"Every so often, a cause ignites a sustained fury on college campuses across the nation. In 2020, it was Black Lives Matter. In 2011, it was Occupy Wall Street. In the 1980s, it was apartheid in South Africa.

Today, it’s the Israeli military campaign in Gaza."

Here are five books that shine light on a rich history of campus protests in the US that goes back to the 1960s – compiled by veteran journalist Steve Friess.

https://theconversation.com/5-books-to-help-you-better-understand-todays-campus-protests-229166

#campusprotests #books #history @histodons

The 5 to 10 millimeter long official first ancestor of scorpions, spiders, and horseshoe crabs from hundreds of millions of years ago was just described, named Setapedites abundantis, and is undergoing further study https://phys.org/news/2024-05-discovery-ancestors-scorpions-spiders-horseshoe.html

#science #history #arthropods #paleontology #scorpions #spiders #HorseshoeCrabs #evolution #biology #fossil #fossils

"In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public?"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/planetarium-history

#science #space #planetarium #history

A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

Crowds flocked to see an artificial starry sky projected onto a dome

^{Allison Marsh (IEEE Spectrum)}

#OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.

A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.

After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

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

Mother's Day just passed, but let's remember the Indigenous women who couldn't be mothers because of the stеriIizаtion programs led by the US like in the 1940s against Mexicans under California's 1909 Eugenics law or the 1970 law that stеriΙzed at least 25% of Native American women

#indigenous #history #women #uspol

Evolution of problem-solving throughout the ages! #StoneAge to #ComputerAge

#History #Evolution #Cartoon #Humor #Technology #ProblemSolving #ComicStrip #Throwback #TechHumor

Pioneering geologist & oceanographer Marie Tharp changed our understanding of the ocean.

When Tharp sought a geology job at Columbia in 1948, women couldn’t go on research ships. So she was hired to assist male grad students.

Back then, many scientists still assumed the bottom of the ocean was featureless. Tharp figured out how to use data to create sketches of the ocean floor. Her hand-drawn maps helped develop plate tectonic theory. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/marie-tharp #science #history

Thomas Willis (1621-1675) : Neurologist, Chemist, Physician

“Willis is not only credited to be the founder of neurology, but he is also seen as the father of comparative neuroanatomy, as his work, in particular Cerebri anatome and De anima brutorum, compare the human brain with that of other species in ‘search for specific human abilities in cognitive functions’ (Molnár, p. 334).”

https://stjohnscollegelibraryoxford.org/2024/05/13/thomas-willis-1621-1675-neurologist-chemist-physician/

#History #Science #STEM #HistSci #Anatomy #Neurology #Neuroanatomy #EarlyModern #C17th #17thCentury #Histodon #Histodons @science @earlymodern @histodon @histodons

#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Thomas_Willis,_RP-P-1910-415.jpg

Did you know that #Roman road design included #safety features?

In the ruins of #Pompeii, you'll notice small white stones interspersed with the large paving ones along the extensive roads.

Those white #stones are 'cats eyes', i.e. gems that have a single line of inclusion of crystals of another mineral inside.

Upon light reflective on them (from the #moon), they enable the walker to see that they are still on the right path!

https://youtu.be/74n6TgXbgAQ?si=56oPfp7mG1ENxflN

#history

Turns out? The #craft and #art of #woodworking and construction is a LOT older than previously thought. Like, older than homo sapiens older!

> 476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites early human history. https://www.earth.com/news/476000-year-old-ancient-woodworking-discovery-rewrites-early-human-history/

#history #prehistory #Paleoanthropology

476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites history • Earth.com

Ancient woodworkings found in Zambia suggest early humans built complex structures and were more settled than previously thought

^{Sanjana Gajbhiye (Earth.com)}

476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites history
https://www.earth.com/news/476000-year-old-ancient-woodworking-discovery-rewrites-early-human-history/

So, 175,000 years before Homo Sapiens arrived on the scene someone was notching logs together to build something. Huh.
#history

476,000-year-old ancient woodworking discovery rewrites history • Earth.com

Ancient woodworkings found in Zambia suggest early humans built complex structures and were more settled than previously thought

^{Sanjana Gajbhiye (Earth.com)}

“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.”

