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Inside The Tunguska Event, The Astronomical Explosion That Rocked Russia In 1908
By Gabe Paoletti
The largest impact event in Earth's recorded history, the Tunguska explosion occurred in the skies above Russia on June 30, 1908, causing massive destruction.
#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 2015, Loretta Lynch is confirmed as Attorney General of the US – the first Black woman to hold the post. It's exactly 143 years after Charlotte E Ray became the first Black woman lawyer in the US.
Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
#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
Both the United States and Israel were shaped by political systems built alongside racial hierarchy and contested citizenship.
Each proclaimed democratic ideals while simultaneously managing populations excluded from the full promise of those ideals.
They are both profoundly unfree and racially riven societies..
That shared history matters.
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#iran #history #histodons #israel #blackmastodon
Image: Benjamin Netanyahu hugs Joe Biden at Ben Guirion Airport on October 18, 2023. AFP.
Monastère Mont G is a former Roman Catholic monastery. The impressive building was built around a century ago.
The architectural style is Neo-Gothic. The tall roof supports are decorated with Corinthian columns. The tall vaulted ceiling and supporting columns are made out of white and red sandstone. The red and white stones alternate to produce striped pattern. The pattern is oddly reminiscent, at least to me, of a candy cane 🍭
#Belgium #Abandoned #Photography #Urbex #History #AbandonedPlaces
“It is not a romantic Tale that the Reader is here presented with, but a real History. Not the Adventures of a Robinson Crusoe, a Colonel Jack, or a Moll Flanders, but the Actions of the HIGHLAND ROGUE…”
Rob Roy MacGregor was baptised #OTD, 7 March, 1671. Walter Scott’s novel made the Scottish outlaw internationally famous – & created the model for today’s roguish antiheroes
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#Scottish #literature #history #historicalfiction #romanticism #WalterScott
Wow, I never knew there was a hand-held LCD version of OutRun. 😃
https://www.igdb.com/games/outrun--2
#OutRun #LCD #HandHeld #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #arcade #computer #computers #computing #IT #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
🌿🏚️ Dream Palace, Portugal. Nature is overtaking this abandoned wine-making estate, while termites feast on the woodwork inside. Slowly, this once magnificent residence is melting back into the Earth.
But she is still beautiful even though the years have been unkind. Do you agree?
#Portugal #AbandonedPlaces #Explore #Travel #LostPlace #History #Nature #Decay
What we loved most about the hilltop towns in Italy was how much we could discover by walking their cobblestoned streets. And because many of the streets were narrow and winding, there were no cars, so we didn't have to jump to the side and hug the walls to avoid being hit.
We were free to wander, to stroll, to perambulate, and to discover something around every bend.
Under Wooden Arches art print -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/under-wooden-arches-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
"The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose."
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire
The Chronicler of Decline
Is it too late for our republic to learn from Gibbon’s epic history of Rome’s collapse?
by Ed Simon
https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-chronicler-of-decline
Gibbon at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/375
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.
She was later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons
The Colorful Story Of Maud Wagner, America’s First Female Tattoo Artist
By Kaleena Fraga
An aerialist in the circus at the turn of the 20th century, Maud Wagner broke barriers by both giving and receiving hundreds of tattoos.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/maud-wagner
Books about tattoos at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=tattoo
“It looks as if a Man could Toot himself to Heaven upon the Whore of Babylon’s Bagpipes”
—how 18th-century English satirists used bagpipes to signify Jacobitism & Catholicism, & the threat to the Establishment
🎵 10 March is International Bagpipe Day! A 🎶🧵
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#Scotland #Scottish #music #history #culture #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay #18thcentury #satire #Jacobites
#art #history: kiki!
all she needed was an onion, a bit of bread & a bottle of wine, but - in spite of her designation by leonard foujita as the life of montparnasse - she ended her glorious reign on the pavement in front of her flat, largely because of her penchant for drink & drugs. from precarious & painful beginnings, kiki carved a creative path through the jazz age as painter, singer, memoirist & muse.
alice prin, you live on.
#botd #kikiDeMontparnasse #illustration #paris
She rode through London in a coach pulled by eight white bulls, wore dresses that scandalized Samuel Pepys into near-incoherence, and published critiques of both Hobbes and Descartes. She also wrote science fiction 152 years before *Frankenstein*. Her name was Margaret Cavendish — the woman who kept writing the future while her century tried to close the door.
Looking at Christianity Objectively
Andrew Anglin
Total Fascism
April 10, 2013
Tor link:
http://stormer5v52vjsw66jmds7ndeecudq444woadhzr2plxlaa...
PDF uploaded.
Tags: #AndrewAnglin #Christianity #History #Race #Religion #Spirituality
New Open-Access ebook
Atlas of Scottish History to 1707
published by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Almost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts
https://books.socantscot.org/digital-books/catalog/book/25
#Scottish #history #IronAge #Roman #Picts #Scots #DálRiata #Vikings #Norse #AngloSaxon #earlymedieval #medieval #latemedieval #renaissance #earlymodern
"Crane slid her prototype onto a table holding a number of others, and retreated to the radiator. She was validated when one of the ad men the company hired picked hers out of the lineup and complimented it.
