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63 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962,
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published.
It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT
and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry.
Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy.
#otd #history 🗃️

@prachisrivas@masto.ai
2025-09-11 16:18:36

Great way to learn history.
#History #Education

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-08-12 16:30:34
@crell@phpc.social
2025-09-15 23:04:46

It's Duck Tape!
#History

@frankstohl@mastodon.social
2025-09-30 10:10:08

macOS Icon History #apple #icons #history

@bici@mastodon.social
2025-10-11 15:38:57

I have been reading parts of Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin.
Sure seems like History repeats itself.

#history #Isherwood

@samvarma@fosstodon.org
2025-09-17 19:53:45

Currently making my way through this podcast, S4, which is all about how the USA was founded, and how its supposed ideals have played out since then.
It strikes me that the root problem, before the genocide, the slavery, the exploitation and racism, is oligarchy.
#history #AmericanHistory

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-08-26 11:58:53

Good Morning #Canada
Collingwood Ontario today is known as a resort town, supporting skiers at Blue Mountains and swimmers at nearby Wasaga Beach. But the town was built on their reputation for ship building for over 100 years. The Collingwood Shipyard, established in 1882, was a major shipbuilding center, building over 200 ships including Great Lakes freighters, naval vessels, and the HMCS Hochelaga. During #WWII the shipyard launched ships for the Canadian Navy. The shipyard was famous for its unique side-launching technique, necessary due to harbour constraints, which became a significant local spectacle. It closed in 1986, and after significant remediation efforts, the site is now a waterfront park with mixed housing and a marina.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
definingmomentscanada.ca/all-f

@kctipton@mas.to
2025-09-01 22:53:58

Army Soldier Recalls the Day that Victory over Japan Was Declared | Military.com #history

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-11 09:28:32
Content warning:

"Look, guys, look what I've got!"
#PhallusThursday
#GreekRomanArt #history @…

Red-figure vase painting of three male actors, all of whom wear trunks with an erect phallus. Two of them hold the mask of a satyr, seemingly talking to each other, while a third has already put on his mask and flaunts the phallus on his trunks.
@davidbody@fosstodon.org
2025-09-16 17:51:21

The new Python documentary is good. Definitely worth watching if you think you might be interested. It's on YouTube.
#python #programming #history

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-09-01 12:51:45

No, #LaborDay is not simply Americans refusing to be like everyone else and celebrate May 1st. If you're looking for something on the holiday's #history in #Canada, Heron and Penfold's "The Workers' Festival&…

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-01 12:47:35

Food history & inspiration: Appreciating this thread from @… on making "frumenty" which I don't think I'd ever heard of before!
#food #history #England

@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social
2025-08-08 07:51:03

Laut AI Forensics flutet KI-generierter „AI Slop“ die Feeds: TikTok & Instagram versagen bei der Kennzeichnung. Wer nach #Trump oder #History sucht, trifft längst häufiger auf Fiktion als auf Fakten. Plattformen drücken sich um Verantwortung – Transparenz bleibt KI-Fantasie. Quelle:

@davej@dice.camp
2025-09-24 09:02:04

#JDraper’s latest London #History Show: “How We Beat The #Fascists Last Time”
A really good, solid 48 1/2 minutes on how #antifa

@bobmueller@mastodon.world
2025-09-08 22:00:06

Oh, my. I truly hope this gets released to the public in some way. #WW2 #familyhistory #history

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-09-30 20:06:28

#WorkingClass #History

@cheryanne@aus.social
2025-09-30 11:28:40

Great meet the author event tonight with Frank Bongiorno in conversation with Virginia Haussegger about her new book (launched tonight) *Unfinished Revolution*. Elizabeth Reid was there too!
#Books #History #Politics

Whiteboard depiction of the event
Frank, Virginia, Elizabeth, Mark
@spamless@mastodon.social
2025-08-31 16:34:09

How Ancient Receipts Ushered in the Dawn of the Written Word ‹ Literary Hub #history

@frankstohl@mastodon.social
2025-09-30 10:10:08

macOS Icon History #apple #icons #history

@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2025-08-09 16:06:59

This weekend is the last chance to say goodbye to our local West Montrose Covered Bridge ("Kissing Bridge"). The historic 145 year old span of the Grand River is the last remaining original one in #Ontario. It will be replaced over the next 2 years by a rebuilt covered bridge, with hopefully many of the original elements reused.

The entrance to an old red covered bridge is seen with a blue historical plaque to the side.
image/jpeg a aerial photo of a long red covered bridge with a dark cedar roof and white support pillar spans a river with the banks covered in greenery.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-20 01:00:51

Statue of a rifleman on the old battlefield at Gettysburg, PA
#photo #photography #landscape #history

A rectngular rock with a cracked pattern cut into it reminiscent of a stone wall with a bas relief of a rifeleman sighting in a gun and wearing a union army uniform of the civil war period in front of a stone wall in a great open field.
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-08-09 12:18:11

Good Morning #Canada
The Webster–Ashburton Treaty was signed August 9, 1842, and resolved several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies (the region that very soon would become the Dominion of Canada). The treaty would end disputes and controversies over the vague indefinite terms and text of the old peace agreement of the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the American Revolutionary War. Specifically, it defined borders between Maine and New Brunswick, territory surrounding Lake Superior, and reaffirmed the western border on the 49th parallel. More importantly, it began a period of peace and friendly diplomacy between the two countries... until Americans decided a moronic spray tanner, suspected abuser of women, convicted felon, golf cheat, and narcissistic conman should be their president.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-10-23 10:00:23
Content warning: UK trans law history research

