Before the Civil War, New York City banks held mortgages on a vast number of Southern plantations and the enslaved people who worked them, with some estimates suggesting 40 cents of every dollar from cotton production went to Northern financiers. 🗃️ #history
During the Self-Strengthening Movement, the Fuzhou Shipyard, established with French technical aid, built China's first steam-powered transport ship, the 'Wannian Qing', which made a successful 155-day voyage to Europe in 1877. 🗃️
It's astounding that such deep history is just chillin' in the shallows. 2600 year old #shipwreck found off the coast of Spain 🇪🇸 ⚓ 🗃️
As with most #Lincoln quotes, this one is profound and - you know - could be a little tighter
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Good morning. It seems the right time to share that my book (preorder available) is about #scientists #transgender #LGBTQ #sexworkers and #women who fought against #Nazi fascism 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧪🗃️
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Should we explore what happened to each of the 41 #dreadnoughts held by Britian & Germany in 1914? 4 of them were involved in a little diplomatic game with the Ottoman Empire
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Nominating Bernard Palissy, a 17th-century potter, for the best book title ever with: "How to Become Rich and the True Way in Which Every Man in France Could Grow and Multiply Their Treasury and Possessions"
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At it's peak, nearly 1 in 10 people in the soviet union passed through the #Gulag or were exiled
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Really interested in a biography of Constantinople (err, Istanbul). A real contender (with Jerusalem, Baghdad) for the most enduringly consequential city.
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Love when I come across notes from #history books totally unrelated to the topic. Turns out Jack Kerouac was a troll. This note literally captioned with "lolwut"
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The life of General MacArthur was wild.
- Served in WW1
- Military advisor in Philippines (he resigned as General to do this!)
- Two supreme commanderships (dope title): U.S. Forces in Far East, and of Allied Powers in Japan
- Oh, also involved in US Olympic Committee
#History 🗃️ #WW2
On August 8, 1925, over 200,000 Klansman and their supporters marched on Washington. They met no resistance.
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It's hard to grapple with just how embedded the #KKK was in everyday society in the 1920s. In many localities (particularly in midwest), more than half of people were involved.
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#OTD The RMS Queen Elizabeth was a luxury ocean liner owned by the Cunard White Star Line, and later the Cunard Line. Completed in 1940, she operated as a troop ship during WW2, and did not make her maiden voyage as an ocean liner until 1946. (1/3)
#maritimehistory
#skystorians
#navalhistory
In 1095, Pope Urban II began what would become 2 centuries of crusades
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(not so) fun fact: The KKK was in part a mid-level marketing scheme. The vile D.C. Stephenson got rich, and so did some of the pastors he gave kickbacks to.
Some of those fees went to the costumes, btw.
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Kinda weird to think that just 200 years ago venture capitalists were funding whaling expeditions. Try to imagine the Zuckerberg of 1800 pitching his expedition to investors.
#History 🗃️ #Maritime
A great article on what happened to those 250K+ planes after the war. Really hard to overstate just how many there were. For context: There are 5-10K commercial airplanes in the US: www.statista.com/statistics/1...
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The US produced over 300,000 aircraft during #WW2. For reference, @boeingairplanes.bsky.social delivered about 340 planes in 2024. ✈️ 🎖️
www.britannica.com/technology/a...
The scale of the #WW2 wartime US economy is unfathomable. At peak, we were producing a full Luftwaffe worth of planes every 11 days. That's a plan every. four. minutes.
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On the topic of the #Lusitania: In 1908 the Lusitania set a speed record by crossing the Atlantic (NYC <> Liverpool) in a blistering 4.5 days ⚡
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May 7, 1915 aside, the Lusitania must have been quite exquisite. Except, perhaps, for the 300 (!!) folks in charge of maintaining a roaring fire at all times. 🚢 🔥
#History #WW1 #Historysky
The scale of violence in the Congo Free State, a country owned by literally one dude, was staggering. For reference, this is almost the number of military (not including civilian) deaths in all of WW1.
#History #Historysky #WW1
