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Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?
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The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own government.
A big shout-out to @gbhnews for another incredible podcast series! I'm midway through "Scratch & Win", which documents the meteoric rise of the Massachusetts State Lottery, and it's pure nerd catnip: organized crime, gambling, power, machine politics, combinatorics, computer science history! I can't believe the interviews they managed to get (and that the closing song is sung by the former state treasurer). All props to the production and editing team. Ian, Isabel, Lacy, and everyone involved should be really proud. Waiting for the inevitable HBO miniseries!
https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/scratch-win
Quote from episode 1 transcript:
The Massachusetts Lottery had already rejected nearly twenty prototypes by the time they settled on a final design -- the one with the paper flaps. Only to have John Koza, this recently graduated wiz kid with a dimpled chin and a combover, show up and tell them it was flawed. So on the spot they made a deal. Koza could take home 50 tickets and do his best to prove they could be hacked.
#MApoli #Massachusetts #History #Lottery #Gambling #math #podcast #PublicRadio #GBH #PRX
Discover the Self-Taught Genius of Leonardo da Vinci
By Shiori Chen
https://mymodernmet.com/self-taught-leonardo-da-vinci/
Leonardo da Vinci at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629
I send thanks to the buyer from Alabama who purchased a framed print of
Lights of Matera -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/lights-of-matera-steve-henderson.html?product=framed-print
May the artwork take you to a place of peace and contemplation, a place of mystery and history that transcends trends and tech.
#italy #travel #europe #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #fedigiftshop #vacation #town #historic #history #sale #sunset #lights #peace
Aethelflaed, Queen of the Mercians: Brutal Leader or Peace-Seeker?
Lady Aethelflaed is an anomaly in the annals of Anglo-Saxon history, a woman whose power and political influence were officially and widely documented.
By Imogen Davis
https://www.thecollector.com/aethelflaed-queen-mercians-leader-peace-seaker/
#OnThisDay, 24 Mar 1944, Éliane Plewman is arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied France after six months operating as a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French resistance. A courier carried messages and equipment around their network.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory #SOE
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#art #history:
question: what's better than juliette greco?
answer: three juliette grecos.
the smoky-toned chanteuse & actor (interpreter of jacques brel & prevert, boris vian, charles aznavour...) was born #otd in 1927.
the OG boho certainly made a mark with her life. how could she not? jean-paul sartre declared her to have 'a million poems in her voice'.
#illustration #julietteGreco #music #cinema #france
The first #concentrationcamp. Decades from now this #photo will (hopefully) be in the #history #books
What Is the Story of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?
by Alexander Roberts
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a history of the Anglo-Saxon kings, and it has an interesting history of its own.
https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-story-anglo-saxon-chronicle/
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/657
and
Anubis: The Secrets of the Egyptian God of the Underworld
by Heather Reilly
https://www.thecollector.com/anubis-egyptian-god-underworld/
#OnThisDay, 15 Feb 1776, Hannah Cowley’s first play, The Runaway, opened at Drury Lane.
Cowley had written her play and sent it to David Garrick, Drury Lane’s manager, after sitting through a particularly rubbish play. Garrick cast a young Sarah Siddons in the lead.
Siddon’s character rails against the marriage vows: 'I won't hear of it, “love” one might manage that perhaps, but “honour, obey”!’
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons #BritishHistory
Not Gormenghast
https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/not-gormenghast-justin-farrimond.html
This is no flight of fancy in stone, no Gormenghast or literary folly, this chapel of ease exists because of single minded determination.
A kirk by a loch, but do you know where?
#PhotoOfTheDay #Church #Photography #Art #InteriorDesign #History #Heritage #Gormenghast #Stonemasonry #Arcane #Esoteric #ArtPrint
#OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive radio operator. The British SOE supported the French resistance. Radio operators ran the greatest risk of discovery as their position could be triangulated when they were transmitting.
Baseden was captured and sent to Ravensbrück.
She was the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #WorldWar2 #Histodons
How the Industrialization and Militarism of the Early 20th Century Helped Spread the Spanish Influenza
by Edna Bonhomme
Books about influenza at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=influenza&submit_search=Search
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/
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.
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
"There were no books on web design, no best practices."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/
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
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
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
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
