History

In what the actual fuck? news:

"Archaeologists Are Bewildered by a Skeleton Made From the Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart"

#archaeology #RespectForTheAncestors

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-are-bewildered-by-a-skeleton-made-from-the-bones-of-at-least-eight-people-who-died-thousands-of-years-apart-180985419/

#history

My new YouTube video is here! It's about the Kybalion and the Hermetic House of Life and how annoying the Kybalion is! It features @[email protected] and lots of shaky photographs. Please enjoy!
#Kybalion #Chicago #history #hermeticism #video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOXUuyK-M4

You never know where a town might pop up — even if it was established, and later abandoned, during the Bronze Age. The remains of a town being dubbed al-Natah was recently discovered in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia. al-Natah was built around 2,400 BC and home to about 500 residents. It lasted 1,000 years, but no one knows why it was abandoned. There’s more from @CBSNews: https://flip.it/y9KClc
#Science #BronzeAge #History #SaudiArabia #Archeology

What a 500-year-old shipwreck can tell us about how we age.

From @[email protected] at @ArsTechnica: "Henry VIII's favorite warship, the Mary Rose, sank in battle in 1545. Archaeologists successfully raised the ship in 1982, along with thousands of articles and the remains of 179 crew members—all remarkably well preserved thanks to the anaerobic conditions of the shipwreck created by the layers of soft sediment that accumulated over the wreckage."

https://flip.it/x-w9LO

Here's the original study: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0311717

#Archaeology #Shipwreck #Science #Aging

#history

re: some of my recent work on EN Wikipedia, I see an Indonesian wikipedian published this long article about another New Order era internment camp I hadn't heard about in Sulawesi.

https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamp_pengasingan_Moncongloe

#history #Internment #Indonesia

I've created a new YouTube video, and it's about the Kybalion! Currently it is only available to Patreon members. Enjoy!
#kybalion #Hermeticism #Chicago #history

https://www.patreon.com/posts/nightmare-of-115311053?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

“The National Archives museum, under Biden-appointed U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan, has been working to reshape its narrative of American history in order to make white conservatives more comfortable … The museum has removed references to Martin Luther King Jr., Japanese internment, Native Americans, union organizers, and birth control … A photo of King was replaced with one of Richard Nixon meeting Elvis Presley.”

#UnitedStates #history #neoliberalismToFascismPipeline https://mastodon.social/@law_geek/113411290482072568

"Welcome to the nettime mailing list!"

https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9510/msg00000.html

"[The internet mailing list Nettime, created in 1995, 29 years ago] has been widely recognized for its seminal role stimulating and disseminating ideas about Netzkritik or Net Critique, net.art, and tactical media and pioneered practices such as "collaborative filtering"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime

#OTD #OnThisDay #internet #TheWeb #history #InternetHistory #MailingList #NetArt #nettime

"The War of the Worlds", directed and narrated by Orson Welles, was performed and broadcast live 86 yeas ago #OnThisDay.

It is "infamous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)

#OTD #history #radio #halloween #scifi #aliens #TheWarOfTheWorlds

Happy birthday, ARPANET!

"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969

#arpanet #internet #history #OTD #OnThisDay #technology

Scientists say skeletal remains found in a castle well belong to figure from 800-year-old saga.

From CNN: "The 800-year-old Sverris saga, which follows the story of the real-life King Sverre Sigurdsson, includes the tossing of the body of a dead man — later known as 'Well-man' — down a well during a military raid in central Norway in 1197."

https://flip.it/2-.l5a

Here's the full study: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)02301-0

#History #Archaeology #Norway #Norse #Science #Anthropology

The internet's "original sin" was committed 30 years ago.

"[...] the gaudy banner ad took over the web [...] legend has it that the first HotWired banner ad was from AT&T, prophetically asking "Have you ever clicked your mouse right here? You will.""

https://www.wired.com/2010/10/1027hotwired-banner-ads/

https://web.archive.org/web/20140830021729/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/advertising-is-the-internets-original-sin/376041

#OTD #OnThisDay #FirstBannerAd #ads #history #technology #internet #TheWeb #InternetHistory

Kmart enjoyed its heyday in the 1990s, when there were more than 2,300 branches across the U.S. It filed for bankruptcy in 2002, unable to stave off competition from Walmart and Target, but has limped on ever since. Earlier this month, the last full-size Kmart in the contiguous U.S., located on Long Island, closed, leaving just five on American soil. For The Dial, reporter Jasmine Stole Weiss visited the Kmart in Guam, a little piece of America in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean.

https://flip.it/ETLWvX

#Lifestyle #HumanGeography #History #Guam #USHistory #Kmart #Retail

Wishing @[email protected] happy 23rd anniversary of the public launch of Wayback Machine! And lots of support during the ongoing wave of attacks, both on their server, and their mission.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine

#OnThisDay #OTD #history #internet #TheWeb #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine

Hah, alright. One more #OnThisDay #trivia.

