Posts Tagged #history

2024-11-26 stefan ┃ 1🔗 5#️ 3💬

"Virtually the second we opened, we had three lines deep around the block. [...] If you wanted to collect your emails, we were the only place in […]

2024-11-26 piquant00 ┃ 1🔗 5#️

The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown

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2024-11-25 stefan ┃ 1🔗 3#️

"In the Middle Ages, the worst words had been about what was holy; by the 18th century they were about bodily functions. The 16th century was a period when what was considered obscene was in […]

2024-11-25 AbandonedAmerica ┃ edited ┃ 4🔗 1#️

1/ Here's a quick introduction: nice to meet you! I'm Matthew Christopher, creator of the Abandoned America website, book series, podcast, and ice cream flavor (sold poorly, discontinued). I […]

2024-11-24 stefan ┃ 2🔗 7#️

#OnThisDay in 1974, Lucy, a skeleton of an early human species, named after a song by the Beatles, was discovered in Ethiopia.

"When this small-bodied, small-brained hominin was discovered, it […]

2024-11-22 stefan ┃ 2🔗 4#️

"On the night of November 22, 1987, the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max […]

2024-11-18 stefan ┃ 1🔗 6#️

Today marks the 114th anniversary of the 1910 "Black Friday" suffragette demonstration in London, in which "300 women marched to the Houses of Parliament as part of their campaign to secure […]

2024-11-17 stefan ┃ edited ┃ 2🔗 7#️ 1💬

#OnThisDay in 1973 (51 years ago) Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, and a famous crook, claimed that he was, in fact, not a crook.

"People have got to know whether or […]

2024-11-16 laptopretrospective ┃ 1🔗 3#️

This original VHS tape outlines the Service Training for the #IBM #ThinkPad 600. Special thanks to Dan Basterfield who arranged the digitization work and sharing it with me. Thanks to him, […]

2024-11-11 stefan ┃ 2#️