The 1811 German Coast Uprising (8-11 January 1811) was the largest slave revolt in US history involving between 300-500 enslaved and free Blacks in the Louisiana parishes of St. #History #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24233-en/
"Fort Constitution and Portsmouth Harbor Light"
https://pixels.com/profiles/scottloringdavis
Portsmouth Harbor Light is the only lighthouse on the mainland of New Hampshire, . . . READ MORE
https://pixels.com/featured/fort-constitution-and-portsmouth-harbor-light-scott-loring-davis.html
Anubis: The Secrets of the Egyptian God of the Underworld
by Heather Reilly
https://www.thecollector.com/anubis-egyptian-god-underworld/
On this day in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the "original soul sister" and "Godmother of rock and roll" was born.
"Rock 'n' roll was bred between the church and the nightclubs in the soul of a queer black woman in the 1940s named Sister Rosetta Tharpe."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9a49oFalZE
The Antipope Who Became a Saint: Forgery, Heresy, and the Power of Manuscripts https://www.medievalists.net/2022/03/the-antipope-who-became-a-saint-forgery-heresy-and-the-power-of-manuscripts/ #History
It's not often you get to see history practically halted in its tracks, but here is a rare case.
On the left is John Constable's 1821 painting, 'The Haywain', and on the right, is my picture of the same location from 200 years later. Willy Lott's House is probably the least altered part of the scene.
If you are curious about **real spies of the 17th century**, you might be interested in this interview I made with Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac (director and curator of Port-Royal-des-Champs Abbey and Museum).
She is a historian of spies & 17th century!
DOGE’s Dodgy Numbers Employ a Tesla Technique
#Safety researchers claim Elon Musk’s auto company has a long #history of potentially misleading #stats. Now it looks like his #government dept is following suit.
https://www.wired.com/story/doges-dodgy-numbers-employ-a-tesla-technique/
#DOGE “put out some numbers, they didn’t smell good, they switched things around,” alleges Noah Goodall, an independent transportation researcher. “That screamed #Tesla. You get the feeling they’re not really interested in the #truth.”
Chess masters and physicists show how expertise, not innate talent, enables flexible thinking. For evaluating online info, that means knowing #history and civics.
A scholar explains: https://theconversation.com/why-history-instruction-is-critical-for-combating-online-misinformation-248528
@academicchatter #academicchatter @psychology
42 years ago today
Black Flag and Minutemen support by Neigheist and Frantix, Rainbow Music Hall, Denver Colorado, March 20, 1983.
The Christine Keeler Story - As Told by the Press
3. Daily Express, 17 January 1963
The first newspaper photograph of Christine Keeler, on page 10 of the Daily Express. The story was still low-key, but the photograph indicates that the press were starting to show a serious interest.
Going through old photographs and I believe this is Raglan Castle (I tend to binge castles on my visits to Wales).
I love the evocative old stairways and doorways into bare rooms, cool, damp and dark, but once filled with warmth and wealth. There is little left but echoes and whispers of the people who once walked these well-worn steps.
It’s all good fodder for my creative writing.
Puerto Rican Women Who Changed History: Trailblazers, Leaders, and Icons
#WomensHistoryMonth #herstory #history #PuertoRico
https://www.hercampus.com/school/uprm/puerto-rican-women-who-changed-history-trailblazers-leaders-and-icons
Must-watch: Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat answers questions about dictators from Reddit and Twitter
https://youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw
Between 1966 and 1970, a San Francisco-area photographer captured thousands of images documenting civil rights demonstrations, protests against the Vietnam War, Grateful Dead concerts in Golden Gate Park, and so much more.
The problem, though, is that no one knows who the photographer is.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/who-shot-me-speaklocal/
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #417: The Invention of the microwave.
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#radarange #microwave #radar #raytheon #inventions #accidentalinventions #percyspencer #science #technology #tech #history #popcorn #strangebuttrue #wtf #military #militaryhistory #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
https://archaeo.social has defederated https://social.freysa.ai, which is flooding hashtags such as #Archaeology and #History with repetitive LLM-generated posts.
#OnThisDay, 19 March 1944, Yvonne Baseden parachutes into Nazi-occupied France as a Special Operations Executive radio operator. The British SOE supported the French resistance. Radio operators ran the greatest risk of discovery as their position could be triangulated when they were transmitting.
Baseden was captured and sent to Ravensbrück.
She was the subject of the first regular UK edition of This Is Your Life in 1955.
Nothing but the utmost respect and love for Dale Olson.
#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #history #QueerHistory #1954
Remembering Terry Hall, English musician and lead singer of The Specials 
March 19, 1959 - December 18, 2022
The Specials - Too Much Too Young
