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A farmer traveled the world by foot, collecting 60,000 autographs in a book #history #culture

A farmer traveled the world by foot, collecting 60,000 autographs in a book
Joseph Mikulec, a Croatian farmer, wanted to travel the world. And he did, getting autographs of kings, presidents and others as he walked more than 200,000 miles.

Good Morning #Canada
July 1840 - British parliament passed the Act of Union 1840, and it was proclaimed officially on February 10, 1841, in Montreal. The act abolished the legislatures of Lower Canada (basically the East coast and Quebec) and Upper Canada (most of present day Ontario) and established a new political entity, the Province of Canada to replace them. British objectives were to exert more control of their colony and suppress the French speaking population. In 1848, the Province of Canada was allowed "responsible government," giving them limited rights to pass laws, and some of the more repressive laws of the Act of Union were repealed.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/act-of-union

When "Rock around the Clock" was recorded, Brahms' Hungarian Dances were about as old as Rock around the Clock is today.
#music #history

Caught in the Game: On the History and Evolution of Web Browser Gaming
#history

The lack of history education shows when you hear people about current times, ofcourse history never repeats itself exactly, but many of the same patterns and mechanisms we have seen in fascism and autocracy are visible. Read some history be less amazed and better prepared.
#history #fascism

woke up this morning fully expecting this bluesky post to have gone full-internet viral & mildly salty that it hasn't because it just made me snort again, so sharing it over here. #muppets #history

"Pop, soda or coke? The fizzy #history behind America’s favorite linguistic debate"
"A #chemistry professor, Benjamin Stillman, set up the first [Carbonated water] device in a drugstore in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1806."
Having grown up in the Midwest, I'm a "p…

Pop, soda or coke? The fizzy history behind America’s favorite linguistic debate
An expert in American dialects explains how a ‘health drink’ from the early 1800s spawned so many names and variations.

Standard night out in Cambridge. At the Soan museum London
#Art #history

Good Morning #Canada
The Battle of Lundy's Lane, also known as the Battle of Niagara, was fought on July 25th 1814, during the War of 1812. An invading American army clashed with British and Canadian defenders near present-day Niagara Falls, Ontario. It was one of the bloodiest battles of the war, and one of the deadliest battles fought in Canada, with approximately 1,720 casualties, including 258 killed. The engagement was marked by intense musketry at close range and instances of friendly fire on both sides amidst the smoke and confusion, which caused several units to break entirely. The two armies fought each other to a stalemate; neither side held firm control of the field following the engagement. However, the casualties suffered by the Americans precipitated their withdrawal and signaled the beginning of the end of the War of 1812. This battle therefore gave Canada a strategic victory.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #ElbowsUp
https://youtu.be/TfOqx-qO9gM?si=W-JF7tkWZDxgwweN

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:

Here the latest episode of my Human Meme podcast!
#time

Caught a scan of a dynamic equestrian statue this weekend
#horses

Gettysburg National Military Park
View this scan by @UP8 in 3D on Scaniverse.

How hunter-gatherers slept: sleep and rest in the prehistoric era https://lithub.com/how-exactly-did-hunter-gatherers-sleep-on-rest-and-relaxation-in-the-prehistoric-era

How Exactly Did Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era
“…human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.” Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (1986) * Sleep was a mystery to our distant ance…

🌹 The 2,000-Year-Old 'Perfume Garden' in the Ancient City of Pompeii Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory #gardening #history #archeology
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-2000-year-old-perfume-garden-in-the-ancient-city-of-pompeii-has-been-restored-to-its-former-glory-180986830/

I wonder how involved my abuelo, who would have been only 13, or his father/family, was in this. They lived in village called Silla a few kilometres south of Valencia.
Soy pensamiento de mi abuelo y su familia durante el guerra civil en València.
#Valencia #SpanishCivilWar #España #historia #history #fascism
https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/114898085057932640

#resist #history

Mr. Twain Offers a Lesson on Patriotism , by Scott Horton
It was March 16, 1901. A lanky man with elegant and flowing white hair and a prominent moustache strode to the podium. He hardly needed an introduction:

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

Interior, Wells Cathedral, Somerset, April 2025
#photography #heritagephotography #history #documentingplaces

Good Morning #Canada
July 24th, 1534, the original Cross of Gaspé was erected overlooking the bay of Gaspé, by the crew of Jacques Cartier on his first trip exploration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Planting the cross symbolized the ownership of the territory on behalf of the King of France. Today, a granite Cross of Gaspé, erected in 1934, has replaced the original. Amazing that the installation of a religious artifact defined clear ownership of a continent you didn't know existed just days prior.
I have a small Easter Island statue in my garden that I'm going to install in the middle of my neighbour's yard. Wish me luck.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #Colonization
https://youtu.be/aXZkwrI3V10?si=8abMJ6iEnSgGLUCr

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.

#History of #pretzel, probably:
1. Let's tie breadstick in a knot and call it pretzel.
2. Let's make pretzels tiny and sell them in bags as snack.
3. Let's enlarge the pretzel snack and sell them in pairs.
(picture taken at an Austrian supermarket)
#speculation #joke #sarcasm #cynicism

Good Morning #Canada
Another day in history... another invading force from the USA. Those pesky Fenians were back on this day in 1866, and this time, the 1,800 Irish-Americans riders were repelled back to the United States after they looted and plundered around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec. Although the Fenian raids were unsuccessful, they did encourage the Canadian provinces to band together for defense, leading to our Confederation as a country.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History

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

I find this map especially amusing in that in 1893, 238 colonists departed Australia (purportedly nonexistent) to found the New Australia colony in Paraguay (ditto).
Of course, Australia didn’t federate till 1901, so it could be argued that Australia didn’t *actually* exist at the time. And given Paraguay’s tremendous (but still hotly contested) losses in the 1864-70 Paraguayan War, the latter country was itself hanging on by a thread.

