The TIROS-1 satellite transmitted the first #television picture from space OTD in 1960 https://cromwell-intl.com/technical/pal-to-ntsc.html?s=mb #history
#CORYBOOKER IS FIRE 
Ranging from #anger to #women's #suffrage (#AlicePaul) to #FrederickDouglass to all aspects of #American #history in hour 19-20 of a no sleep #filibuster in rhetoric I could never elocute well rested in my entire life
WITNESS THIS MAN
I wanted to capture some snippets from hour 19 (he's going on hour 22 now)
Corey Booker on #Anger:
René Lalique (1860-1945) Femme Libellule, Vers 1897-1898
Ornement de corsage en Or, Email, Chrysoprase, Pierres de Lune et Diamants 23 x 26,5 cm Calouste Gulbenkian Fondation, Lisbonne
By #StainedGlassArtCreations
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces
Yesterday's statement in support of the Smithsonian Institution from the American Historical Association, co-signed by 22 other organizations, following Trump's March 27 executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
https://www.historians.org/news/historians-defend-the-smithsonian/
Zines are an important way of tracking history, particularly the history of social movements — they were crucial organizing tools for protests and community action as well as vehicles for artistic expression. Now, they're becoming part of museum and archive collections. Atlas Obscura discusses their importance for queer and trans communities in the past and today, where they're enjoying a resurgence. "We’re all the voices that don’t show up in other media and presses,” says Milo Miller, co-creator of the Queer Zine Archive Project.
#Zines #SocialHistory #Activism #QueerCulture #Culture #TransRights #History @histodons
Trust, grief, and the courage to let go…Capitalism is unraveling—so what comes next?
Read Emilia Zenzile Roig’s powerful take on why we don’t need a blueprint for the future to step into it: https://medium.com/postgrowth/heres-what-s-coming-after-capitalism-54ff7c7fccc5?source=friends_link&sk=d3aee971a3f505f709a97c7c0f80b480
2 September 1965
The Daily Express introduces Thunderbirds to its readers.
Four weeks of introductions led to the first episode of Thunderbirds, which premiered on 30 September 1965.
Brazilian Army Removes Tribute to 1964 Coup Day at Barracks After Resistance and Court Ruling
#politics #brazil #democracy #history https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2025/03/brazilian-army-removes-tribute-to-1964-coup-day-at-barracks-after-resistance-and-court-ruling.shtml?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=comptw
Spring at Lilburn Tower, Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland.
A strange rainy but sunny chilly but warm spring day.
The castle was finally smashed up in the war of the roses I believe.
Transgender activist and TED Resident Samy Nour Younes shares the remarkable, centuries-old history of the trans community.
https://www.ted.com/talks/samy_nour_younes_a_short_history_of_trans_people_s_long_fight_for_equality #TED #Transgenderl #LGBTQ #History #TransHistory #Identity #Equality
Ellen and William Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom (1860) tells the story of the couple's escape from slavery, with Ellen disguised as a young, White gentleman of means and William as her slave. #History #Abolitionism #EllenCraft #Slavery #WilliamCraft #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2681-en/
A look at #history and why, if Americans get their act together, they just might stop the fascism and authoritarianism in the US...if they so choose.
> Fascism in the United States? https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/01/fascism-in-the-united-states/
Medieval hygiene is a horror story in of itself. By @liferuralfrance #history #medieval#medievalmedicine
Did Medieval People Really Smell That Bad? The Truth About Hygiene In The Middle Ages https://flip.it/tV1JNi
The Christine Keeler Story - As Told by the Press
13. Daily Herald 21 March 1963
A break-in at Stephen Ward’s villa. Did this have anything to do with Christine, or was it unrelated? A lot of things were happening to her, and the people around her. Press and politicians were keen to understand what was going on.
Monday 1 April 1963
Sir Edmund Hillary has halted his latest Himalayan climbing expedition and ordered his whole team to help fight a smallpox epidemic that is sweeping through Sherpa villages. Doctors are already in the district and vaccines will be flown in.
On Egyptian Pyramids and Why It’s Definitely Aliens - History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exci... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/on-egyptian-pyramids-and-why-its-definitely-aliens/ #originalart #aprilfools #featured #fiction #history #pyramid #nojoke #power
The new book from Lise Olsen traces a forensic anthropologist’s decades-long attempt to restore the identities of the victims of one of #Texas’ most prolific serial killers—and explores the shocking reasons why so many boys who were kidnapped, tortured, and killed by a murderer trolling #Houston neighborhoods in the early 1970s remained anonymous for so long.
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-scientist-and-the-serial-killer/
#history #CriminalJustice #books #bookstodon @bookstodon #GulfCoast
Death Is Our Business (
) #History #Nonfiction
The disturbing inside story of how the Wagner private military company exploits a warring world.In 2014, a well-trained, mysterious band of mercenaries arrived in Ukraine for Russia's first attempt to claim the country as its own. Upon ceasefire, the “Wagner Group” faded back into shadow, only to reemerge in the Middle East, where they'd go toe-to-toe with the U.S., and in Africa,...
