Events for the 7th of April from Wikipedia:
• 1994: Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide
• Birth (1914) of Domnitsa Lanitou-Kavounidou, Greek sprinter (d. 2011) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domnitsa_Lanitou-Kavounidou
#history #events #historical #today @histodons
STORIES FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS BEFORE THE GOLD RUSH:
#AmWriting #History
Everyman has his peculiarities, and Joachim Lafleur was afraid of snakes! And one thing the territory that he worked had was snakes. https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/joachim-lafleur/
STORIES FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS BEFORE THE GOLD RUSH:
#AmWriting #History
John Lee Lewes was a theatrical man who was always the best-dressed gentleman in the HBC's fur trade. https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fur-trade-fop/
17th Century Harbours, Castles & The Ancient Mountains...
#prints #wallartforsale #landscape #landscapephotography #loch #mountain
https://shop.photo4me.com/1276975
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https://obt-imaging.pixels.com/featured/highland-scotland-where-we-once-lived-obt-imaging.html
#buyintoart #NewYork #expat #tartanday #gallery #Scottish #travel #easter #Canada #USA #Mexico #democrats #republicans #history #France #Scotland #UK #art #photo #movies #books #images #painting #artwork #wallart #news
After submitting another academic journal paper (wish me luck!) briefly pausing to take stock of others in progress. 4 more in development; all Scottish history; 16th, 17th, 18th & 19th centuries; genealogy & court history, legal history, black history, music history & popular culture. Lots to do! #academia #history #Scotland #ScottishHistory
John B. Michel's "Science Fiction Internationale" (1938)
Combines "fandom and Popular Front political sensibilities" reflecting "the more open social attitude of the 1930s toward left-wing political perspectives."
Discussed in Cheng's Astounding Wonder (2012)
#scifi #sciencefiction #history
From the Lady Penelope Annual 1968
At the Racing Drivers’ School Circuit at Brands Hatch they call 22-year-old Janet Rice: “The hairiest racing driver we have here.” “Hairy” in motor racing language means “dare-devilry” - and “hairiest of all” is the reputation Janet has won for herself in just eighteen months of racing at the circuit.
@UndisScot But also: "Much more historically significant was the implication elsewhere in the declaration that in future the King of Scotland could only rule with the approval of the people of Scotland. It was the first time anyone, anywhere, had thought about royalty in this way."
#declarationofarbroath #scotland #arbroath #history
Restoring Lies And Insanity To American History
https://popularresistance.org/restoring-lies-and-insanity-to-american-history/
The whaling industry was an unexpected player in the fight against #slavery.
How whale oil and spermaceti contributed to abolition:
https://theconversation.com/abolition-wasnt-fueled-by-just-moral-or-economic-concerns-the-booming-whaling-industry-also-helped-sink-slavery-250980
#history @histodons #Histodons @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon
Amid anti-#DEI push, #NationalParkService rewrites history of #UndergroundRailroad
Since #Trump took office, the #ParkService -- an agency charged with preserving #AmericanHistory -- has changed how its website describes key moments from #slavery to #JimCrow
#whitewashing #WhiteSupremacy #History #racism #lies #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda #USpol
https://wapo.st/4jdXL8m
@classicalmusic
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major, K. 482
Piano and orchestral conducting: Géza Anda
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg
Recorded in 1962, at Salzburg
"President Trump’s team is selectively stripping away the public record, reconstructing his preferred vision of America in the negative space of purged history, archivists and historians said. As data and resources are deleted or altered, something foundational is also at risk: Americans’ ability to access and evaluate their past, and with it, their already shaky trust in facts."
~ Tiffany Hsu
"To create a new American authoritarianism, Trump and Hegseth must invert our most cherished values, maligning truth-telling as divisive ideology and censoring critical scholarship in the name of freedom of speech."
#Trump #Hegseth #BookBans #libraries #education #history #whitewashing #censorship
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Robert P. Jones reports that his book White Too Long has been removed from holdings of the prestigious library of the US Naval Academy. He writes:
"This defilement of a respected academic institution by those who are waging an outright assault on higher education is, disturbingly, the goal. Honor and integrity are inconvenient stumbling blocks on the road to absolute power."
#Trump #Hegseth #BookBans #libraries #education #history #whitewashing #censorship
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/my-book-white-too-long-banned-from
HUM DRUM. A hum drum fellow; a dull tedious narrator, a bore; also a set of gentlemen, who (Bailey says) used to meet near the Charter House, or at the King's Head in St. John's-street, who had more of pleasantry, and less of mystery, than the free masons.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
**Schönschreibmeister – A Calligraphy Master’s Album from the 16th Century**
“The manuscript appears to be a compilation of calligraphic examples by one of the originators of early fraktur scripts, Johann Neudörffer the Elder (1497-1563), to whom this album is dedicated._”
https://flashbak.com/schonschreibmeister-a-calligraphy-masters-album-from-the-16th-century-461471/.
