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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/

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

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

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.

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

The United Stage. #theatre #art #history

The Book That Changed How I Think About Liberalism | The Ezra Klein Show
#uspol

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
#history

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.

East Prigorodny conflict - Wikipedia
#til #history

East Prigorodny conflict - Wikipedia

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

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

I've been listening to podcasts about the Civil War and have been struck by how almost everyone mispronounces Ku Klux Klan, saying "CLUE" for the first part even though there is no "L". Among the offenders are commentators in Ken Burn's The Civil War, everyone on NPR news, and, if memory serves me, characters in the movie, BlacKkKlansman, which is astounding. I found an image from the 1930s that shows that it's not just a modern problem. Drives me nuts. #CivilWar #KuKluxKlan #KluKluxKlan #kkk #linquistics #language #history #spelling #racism #pennsylvania

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

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

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