38 years ago today
Guy Picciotto falling out of a basketball hoop during a concert with his band Fugazi at Frankford YWCA, Philadelphia, August 7, 1988.
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #guypicciotto #fugazi #history #punkrockhistory #otd
The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/The…!
"On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist @timbl."
Happy birthday, web!
Julian Barnes on when a young Guy de Maupassant was invited to lunch at the holiday cottage of Algernon Swinburne.The Public Domain Review
Great blue heron at sunset at Yolo Basin
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#OTD 8/4/2019 #birding #birdsOfMastodon #birds #aBirdAday (or more)
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Vor 83 Jahren gelang Gefangenen des Vernichtungslagers Treblinka durch einen aufwendig geplanten Aufstand der Ausbruch. Einige der wenigen Überlebenden begannen noch während des Krieges, Zeugnis über die NS-Verbrechen abzulegen und traten später als Zeugen vor Gericht auf.
The wonderful imagery documenting Alexander Graham Bell's experiments with tetrahedral kites.The Public Domain Review
The terrifying Great Norway Serpent, or Sea Orm, is the most famous of the many influential sea monsters depicted and described by 16th-century ecclesiastic, cartographer, and historian Olaus Magnus.The Public Domain Review
Nicholas Tromans, author of Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum, takes a look at Dadd's most famous painting The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke.The Public Domain Review
Weighing in at a colossal 18,000 lines, Herman Melville’s Clarel (1876), which centres on the theological musings of a group of pilgrims touring the Holy Land, is not for the faint-hearted.The Public Domain Review
This week sees the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt. Leon Botstein, President of Bard College and music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, explores what we can still learn from the life and music of Lisz…The Public Domain Review
On this day in 1974, Emily Redmund from Cumberland spoke to the BBC about fell-talk, a dialect spoken in the Lake District in northern England.
The clip is from a BBC magazine television programme called Nationwide, originally broadcast 23 July 1974.
#OTD #OnThisDay #Language #Dialect #Linguistics #England #LakeDistrict #BBC #BBCArchive
When a volcano erupted on a small island in Indonesia in 1883, the evening skies of the world glowed for months with strange colours.The Public Domain Review
This year, the works of one of the most successful and universal writers of all time came into the public domain in many countries around the world.The Public Domain Review
Today is the birthday of Rosalind Franklin, the chemist who helped discover the structure of DNA. Born July 25, 1920, her work was crucial to refining the double helix model, though she went uncredited for years.
Celebrate her life with DNA inspired knitting patterns like these from my science pattern post
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Knitting patterns inspired by astronomy, biology, geology, physics, chemistry, and other sciences.intheloopknitting.com
Pages from a remarkable book, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe, the Croatian-born Georg Bocskay, and Flemish artist Joris Hoefnagel.The Public Domain Review
Belshazzar's Feast (1820) — a subversive take on the coronation of George IV.
Discover the apocalyptic compositions of John Martin — born #onthisday in 1789 — and how in his epic landscapes one can see reflected his revolutionary leanings: publicdomainreview.org/essay/j… #otd
Max Adams, author of The Prometheans, looks at the art of John Martin and how in his epic landscapes of apocalyptic scale one can see reflected his revolutionary leanings.The Public Domain Review
A remarkable compendium of more than six hundred doodles made by the nineteenth-century author William Makepeace Thackeray, depicting a huge range of subjects, from a violin-playing skeleton on a hangman's noose to naughty knights and injured angels.The Public Domain Review
Wobei vor allem im Ostseeraum und in Skandinavien die besten Displays zu sehen waren – der Westen Deutschlands ging außer am 29. Juni („Und was für eine Show dann folgte …“)…skyweek (Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null)
46 years ago today
Closer is the second and final studio album by English postpunk band Joy Division, released on this day in 1980 and two months after the suicide of the band's lead singer and lyricist Ian Curtis.
Wonderful photographs from Roald Amundsen's account of his expedition which became the first to reach the South Pole on 14 December 1911.The Public Domain Review
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Am 16. Juli 1903 wurde #FritzBauer geboren.
