Notices tagged with history

Taliesin (Frank Lloyd Wright's Home & School) near Spring Green in southwest #Wisconsin

Again picking away at my archive. Combining photos from two visits in 2012 & 2023.

Wonderful place to visit BTW! More to come...

https://richard.mdpaths.com/history/taliesin/index.html

#Architecture #Taliesin #FrankLloydWright #History

#Taliesin Two views of the guest house...

#Architecture #History

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.

“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.”

#OnThisDay, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.

#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #History #WorldWar2 #Histodons

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#Irish #History
You might want 2 add the #PotatoeFamine hashtag.

Only due to this new crop which originates in #Peru, was the #IrishPopulationExplosion possible: from approximately 2 million in 1700 to 8.5 million by 1845.

The algae (#PhytophthoraInfestans) that caused successive crop failures of the imported #Monoculture staple diet, led 2 a #PotatoDisease called #LateBlight. It originated in the #Toluca Valley in 🇲🇽 and spread from the 🇺🇸 2 🇮🇪.

https://www.sheetofhistory.com/2025/12/the-great-irish-famine-how-potato.html

Out now: 69% of residents believe the United States should never declare an official religion. Just imagine the mess if the government tried to foist one religious group’s beliefs on so varied a people.

Yet that’s effectively what Christian nationalists are attempting to do today. https://www.texasobserver.org/a-wall-thats-worth-defending/

#politics #USpol #news #constitution #history #books #bookstodon

Pike Landusky, a Missouri-born frontiersman, prospected gold in Montana’s Little Rockies, founding the town bearing his name. Killed in 1894 by outlaw Kid Curry, his discoveries shaped the region’s mining history and Indigenous land disputes for generations. For further reading see link below.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/people/pike-landusky

#WorldHistory
#USHistory
#MTHistory
#Montana
#History
#BSTS
#Fourosix
#MontanaToday
#histodons

Esther Kisk Goddard documented & organized her husband's work, filed key patents, and continued to promote spaceflight long after his death in 1945.

https://www.clarku.edu/news/2026/03/12/esther-goddards-fierce-devotion-to-her-husband-kept-his-memory-alive-and-built-a-legend/ #space #science #history

Robert Goddard on his rocket's first flight:

“It looked almost magical as it rose, without any appreciably greater noise or flame, as if it said, ‘I’ve been here long enough; I think I’ll be going somewhere else, if you don’t mind.'"

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/from-cabbages-to-craters-nasa-marks-one-century-of-modern-rocketry/ #history #science #tech

100 years ago today, March 16, 1926: Robert Goddard succeeded at the world's first liquid-fuel rocket flight, which lasted 2.5 seconds but proved it was possible. While solid-fuel black-powder rockets had existed for centuries, they weren't reliable enough for more than short-range projectiles or fireworks. Liquid fuel rockets opened the path to spaceflight: first space flight 18 years later in WWII, Apollo 11 Moon landing 43 years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard#First_liquid-fueled_flight #rocketry #space #history #TDIH

"2 seconds that changed the world: Robert Goddard launched the 1st liquid-fueled rocket 100 years ago today" by @Spacecom / Elizabeth Howell - Today is the centennial of Robert Goddard's famous experiment with a homebuilt liquid-fuel rocket on a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts which started the space age. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/2-seconds-that-changed-the-world-the-1st-liquid-fueled-rocket-launched-100-years-ago-today #rocketry #space #history #TDIH

Are you accumulating notes or actually creating something?

Semyon Vengerov gathered two million filing cards but never finished his dictionaries. What lessons does this Russian scholar offer for modern personal knowledge management?

https://writingslowly.com/2026/03/16/two-million-notes-and-no.html

#PKM #Zettelkasten #Writing #History #Notes

"Wyden in 1996 was the first federal official to be elected entirely by mail ballots. By the 1998 primary election, Oregon became the first state to have more ballots cast by mail than at polls, and a ballot initiative to move to 100% mail-in voting passed later that year. Oregon became the nation’s first all vote-by-mail state in 2000."

#USPol #Oregon #VoteByMail #History

From the AIP History Weekly Newsletter:

Article spotlight: Eun-Joo Ahn on the road to Mount Wilson Observatory

by Rebecca Charbonneau, American Institute of Physics

https://www.aip.org/history/article-spotlight-eun-joo-ahn-mount-wilson

#AIP #History #MountWilson #observatory #MountWilsonObservatory #California #science #HistoryOfScience #Astrodon

"I am not, as a rule, a two-finger typist; usually, my wrists rest where they please. This morning, the keyboard refuses me, and I cannot rest them, not even on the supposedly ergonomic padded strip. The instant skin touches surface, a bright sting strikes, then fades to a low hum." —Jan Steyn for The Dial

https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/gout-jan-steyn

#Gout #Inflammation #Pain #Disease #Translation #History #Language

#OnThisDay, 12 Mar 1994, the first 32 women are ordained as priests in the Church of England. Angela Berners-Wilson was the very first.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #EnglishHistory #Histodons

IWW: **This is Not a Protest**

https://industrialworker.org/this-is-not-a-protest/

Minneapolis shows us why we should organize at work My first protest as an adult was part of the wave of anti-Iraq War protests across the US in 2003. I was part of a crowd of over 100,000. It felt good to know there were so many of us, that I wasn’t alone in my … Continue reading "This is Not a Protest"

#AroundtheIWW #Culture #History #Opinion #Theory #Opinions #Organizing

#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.

Hansberry was a rising star when she died young of cancer. Her posthumous play, Young Gifted and Black, inspired her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk

#WomensHistoryMonth #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 – and the history of sign as a legal language

The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf people.

by Rosamund Oates

https://theconversation.com/the-deaf-blacksmith-who-married-in-1576-and-the-history-of-sign-as-a-legal-language-276686?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%209%202026%20-%203699037833&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%209%202026%20-%203699037833+CID_4dad2f3a225cc1558f32f04d20318006&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=The%20deaf%20blacksmith%20who%20married%20in%201576%20%20and%20the%20history%20of%20sign%20as%20a%20legal%20language

Sign language at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=sign+language

#books #literature #history