#OTD in 1901, on her 63rd birthday, an American schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor became "the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel".

"Her motives were financial but she never made much money from her adventure. [...] Her manager, Frank M. Russell, ran away with her barrel [...]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Edson_Taylor

#history #WomensHistory #NiagaraFalls #BarrelRoll

Also #OTD, the first photo of Earth from space was taken in 1946 by a camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket.

"An observer in the rocket could have seen San Diego, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, and San Antonio"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_dhGjgrGbcI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_No._13

#space #history #earth #photography

#OnThisDay in 1975, 90% of women in Iceland participated in the Women's Day Off strike to "demonstrate the indispensable work of women for Iceland's economy and society" and to "protest wage discrepancy and unfair employment practices".

A law guaranteeing equal rights was passed the following year, and the first democratically elected female president in Iceland and the world five years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Icelandic_women%27s_strike

#OTD #history #labor #WorkersRights #feminism #WomensRights #iceland

A couple of years ago, I read an excellent book called "The Fabric of History." In that book, I discovered that Tyrian purple, the snail-based dye used by kings and Roman senators and other snooty historical figures, smelled really horrible. I love thinking about that. #textiles #dye #history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple

Teach about Propaganda for Media Literacy Week with Defiant Requiem. This classroom-ready lesson explores the way propaganda influences audiences, how propaganda works in times of crisis, and the specific use of propaganda during the Holocaust. For middle school & up.

The lesson includes five printable handouts: WWII Propaganda, Guide for Discussion Leaders, Contemporary Propaganda, Moving Images, The Purpose of Propaganda. 1/2

https://journeysinfilm.org/product/defiant-requiem/

#Propaganda #History #DigitalLiteracy

#TIL that #OnThisDay in 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature award.

"A writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution."

"He was the first Nobel laureate to voluntarily decline the prize, and remains one of only two laureates to do so."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre

#OTD #history #books #literature #bookstodon #NobelPrize

The #history of #TwitterX migrations:

• #Twitter Migration 1.0: Japan (2017?). They moved to the Fediverse
• 2.0: Western world & other English-speaking countries (2021). To the #Fediverse
• 3.0: UK (2024). To the Fediverse via #Threads
• 4.0: Brazil (2024). Mostly to #ATmosphere via #Bluesky
• 5.0: Global (2024). Mostly to ATmosphere, some Fediverse

Keep it going!

#SocialWeb #OpenSocial #Web3 #DDFON #MycelialWeb

I don’t know… when has fascism ever been a dealbreaker for all Americans?

Was it during the Native American genocide?

During slavery?

Segregation?

During the current genocide in Gaza?

When?

#USA #UnitedStates #fascism #history #slavery #segregation #israel #gaza #apartheid #genocide

"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel … it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags."

Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre was published #OnThisDay in 1847.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre

#JaneEyere #CharlotteBronte #feminism #books #bookstodon #literature #history #OTD

Archaeologists discover 12 skeletons at a buried tomb in Petra, Jordan.

From @npr: "The remains were found beneath the Treasury, also called Al Khazneh, in the ancient city of Petra — famous as a landmark seen in the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."

https://flip.it/_uNuOZ

#Archaeology #Petra #Jordan #History #Anthropology

So, I've been reading "Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World" by Mike Davis. And as he recounts famine after famine, each of which claimed millions of lives, I started thinking to myself: even granting the ludicrous assumptions of the anti-communists with the "Victims of Communism" webpage (and proposed memorial or something?), the victims of capitalism easily outnumber them. And I wasn't alone. Here, the author recounts how British colonial policy was responsible for 100 million excess premature deaths in India alone, over the course of a half century.

#Capitalism #Colonialism #Communism #VictimsOfCommunism #VictimsOfCapitalism

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians

#history