Notices tagged with history

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.

#history

1/11

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

#OnThisDay, 11 Apr 1913, the Nevill Pavilion in Tunbridge Wells, UK, is destroyed by arson. No-one is injured. Suffragettes are suspected of starting the fire because their leaflets are found nearby, but no-one is ever caught.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

Belfast colour film footage from 1966. The camera operator seems to have been inordinately fond of buses!

6-minute video: https://youtu.be/J9PMisyNmnk

#Belfast #History #NorthernIreland

"I don’t wear men’s clothes, I wear my own."

#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1864, army surgeon Dr Mary Edwards Walker is captured by the Confederates during the US Civil War. She later receives the Medal of Honor.

As well as serving in the Civil War, and being a dress reformer who preferred to wear trousers, she was also a suffragist who declined to take her husband’s name when they married.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

source: wired.com/story/artemis-ii-mic…

#meme #software #outlook #microsoft #artemis #artemis2 #apollo #moon #technology #humanity #fail #email #omg #wtf #future #history #nasa #space #exploration #science

Fascism treats women as mere breeders. "Children, kitchen, and church" was the Nazi slogan for women.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda

Here is a distant view of the Palace of Versailles from the gardens. It was largely built by Louis XIV, in the late C17th. It's many years since I visited and took this shot, and I have to say I found it impressive, but without being really likeable. It's altogether too ornate, gargantuan, and formal for my taste. There's just too much of the powdered wig about it...

#Photography #History #Architecture #France

Autonomies: **Déjà vu and the Horizontal Reinstitution of Future**

https://autonomies.org/2026/04/deja-vu-and-the-horizontal-reinstitution-of-future/

by Yavor Tarinski We become epigones or spectators, but epigones or spectators of our very own potential-to-be. Paolo Virno[1] Within bureaucratic settings time seems to simultaneously rush and stay frozen – an endless cycle of past-presentism that shrinks leisure and … Continue reading →

#Commentary #History #PaoloVirno #Revolution

49 years ago today
Released on this day in 1977, the eponymous debut studio album by English punk rock band The Clash.

It is widely celebrated as one of the greatest punk albums of all time

#punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #punklegends #history #punkrockhistory #otd

So today astronauts finally will see the Dark side of the Earth.

#earth #moon #history #ramblings

Guten Morgen allerseits! 😀 👋

Zum heutigen #ThickTrunkTuesday die berühmte Tanzlinde im oberfränkischen Limmersdorf. Der Baum wurde 1686 gepflanzt und wird noch heute für Brauchtums-Tänze im Zusammenhang mit dem Kirchweihfest genutzt.

#bayern #oberfranken #baum #trees #dance #tanz #tradition #geschichte #history #natur #nature #naturephotography #fotografie #photography #Photographie #foto #naturephotography #landschaft #landscape #landscapephotography #travel #travelphotography

#archaeology #history #technology
The Romans were innovators who created a type of early machine gun. The polybolus, was ahead of its time. It was capable of firing multiple metal tipped bolt projectiles in quick succession. Now the walls of Pompeii have been found to bear scars which are probably a result of this machine. Besieged by general Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 89 BCE during the Social Wars. There are also accounts of the machine from 3rd century BCE. https://www.popsci.com/science/ancient-roman-machine-gun-pompeii/

A basket of good words strung together by good writers.

Sunday Morning Reading
With writing from @NatashaMH
@dtm
@mathewi
@Daojoan
@jamesthomson
@Moltz
And more.
H/T to @muz4now

#SundayMorningReading #tech #culture #history #socialmedia #Chicago #politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2026/04/05/sunday-morning-reading-149/

I discovered Holy Water the other day.

I was staying at a house that had a water supply contaminated with hydrogen sulfide, which is common in rotten, still and polluted water. Especially wells.

The symptoms make you delusional and crazy sometimes. "Demons!" I thought, and realized hydrogen peroxide neutralized it and made it safe to drink.

So maybe the mythical holy water started with accidental chemistry to purity "demon water" before purification.

#writing #history #religion

https://www.usluck.com/806255/someone-is-in-trouble-1960s/ Someone is in trouble (1960s) #History #TheWayWeWere

https://www.usluck.com/805771/which-one-21/ Which one? #History #HistoryMemes #Memes

It would work under the guise of "super-patriotism" and "super-Americanism." Fascist leaders are neither stupid nor naive. They know that they must hand out a line that "sells." Huey Long is said to have remarked that if fascism came to America, it would be on a program of "Americanism."
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda