A dilapidated log cabin surrounded by trees and grass.
It's hard to say if this large cabin northwest of Apex, Colorado was built on two levels or if it has been broken apart by the encroaching trees and the soft ground. #colorado #ruins #history #photography
Rita Johnson's official photo. She's a white woman with blonde hair.
#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1991, Rita Johnson becomes the first female premier of a Canadian province when she is elected by the political caucus.
#WomenInHistory #CanadianHistory #History #OTD 🗃️
Jeanette Rankin standing in front of the dome of the US Capitol on a windy day. She is a white woman with dark hair.
#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory 🗃️
Coops Shot Tower. At 50-metres high it was built in 1889 and saved from demolition in 1973. It is now part of the Melbourne Central complex, protected by an 84m (276ft) class roof. #Photography #Architecture #History #Melbourne #Travel #Australia
His memoir, titled, The Story of My Life offers an 18th-Century perspective on social ethics – or their absence. There’s a challenge here: Casanova is believed to have written candidly about changing his identity, playing pranks, womanizing, breaking out of jail, and his list of misdeeds goes on. He presents himself as a liar to others, so it is fair to ask about the veracity of his memoir. A trial lawyer would ask Casanova, if you’re telling us you lied to all those people, why should we believe you’re telling us the truth now?
Historians and biographers who have researched Casanova’s story say there appear to be many instances in his memoir corroborated by some contemporary sources. And more complete versions of his original, 3,500-page manuscript have been published since the 1960s. So, what we have in Casanova’s memoir is the perspective of an arrogant, self-centered, egotistical 18th-Century scoff-law and womanizer, writing at the end of his life about his escapades. For some, it is a rollicking good story. For others, it offers a measure of how much – or how little – social ethics have changed.
A painting of Giacomo Casanova by Francesco Narici, circa 1760
“The sweetest pleasures are the hardest to win.”
-Italian diarist Giacomo Casanova, born on this day in 1725
#WriterSky #BookSky #Memoir #SocialEthics #Scofflaw #Womanizer #History #BOTD
#OnThisDay in 1967, the Royal New Zealand Air Force retired their Short Sunderlands.
Read our Sunderland profile at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/british-airc... #Aviation #History
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#OTD in 1943 the name of the U-35 was changed to the more familiar name SU-122. The SU-122 was the first SPG on the T-34 chassis with a front fighting compartment, a layout that would become classic for Soviet medium SPGs. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII
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I mean c’mon people. The racist 1994 Clinton #Crime Bill co-authored by #Biden, HRC calling Black teens “superpredators,” #Obama droning more people than any #POTUS in #history including an American teenager and Arabs innocently attending a […]
Marine pack artillery in action during the Battle of Tarawa, November 1943.
📸 Frederick R. Findtner.
#wwii #ww2 #history #tarawa #usmc
🗺️ The travels of Leo Africanus (c. 1494 - c. 1554) illuminate the cultural and political complexity of 16th-century North and West Africa at a moment of shifting imperial, commercial, and religious frontiers.
🗺️ Map created by Simon Netchev.
#LeoAfricanus #NorthAfrica #Travel #History #Map #Africa
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Throwback Thursday #311: Looking Back At ESCONI For April 2026 #history #TBT #ThrowbackThursday
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Four angles. One story. More at gettheflies.com/underground-railroad-tun...
#TheFlies #UndergroundRailroad #History #Preservation
30 Years Ago Today: New York #Yankees rookie Derek Jeter hits his first career HR vs. Cleveland pitcher Dennis Martínez on Opening Day at Jacobs Field! Phil Rizzuto with the call! (April 2, 1996) #MLB #Legend #Baseball #NYY #History #RepBX
When research spans both art and science #humanities #history #education #science #academia
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Abbey Strand in #Edinburgh. This street leads to #Holyrood #Palace, the official residence of the Monarch in the precinct in Canongate parish tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2010/06/old-...
Mike Baird began his second term as premier of New South Wales on 2 April 2015
#OnThisDay 2 April 2015 Michael Bruce "Mike" Baird, leader of the Liberal Party, was sworn in to a second consecutive term as the 44th Premier of New South Wales. #OTD #history #nswpol #nswpolitics #politics
HMCS Charlottetown departs for 6-month deployment on June 15th, 2024 for Operation Reassurance #RCN #Photos #History
Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World by Gillen D’Arcy Wood
Now in #paperback with a new preface by the author, Tambora by Gillen D’Arcy Wood is a global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruption.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#EarthScience #History
The Peter Iredale is still one of the most photographed shipwrecks in the world. The 4-masted steel bark was wrecked in 1906 on Clatsop Spit at the Columbia River Bar in Oregon. All 25 on board survived, and the ship was declared a total loss. (1/3)🧵
#maritimehistory #history #Oregon #shipwreck
Peter Underwood became governor of Tasmania on 2 April 2008
William Cox retired as governor of Tasmania on 2 April 2008
#OnThisDay 2 April 2008 Peter George Underwood was sworn in as the 27th Governor of Tasmania, succeeding William John Ellis Cox. #OTD #history #politas #taspol #taspolitics #politics
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A History of the Vikings by Gwyn Jones - Oxford University Press 1984
#booksky #nordic #norse #vikings #germanic #saxon #anthropology #archaeology #heathen #pagansky #booksforsle #vintagebooks #history #ancienthistory #bookseller #northerneurope #scandinavia
Morris Iemma began his second term as premier of New South Wales on 2 April 2007
#OnThisDay 2 April 2007 Morris Iemma, leader of the Labor Party, was sworn in to a second consecutive term as the 40th Premier of New South Wales. #OTD #history #nswpol #nswpolitics #politics
New York #Mets manager Gil Hodges talks to Lindsey Nelson in the Shea Stadium locker room during the 1969 World Series trophy presentation! #MLB #Baseball #Legend #Postseason #History #LGM
It is Maundy Thursday. Us Swedish witches are preparing for THE event of the year - the gigantic get-together at Blåkulla.
Which is why I felt it relevant to trot out this post again :)
#folklore #Easter #History #writingcommunity
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Bob Carr began his third term and fourth ministry as premier of New South Wales on 2 April 2003
#OnThisDay 2 April 2003 Robert John "Bob" Carr, leader of the Labor Party, was sworn in to a third consecutive term, and fourth consecutive time, as the 39th Premier of New South Wales. #OTD #history #nswpol #nswpolitics #politics
Although the patriarchy sought to control Mesopotamian women's rights, they are still recorded as landowners, business owners, administrators, bureaucrats, doctors, scribes, clergy, and even monarchs. #history
Today In 1972: New York #Mets manager Gil Hodges suffers a fatal heart attack after playing a round of golf with his coaches. Gil was just two days shy of his 48th birthday. #MLB #Legend #Baseball #History #LGM
Germany is celebrating the late Queen!
A special stamp marks what would have been Queen Elizabeth II’s 100th birthday on 21 April.
It honours her legacy and work towards reconciliation between the UK and Germany.
#History #HistoryMatters
“If you love art, folly, or the bright eyes of children, speed to Pollock’s”
—“A Penny Plain & Twopence Coloured”: Robert Louis Stevenson wrote about his childhood love for toy theatres in MEMORIES & PORTRAITS (1887)
#BookologyThursday #C19 #history
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