'This is the one we’re using, right?' he asked her boss. 'Oh no, that’s just something Meg did for talking purposes,' he replied. That line, especially, is burned into her memory."
https://thehustle.co/originals/the-incredible-true-story-of-the-at-home-pregnancy-test
#healthcare #PublicHealth #ReproHealth #WomensHealth #pregnancy #testing #history
40 years since April 26, 1986:
The worst #nuclear #disaster in human #history
You can still find traces of cesium-137 and strontium-90 in #Europe's wild mushrooms
#Soviet govt arrogance led to Chernobyl and that warped into Russian govt arrogance leading to the #UkraineWar
And #Russia endlessly threatens to nuke nations
"Ukraine calls on world to stop Russia’s nuclear #blackmail on #Chornobyl #anniversary"
Medieval monks in Easter Ross – and not the Hebridean island of Iona – may have created the intricately decorated 1,200-year-old Book of Kells, according to researchers. A new project will explore the possibility it was created at a monastery in Portmahomack where there was a workshop turning animal hides into vellum.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r4jxj0e3jo
#Scottish #literature #medieval #earlymedieval #history #BookHistory #BookofKells #arthistory #CelticArt
Watch "Why 'Metropolis', Fritz Lang's Silent Movie, Still Defines Sci‑Fi 100 Years Later"
Before 'Star Wars'. Before 'Blade Runner'. Before every futuristic city, rogue android, or AI uprising you’ve ever seen, there was 'Metropolis' (1927). This video dives deep into how Fritz Lang’s silent-era masterpiece built the visual language of modern sci-fi, shaped pop culture for a century, and predicted the world we live in today.
If you're not up on your #sports trivia:
A sub 2 hour #marathon has been a long time dream
It just happened in #London
He just made sports #history
1 hour, 59 minutes, 30 seconds 😲
2nd place was also sub 2 hour!
#Ethiopia's #YomifKejelcha: 1:59:41
*And* 3rd place #Uganda’s #JacobKiplimo broke the previous record with 2:00:28 (2:00:35 set by the late great #KelvinKiptum at the 2023 Chicago marathon)
The weather was perfect
https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/sabastian-sawe-marathon-world-record-london-two-hours
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.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/women-who-were-written-out-of-history-books?utm_source=RSS
Fanny Mendelssohn
This one might be interesting to anyone interested in computer gaming history.
I spent the last couple of weeks finally finishing a project I started for Bletchley Park about 20 years ago. Recreating the original MUD and MIST on a mirror of the original Essex University system that finally closed in 1991.
Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle wrote the first online multi-user game (MUD) on Essex University's DECSystem-10 in 1978 and it ran till I closed it in 1991. I diligently backed everything up so I could potentially recover it one day, but as far as I can see, all the DECSystem-10's went to the great scrapyard in the sky, my backups were mostly stolen when my first museum was stolen, and I had huge issues recovering the Essex BCPL compiler to compile what I had left when I finally got a decent TOPS-10 emulator running on a VAX for Bletchley Park.
One good thing about being an unemployable whistleblower is free time, so I finally hunkered down to some 90 hour weeks and built a software replica of the Essex system I think reflects it well. It's running on a KS10 not a KL10 but I had to let some things slip.
I put the latest known versions of MUD and MIST on it, and miraculously found ROCK too.
So, to meander to the point, if you want to see and relive exactly what online multi user gaming was like from 1978 to 1991, you can go to:
Or:
telnet telnet.dec10.uknet.net
(Port 2653 is available for ISPs that block 23)
And then follow the terse instructions from there.
In those days, you were generally faced with a "." prompt and left mostly alone, so for authenticity, I will leave it at that.
I should note that although they were, in their day, wildly popular games with a relatively huge community, this is a museum peice in snapshot-form at the moment. But I will leave them up and running to see what happens and as a useful reference. I wasn't going to, but Richard seemed happy to have MUD running, and former MIST players wanted it back, so...
Pop this a share if you know folks who might be interested.
** Update: New web client that works better.
** Another update - I added a telnet client.
Historically, the telnet connection is much more true to the traditional experience, where you were connecting to a working machine that didn't care about the MUD Guests, so there were no pointers at all. Just rumour and hearsay :)
If any of you Unix/Security people notice I messed up something, please tell me. I left "^], !sh" open on the telnet link for about 2 minutes and nearly had a heart-attack once I spotted it :D
#history #digital #retrogaming #retrocomputing #games #mud #muds #mist #rock #computers #emulation #emulators #vms #tops10 #museum #history #bletchleypark #simh #essex #uk #computinghistory #36bit #engineering #Linux #Security
(don't try this on a phone!)