
Size: 16.8 × 11.7 cm
Material: Toned gelatin silver print
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/106JKQ
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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[Portrait of a Woman in Silk Dress with Shawl] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
[Portrait of a Woman in Silk Dress with Shawl] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); 1907–1943; Louis Fleckenstein (American, 1866 - 1943); Toned gelatin silver print; Image: 16.8 × 11.7 cm (6www.getty.edu
Yes, there is an “old” Zealand. — #History Facts
https://historyfacts.com/world-history/fact/theres-an-old-zealand/
There’s an “old” Zealand.
Some “new” places have become so much more well known than their namesakes that most of us don’t even think to wonder what those namesakes are.megneal (History Facts)
#TIL The "Führerbunker" where Adolf Hitler cowardly committed suicide in 1945, is now a parking lot.
"This is how you properly honor history’s greatest monsters: not at all."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9WbOEWWBmg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerbunker
via https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/112259117642076024
The Site of Hitler's Bunker
In early 1945, as Allied armies advanced on Berlin and Nazi Germany lay in ruins, Hitler and his staff retreated to a bunker complex behind the former Reich ...YouTube
Very early #OnThisDay, 12 Apr 1944, Odette Wilen parachutes into France to work as a wireless operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supports the French resistance.
Wireless operators were at the greatest risk of discovery, as their position could be triangulated whenever they were transmitting messages back to London.
Wilen evades capture by minutes and escapes over the Pyrenees. She lives until 2015.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WorldWar2
#google #job #blog #news #history
♲ Digital Angel - 2024-04-10 22:22:14 GMT
Surprise: #Google has transformed itself from a #hipster #startup into a cheesy, normal #company, where you are now just as much of an #employee as anywhere else.https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-19-CultureChange/
#job #history #economy #internet #software #developer #coder #nerd #change #news #business #management #blog
https://podcastaddict.com/our-fake-history/episode/174298347 #history #podcast #japan
Our Fake History - OFH Throwback- Episode #4- Real Ninjas? - Podcast Addict
For this throwback Sebastian takes you all the way back to a first season favorite. Ninjas, Japan’s shadow warriors, have been a pop-culture staple for generations.Podcast Addict
Surprise: #Google has transformed itself from a #hipster #startup into a cheesy, normal #company, where you are now just as much of an #employee as anywhere else.
https://social.clawhammer.net/blog/posts/2024-01-19-CultureChange/
#job #history #economy #internet #software #developer #coder #nerd #change #news #business #management #blog
"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."
#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.
As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #Histodons
Ben Barres was a trailblazing transgender neurobiologist who promoted equity & diversity.
His pioneering research on glial cells changed science & he became the 1st #trans person admitted into the National Academies of Science.
Barres was a strong advocate for women, early career scientists & the #LGBTQ+ community at a time when few people openly discussed gender identity. https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2017/12/28/mourning-ben-barres-the-transgender-scientist-who-changed-neuroscience/ #history #science
Excerpt from his autobiography: https://stanmed.stanford.edu/ben-barres-autobiography-transgender-scientist/
Mourning Ben Barres, The Transgender Scientist Who Changed Neuroscience
“Ben was a remarkable person. He will be remembered as a brilliant scientist who transformed our understanding of glial cells and as a tireless advocate who promoted equity and diversity at every turn,” said Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhD, president of St…Matthew Herper (Forbes)
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@micchiato@mastodon.social The Court has a central function in the US form of government. It has again become corrupt and needs reform. Capitalism is now corrupt, but we should not discard production and consumption due to corruption.Newsie
https://podcastaddict.com/pontifacts/episode/57339771 #podcast #history
PONTIFACTS - 3. Peter - Podcast Addict
Our first Pope, St. Peter, is the rock on which the Catholic Church was built – but was this a wise decision? In this episode, we discuss Peter’s life and death, his habit of being a two-faced douche who wrecks parties, and whether or not we think he…Podcast Addict
I have been recommending #TurningPoint on #Netflix to everyone: https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81614129?s=i&trkid=14751296&vlang=en&clip=81760325
I also wonder if everyone should watch the 1983 movie #TheDayAfter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG-e52yAxfs
It reportedly deeply affected #RonaldReagan that year.
It was a big year, there was a lot going on.
@GreenFire @Free_Press
#history #ColdWar #KineticWar #news
'The Day After:' Nuclear-attack TV movie horrifies America in 1983 | WABC-TV Vault
On Nov. 20, 1983, almost 100 million terrified Americans were watching the horror of a nuclear war in the historic TV movie “The Day After,” shown on ABC. I...YouTube
#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.
#WomenInHistory #History #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
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Date: negative 1980; print 2011
Creator: Robert Mapplethorpe, American
Place: New York, New York, United States
Size: 34.9 × 35.1 cm
Material: Gelatin silver print
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/109GKD
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Dennis Morgan (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
Dennis Morgan (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection); negative 1980; print 2011; Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946 - 1989); Gelatin silver print; Image: 34.9 × 35.1 cm (13 3/4 × 13 13/16 in.);www.getty.edu
https://podcastaddict.com/our-fake-history/episode/173566566 #history #podcast saintpatrick
Our Fake History - OFH Throwback- Episode #128- Did St. Patrick Kill a Wizard? - Podcast Addict
There are few Christian saints more misunderstood than St. Patrick. Ireland’s patron saint is best known for driving the snakes off the island, but that isn’t even close to the most interesting thing about him. Both the legend of St.Podcast Addict