"A Roman cavalry helmet unearthed as part of the most important Iron Age discoveries ever made in the UK has been replicated to show how it might have looked some 2,000 years ago."

https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2024/march/dmu-artisan-re-creates-roman-cavalry-helmet-for-iron-age-exhibition.aspx
#history #ancienthistory #romanhistory #ironage #ancientromans

Have you heard the story of #LXDE, and how it morphed into #LXQt?

You haven't!?

Enjoy it here! 😉

#Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #History
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@CarlG
#US #History

...root of all evil.

On the other hand, it is clearly the greed of plutocrats, be it in the form of feudal lords, multinationals (#BigOil, #BigTech, ...-》 #Technofeudalism) that has brought human society to the brink of extinction and caused mass-extinction for thousands of species that were intrusted to us, at least if you belong to any religion having originated in the Middle East.

//

#History #Legal

Inventive.

I recently took an "internet trip" down the bills of rights, #MagnaCarta, etc.
I realized that there is much more to it than is usually taught. It got too much, so I dropped it eventually.
(I think I was trying to track down the first bill that awarded the right to vote 🗳 in #AngloSaxon culture.)

A photo a student sent me.

Greetings from Aarhus, Denmark.

#history #vikings #scandinavia #fun #traffic @histodons #histodons

Regular Haunt

This old tower at Workington I get to a lot, always brings something different depending on the day.

#cumbria #fujifilm #photography #workington #harbour #history #blackandwhitephotography #landscapephotography #lakedistrict #urbanphotography #building #abstract #sunlight #monochrome #photographer

Via the #DailyBeast

#DonaldTrump’s #legal payroll is easily the largest and most diverse of any political figure in modern U.S. #history. But while most of the attorneys that #Trump’s various fundraising committees have paid over the years are a matter of public record, one of the top recipients still poses a mystery—with more than $8 million in legal costs going to an unknown firm, or firms, through what appears to be a corporate intermediary.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-legal-bills-are-hiding-an-dollar8-million-mystery

Since people are talking about Kent State, Ohio, 1970, it's a good time to talk about Jackson State, Mississippi, 1970.

Similar situation, except there was no active protest, just a bunch of students hanging out. The mayor of Jackson declared a riot and called in the pigs. Someone threw a glass bottle, not at the pigs, but they still opened fire. Phillip Gibbs, a student at Jackson State, and James Green, a high school student who was walking home from his job, were murdered by cops. Many others were wounded.

Left: photo of James Earl Green, age 17

Right: photo of Phillip Gibbs with his wife, Dale

#ACAB #BlackHistory #history @histodons @blackmastodon

https://www.jsums.edu/margaretwalkercenter/gibbs-green-50th-commemoration-exhibit/the-gibbs-green-tragedy/

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/2986/i-saw-all-the-carnage-jsu-remembers-gibbs-green-tragedy-in-virtual-town-hall

Today (23 April) England will be celebrating St. Georges Day.

A rather dubious character in history. I'm more a follower of St Edmund a King of East Anglia known as Edmund the Martyr - at least he was English - Unlike George.

The true celebration on the 23 April should be William Shakespeare who enriched the nation.

He was born on 23 April 1564 and died on 23 April 1616 - yes, his Birthday!

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0279839/

#history #Saints #education
#actors #writers #family #england

#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #Histordons

#Photos are our modern #memory.

#quote #history #photo

"The Computer Girls", published in Cosmopolitan magazine in April 1967 was originally brought back to public attention during @nensmeng's research for his book "The Computer Boys Take Over". For years only the first page was available online. Now the full article has emerged: https://archive.org/details/the-computer-girls-cosmopolitan-magazine-april-1967

http://thecomputerboys.com/

#Histodons #computer #history #SocialHistory #HistoryOfComputing

65th birthday today

Happy Birthday Robert Smith, lead guitarist of Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1982 to 1984 and continuous member of post-punk band The Cure since 1978, born on this day in 1959 in Black Pool, UK

📸 Tom Sheehan

#robertsmith #postpunk #history #otd

Born in 1750, Caroline Herschel worked as assistant to her astronomer brother William. But she also made her own discoveries of nebulae, stars & 8(!) comets.

In 1787, King George III employed Caroline as her brother's assistant, including a small salary that made her one of the first women paid for their contributions to #science.

Caroline submitted over 550 stars to the existing star catalog & received honorary membership in the Royal Society. https://www.space.com/17439-caroline-herschel.html #history

77 years young 🔥🍾💥

Happy Birthday to James Newell Osterberg aka Iggy Pop, designated the "Godfather of Punk, born on this day in 1947, Muskegon, Michigan

Photo by Rob Baker Ashton

#punk #punks #punkrock #iggypop #history #punkrockhistory #otd

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Marie and Pierre Curie refine radium chloride. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The Academy originally planned to award only Pierre and Henri Becquerel. Pierre insisted that Marie should also be included.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen

Many people have learned that horses first came to the Americas when Spanish explorers brought them here about 500 years ago.

But fossils show horses have been in North America for centuries, including during the Americas during the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago.

https://theconversation.com/horses-lived-in-the-americas-for-millions-of-years-new-research-helps-paleontologists-understand-the-fossils-weve-found-and-those-that-are-missing-from-the-record-223268
#history #science #evolution #horses

Horses lived in the Americas for millions of years – new research helps paleontologists understand the fossils we’ve found and those that are missing from the record

Horse fossils are abundant and widespread across North America. Scientists often use their long history to illustrate how species evolve in response to a changing environment.

^{The Conversation}

“I expect this will be the making of me.”

#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1927, Mae West is convicted on obscenity charges for her play 'sex', and starts a ten day jail sentence.

She's released two days early for good behaviour.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory

The never-ending conflict in the Middle East should be declared a World Heritage Site.

#WorldHeritageSite #unesco #conflict #quote #war #terror #politics #diplomacy #future #history #israel #palestine #fail #humanrights #problem #humanity #middleeast

#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967, Katherine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser physically trying to stop her.

She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory

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

#PhallusThursday

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

#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

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