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

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1866, the Fenian Brotherhood crossed the Niagara River to invade Canada. This group was an Irish American organization that was dedicated to freeing Ireland from British rule, and they believed that if they captured Canada, they could use it as a bargaining tool. We could have become a nation of red-headed brawlers who were terrible hockey players.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://qormuseum.org/history/timeline-1856-1899/the-fenian-raid-1866/

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1904, the City of Niagara Falls was incorporated, with a population of approximately 7,000 residents. Niagara Falls was already a major tourist attraction with numerous hotels established in the 1880s, and it was the honeymoon destination for most of Canada and the USA. Today, you can visit the far superior Canadian Falls and play golf, visit War of 1812 historical sites, or deposit some money at the casino.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/niagara-falls-ont

The New World Order - #Hitler's Plans For After #WW2 | #HISTORY | #MilitaryTub |

BBC bias on Israel
From Jonathan Cook. (Substack link, sorry.)
"In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel's destruction of Gaza"
For example,
"... the distinguished Israeli historian Avi Shlaim lives in the UK and teaches at Oxford University. ... Shlaim is both knowledgeable about the history of Israeli colonisation of Palestine and truly independent. He is in a position to dispassionately provide the context BBC audiences need to make judgments about what is going on and who is responsible for it.
"And yet extraordinarily, Shlaim has never been invited on by the BBC. ... He is one of the prominent Israelis we are never allowed to hear from, because they are likely to make more credible and mainstream a narrative the BBC wishes to present as fringe, loopy and antisemitic."
Plus some media analysis stats such as:
"The BBC mentioned “occupation” – the essential context for understanding the relationship between Israel and Palestinians – only 14 times in news articles when providing context to the events of 7 October 2023. That amounted to 0.3% of articles. Additional context – decades of Israeli apartheid rule and Israel’s 17-year blockade of Gaza — were entirely missing from the coverage."
#Israel #Palestine #history #Gaza #media #BBC #JonathanCook

Good Morning #Canada
In 1713, with the Treaty of Utrecht, Acadia was ceded to the British. On June 23rd of that year, a proclamation was issued that all Acadians must pledge allegiance to Britain or leave the territory. After decades of resistance, in 1755, the British began forcibly deporting Acadians. This proved the British applied equal treatment to anyone who lived in the eastern territory before them, Native or French.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #Colonialism
https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/mapping-the-acadian-deportations/

Union soldiers fire their rifles at Gettysburg National Military Park
#photo #photography #history #gettysburg

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
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/webster-ashburton-treaty

💀 Solving the mystery of a 200-year-old ambush
#history

Solving the mystery of a 200-year-old ambush
A new report reveals that 10 Napoleonic soldiers attacked by Spanish guerrillas were not sent to prison, as previously believed, but killed

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
https://youtu.be/woXBk3OAtSM?si=-pTwI7OKidfK2g2L

Good Morning #Canada
Former privateer, a polite name for a pirate, Martin Frobisher left England on May 31st, 1578, for his 3rd voyage seeking gold and the elusive Northwest Passage. On this voyage, he also held the 1st Thanksgiving in North America when he and his crew landed safely in Nunavut on the shore of Hudson Bay. Ultimately, the ore he mined was not gold, and the Northwest Passage remained elusive, but he had a bay named after him.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/frobisher_martin_1E.html

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

Good Morning #Canada
It's World #Emoji Day! Let's all celebrate by sending small cartoonist images that people over 50 can barely see. Why are they so small
It's also a great day to celebrate the creation of the most important Emoji in history. Yes, after thousands of years waiting, the iconic 🦫has only been with us 6 years, but it feels like forever. Here is a repost of how Canada’s favourite mammal opened up communications with the rest of the world.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Beavers #History
https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/beaver-emoji-proposal-is-hilarious-and-extremely-correct.html

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
https://youtu.be/jiFKJNiXFok?si=fWzmcigVM8ZFfmHE

Good Morning #Canada
In June of 1759, new settlers began arriving in Nova Scotia, not from Europe but from the American colonies. French Canadians, known as Acadians, were removed from the Atlantic colony in 1755, and the British governor of Nova Scotia was anxious to repopulate his territory with loyal subjects. Many farmers in New England were struggling, and over the next decade, some 8,000 Americans were lured to Canada.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #Colonialism
https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/journey-of-new-england-planters-to-nova-scotia

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
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-james-douglas

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
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canada/peace-bridge-0

Good Morning #Canada
On this date in 1608, Samuel de Champlain founded Québec, the city and the colony. For 25 years, he tirelessly championed the ambitious project to establish a French colony in the St. Lawrence Valley. And that ladies and gentlemen, is how Canada became famous for #Poutine.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://youtu.be/5JbmGhS84WM?si=Pk6ajCXxkrXZSuaj

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1942, Sir Ian Fleming completed a training course for spies at Camp X, located just outside Whitby Ontario. This is also where Fleming met William Stephenson, the Winnipeg born businessman who created Camp X, the first training facility for spies in North America. Fleming later hinted that his character, James Bond, was based largely on Stephenson. So #007 basically exists because of Canada. You're welcome.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Spies #History
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/camp-x

Good Morning #Canada
In May of 1733, the government of Quebec City upheld the right of Canadians to hold Indigenous slaves. This decision, though controversial, reflects the broader practice of #Slavery in New France and later Canada, particularly the enslavement of Indigenous people, alongside enslaved Africans. This serves as a reminder that Canada was complicit in the practice of slavery until abolished in 1834.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/slavery-of-indigenous-people-in-canada