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@TimHayes@indieauthors.social · 5h ago
#onthisday Alice Lidell was born on this date back in 1852. This was the girl who would find fame as the eponymous heroine of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Check out the acrostic poem from the end of the second book spelling her name out in full: A boat beneath a sunny sky, Lingering onward dreamily In an evening of July— Children three that nestle near, Eager eye and willing ear, Pleased a simple tale to hear— Long has paled that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories die. Autumn frosts have slain July. Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream— Lingering in the golden gleam— Life, what is it but a dream? It occurs to me, even if I was writing this on the anniversary of her death, not her birth, this is one little girl who’s never going to die. She’ll live on for ever in the books which tell her story. #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #onthisday #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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@TimHayes@indieauthors.social · 1d ago
Machiavelli was born on this date back in 1469. My anonymous Evil Criminal Mastermind in How to Succeed as a Supervillain by Following the Evil Overlord List considers him to be essential reading for all aspiring villains. He reckons that Machiavelli’s The Art of War, and The Prince, along with General Sun Tzu’s book, also entitled The Art of War, comprise the three erudite Big Books of war, conflict, and dissent. They’re all books which deserve to be added to the Evil Overlord’s required reading list, and he’s penned an addition to the beloved List which suggests: all those aspiring to wickedness are strongly advised to read, study, and memorise both versions of the Art of War along with The Prince and, once one has done so, read them again until you know them by heart. Then, and only then, will you be ready to take over the world. #bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #onthisday #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 3d ago
#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive. She's never captured. She died in 2023, in New Zealand. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons 1/2
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@WellingtonChineseHistory@cloudisland.nz · 3d ago
#OnThisDay 1 May 1900: Evening Post publishes plea from Wellington fruit shop owners Wong Heong, Chow Fong, Ngan Lee, L. A. Pat, Yee Wah, & Yung Kee, that people not judge all Chinese fruit shops due to poor sanitary conditions of one Chinese fruit shop https://wellingtonchinesehistory.fandom.com/wiki/CITY_CHINESE_FRUIT_STORES,_A_PROTEST,_Evening_Post,_1_May_1900
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 4d ago
CW: Nazis, Hitler, suicide Sensitive
Reminder that the bunker where Adolf Hitler took his own life 81 years ago is now a parking lot. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fuhrerbunker-parking-lot #OnThisDay #OTD #nazis #history
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 4d ago
Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation. Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered. Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social · 5d ago
#OnThisDay APRIL 29, 1945: LIBERATION OF DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP, EXCEPT LGBTQ+ PRISONERS When U.S. forces liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, some of those interned for homosexuality were not freed but rather were required to serve out the full term of the sentences they had received under the homophobic Nazi penal code. https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/liberation-of-dachau-concentration-camp-except-lgbtq-prisoners/
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 6d ago
#OnThisDay, 28 April 1730 OS*, Anna Ivanovna is crowned the Empress of the Russian Empire. The Privy Council picked Anna as she was widowed and childless. They imposed a set of Conditions through which they would control her. She literally tore them up, and continued her uncle Peter the Great’s modernisation. Like many Russian rulers, she could be cruel, vindictive and abuse her power. *Old Style date #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · Apr 27, 2026
#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'. She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · Apr 25, 2026
#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua. She served for six years, stabilising the economy. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CentralAmericanHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · Apr 22, 2026
#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · Apr 20, 2026
#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903. The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons
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@mediocratese@climatejustice.social · Apr 18, 2026
#OnThisDay 2020 IMHO The best summation of #Covid19 still. (unfortunately I do not know the artist)
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@FibroJedi@gamepad.club · Apr 10, 2026
I forgot to post my #DailyDoodle for 9th April. #OnThisDay in 1910, Halley's Comet was seen from New Zealand. #doodle #ColouredPencils #handdrawn
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@FibroJedi@gamepad.club · Apr 08, 2026
A slightly uncovered female hip from a statue Sensitive
Well, this was a challenge. I read about various events from the 8th April. I chose to sketch only this part of the "Venus de Milo" statue, which was found 8th April 1820 on the island of Milos. Trying to draw this material quickly was difficult. And as with most of my #DailyDoodle posts, the number 8 and 4 are in the drawing too. Apologies for the many inaccuracies! (PS I'll add ALT shortly) #datedoodle #onthisday
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · Apr 02, 2026
#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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@creaturedouble@social.horrorhub.club · Mar 28, 2026
March 28 is a beautiful little graveyard. Hitchcock’s The Birds premiered in New York in 1963. Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm opened regionally in 1979 after studios passed on it. The Changeling arrived in U.S./Canada in 1980 with George C. Scott. And Stephen King’s The Green Mile began its six-part run on this date in 1996. Art-house dread, cult horror, ghost-story class, and paperback doom all in one night. #HorrorHistory #OnThisDay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)
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@victorianweb@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 10, 2026
#OnThisDay many moons ago.... bright lights, crowds and flags for a celebration: "London Bridge, Night of the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales, March 10th 1863" by W. Holman Hunt https://www.victorianweb.org/painting/whh/paintings/34.html #paintings
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@Sfwmson@universeodon.com · Feb 28, 2026
#OnThisDay #2024 Just two years ago, SCOTUS unleashed a madman and a Putin Puppet. Comments from Judge Luttig on the SCOTUS decision ~ “There was no reason in this world for the Supreme Court to take this case. The three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia had written a masterful opinion denying the president’s claims of absolute immunity. Under the constitutional laws of the United States, there has never been an argument that a former president is immune from prosecution for crimes that he committed while in office. On a more practical level, of course, the Supreme Court is capable of deciding this very quickly in time that the former president can be tried before the election. But today’s decision makes that much more unlikely.”
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@alexskunz@mas.to · Feb 26, 2026
The Grand Canyon was established as a National Park on this day in 1919. Happy Birthday! Photo made from Yavapai Point along the South Rim. Way too easy! :) https://photos.alex-kunz.com/media/019b5dcd-110c-775e-bdae-4479a6f1df44 #LandscapePhotography #GrandCanyon #NationalParks #OTD #Twilight #Arizona #OnThisDay #ColoradoRiver
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