Amazing:

“Photographs Of Old Japan”, M. E. Rothwell (https://cosmographia.substack.com/p/photographs-of-old-japan).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631251

The full sized M29 Davy Crockett finished printing. Only a couple small changes needed for the production model. I will also be sanding, finishing and painting this one.

It's a lot of fun to hold, I love my nuclear son.

COUNTERFEIT CRANK. A general cheat, assuming all sorts of characters; one counterfeiting the falling sickness.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

Nan Li & Heqi Cai examine governance structures during the Tang-Song transition with cross-sectional county data from 813 & 1080 AD to show social transformations, inc changes in bureaucratic institutions & enhanced state capacity centuries before Europe. OA in the Asia-Pacific EcHR!
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12307
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #China #institutions

Today is the anniversary of the shelling of Ft. Sumter by the South Carolina militia, kicking off what would become the American Civil War.

If anyone tries to argue the Civil War was not about slavery, we need only point that misguided (misinformed, miseducated) individual to this statement from the Mississippi secession convention at the time:

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery—the greatest material interest of the world."

Weiß eins hier, wie die Adelheid-Steinmann-Straße in der Heidelberger Südstadt früher hieß, als hier noch das NATO-Hauptquartier war?

Does anyone here know the former name of the street "Adelheid-Steinmann-Str." in Heidelberg Suedstadt district? Before 2015 it was the home of the NATO headquarter.

https://rhein-neckar-wiki.de/Adelheid-Steinmann-Stra%C3%9Fe_(Heidelberg)

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.385295&mlon=8.683282#map=19/49.385295/8.683282

En'yū, 64th Emperor of #Japan, was born OTD in 959 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kofun/uwanabe.html?s=mb #travel #history

Facts and Myths About Harriet Tubman

"Despite being a popular historical figure, the best-known details about Harriet Tubman’s life are a mixture of fact and myth."

https://www.thecollector.com/facts-and-myths-about-harriet-tubman/

Books about Harriet Tubman at PG

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Harriet+Tubman&submit_search=Search

Dzisiaj polecam Wam podróż przez historię internetu z #CyberCultural https://cybercultural.com

Można przeglądać po epokach:

- Pre-web (1960s-80s)
- Dot-com (1990-2003)
- Web 2.0 (2004-2012)
- Enshittocene (2013-2021)

lub po latach:
https://cybercultural.com/year/

Fajnie sobie przypomnieć, jak to wyglądało przed zgównieniem

"Cybercultural to kronika historii Internetu i jego wpływu na kulturę, od ery przedinternetowej do boomu dot-comów, Web 2.0 i nie tylko. Napisany przez pionierskiego blogera technologicznego Richarda MacManusa."

-> @ricmac

Przy okazji: strona oparta jest o #11ty

@classicalmusic
Opernabend
12. April 2025, 20:00 Uhr

Cherubini, Luigi (1760-1842)
Medea

Kreon: Nicolai Ghiuselev
Glauce: Lucia Popp
Jason: Bruno Prevedi
Medea: Leonie Rysanek
1. Magd: Edita Gruberova

Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Leitung: Horst Stein

Diese Aufnahme entstand im Jahr 1972.

https://radioklassik.at/programm/sendungsformat/12804/

For anyone who follows my 1963 newspaper reports…

Friday 12 April 1963 was Good Friday, so no newspapers that day.

Got a healthy reminder, that one shouldn’t take anything for granted, but check, check, check...

Used to think, that the three crowns in the Swedish Coat of Arms quite self-evidently represent the three parts of the county: Norrland, Svealand and Götaland.

By chance however came now across a learned text on the subject, by C. G. U. Scheffer, State Herald of Sweden, and behold: ″There has been much speculation about the significance of the coat of arms with the three crowns, and the discussion in regard to its origin has been going on since the sixteenth century without a definitive result having been attained.″

Dang.

https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/the-coats-of-arms-of-sweden-genesis-and-development/

Very early #OnThisDay, 12 Apr 1944, Odette Wilen parachutes into France to work as a wireless operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supports the French resistance.

Wireless operators were at the greatest risk of discovery, as their position could be triangulated whenever they were transmitting messages back to London.

Wilen evades capture by minutes and escapes over the Pyrenees. She lives until 2015.

Lost Toronto hotel was a den of Confederate spies during U.S. Civil War
While it's hard to imagine Front Street without the iconic Royal York Hotel, that plot of land was still home to Toronto's favourite hotel — just not how you think.The Queen's Hotel was a town staple, becoming the most popular and modern hotel in Toronto during its time.But, while it featured many prom...
#history #hotel #politics #war #Toronto #QuebecCity
https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/04/queens-hotel-royal-york-toronto/

#OnThisDay, 12 Apr 1229, regent Blanche of Castile oversees the signing of the Treaty of Paris on behalf of her son, King Louis IX. She had previously raised an army to defend his territories against Raymond VII of Toulouse.

In 2003, when Kathy Saade Kenny, the granddaughter of Palestinian immigrants, stumbled upon a mysterious cache of letters stored in an old See’s candy box tucked away in the back of a closet in her mother’s Los Angeles home, she was intrigued.

https://iraq-solidarity.blogspot.com/2025/04/discover-global-landscape-and-different.html

Released 31 years ago today
Weight, the fourth studio album by the Rollins Band, featuring the track"Liar"

Rollins Band - Liar (1994) Official Music Video Remastered

Released 40 years ago today
Back to the Known, the second EP by American punk rock band Bad Religion, featuring the track Frogger

Bad Religion - Frogger

31 years ago today
Weight is the fourth studio album by American rock band Rollins Band, released on April 12, 1994. It featured the band's biggest hits, "Liar" and "Disconnect".