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The Book That Changed How I Think About Liberalism | The Ezra Klein Show
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"RECOMMENDED: What Altering Historical Images Can Teach Us About History"
https://dhandlib.org/recommended-what-altering-historical-images-can-teach-us-about-history/

Datini Letters. Geospatial Explorer
Francesco di Marco Datini's merchant correspondence network
#history

2018 - 2026
Founded in 1918, Cusack’s Furniture is one of the longest-running continuous businesses in the Canberra region and has remained family-owned throughout its history. Closing end of October 2026.
#Canberra #History

One of Canberra's oldest businesses to close | Canberra Daily
After more than a century serving the Canberra community, Cusack’s Furniture has announced the business will close later this year.

East Prigorodny conflict - Wikipedia
#til #history

East Prigorodny conflict - Wikipedia

If anyone has an interest in Australian political history...
Join Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook, and Joshua Black as they discuss their new book, Gold Standard? Remembering the Hawke government.
Hosted by The Australia Institute as part of Australia's Biggest Bookclub.
📅Fri, Apr 24, 2026
🕚️11:00 am AEST
🔗 Zoom
#History

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Gold Standard? with Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook & Joshua Black. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join historians Frank Bongiorno, Carolyn Holbrook, and Joshua Black as they discuss their new book, Gold Standard?: Remembering the Hawke government. Was the Hawke government ‘the gold standard’ for federal government in Australia? A stellar line-up of historians, social scientists, politicians and journalists shed valuable new light on the policies, politics and personalities of the Hawke government and ask: What lessons can it offer in the art of reformist government? How do its legacies…

Honestly, one of the best #history podcasts I've listened to in a while. https://boitam.eu/@joachim/116189608719733172

Überraschend viele junge Frauen gestern im #Kino bei #Michael!
Ich glaube, wie waren die einzigen, die ihn damals Live gesehen haben. #HiStory

🤩 Militarized snowflakes: The accidental beauty of Renaissance star forts
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Militarized snowflakes: The accidental beauty of Renaissance star forts
First rising in the 15th century, these forts sought to counter a deadly innovation in military technology.

King Wenceslaus IV, shown wearing his mother's bra into battle, was NOT the GOOD King W known from Xmas carols. He was a pretty good soldier, we'll leave it at that.
#Medieval #History #WarIsHell

Schlangenhaus (16th century, Werdenberg, St. Gallen)
#FensterFreitag #History #Switzerland

Medieval Sex According To Eleanor Janega by History Hit
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I'm so glad I'm almost at the end of Lenin's biography. Never was a man so deluded by his own awesomeness. And never did one do so much damage to the world around him. #reading #history

‘Take the oil’.
Modern day Genghis Khan this one. 🤦‍♂️
#oil #Iran #looting #history

On a withered branch
A crow has alighted:
Nightfall in autumn.
--Matsuo Basho, 1679
The 1st haiku poem.
I hope to find a few more translations.
#Poetry #History #Literature

Don't forget that you can also kill waterfowl by hiding under hollowed-out gourds disguised to look like rocks, then pulling the birds under when they land. Beautifully illustrated in this 1578 engraving by Cornelis Galle (full image is at the Rijksmuseum). #geese #history #hunting #gourds #squash #art https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/---3b7a5a974aae5cd92a1ed69a08cea2a4

Walked around Valley Forge National Historical Park last week and was surprised to find hundreds of mason bees nesting *inside* the soldier huts. I'd always assumed they required exterior wood, ideally with direct sun for most of the day. There were also hundreds of Houdini flies lurking around. #ValleyForge #pennsylvania #osmia #bees #insects #history #biology

Truman: The buck stops here. 🙇‍♂️
Trump: The buck stops here if it's green. 💵
#leadership #responsibility #difference #history

#AstridLundberg on #Moana and its odd parallel with actual #Polynesian #history:

I changed my root user shell from bash to fish.
What could possibly go wrong?
#Kubuntu #Linux #bash #history

Wallpaper at Fraunces Tavern Museum in NYC depicting General Washington arriving in Boston. The full 49-foot, 32-panel, 360-color "Views of the American War of Independence" is still produced by Zuber & Cie (est. 1797) in Rixheim, France, using 2,300 (!) wood blocks carved between 1834 and 1852. It takes a full year to print and is likely the world's most expensive wallpaper ($100,000?). The blocks themselves are classified as Historic Monuments by the French Ministry of Culture. #france #history #art #nyc #newyork #museum #wallpaper #woodblock #boston #war #independence #250th

The Artemis II mission also set a record for "most accomplishment with least attention".
Thanks Mr. President. We couldn't do it without you. 🙄
#Artemis #space #history #sarcasm #distraction

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (March 12, 1821 – October 30, 1893) who was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 3rd prime minister of Canada from 1891 to 1892. Probably not well known by Canadians he nonetheless lived an interesting life and the attached Wiki is full of details both fascinating and informative, such as being the great-grandfather of Christopher Plummer. He was Canada's 1st native born PM, and one of just 2 Prime Ministers, the other being Mackenzie Bowell, to have held the office while serving in the Senate rather than the House of Commons. His political career had to overcome his signing of a declaration to join with the United States, and he was at the center of the CPR bribery scandal that brought down Macdonald's government. His 17 months as PM were regarded as effective, despite the fact that he spent a considerable amount of time trying to nominate John Thompson to take his place.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abbott

Good Morning #Canada
Almost all remaining #CanadaRivers on our countdown are legendary and/or have historical significance, and #14 is an example. The Athabasca River in Alberta, Canada, originates at the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park and flows more than 1,231 km, or 1,538 km depending on the information source. It is the longest river that flows entirely within Alberta, emptying into Lake Athabasca after draining an area of roughly 95,300 km2. Much of the land along its banks is protected in national and provincial parks, and the river is designated a Canadian heritage river for its historical and cultural importance. The Athabasca River and tributaries have provided vital transportation routes for Indigenous People for 1,000s of years, and a relative heartbeat for European explorers, and the fur traders. Preservation errorts conflict with resource extraction as uranium mines, pulp & paper mills and oil sands all impact the Athabasca.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/athabasca-river