Als Staatsanwalt setzte er sich unermüdlich für die juristische Aufarbeitung der NS-Verbrechen ein und prägte die deutsche #Erinnerungskultur nachhaltig. Sein Einsatz für Gerechtigkeit und #Rechtsstaatlichkeit wirkt bis heute fort.
Unsere interaktive Online-#Ausstellung lädt dazu ein, sein Leben und Wirken anhand von Fotos, Dokumenten sowie Audio- und Videoquellen zu entdecken.
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NS-Verbrechen vor Gericht - Eine Online-Ausstellungfritz-bauer-der-staatsanwalt.de
Five hundred years ago in July, a strange mania seized the city of Strasbourg. Citizens by the hundred became compelled to dance, seemingly for no reason — jigging trance-like for days, until unconsciousness or, in some cases, death.The Public Domain Review
On the run from the Nazis in 1940, the philosopher, literary critic and essayist Walter Benjamin took his own life in the Spanish border town of Portbou.The Public Domain Review
Eighteenth-century images of the guillotining of King Louis XVI, which came to represent the changing nature of the French Revolution.The Public Domain Review
Hidden face in a landscape by the great Bohemian etcher Wenceslaus Hollar, who was born #onthisday in Prague in 1607.
More eyes in the hills here: publicdomainreview.org/collect… #otd
A compendium of anthropomorphic landscapes, in which natural vistas are given the form of human heads.The Public Domain Review
Happy birthday to the essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, born #onthisday in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. Here's a typically rhapsodic entry for Christmas Day from his journals. #otd
(More Christmas Day journal entries here: publicdomainreview.org/collect…)
A little collection of entries for Christmas Day from an eclectic mix of different diaries spanning five centuries, from 1599 to 1918.The Public Domain Review
Totes Meer (Dead Sea), 1940-1, by English artist Paul Nash, who died #onthisday in 1946.
See more of his art depicting both the First and Second World War here: publicdomainreview.org/collect… #OTD
Depictions of the destroyed and broken landscapes of the First and Second World War by the English artist Paul Nash, amongst the most important landscape artists of the twentieth century.The Public Domain Review
Happy Birthday to Peter John Joseph Murphy aka "Godfather Of Goth", English singer, musician and vocalist of the postpunk/ gothrock band Bauhaus, born on this day in 1957.
#punkrock #gothrock #postpunk #petermurphy #bauhaus #history #punkrockhistory #otd
@autonomysolidarity
Sehr schön, dass du an ihn erinnerst.
Der ist standhaft geblieben - kein Wunder, dass die #FCKNazis ihn schon 1934 beseitigt haben.
Auch hier nochmal die kurze Info, dass sie in Oranienburg eine Straße nach ihm benannt haben. Das habe ich noch nie woanders gesehen. Tut ausgesprochen gut, diese Straße zu benutzen und an ihn zu denken.
As a celebration of the centennial of the publication of Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu, we have put together a few highlights of the many mentions of artworks to be found in the first volume.The Public Domain Review
#OTD 106 years ago, Hollywood’s ultimate power couple, Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks, arrived in the Soviet Union.
Drawn by their admiration for Soviet cinema, they visited Moscow. At Mezhrapom Studios, Pickford planted a kiss on actor Igor Ilyinski. That playful moment inspired director Sergei Komarov’s feature "A Kiss for Mary Pickford," released in 1927. 🎬🌍
Check out this archive of Pickford and Fairbanks items ⤵️
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Gustave Flaubert, best known for his masterpiece Madame Bovary, spent nearly thirty years working on a surreal and largely 'unreadable' retelling of the temptation of Saint Anthony.The Public Domain Review
Today we celebrate a knitting legend, Barbara G. Walker, born on this day, July 2, in 1930. When she passed just last year, she left an enduring legacy of knitting stitch treasuries.
