An abandoned pottery factory, somewhere in #France

This small French #pottery works thrived for decades. It remained modest, while competitors expanded and modernised. While this gives the ruins a certain quaint charm, it was certainly a major factor in their closure!

Inside, the upper floors have long rows of wooden racks stacked with hundreds of moulds. Heavy pieces were once moved on wooden carts along a rail system.

#Ceramics #Photography #France #History #AbandonedPlaces #Urbex

Started watching a really intriguing well-documented history video but at the halfway point it degenerated into conspiracy theories about freemasons accompanied by screenshots of ChatGPT answers as "proof" of the video maker's claims 🙄

How does someone begin so well and then go off into a totally unsupported delusional tangent? Was this an attempt at deliberate "flood the zone with shit" disinformation? Was the reasonable intro a way of softening people up for the crazy stuff?

#History #ConspiracyTheories

#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common in the UK.

They encircle the 9 mile perimeter fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested.

The Peace Camp at Greenham ran for nearly 20 years, and founded and run by women.

Watch news footage from the time: gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video…

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

Town Mansion, Belgium. One of the first grand (semi) abandoned houses I ever visited!

A mysterious man living (or squatting) in the attic gave me permission to enter and photograph. Outside a storm raged, lighting flashed and thunder shook the house. It was a memorable visit!

Built in 1912, neighbouring houses were lost to First World War bombing, leaving this one as a rare survivor.

#Belgium #AbandonedHouse #Mansion #History #Photography #History #Heritage

Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".

#internet #TheWeb #OTD #OnThisDay #history

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

Paul Laurence Dunbar elevated the Black experience through poetry that challenged, comforted, and confronted America.

His legacy remains foundational. ✊🏽📚

#History #BlackHistory #Poetry #Brewminate

brewminate.com/poet-paul-laure…

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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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

"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…

#HigherEd

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…
#history @histodons

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

#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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