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12 years ago, everyone was making fun of Americans for that poll that 1/4 of surveyed people said "the sun goes around the Earth" instead of "the Earth goes around the sun". I didn't think the pile-on was appropriate for a bunch of reasons (e.g. both answers are wrong), but I also didn't like it because most people can't explain WHY we know that Earth is the one doing most of the movement.
I'm now in a position to teach this as part of a class. First I got my class to brainstorm a few reasons why one might believe in Geocentrism or Heliocentrism. They didn't come up with too much, but I was really happy about the point about "we don't feel the movement". (1/2)
#Science #Education #Astronomy #History
#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons
"Something that's struck me about the Trump Administration throughout its second term is its profound misunderstanding of power. Over and over again, Trump and his minions demonstrate that they think they have a monopoly on power and that history will unfold as their actions without any reactions, a literally inconsequential view as in 'there will no consequences other than the ones we impose.'"
~ Rebecca Solnit
#Trump #power #stupidity #ignorance #history
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Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence
What is power? It is at its most essential the ability to influence an outcome on any or all scales, to protect one's own at a minimum and to influence, even control others at a maximum.Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)
In February 2004, American aircraft landed in Port-au-Prince and, by morning, Haiti’s elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was gone. Haiti isn’t t an exception. It’s part of a longer history of the U.S. removing democratically elected governments when they conflict with U.S. strategic or economic interests.
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Image: Jean-Bertrand Aristide celebrates inauguration as Haiti’s first democratically elected president in decades, Port-au-Prince, 1991. Photo: Associated Press.
"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 #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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The Runaways' pose for a portrait on the beach in April, 1976 in Los Angeles, California.
Photo rights by Michael Ochs
#punk #punks #punkrock #womanofpunk #therunaways #history #punkrockhistory
A new U.S. refugee policy is prioritizing white South Africans, raising questions about how race has shaped who gets refuge today and throughout #history.
theconversation.com/us-refugee…
US refugee policy for white South Africans is part of a century-long effort to keep some English-speaking nations white
Australia, Canada and the US identified themselves as ‘white men’s countries’ in the early 20th century and coordinated immigration restrictions to keep them that way.The Conversation
#OnThisDay, 7 Apr 1141, Matilda is legally recognised as ruler of England in her own right. Her coronation never happens.
She was appointed heir by her father Henry I, then usurped by her cousin Stephen after Henry’s death. The civil war between the cousins is known as the Anarchy and lasted from 1138 to 1153.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory
#EnglishHistory #AnarchyInTheUK #Histodons
The Romans were innovators who created a type of early machine gun. The polybolus, was ahead of its time. It was capable of firing multiple metal tipped bolt projectiles in quick succession. Now the walls of Pompeii have been found to bear scars which are probably a result of this machine. Besieged by general Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 89 BCE during the Social Wars. There are also accounts of the machine from 3rd century BCE. popsci.com/science/ancient-rom…
Rome unleashed an ancient ‘machine gun’ on Pompeii
The polybolos was centuries, if not millennia, before its time.Andrew Paul (Popular Science)
Very early #OnThisDay, 6 Apr 1944, Lillian Rolfe and Violette Szabo separately arrive in occupied France to work for the British Special Operations Executive (SEO). Rolfe is a wireless operator, Szabo a courier.
Szabo returns to the UK at the end of April but goes back to France in June 1944 and is captured. Rolfe is captured in July 1944.
They are executed together, by shooting, in Ravensbrück concentration camp in Feb 1945.
#History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons #EuropeanHistory
At six, she wanted to cut her hair and disguise herself as a boy to attend university. At her teens, forty scholars were assembled to examine her at once. She was self-taught. She passed. When the Church made her stop writing, she signed her vows in her own blood. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: the Tenth Muse who wrote anyway.
#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories
updated intro post!
As a hobbyist, I enjoy #personalwebsites and the #indieweb , I'm learning #sewing and #quilting, and loving #gardening here in #Baltimore . I keep #plantedtanks and #fish
Professionally, I work in #education and #printmaking with a focus on #letterpress - but I don't post my #art here
I'm into living a very IRL-focused life, making new local friends, exploring #history and #architecture
My real internet home and blog are at
smallcypress.neocities.org
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A New DNA Revelation Rewrites The History of The Neanderthals in Europe. Via @sciencealert #Science 🔭🔬🧪🥼🧑🔬 #archeology #History #Anthropology #sociology www.sciencealert.com/a-new-dna-re...
A New DNA Revelation Rewrites ...
A New DNA Revelation Rewrites The History of The Neanderthals in Europe : ScienceAlert
An international team of researchers has found that Neanderthals suffered a major population crash that started around 75,000 years ago.David Nield (ScienceAlert)
☢️ Old Soviet-era gas masks are common when exploring former USSR countries. Part of intensive state-wide civil defence policies aimed at preparing the entire population for a nuclear, biological, or chemical attack during the Cold War.