Her stitch designs inspired many knitting patterns like these from my Barbara Walker post
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A tribute to Barbara G. Walker with knitting patterns created with stitch patterns from her treasuries. Many of the patterns are freeintheloopknitting.com
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Heute jährt sich der Tod von #ElieWiesel zum 10. Mal.
Der #Holocaust-Überlebende kämpfte zeitlebens gegen das Vergessen.
Der Deutschlandfunk erinnert heute mit einem „Kalenderblatt“ an den Friedensnobelpreisträger.
Elie Wiesel: Überlebender der Shoah, Mahner gegen das Vergessen und Stimme für Menschlichkeit und Verantwortung weltweit.Deutschlandfunk
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Am 1. Juli 1968 starb Fritz Bauer.
Mit ihm verlor Deutschland einen unbeirrbaren Juristen, der gegen das Schweigen der Nachkriegszeit ankämpfte und die Aufarbeitung der NS-Verbrechen entscheidend voranbrachte. Sein Wirken bleibt bis heute ein wichtiges Zeichen für Rechtsstaatlichkeit, Mut und Verantwortung.
Die Online-Ausstellung Fritz Bauer. Der Staatsanwalt hat seinem Tod ein eigenes Kapitel gewidmet:
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Wolfgang WINDGASSEN, Tenor
26.06.1914, Annemasse - 08.09.1974, Stuttgart
1945-1974 Ensemblemitglied Staatsoper Stuttgart
1951-1970 Bayreuther Festspiele, 1. Parsifal beim Neubeginn; Abschied mit "Tristan und Isolde" (mit Birgit Nilsson)
1970-1974 Operndirektor in Stgt.
Er war NICHT Prof. an der Musikhochschule Stgt! #wikipedia
#otd #singer #tenor #stuttgart #bayreuth #greatvoicesofthepast #oper #classicalmusic
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Podcast episode about anti-fascist youth cultural movements in Nazi Germany before and during World War II. In particular we look at the German Edelweiss Pirates and Swing Kids, the French Zazous a…Working Class History
The great comet of 1881, observed 145 years ago on the night of June 25–26 — plate XI from The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1882).
More comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars through the ages in our post "Flowers of the Sky" publicdomainreview.org/collect… #onthisday #OTD
Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium — in chronological order — of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars.The Public Domain Review
Whitby Gothic (@whitbygothic.bsky.social)
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> +++ On this day, the 16th of June 1960, Psycho was first released +++ Based on the 1959 book by Robert Bloch loosely inspired by the case of convicted Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein #psycho #otd #alfredhitchcock #batesmotel #normanbates #americanhorror #robertbloch #anthonyperkins #janetleigh #horror
#otd Heute vor 82 Jahren
Gedenktafel für die combat medics auf dem Felsbrocken am Omaha Beach, an dem am 6. Juni 1944 provisorisch die erste Sammelstelle für Verletzte eingerichtet wurde. #dday
Whitby Gothic (@whitbygothic.bsky.social)
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> +++ Today, the 14th of June, we are remembering Pete de Freitas, who died on this day in 1989 aged just 27, in a tragic motorcycle accident +++ Pete joined the Bunnymen in 1979 replacing the drum machine #PetedeFreitas #OTD #Echo&theBunnymen #thewildswans #postpunk #altrock #ZooRecords #newwave
Photographs of plants captured in extraordinary detail, as if under the microscope, frozen into new forms almost beyond recognition.The Public Domain Review
On this day in 1942, Anne Frank received her first diary for her 13th birthday. On the cover page, she wrote: 'I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support." When she went into hiding during the Holocaust, her diary was one of the first items she packed.
Journeys in Film offers free Holocaust Education resources based on award-winning films to support educators who are teaching "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl".
Learn more:
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#AnneFrankDay #AnneFrankTag #AnneFrank #DiaryOfAnneFrank #HolocaustEducation #Education #TeachingResources #Homeschooling #Bookstodon #OTD #Histodons #History
Free Holocaust Education Lessons to teach about the Holocaust with film in Elementary School, Middle School and High School.Journeys in Film
