The first napkins were made of soft dough.
It was dough then bread for the Greeks. Romans introduced cloth.
https://historyfacts.com/science-industry/fact/the-first-napkins-were-made-of-soft-dough/
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If you haven´t read the book #OnTyranny by (ex-) Yale #History professor #TimothySnyder yet, now is certainly a good time.
"...when political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become even more important..."
Here is a new presentation of the 20 lessons, read by actor #JohnLithgow.
#OnThisDay, 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles
A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking #Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.
Women had established the peace camps at Greenham in 1981.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #PeaceProtests #Histodons
1968. Charleston, South Carolina.
Fannie Lou Hamer, who Lyndon Baines Johnson allegedly called “that ignorant woman,” speaks:
“People is not just walking out like they used to do in the past—walking up and shooting a man down and getting maybe two or three hundred people carryin’ out and lynching you…”
“But it’s in a more settled way now.
They let you starve to death. Not give you jobs.”
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In 1775, hundreds of enslaved men in Virginia fled their plantations and joined the British in exchange for a single promise: freedom. They formed the Ethiopian Regiment—the first Black fighting force of the American Revolution. This is the story of how they marched under a banner that read Liberty to Slaves, and what became of them in a single, searing year.
Caption: Troiani, Don. Brave Men as Ever Fought. Museum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia.
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#histodons #history #education
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S'mores are a staple of North American childhoods (and there are more than a few grownups who'll pop a marshmallow on a skewer every once in a while). Here, @NationalGeographic takes a look at their real history, which dates back to 1923, and a British Girl Guide leader with a ridiculously appropriate nickname.
#History @histodon #FoodHistory #Food #Smores #Culture #Lifestyle
Why Hannah Arendt left philosophy behind to face the world
Arendt thought 20th-century philosophy had become too passive and abstract. She called for “active thinking” that prepares us to live in the real world.
By Shai Tubali
https://bigthink.com/thinking/why-hannah-arendt-left-philosophy-behind-to-face-the-world/
Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she is never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
Be concerned. Be VERY concerned.
Only MAGA, the “Camp Auschwitz” clique, can say what anti-Semitism is.
Only MAGA, the “internal enemies and vermin” clique, can say what genocide is.
Trump Fires Biden Appointees, Including Doug Emhoff, From Holocaust Museum
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-doug-emhoff-holocaust-museum-biden.html
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"There were no books on web design, no best practices."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/
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
Amid anti-#DEI push, #NationalParkService rewrites history of #UndergroundRailroad
Since #Trump took office, the #ParkService -- an agency charged with preserving #AmericanHistory -- has changed how its website describes key moments from #slavery to #JimCrow
#whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #History #racism #lies #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #USpol
https://wapo.st/4jdXL8m
Justinian I’s Surprising Recapture of Rome: What Happened?
"Despite the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE, Justinian I made a concerted effort to save the city in the 6th century."
https://www.thecollector.com/justinian-i-recapture-rome/
Books about Justinian I at PG
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There are currently over 8 billion people on Earth. Yes, that’s a lot BUT there are about 1.4 billion insects for every human. Combined, they weigh about 70x more than all of us.
And insects have been around for over 350 million years. That's longer than the dinosaurs. Modern humans only showed up between 200-300,000 years ago.
We need insects to survive. They don't need us. This is their world. #science #history
I send thanks to the buyer from Washington who purchased a canvas print of
This Was Our Shangri-La -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/this-was-our-shangri-la-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
May the artwork take you to a place of deep thought and contemplation.
#art #artwork #history #mountains #nature #oregon #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #decor #women #sale #artist #spring #humanity #freedom
#art #history: imagine being such a gifted author that one of your most radical & inventive novels was mainly a product of automatic writing? best known, perhaps, for providing the screenplay that would become alain resnais' 'hiroshima mon amour' - which is not a bad place to start if you've not yet become acquainted with marguerite duras (born #otd in 1914) - she largely escaped acclaim outside of france. this is regrettable. (threadish)
#margueriteDuras #literature #illustration #france
'i'm a race woman.'
#art #history: billie holiday was born eleanora fagan on this day in 1915. as i usually project a sadness upon her that is likely not entirely accurate, i decided to sketch her this year in full smile.
there's a lot to know about her. you can read more below if that's your bag. she's worth the time, though. i'll tell you that for free.
#billieHoliday #music #illustration #musique #philadelphia #jazz
Emily Carr and Canadian Identity
At times at odds with her self and her role in society, Carr sought an identity in the landscapes and Indigenous cultures of the Pacific Northwest.
By: Emily Zarevich
#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
Meet the Prime Ministers: 10 Men Who Served Queen Victoria
https://www.thecollector.com/prime-ministers-served-queen-victoria/
Books about Queen Victoria at PG
While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons unknown to mankind” and caused the Great Depression.
Here’s the real history.
https://www.propublica.org/article/history-income-tax-history-16th-amendment-trump-tariffs-great-depression?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
18 Worst Time Periods You'd Never Survive In
BY CHRIS TURNER-NEAL
The Black Death, the Year without a Summer, and others.
https://www.grunge.com/1819742/worst-time-periods-youd-never-survive-in/
#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1968, Barbara Jane Harrison dies trying to rescue trapped passengers in an airplane fire at Heathrow.
She was later awarded the George Cross for bravery: she remains the only individual woman to receive the GC in peacetime.
#WomenInHistory #History #AviationHistory #Histodons
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