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TIL Carl Sagan, like Bernie Sanders and The Beastie Boys, is a Brooklyn mensch. so, as a fellow nooyawkaw am officially declaring NOVEMBER 9TH as #CarlSaganDay …and now we all can hear him saying in our heads, billions and billions of stars forever. no sleep til Brooklyn and billions and billions for Medicare For All 😎 »Nov. 9, 1939: The birth of Carl Sagan https://www.astronomy.com/today-in-the-history-of-astronomy/nov-9-1939-the-birth-of-carl-sagan/ #astronomy #history #nyc #Brooklyn
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Anna Coleman Ladd, The Sculptor Who Created Lifelike Masks For Soldiers Disfigured In World War I By Joseph Williams Before the widespread use of reconstructive surgery, Anna Coleman Ladd used her artistic talents to create dozens of masks for American and French veterans who had been disfigured in World War I. https://allthatsinteresting.com/anna-coleman-ladd #history #worldwar #sculpture
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Goebbels rises.

just a historical reminder for no apparent reason and because there are no echoes here at all… ** ** around things I find interesting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic

The Great Depression, exacerbated by Brüning's policy of deflation, led to a surge in unemployment.[11]

On 30 January 1933, Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as chancellor to head a coalition government; his Nazi Party held two out of ten cabinet seats.

Von Papen, as vice-chancellor and Hindenburg's confidant, was to serve as the éminence grise who would keep Hitler under control; these intentions severely underestimated Hitler's political ambitions.

By the end of March 1933, the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act of 1933 were used in the perceived state of emergency to effectively grant the new chancellor broad power to act outside parliamentary control..

Hitler promptly used these powers to thwart constitutional governance and suspend civil liberties, which brought about the swift collapse of democracy at the federal and state level, and the creation of a one-party dictatorship under his leadership.”

… still a lot of work to be done to reverse the progression here…

#USPoli #StephenMiller #TheAmericanFascist #USANazi #Trump #History

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OK, I just saw someone posting about a project called Terra Tempora (https://terra-tempora.com/?ref=mastodon) which claims to let you "scroll through history", searching for battles, treaties, and "tracking civilisations". Unfortunately the whole thing is a classic object lesson in why we shouldn't entrust our understanding of history to data scraping and AI processing, which is pretty clearly a core basis for the project. Here's some examples. #History #DigitalHumanities #DataViz #Histodons
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The Arrow's Ghost: A Legacy of Lost Potential Following the Arrow's cancellation, all completed jets, blueprints, & manufacturing equipment were to be destroyed. This controversial decision prevented the aircraft from being sold or preserved. The fallout led to a 'brain drain' as many of Canada's top aerospace engineers moved to the US, contributing to NASA's Mercury and Apollo programs. #Canada #AvroArrow #Engineering #History 🇨🇦
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Hi Mastodon! 👋 #introduction I’m Edgar, and I built Terra Tempora: a free globe where you can scroll through history and watch borders, empires and events change over time. Pick a country, press play and travel through the centuries, or search for a battle or treaty. It’s open source, with no ads and no tracking, and it’s available in English, French and Spanish. 🌍 https://terra-tempora.com/?ref=mastodon Feedback and missing events are very welcome! #History #Maps #DataViz #OpenSource #OpenData
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Who Are The Ainu People? Inside The Rich History And Culture Of The East Asian Indigenous Group By Ella Spitz | Edited By Cara Johnson The Ainu were hunter-gatherers who lived across Japan and into southeastern Russia, but centuries of forced assimilation have virtually eliminated their language and traditions. https://allthatsinteresting.com/ainu Books about Ainus at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/15285 #books #literature #folklore #indigenous_people #history #culture
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On the 30th, my #Walktober was to the old #London #Necropolis #railway station, where thousands of dead were sent by train to Brookwood Cemetery. They've recently revealed their name again - alas not for a re-opening, but I think for a conversion to fancy flats. And then I went to see some scary #StreetArt faces underneath #Waterloo itself (alas no clear artist's signature) #photography #History #halloween #monsters #monsterdon
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