Notices tagged with history

British Infantry of the 4th Welsh Regiment, 53rd Division advance along a railway embankment during the capture of the city of Hertogenbosch - Netherlands, October 1944 #history #hertogenbosch #netherlands #britisharmy #railway #embankment #ww2 #worldwar2

An exhibition on the extraordinary creative output of the Golden Age of the #Mughal Court from the reigns of #Akbar #Jahangir & #ShahJahan (1556-1605 AD) is on at Victoria & Albert #Museum #London till May5, 2025

One of the items on display here is this c1600 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting of a 'Portrait of a European' from #Agra #India

#IndianHeritage #ArtHistory #Art #artoftheday #IndianHistory #Heritage #History #Museums #Painting #MughalHistory #MughalArt #MughalEmpire #MastoArt #Histodons

Addolorata Cemetery in Raħal Ġdid, Malta

Malta’s largest cemetery is a Victorian-era architectural masterpiece.#mausoleums #burialplaces #architecture #history&culture #cemeteries #section-Atlas
Addolorata Cemetery

If recent events have you feeling down and defeated, @thetyee wants you to know that it’s still worth fighting back. Alvin Finkel, author of “Humans,” writes about “the persistent spark of resistance throughout recorded history, in service of visions of more humane, egalitarian societies.”

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/21/Oppressors-Gonna-Oppress-Get-Tossed/

#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Anthropology #History

When will someone make a biopic about Maria Tallchief, America’s first prima ballerina? A member of the Osage nation, she was key to the success of the New York City Ballet, danced with Ballet Russe (which tried to make her change her last name to Tolchieva) and became the highest paid ballerina in the world. Tallchief once said a ballerina “takes steps given to her and makes them her own.” Learn more about her in this story from @TheConversationUS

https://theconversation.com/75-years-ago-maria-tallchief-made-the-ballet-world-reimagine-itself-and-find-a-place-for-a-native-american-prima-ballerina-241205

#Dance #Ballet #Culture #MariaTallchief #History @histodon @histodons #NativeAmericanHeritage #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

This could be an angry email today.

As per my previous tablet... 🤭

#life #human #history

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In 2017, Adam Shapiro noted [1] that "the ability to discover [...] is inseparable from the social, economic, and political circumstances within which scientists work. [...]
If scientists see themselves as fighting a battle against ignorance and #denial, they should know that those movements also have a history. [...] #science and objectivity can have a complex political #history, and [...] the discovery of facts can have a cultural and social basis—and “alternative facts” can still be lies"

Erbil Arab Quarter in Erbil, Iraq

At the heart of an otherwise bustling city lies some oddly abandoned and ignored historical ruins.#abandoned #history&culture #cities #section-Atlas
Erbil Arab Quarter

St. Paul’s Island in Malta

This tiny island is recognized as the site where St. Paul landed after a shipwreck in the first century.#christianity #history #statues #shipwrecks #saints #islands #section-Atlas
St. Paul’s Island

Victorian treaty talks begin, in historic first for Aboriginal people and Australian governments
By Nate Woodall and Joseph Dunstan

For the first time, an Australian government has sat opposite a collective of Aboriginal communities in a bid to negotiate a treaty, in recognition of their sovereign rights over land colonised without their consent.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-21/vic-treaty-aboriginal-indigenous-negotiations-jacinta-allan/104629870

#IndigenousAustralians #History #StateandTerritoryGovernment #NateWoodall #JosephDunstan

Il-Gardjola Guard Tower in Senglea, Malta

The eyes and ears of this tower keep watch over Malta’s Grand Harbor.#fortresses #history&culture #towers #section-Atlas
Il-Gardjola Guard Tower

APROPOS OF EVERYTHING

When is a photo an act of resistance?
"For families that just decades earlier were torn apart by chattel slavery, being photographed together was proof of their resilience. "

https://youtu.be/H1AuowPhTZM

from:
AMERICAN COUP: WILMINGTON 1898 tells the little-known story of a deadly race massacre and carefully orchestrated insurrection in North Carolina’s largest city in 1898 — the only coup d’état in the history of the US.

#USA #history #fascism

"The museum has removed references to Martin Luther King Jr., Japanese internment, Native Americans, union organizers, and birth control, because presenting American history honestly would make Republicans upset. "

Do not yield in advance. This is a bow to the far-right as much as the block on the endorsement of Harris in the Washington Post.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/its-going-to-take-a-constant-fight-to-preserve-the-historical-record

#whitewashing #fascism #farright #history

Roman Relief on Rue du Saint-Esprit in Luxembourg, Luxembourg

An ancient Roman relief beautifully preserved on the façade of a house.#sculptures #history&culture #roman #section-Atlas
Roman Relief on Rue du Saint-Esprit

Black and White House Museum in Hereford, England

This iconic Tudor home-turned-museum offers a unique glimpse into the everyday life of a prosperous family during the early modern period.#tudors #architecture #architecturaloddities #history #england #museums #section-Atlas
Black and White House Museum

#recommendation If you are interested in the work of Forensic Architecture and their ongoing research on #gaza, here's the direct link to the project website "Cartography of Genocide"

#data #analysis #science #history
#warcrimes #investigation

🔖 https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide

#apple #ipod #ipodclassic #ipodtouch #ipodshuffle #applemusic #applenews #itunes #itunesmusic #music #cds #cd #history #historyfacts #historynerd #historylovers #facts #factsdaily

The well-documented historical recount of Mishima's death (as opposed to the weirdly romanticised version peddled by Western scholars until a few decades ago) is not only a lot less savoury, but also filled with darkly hilarious details.

Way closer to the silliness of QAnon Shaman on January 6, than some grand mystical gesture of political protest.

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#Japan #history

While *technically* correct, in the faintest of ways, this old chestnut of orientalist history (I remember reading the same version, word-for-word, when I first heard of him, 30y ago) papers over some major steps between the "protest at Western subjugation of Japan" and "commits ritual suicide"…

The way more accurate short of it, is that Mishima offed himself after a comically bungled attempt at a military coup.

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#Japan #history