Notices tagged with history

Every issue of Byte magazine is now online. Old code. Old dreams. Still useful. The archive is a time machine. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-09 #tech #history #STEM

🛸 Buzludzha is a massive Communist monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Its Brutalist saucer design and 107m tower with a red star made it a landmark of the Eastern Bloc. Since 1989, harsh winters and neglect left the interior and its 25 tonnes of mosaics in ruins.

Now recognised as endangered heritage, the site is undergoing vital stabilisation. There has been preservation to protect the hall’s dome and mosaics.

#Buzludzha #Bulgaria #Photography #Brutalist #Abandoned #History

This story is amazing.

Giant octopuses of the Cretaceous were up to 19 meters (60 feet) long.

They were the apex ocean predators of their day, eating up plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.

And they were apparently quite intelligent.

Sorry we missed you!

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285 #science #nature #history

🌿🏚️ 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

On this day, 75 years ago, 16-year-old Barbara Rose Johns organized a 450-student strike that "helped lead to the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing segregated schools".

https://theconversation.com/75-years-after-she-led-a-student-strike-that-helped-end-school-segregation-barbara-rose-johns-now-stands-in-the-us-capitol-where-robert-e-lee-once-did-273531

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #WomensHistory #BlackHistory #segregation #racism #BrownVBoard #BrownVBoardOfEducation

Built by men dangled on ropes over sheer cliffs, Montana’s Going-to-the-Sun Road took decades to carve across the Rockies — and cost far more than money. Behind the breathtaking drive lies a story of Blackfeet dispossession, railroad ambition, and one of America’s boldest engineering gambles.

Web:
https://www.bigskytreasure.org/history/places/going-to-the-sun

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

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons

Happy Birthday to Ian MacKaye, American singer, musician, songwriter, record producer and frontman of  Minor Threat, Fugazi, The Teen Idles and Embrace, born on this day in 1962, Washington DC

#punkrock #IanMacKaye #hardcorepunk #history #punkrockhistory #otd

In 1970, Marshall McLuhan stated that “World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” – #Culture is Our #Business, p. 66.

#sensemaking #history #warfare

New in our electronic collection:

➡️ Comparative #Musicology: Evolution, universals, and the #science of the world’s #music

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191872303.001.0001

#anthropology #diversity #evolution #psychology #history #books #bookstodon #OpenScience #OpenAccess

Time in a twist.
British artist Alex Chinneck transforms a rigid antique grandfather clock into a fluid, knotted sculpture. A perfect collision of traditional craftsmanship and surrealism.
By #SteampunkTendencies
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces

https://www.usluck.com/813689/woman-sitting-on-a-beach-with-the-skyline-of-beirut-in-the-background-lebanon-c-1975-1070-x-955/ Woman sitting on a beach with the skyline of Beirut in the background – Lebanon, c. 1975. [1070 x 955] #History #HistoryPorn

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Donald Trump’s quote, “bomb them back to the Stone Age”, originally dates back to the Vietnam War, and using it is an epic moral misstep.

#war #meme #trump #stoneage #quote #wisdom #vietnam #fail #ethics #moral #teacher #education #lesson #history #usa #military #lost #warcrime #lie #prblem #politics #president #whitehouse #government #worldorder #smart #crazy #mad #maga #knowledge

George Washington, 1932
Oil on composition board

Alfred Henry Maurer

“Alfred Maurer made this shockingly modern, Cubist-style portrait of George Washington on the 200th anniversary of the president’s birth. It would be his last painting.”

#Art #Painting #Cubist #Museum #History #AlfredMaurer #GeorgeWashington

TIL that one of the names in Old Norse texts for the god Tyr (who got his hand heroically bitten off by Fenrir the Wolf) is...

... "Wolf Leftovers"

Norsemen, masters of the SICK BURN

#mythology #history #Vikings

In February 2004, American aircraft landed in Port-au-Prince and, by morning, Haiti’s elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was gone. Haiti isn’t an exception. It’s part of a longer history of the U.S. removing democratically elected governments when they conflict with U.S. strategic or economic interests.

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Image: Jean-Bertrand Aristide celebrates inauguration as Haiti’s first democratically elected president in decades, Port-au-Prince, 1991. Photo: Associated Press.