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AUTEM MORT. A married woman; also a female beggar with several children hired or borrowed to excite charity. CANT.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Events for the 24th of July from Wikipedia:
• 1977: End of a four-day-long Libyan–Egyptian War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan%E2%80%93Egyptian_War
• Birth (1976) of Rafer Alston, American basketball player https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafer_Alston
• Death (1910) of Arkhip Kuindzhi, Ukrainian-Russian painter (b. 1841) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkhip_Kuindzhi
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This "may be the first comprehensive account of the only time a nuclear projectile was fired from a cannon (known as Atomic Annie)."
https://soundcloud.com/tim-lambert-2/awards-me-atomic-test-version
In 1975, oral historian Johnetta Brazzell used the "newly portable and increasingly affordable cassette recorder" to document the stories of everyday Black residents of the city of Pontiac, Michigan.
"We're trying to locate people who lived [in Pontiac] and get eyewitness accounts of what was going on, how people lived, where they worked and, generally, just what life was like for them."
https://daily.jstor.org/the-cassette-tapes-of-the-great-migration/
PIN. In or to a merry pin; almost drunk: allusion to a sort of tankard, used in the north, having silver pegs or pins set at equal distances from the top to the bottom:every person drinking out of one of these tankards, was to swallow the quantity contained between two pins.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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For the first time, researchers have identified an ancient #Maya mathematician by name after decoding a painted wall text from the archaeological site of Xultun in northeastern #Guatemala. The finding links a mathematical formula to an individual named Sak Tahn Waax, giving historians the first direct evidence of a Classic Maya scholar claiming credit for scientific work.
– Dario Radley, First named Maya mathematician identified from 1,200-year-old wall inscription in Guatemala https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/first-named-maya-mathematician-guatemala/
44 years ago today
Black Flag performs On Broadway, supported by Meat Puppets, Descendents and Angst, July 23, 1982
Photo by Glen E. Friedman
Artwork by Raymond Pettibon
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #blackflag #descendents #history #punkrockhistory #otd
NICKNAME. A name given in ridicule or contempt: from the French nom de niqne. Niqne is a movement of the head to mark a contempt for any person or thing.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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36 years ago today
Babysitters on Acid is the first album by the American punk rock band the Lunachicks, released on this day in 1990 by Blast First Records
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #lunachicks #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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Events for the 23rd of July from Wikipedia:
• 1993: China Northwest Airlines Flight 2119 crashes during takeoff from Yinchuan Xihuayuan Airport in Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, killing 55 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Northwest_Airlines_Flight_2119
• Birth (1773) of Abraham Colles, Irish anatomist (d. 1841) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Colles
• Holiday: Liborius of Le Mans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liborius_of_Le_Mans
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Crusaders slaughtered Jewish communities across Europe before they ever reached Jerusalem. Carroll does not look away.
#books #bookreview #Christianity #history
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/christianity-and-antisemitism-history/
Featured story: What changed? How did Christianity become the political weapon we see today?
A new book from historian Joseph L. Locke investigates how "militant" Christian nationalism became the state religion. https://www.texasobserver.org/one-state-under-god-book-review/
#books #religion #Texas #politics #USpol #culture #history #bookstodon
Much of the camp infrastructure we see today was established in the Obama years. In 2014, as more families fled violence and poverty and headed toward the United States, the Obama administration reverted to using detention as an attempted means of deterrence.
https://www.texasobserver.org/excerpt-how-to-close-a-camp/
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New from Deliah Brown: As America marks its 250th year, the question remains: Are we committed to continuing to build a more inclusive democracy, or are we willing to accept the erosion of the protections previous generations fought so hard to secure? https://www.texasobserver.org/voting-rights-civil-rights-future/
LEFT-HANDED WIFE. A concubine; an allusion to an ancient German custom, according to which, when a man married his concubine, or a woman greatly his inferior, he gave her his left hand.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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The Scandal of the Stanford White Murder That Shook New York
Love, jealousy, and revenge collided at the turn of the century with the murder of Stanford White.
https://www.thecollector.com/stanford-white-murder-scandal-new-york/
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BLEEDING CULLY. One who parts easily with his money, or bleeds freely.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Events for the 22nd of July from Wikipedia:
• 1594: The Dutch city of Groningen defended by the Spanish and besieged by a Dutch and English army under Maurice of Orange, capitulates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen
• Birth (1977) of Ingo Hertzsch, German footballer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingo_Hertzsch
• Holiday: Ratcatcher's Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratcatcher%27s_Day
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New in #books: It starts with questioning the legitimacy of the camps. In this excerpt, John Washington explains how we got here ... and looks toward a future where we put an end to immigrant detention. https://www.texasobserver.org/excerpt-how-to-close-a-camp/
#books #bookstodon #ICE #immigration #HumanRights #history #politics #USpol @bookstodon
"In May 1818, #MordecaiManuelNoah, a prominent #Jew of his time and a member of the #Madison administration, delivered a discourse on #Jewish #history on the occasion of a #synagogue consecration. One man read #Noah’s words with interest, and took pen to paper to say so.