#OnThisDay, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for Black women.

Read a brief history of Truth’s life: https://wams.nyhistory.org/a-nation-divided/antebellum/sojourner-truth/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EqualRights #BlackAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

✨Brand New Episode – Rhetorical Fireworks ✨

It’s 403 BCE and representing the patricians, Appius Claudius fights with the tribunes of the plebs over the terms of military service in Rome's war with Veii.

Get ready for some rhetorical fireworks 💥🧨💥

#Podcast #AncientRome #History @antiquidons @histodons

https://partialhistorians.com/2024/05/09/episode-150-rhetorical-fireworks/

Episode 150 - Rhetorical Fireworks - The Partial Historians

The patrician Appius Claudius fights with the tribunes of the plebs over the terms of military service in Rome's war with Veii.

^{The Partial Historians}

#OnThisDay, 8 May 1946, Estonian teens Aili Jürgenson and Ageeda Paavel blew up a Soviet war memorial in response to Soviet destruction of Estonian war memorials. They served eight years in the gulag as punishment. In 1988 they were awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle to recognise their fight.

We only have a photo of Aili Jürgenson.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EuropeanHistory

When you look at the facts of the Trump indictment — not imagined hypothetical scenarios — there is no way the Constitution grants him immunity from prosecution.

(Samuel Breidbart, Brennan Center for Justice)

Two centuries of U.S. constitutional history make clear that Donald Trump is liable to criminal prosecution.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/spinning-hypotheticals-justices-forget-grim-facts-trumps-alleged-crimes

#Constitution
#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #History #Immunity #Justice #Crime #Elections

#ElectionInterference #Fascism #Fascist #Trumpism #Corruption

Spinning Hypotheticals, Justices Forget the Grim Facts of Trump’s Alleged Crimes

^{Brennan Center for Justice}

Why do we celebrate #EuropeDay on May 9?

On this day in 1950, Robert Schuman delivered a groundbreaking declaration that laid the foundation for the European Union as we know it.

Take a look to learn more about this visionary man who changed the course of European #history ↓

It stands as the crowning achievement of Western classical music.

200 years ago today, Beethoven premiered his instantly beloved Symphony No. 9 in D minor.

Widely praised as a groundbreaking composition, the symphony has and continues to influence artists across the cultural spectrum, and to spark joy.

https://theconversation.com/beethovens-ninth-symphony-at-200-revolutionary-work-of-art-has-spawned-two-centuries-of-joy-goodwill-and-propaganda-221734
#history #music #art #Histodons @histodons

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at 200: Revolutionary work of art has spawned two centuries of joy, goodwill and propaganda

^{The Conversation}

The Computers of Voyager

#history #interest #originalart #space #hackaday
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^GitLab

Very early #OnThisDay, 6 May 1944, Marguerite 'Peggy' Knight parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance.

Knight fought her way out of an attempted capture, and returned to the UK in September 1944.

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

#History is a great teacher.

“Cops raided Berkeley's occupation for South African divestment in April 1985, arresting 156. #Students reoccupied and declared a strike. 10,000 joined. Occupations started again in the fall. The camp was raided and rebuilt again until they won. This isn't over. It's barely begun.” #police

https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1786118846308569301?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

"The mentality in the 1960s was that women weren't smart or strong enough to be jockeys. But I proved that a woman could do the job."

#OnThisDay, 2 May 1970, Diane Crump becomes the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory

Why didn’t anyone tell me about this?

May we remember the workers and their sacrifice; the blood and sweat that poured into every inch of the Rideau Canal.

#canada #canadiana #canadianhistory #documentary #engineering #history #malaria #ottawa #rideaucanal

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.

^{Samantha Pak (JoySauce)}

#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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