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64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway pub…
Allen Lane, co-founder of Penguin Books, extracts a book from the brand new "Penguincubator" – a vending machine with a range of Penguin titles available for sixpence, placed outside Collet's bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road in July…
“Americans are an amazingly brave people, who have accomplished so much,” Bunch said. “They’ve got to be brave enough to face their own history.” 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...
1632 years ago, on the 24th of August 394, Nesmeterakhem carved an inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs and demotic script along an image of the god Mandulis in the temple of Philae. It is the last known ancient Egyptian inscription in Egyp…
This is a very interesting new resource, The Register of British Slave-Traders. 'The Register focusses on the individuals who sought to profit from the enslavement of over 3 million African men, women, and children, whose identity was – f…
Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one …
2056 years ago, on the 2nd of September 31 BCE, the fleet of Octavian met those of Mark Antony and Cleopatra at Actium, resulting in a battle and eventual victory for Octavian. Mark Anthony and Cleopatra were forced to flee, resulting in t…
90 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes know…
Man dwarfed by the soaring stacks of timber inside the Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company, 1939 (Life Picture Collection) – photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, who was born on this day (23 August) in 1898 in what was then West …
Not only should engineers study history, more historians should study engineering. Concrete is the second most used material on earth, a huge part of every economy, but there are about 10 english language academic histories of it. Is i…
Friends...it's Friday! So here, for your enjoyment, is a 15th C. marginal fellow is off to have a good time with an amazing eel. I hope that your weekend plans include fun and amazing things, too! 🗃️🧪
2017 years ago, on the 11th of September 9 CE, the Battle of Teutoburg Forest between the Roman Empire and a Germanic alliance ended with a decisive defeat for the Empire. The XVII, XVIII and XIX legions were wiped out and never again appe…
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