“Your sect by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal spirit of #religious #intolerance,” the correspondent noted, in elegant cursive. “Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religious, as they do our civil, rights by putting them all on equal footing. But more remains to be done, for although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.”
The letter’s author was #ThomasJefferson. 200 years later, there’s still work to do.
The Jefferson letter is one of 75 objects on view at All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years of Jews and #American #Democracy, the American Jewish #Historical Society’s new exhibit at the Center for #JewishHistory."
CROSS BUTTOCK. A particular lock or fall in the Broughtonian art, which, as Mr. Fielding observes, conveyed more pleasant sensations to the spectators than the patient.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Elizabeth Van Lew’s Heroic Career As A Civil War Spy
By Gina Dimuro
Perhaps the Union's most important spy, Elizabeth Van Lew freed prisoners and passed along crucial information gathered at the Confederate capital of Richmond.
BELLOWS. The lungs.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Events for the 21st of July from Wikipedia:
• 1959: Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpsie_Green
• Birth (1937) of Eduard Streltsov, Soviet footballer (d. 1990) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Streltsov
#history #events #historical #today @histodons
This guy explains how Roman soldiers would carry their items.
@Rainmaker1973 #globalmuseum #Roman #history
🏺 TIL: The Nok culture of central Nigeria was making iron tools centuries before Rome became an empire.
Flourishing from roughly 1500 BC to 200 AD, the Nok were among the earliest iron-smelting societies in sub-Saharan Africa. They also created near life-size terracotta sculptures - the oldest known figurative sculpture south of the Sahara, depicting men, women, musicians, and dignitaries with elaborate hairstyles and ceremonial jewelry.
The Nok are one of very few civilizations that jumped straight from stone tools to iron, skipping the Bronze Age entirely. Pearl millet was their staple crop, consumed in ritual feasting contexts at burial sites.
We don't know what language they spoke, what they called themselves, or why their culture disappeared around 200 AD. The name 'Nok' comes from the village where the first terracotta was found by tin miners in 1928.
Read more:
https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/nok-terracottas-500-b-c-200-a-d
https://archaeology.org/issues/online/features/the-nok-of-nigeria/
https://www.worldhistory.org/Nok_Culture/
ACTIVE CITIZEN. A louse.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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WHIFFLERS. Ancient name for fifers; also persons at the universities who examine candidates for degrees. A whiffling cur, a small yelping cur.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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Events for the 20th of July from Wikipedia:
• 1940: Denmark leaves the League of Nations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations
• Birth (1901) of Heinie Manush, American baseball player and manager (d. 1971) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinie_Manush
• Death (1974) of Allen Jenkins, American actor and singer (b. 1900) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Jenkins
#history #events #historical #today @histodons
The SCMaglev and Railway Park in Aichi Japon. It is a showcase of train technology, historical and modern, ran officially by Japan Railways Central.
If you like trains, it is necessary to go there. Besides the trains, they also feature the IT technologies used for ticketing. That is truly the nerd icing on the train cake.
#train #trains #railway #shinkansen #japon #japan #aichi #jrcentral #jrtokai #bahn #bahnbilder #tech #ticketing #museum #history
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"A #museum designed to preserve #history and educate the community on the atrocities of the #Holocaust, so that history does not repeat itself, has been subjected to hateful comments causing distress to its staff.
#Melbourne #HolocaustMuseum chief executive #BreannFallon said in the aftermath of the #antisemitic terror attack at #Bondi last year, museum staff and volunteers received a lot of support from the broader community.
But she said there had also been an uptick in negativity and hate.
"When you pick up the phone, you don't know what's going to happen on the other end, and so it's this sort of underlying sense of awareness and having to be alert at all times," Dr Fallon said."
Who was the girl with Barack Obama and George Clooney, on that boat ride in 2019?
One news company decided to blur her face in some photos, and totally ignored that she was on the boat!
The girl may have been Savita Ng, Barack's niece. Is there a reason to be ashamed of the girl's presence, on the boat with the two men?
https://medium.com/@ObamaWhiteHouse/behind-the-lens-2015-year-in-photographs-b5064a44df4a
COVENT GARDEN ABBESS. A bawd.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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BARREL FEVER. He died of the barrel fever; he killed himself by drinking.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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