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Er hatte sich während des Ersten Weltkriegs in der Schweiz niedergelassen und sich mit seiner Firma "Perlesco" darauf spezialisiert, "entthronten oder auch nur zeitweilig suspendierten Herrschern beim Verkauf ihrer Juwelen zu helfen", wie Historikerin Katrin Unterreiner in ihrem Buch Habsburgs verschollene Schätze beschreibt.

Überangebot und geringe Qualität: Als Europas Herrscher ihren Schmuck abverkauften
Nach seiner Abdankung 1918 versuchte Ex-Kaiser Karl I., Juwelen zu verwerten. Dabei erlebte der von ihm beauftragte Händler böse Überraschungen. Sie stießen auf eingefärbte Diamanten und vermeintliche Rubine

Zum Thema wiederaufgetauchtes Raubgut: HHStA-Direktor Thomas Just hat drüben auf Bluesky dankenswerterweise auf diesen Akt zu den Steinen des Anstosses verlinkt: "Temporäre Entnahme des Allerhöchsten Privatschmuckes aus der Schatzkammer" 1.11.1918: https://www.archivinformationssystem.at/de

AT-OeStA/HHStA HA OKäA E 90-5-4062/1918 Temporäre Entnahme des Allerhöchsten Privatschmuckes aus der Schatzkammer, 1918 (Akt (Sammelakt, Grundzl., Konvolut, Dossier, File))

Pocked with bullet holes and cracked at its pedestal by an off-road vehicle,
the Georgia Historical Society marker reads in part:
“Mary Turner, eight months pregnant,
was burned, mutilated, and shot to death by a mob
after publicly denouncing her husband’s lynching the previous day. …
No charges were ever brought against known or suspected participants in these crimes.
From 1880-1930, as many as 550 people were killed in Georgia in these illegal acts of mo…

Vandalized historic memorial to 1918 lynching now on exhibit in Atlanta museum
An exhibit opening Monday in Atlanta shows a historical marker from the site of a 1918 lynching that was repeatedly vandalized. Pocked with bullet holes and broken at the pedestal, it memorializes an event that some in rural southern Georgia tried hard to erase: the killing of Mary Turner by a white mob. She was set upon after protesting the lynching of her husband, Hayes Turner, and at least 10 other Black people. The violence built support for anti-lynching legislation, though it would not be…

Am 26. Juni 1918 erhielt Konrad #Adenauer ein Patent auf die #Sojawurst – ein Versuch, die #Fleischknappheit im Ersten Weltkrieg zu lindern.
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Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

Bullet-pocked marker memorializing 1918 lynching goes on display in Atlanta (Michael Warren/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-lynching-marker-mary-turner-4cf42e27269613af9176aa9786de4c6e
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p48#a251207p48

Heute vor 42 Jahren: Am 11. November gedenken wir dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs 1918 aber auch #AbleArcher83 - eine alarmierende Episode im Kalten Krieg von 1983. Damals stand die Welt am Rande eines Atomkriegs als die Spannungen zwischen den USA und der Sowjetunion eskalierten.

REMINDER: Influenza has everything needed to kill people every year and produce a global pandemic every few decades forever. What keeps it at a low “just the flu” level is vaccination. One thing that kept the most recent surges from being more like 1918 is the CDC. What is left of the CDC is inadequate to that task. https://m…

From Taras Gresco
Automatic for the People
A Ride on the First Fully-Functioning Line of the REM, Montreal's New Light Metro
#Montreal has a new "light metro" links to the Mount-Royal Tunnel, at 5 kms the third longest tunnel in Canada. Built by the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) between 1911 and 1918, it cuts through Mont-Royal. Trains, which were perforce electric, be…

Good Morning #Canada
You don't have to like numbers to appreciate Statistics Canada, aka StatsCan. Jean Talon could be considered Canada's first official statistician when he arrived in North America in 1665 on a mission for King Louis XIV to conduct Canada's first census in 1666. In 1918, the Statistics Act created the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, a national statistics office that ultimately would become Statistics Canada. Besides conducting the Census of Population and the Census of Agriculture every five years, StatCan has more than 450 active surveys on virtually all aspects of life in Canada. Results are published twice a month and can be accessed via The Daily web page.
One of my favourite web pages is Canada's Population Clock (real-time model). It's fascinating to watch, and our population increased by 11 while I typed this post.
#CanadaIsAwesome #StatsCan
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm

Rademacher-type exact formula and higher order Tur\'{a}n inequalities for cubic overpartitions
Archit Agarwal, Meghali Garg, Bibekananda Maji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23151

Rademacher-type exact formula and higher order Turán inequalities for cubic overpartitions
In 1918, Hardy and Ramanujan made a breakthrough by developing the circle method to deduce an asymptotic formula for the partition function $p(n)$, which was later refined by Rademacher in 1937 to produce an absolutely convergent series representation for $p(n)$. Since then, Rademacher-type exact formulas for various partition functions have been investigated by many mathematicians. The concept of overpartitions was introduced by Lovejoy and Corteel in 2004. Kim, in 2010, studied an overpartiti…

There is a giant mountain in the US carved with the faces of a couple of slavers, and two guys who tried to stop slavery. Now most Americans will stop right there and say, "wait, two? Lincoln did that though..." They'll say that because Americans don't know anything about their own history, including the fact that the practice of slavery remained central to the southern economy well through Roosevelt's administration. If this is not familiar to you (because, maybe, you were taught history in the US) and you'd like to actually learn about that, you might want to read "Slavery by Another Name."
But let's talk about half-slaver mountain for a minute. This mountain is functionally a sacred site for Americans, but it's literally a sacred site for Black Hills Sioux. Speaking of stolen land, did you know that JBLM (a military base in Washington state) is built on land promised the Puyallup in the Treaty of Medicine Creek before being stolen in 1918? I remember being taught that all the land was stolen a long time ago and now there's nothing we can do. Yeah, does anyone remember that DAPL was under Obama? In fact, unused federal lands are supposed to be returned to the tribes from which the land was taken but there's a whole site to auction off federal property... That's a whole section of the government dedicated to violating the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
They could just comply with the treaty, as they are legally obligated to do. These violations are ongoing. Slavery, again, is still legal. Slaves are still used by major corporations today, they just have to be tricked into confessing to a crime first. The sins that this country is built on remain fully active today... Because the system was built to preserve white supremacists patriarchy. How could the founding of the US not lead *directly* to Trump? How could this have been different, from the beginning?
But, please, tell me, how, exactly, are you going to fix that by voting harder in the mid terms. How?