#1899

it's kat! a sort of doomsday pastel aesthetic

kathimmel

'jazz is a good barometer of freedom.' #art/#history: duke ellington (born #otd in 1899) was full of wisdom, music, mystery & optimism. both of his parents were pianists, so he

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KingAlaskaa

I’m making a Red Dead Online thread of the absolute dipshittery that goes on when @rainbowveinsss @alteventer @hellakkitty and I get together The noises I was making during this were

Howard County History

HoCoHistory

This #IndigenousPeoplesDay we celebrate the #Susquehannock, the original nation who lived in #HowardCounty.An #Iroquois-speaking culture, they controlled land over New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and #Maryland. /1#History A matri-lineal a

Colin McKay

DerorCurrency

1918: quote of alleged appeal made on behalf of "6,000,000 Jews" in "a terrible state" in Russia. This line curious:"..the Kaiser .. fearing to come out publicly in Germany, *where

Manuel L. Quezon III

mlq3

The political boundaries of the Philippines at the time of the Revolution against Spain, 1896. See provincial names and boundaries. ("Islas Filipinas Mapa General No 2, Observatorio de Manila 1899")

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

Today in pulp I look back at the work of Victorian illustrator Sidney Sime.Come this way... Sidney Sime was born in Manchester in 1865. After working as a miner for

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

The Witwatersrand Reef area in Johannesburg is the source of 40% of all gold that has ever been extracted from the Earth. Ever.Where did all that wealth go? Why are

Ryan Miller

RyanMiller_

Hi, @DonaldJTrumpJr, I co-wrote this story. Police have not identified any suspects or possible political motivation related to the incident. The last time one of Rochester's Douglass statues was damaged,

S.P.A.

TheRealSPA

Happy 122nd Birthday Duke EllingtonA thread http://waldina.com/2021/04/29/happy-122nd-birthday-duke-ellington/ Today is the 122nd birthday of the musician Duke Ellington. His music is the soundtrack to the American experience. You know mor

Jason Crawford

jasoncrawford

Humphry Davy’s science lectures in the early 1800s were so enthralling that Samuel Coleridge attended them to increase “his stock of literary metaphors”(from the biography Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of

cath☀️🇵🇭

lagunabayfables

Philippine History ThreadAs I begin intensive research for my WIP, you guys should look out for more of these threads! Today, I’d like to talk about Apolinario Mabini, a hero

dirtycitybird

dirtycitybird

Ok, buckle up kids, this is gonna be a bit of a journey. First. I need to post something offensive af (Imma post it in the next tweet so people

Pélénope Bagieu

PenelopeB

Je fais un inktober à propos d’artistes que j’aime (photo, peinture, sculpture, installation), en reprenant chaque jour une de leurs œuvres en version « dessiné rapidement » à l’encre, plume, pinceau et

Wyatt, Austere Deplorable

Western2A

According to a declassified FBI document, Tesla was brought to Earth from Venus.In 1899, Tesla himself thought he contacted aliens.Tesla, who invented AC/DC current, helped invent radar and much military

Abhishek Mukherjee (@SachinAzharCT)

ovshake42

'Jungly' Greig was born on this day, 1871.He was (to my knowledge) the first cricketer to be called The Little Master in the Indian subcontinent, or, anywhere.He was also the

Jerome

readJerome

Today on Military History Sunday, we will talk about the Battle of Adibo (1896). The battle was fought between the Germans and the Kingdom of Dagbang in a town called