Interesting thread from @…, on some 1999 Department of Health documents newly unearthed by @reactiveashley.bsky.social, showing the thinking at the time.
#UKPol #UKLaw #trans #law #history #EqualitiesLaw

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-25 13:20:11
Content warning:

It's dangerous to go alone! Take this.
#PhallusThursday
#GreekRomanArt #antiquidons #history

Roman phallic pendant from Suffolk, UK, 43-410 CE. The pendant has been photographed from all sides, a loop for a chain or necklace above the well-crafted scrotum. The tips of all three photos point downwards towards a measuring band.
@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-10-20 07:07:03

Then, France: Let them eat cake. 🥪
Now, USA: Let them eat $hit. 💩
USA the clear winner. 🙄
#USA #uspol #NoKings #shame #history

@spamless@mastodon.social
2025-07-31 11:52:07

Oh, brother!
(It says that in a story about Anne Frank yesterday, the reporter called her a resistance fighter rather than a victim of the Nazis.)
#journalism #history

Photo of correction out of today's Wiesbadener Kurier newspaper. The text is in German.
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-08-04 11:43:15

Good Morning #Canada
It's a holiday across most of our nation today, so why not take 14 minutes to find out why Alaska isn't part of Canada and discover why Lord Alverstone is the villain you've likely never heard of.
Lord Alverstone, whose full name was Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone, played a key role in the Alaska Boundary Dispute of 1903. As the British representative on the arbitration tribunal, he ultimately sided with the United States, leading to a decision that favored the US claim over Canada's claims regarding the Alaska panhandle. At the time, the British government was trying to rebuild relationships with the U.S. and likely instructed Lord Alverstone to rule against Canadian border claims.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
youtu.be/woXBk3OAtSM?si=-pTwI7

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-19 12:17:40
Content warning:

A 2000 year old golden shower.
#FannyFriday
#GreekRomanArt #history #antiquidons

Red-figure vase painting of a nude woman pissing into a bucket. She wears a headdress, shoes r socks hanging on the wall beside her.
@kctipton@mas.to
2025-10-06 08:57:41

#satellite #mystery

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-10 22:07:59

My son Elliot when we were visiting Gettysburg, PA this spring
#gettysburg #history #photo #photography

A wide picture with an almost straight path that curves to the left in the distance with a young man wearing dark grey pants and a blue and white shirt standing on one side of it.  To the right there is a strip of close mowed grass and then a field of taller grass with a few psoradic trees,  to the right close cut grass with stone walls and primitive rail fences
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-08-19 11:47:09

Good Morning #Canada
On August 19th, 1942, Operation Jubilee was launched. Commonly known as the Dieppe Raid, it was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port in northern France. Over 6,050 infantry, predominantly Canadian, supported by a regiment of tanks, were put ashore from a naval force operating under the protection of Royal Air Force fighter aircraft. Aerial and naval support was insufficient to enable the ground forces to achieve their objectives. The tanks were trapped on the beach, and the infantry was largely prevented from entering the town by obstacles and German fire. After less than six hours, mounting casualties forced a retreat. Within ten hours, 3,623 of the 6,086 men who landed had been killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. 5,000 were Canadians, who suffered a 68% casualty rate, with 3,367 killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. The operation was a fiasco and a dark day for Canada’s military.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #WWII
youtu.be/jiFKJNiXFok?si=fWzmci

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-08-15 12:15:37

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to
Sir James Douglas (August 15, 1803 – August 2, 1877) who was a Canadian fur trader and politician who became the first Governor of the Colony of British Columbia. He is often credited as "The Father of British Columbia." Douglas was born in Guyana to a wealthy Scottish planter and a free woman of colour. He was educated in Scotland, and in 1819, at age 16, he went to Canada to work for the North West Company and then the Hudson's Bay Company. After a long career managing remote outposts, in 1851, he became Chief Factor at Fort Vancouver. In 1858, he became Governor of the Colony of British Columbia, where he oversaw gold rushes and fought against American annexation.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-09-01 12:10:43

Good Morning #Canada
When I'm on the interwebs looking for material to post every morning, I occasionally come across an interesting bit of history that isn't taught in school. Today, courtesy of @…, we get the tale of two French aristocrats who are embezzling from the colony of Quebec that they were sworn to oversee and protect. The wife of one of the men is having an affair with the other, apparently with permission. After narrowly escaping death by British cannonball, the trio fled to France after Quebec City fell to Britain. There, they faced scandal and were blamed for the loss of France's colonies, facing prison and banishment. French aristocracy knew how to have a good time.
#CanadaIsAwesome #LoveTriangle #History
youtu.be/PsdPCuBg3fs?si=olJU6_

@paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-08-07 11:36:44

Good Morning #Canada
On August 7, 1927, the Peace Bridge, an international bridge spanning the Niagara River between Buffalo, New York, and Fort Erie, Ontario, was dedicated. This event commemorated over a century of peace between the United States and Canada. I'm guessing there won't be a ceremony for 200 years of peace since we're now the "nasty Canadians."
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #ElbowsUp
veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/