NorthernInvader 🇨🇦
- https://twitter.com/TheEngrumpled"> The Original Engrumpled Curnudgeon
Retired left wing 74yo Canadian, Atheist, Widower, Cooking, Politics, Nature, Birds, Cats, Dogs, photography, born 312PPM CO2
Joined Mar 2021
#Tulsa #CivilRights #history #DOJ
123 years after the fact but still important to get a federal statement on what happened.
https://chicagodefender.com/doj-launches-civil-rights-review-into-1921-tulsa-race-massacre/
"The Tulsa race massacre started with accusations that a Black man assaulted a white woman. A white mob killed hundreds of people, who were mostly Black, and destroyed 35 blocks of houses and businesses. Experts say the destruction resulted in a loss of generational wealth for Black families in Tulsa."
Take one look at this ancient game board (58 holes a.k.a. Hounds and Jackals) and the "modern" game of Cribbage should immediately leap to mind.
It appears that the 17th C. inventor of Cribbage must have had knowledge of this old game
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/58-holes-game-origins-0021355
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/58-holes-game-origins-0021355
The Plague of Lust: Being A History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-plague-of-lust/
translated [from the 1830s era German treatise] into English in 1901
by “An Oxford M.A.” as The Plague of Lust. The translation came with a caution: “Needless to say the Book in no way appeals,—or is meant to appeal,—to the general reading public.”
I'd bet most people would think that welding metal is a relatively recent development in history.
https://www.thecrucible.org/guides/welding-2/history/
The oldest known examples of welding are small golden boxes that date back to the Bronze age over 2,000 years ago. Archaeologists have found jewelry, dining utensils, and weapons from this time period. in 3000 B.C., Egyptians used charcoal to pressure-weld swords, and in 1500 B.C., iron smelting became more common.
You may need to use a VPN if you go to
https://knowledge.ca/indigenous-history-month to view any films
Dive Into Award-Winning Films for Indigenous History Month via The Tyee
https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2024/06/03/Award-Winning-Films-Indigenous-History-Month
If you have a chance to watch this series I highly recommend it. Most people have thought that the Vesuvius eruption killed everyone in Pompeni, now it looks like most may actually have escaped, at least the city.
Pompeni: The New Dig
Beacvers are an essential part of a healthy ecosystem.
In the light of day, you can see evidence of their carpentry—fresh shavings of wood they’ve left behind and the carving their incisors have accomplished. Look all around and you’ll quickly realize they know how to place their cuts, so the trees drop where they want them. It’s often into the water, aiding them in the work of building dams—what they like to do more than anything else
#Shakespeare #History #academia
This is sure to be hotly debated 🤣
The earliest record of William Shakespeare’s father in Stratford-upon-Avon famously notes his fine in 1552 for making a “muckhill” on a street.
Now the long-held assumption that John Shakespeare was a 16th-century fly-tipper has been overturned as a myth. Far from being punished, he was simply paying a waste disposal toll for detritus relating to his trade as a glover and tanner of leather.
#History #aboriginal #colonialism #racism
Documentary on the legacy of residential schools in B.C. wins at Sundance Film Festival
Sugarcane follows the investigation into abuse at an Indian residential school near Williams Lake
#History #Canada #UnitedKingdom #children
A part of Canadian history few today know about
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67809153
Five years after it was discovered in a Scottish auction house in Glasgow, a long wooden box of about 80 glass negatives is now in Canada, where it is putting a spotlight on the heart-breaking history of the British Home Children.
The child migration scheme sent a group of 100,000 impoverished children from Britain to overseas colonies between 1869 and the 1940s.
Alan Lomax, like his father before him, spent his life on an odyssey of unrecorded sound, searching the world for the essence of music and lost songs of isolated cultures. He was a musical prolific anthropologist and folklorist and would go on to make more than seventeen thousand field recordings of singers and songwriters.
Had he not done this the world of music today would be very different.
How Much Booze Did Medieval People Really Drink?
Lost gravestones of freedom-seekers unearthed in St. Catharines cemetery. Keeping alive the stories of people who fled slavery in U.S. is about more than just preserving history
So few Canadians know much, if anything, about this history. #BLMCanada
#BLMCanada #NovaScotia #racism #history
Why was a Black-owned housing co-op shrouded in mystery? This descendant found out
This ghostly seaweed on a blue background comes from the first book to be illustrated entirely with photographs. While the image represented a new era in publishing, its creator, Anna Atkins, wasn’t aiming to be an innovator: She just wanted to document the algae that fascinated her.
Learn more about Atkins (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/anna-atkins-cyanotypes-the-first-book-of-photographs.html) and explore her first foray into the art form in a digitized version of the book (https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/photographs-of-british-algae-cyanotype-impressions).
via @ScientistMel over on the bird
#history the truth isn't always pleasant. History doesn't always support your beliefs. Failure to understand that is your fault not history's.
Never forget or bury the past - if you do it will only rise again and you may not have time or ability to stop it occuring anew.
#History #Spain #Fascists #Nazis
Spain’s Oft-Forgotten Nazi Ties
A new law recognizes the thousands of Spaniards killed by the Germans during World War II
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/spains-oft-forgotten-ties-to-the-nazis-180981304/
NorthernInvader 🇨🇦
- https://twitter.com/TheEngrumpled"> The Original Engrumpled Curnudgeon
Retired left wing 74yo Canadian, Atheist, Widower, Cooking, Politics, Nature, Birds, Cats, Dogs, photography, born 312PPM CO2
Joined Mar 2021