Whole boxes stored in basements of hospitals and factories. Sometimes, you may come across a single mask in an unexpected location. These masks have startled me more than once, talking full-on jump scare!
#ColdWar #GasMask #Soviet #Spooky #History #USSR
#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1979, Jane Byrne wins the Chicago mayoral election. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and is sworn in on 16 April. She hires the first black woman to be a school superintendent in the city, and stops the police raiding gay bars.
Lori Lightfoot was the second woman to hold the post, from 2019 to 2023. She’s the first black woman and the first LGBT+ mayor since the post was created in 1837.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
RE: mas.to/@Gustodon/1163350790179…
I mean c’mon people. The racist 1994 Clinton #Crime Bill co-authored by #Biden, HRC calling Black teens “superpredators,” #Obama droning more people than any #POTUS in #history including an American teenager and Arabs innocently attending a wedding, HRC endorsing the illegal coup in #Honduras (supporting murder exactly like Kissinger himself would have), Obama vacationing while Black Missourians in Ferguson were being gassed by militarized #police, Biden deporting more Haitians than any POTUS in history and smearing our college students who opposed his #genocide in #Palestine “antisemitic.” Vichy #Democrats hardly repaired any of the damage of fascist #Republicans.
Ω 🌍 Gus Posey (@Gustodon@mas.to)
@Quasit@kolektiva.social Democrats have always repaired the damage caused by Republicans. Additionally, Donald has inspired a whole generation of younger Democrats who are eager to restore balance and eliminate every trace of this nightmare regime.Ω 🌍 Gus Posey (mas.to)
Cricketer Nance Clements putting on batting pads
Black and white photo (studio portrait) of Nance Clements in cricket attire putting on batting pads, 1937.
Paper, Photographic emulsion
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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#Art #History #Museum #ArtHistory #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random #Australia
It was designed by architect Victor Horta for scientist and professor Emile Tassel and built between 1892 and 1893.
By #LaBelleEpoque
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces
#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
#ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
Hitler cited Canada for Lebensraum justification in 1941: "I don’t see why a German who eats a piece of bread should torment himself with the idea that the soil which produced this bread has been won by the sword. When we eat wheat from Canada, we don’t think about the despoiled Indians"
activehistory.ca/blog/2015/01/…
Old Tomorrow’s Bicentennial: Don’t Think Motivation, Think Law
By James Daschuk Ok, first things first: I do not hate John A. Macdonald. At the risk of maddening some colleagues out there, I am wary of trying to contort huge historical events and consequences …Active History
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How Copper Smelters Accidentally Sparked the Birth of the Iron Age
Copper smelters once used iron oxide to refine copper, unintentionally advancing the path toward iron metallurgy.Pure Science News
#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.
When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to 'take up crocheting' instead.
Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CanadianHistory #Histodons
9 Women Who Were Written Out of History Books
From female scientists whose work was credited to men to ancient high priestesses, these women changed history—but were also often overlooked by it.
mentalfloss.com/history/women-…
Fanny Mendelssohn
9 Women Who Were Written Out of History Books
From female scientists whose work was credited to men to ancient high priestesses, these women truly changed history—but were also overlooked by it.Eden Gordon (Mental Floss)
🏛️🧬 Researchers found that the Durotriges tribe of ancient #Dorset practiced a social system called matrilocality.
Their analysis of 50 ancient genomes shows that women stayed within their home communities while men moved to join their wives' families. The discovery supports historical accounts of powerful British queens and implies that land and status were inherited through maternal lines.
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💁🏻♀️✨ BBC Knowledge Explainer: DNA seethis.tv/post/bbc-knowledge-…
#history #archaeology #genetics #science #ironage #britain #education #dna #research #sociology
Were Iron Age Women the True Rulers of Britain?
For centuries, our vision of Iron Age Britain was forged in a “Celtic” trope of hyper-masculine warrior elites ruling from the ramparts...Amy Irvine (History Hit)
#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.
At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #WorldWar2 #History #BletchleyPark #Histodons
Did you know Epstein's name & ancestors come from a town in #Germany?
It's even called Eppstein!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein
They even had "nobles" - the Lords of Eppstein.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of…
Wonder if they were also pedos? But I guess back then it was a common thing for nobles to be...
Just some of that #Epstein- #Etymology - #Trivia 🤷
#JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #Epstein #History #Random #Wikipedia #Wiki #Genealogy #Nobility #Ancestry #historical #weird
A German guard once asked O'Sullivan what was in her suitcase. She laughed. “A wireless, of course!”.
Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.
The SOE supported the French Resistance. Radio operators were at the greatest risk of capture as their position could be triangulated. O’Sullivan was never captured.
#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2
