Notices tagged with history

"Most women think politics aren't lady-like. Well, I'm no lady. I'm a human being."

#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1921, Agnes Macphail, wins a seat in the Canadian House of Commons. She was the first woman to be a Canadian MP.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #Histodons

The rules at Willie Nelson's #golf course:
Par is what you set it at.
No more than 12 in your 4-some.
Missing balls are considered stolen. (No penalty.)
Bikinis Ok.

https://www.texasobserver.org/willie-nelson-golf-course-essay/

#sports #culture #Texas #music #history #Indigenous

Now is not the time for historical nuance

Phillip Bump and Clumsy Nazi Comparisons
#politics #history
https://warnercrocker.com/2025/12/05/phillip-bump-and-clumsy-nazi-comparisons/

Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".

#internet #TheWeb #OTD #OnThisDay #history

Sumerian birth certificate. A clay tablet found at the Sumerian city of Nippur in southern Iraq.

Estimated to be around 2000-1600 BC. Contains a birth announcement, its gender, the names of its parents, and a footprint of the newborn.

@menavisualss #globalmuseum #history #Sumerian #archaeology

Neglected Elegance: the beauty of once-grand buildings now abandoned and decaying.

As decades pass, the styles and tastes of the era are artfully captured in the #architecture and furnishings of contemporary buildings. Now, these abandoned buildings serve as time capsules, distilling the essence of a bygone era. I have spent 10 years exploring their beauty, searching out forgotten gems around the world

Explore more photos - https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/portfolio/abandoned-places/neglected-elegance/

#Portfolio #Photography #History #Abandoned

🏭Industrial masterpiece. In the 1930s, this behemoth machine was, at the time, the biggest gas engine ever built! Now it stands rusting and abandoned inside an old power plant somewhere in Luxembourg.

#AbandonedEngineering #Luxembourg #Photography #Industry #Industrial #Rust #LostPlace #Explore #History #Machine #Engineering

52 years ago
"Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers" opened its doors 🎸

In December 1973, Hilly Kristal opened the CBGB bar, which later became a springboard for countless punk and rock bands.

#punk #punks #punkrock #cbgb #omfug #bowery #newyorkcity #history #punkrockhistory

46 years ago
On December 1979, Keith Morris formed Circle Jerks as the Bedwetters along with guitarist Greg Hetson, bassist Roger Rogerson and drummer Lucky Lehrer.

#punk #punkrock #hardcorepunk #CircleJerks #history #punkrockhistory

The Gila National Forest is a 3.3 million-acre national forest in southwestern New Mexico. The national forest encompasses the world's first designated wilderness, the Gila Wilderness.

The Gila Cliff Dwellings were built by the Mimbres branch of the Mogollon people between the late 1270s and 1300. These dwellings served as habitation, storage, and ceremonial spaces for about thirty years before the Mimbres migrated elsewhere.

#NewMexico #travel #roadtrip #OptOutside #history #nature #daytrip

**Explaining the Tides Before Newton**

"_Astronomical explanations for tides, usually credited to Isaac Newton, can be traced to thinkers like Strabo and Pliny in the Classical era._"

🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/explaining-the-tides-before-newton/.

#History #Science #HistSci #Oceans #Physics

#Image attribution: Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Komos_site_baie_Cr%C3%A8te.jpg.

“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”

#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Her refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Might as well prepare for “Canadian” #Thanksgiving

Stolen Lands, Living Resistance: Indigenous Peoples and Palestinians in Solidarity.

https://thisweekinpalestine.buzzsprout.com/2373708/episodes/18271649-twip-251130-stolen-lands-living-resistance-indigenous-peoples-and-palestinians-in-solidarity

#NationalDayOfMourning #Indigenous #firstnations #usa #palestine #cdnpoli #canada #settlercolonialism #whitesupremacy #racism #history @democracy @socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #tiktok #democracy #antifa #progressive #maga #gaza #palestine #genocide #gazagenocide #dismantleZionism #stopaipac #iran #lebanon #holocaust

Dr. Shadia Abdrabo

Sudanese archaeologist

She in #France on a grant to build a database of #Sudan's #archeology sites, #museum collections, and #history #archives

It's a race against time. The war in Sudan is destroying the country's #heritage

“My heart was broken, you know? It’s not just objects that we lost. We lost research, we lost studies, we lost many things… I’m from #Nubia, from the north, an area filled with monuments, archaeological sites and ancient life"

https://apnews.com/article/sudan-museums-artefacts-war-archaeology-shadia-abdrabo-fa3849af561dd96f0612e395e75b84d8

The Forbidden Garden Of Leningrad By Simon Parkin — Review

"The untold true story of Russian botanists at the world’s first seed bank in besieged Leningrad during WW2 who faced a terrible choice."

#BookReview by @grrlscientist

#books #History #botany #Science https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/the-forbidden-garden-of-leningrad

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

On the left is the entrance to the Arsenale in Venice, as captured by me in 2024. On the right, is a remarkably similar scene, painted by Canaletto in 1732.
The Venice Arsenal gave its name to all stores of weapons and ordnance around the world, but it was originally created as Europe's first ship-building 'factory', in around 1100. The version we can see today is actually the 'New' Arsenal, built in 1320.

#Photography #Travel #Venice #History #Architecture #MeerMittwoch

Out today: Daddy doesn’t live in Clint anymore. He’s in an assisted living facility in the city, El Paso, but he visits for family gatherings. Each time, he asks his daughters “¿Mijas, y mi pueblo?” https://www.texasobserver.org/clint-father-eye-on-texas/

#WestTexas #border #culture #Thanksgiving #family #history

🟥 Kawasaki power™ 💿

#discatte_aesthetics (web, 1997)

#aesthetics #web #history

#OnThisDay, 25 Nov 1960, sisters Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal were assassinated for their political opposition to the Dominican dictator Trujillo.

In 1999, the UN designated 25 Nov as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in the sisters' memory. The day now marks the start of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #16Days #Histodons