Thinking about the low life expectancy during prehistory, I mused, which one of the illnesses I've survived would have killed me then at a young age? Pneumonia maybe. Then I realised, I would have died from an illness that I've never even had thanks to vaccines, hygiene and sanitation.
In the 18th century, Swedenborg, Kant & Laplace proposed that planets form in discs around stars. It took more than two centuries to see they were correct! But now we can observe discs, asteroids, comets, and even colliding planets around other stars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebular_hypothesis #history#astronomy
Today in 1972, Beatrice Worsley died. Born in Mexico in 1921, she was the first female computer scientist in Canada.
She wrote the first program to run on EDSAC, wrote the first compiler for Toronto's Ferranti Mark 1 & taught at the University of Toronto for over 20 years.
Für Geschichtsnerds findet im Rätischen Museum in #Chur ab Ende Mai eine interessante Ausstellung statt: 'Marktplatz Mittelalter – Wirtschaft zwischen Alpen und Rheinfall'.
Grabungen auf dem Areal des ehemaligen Gefängnisses Sennhof in der Churer Altstadt brachten Überreste eines mittelalterlichen Handwerkerquartiers zu Tage. Zahlreiche Funde bezeugen die verschiedenen Tätigkeiten, die dort vor etwa 1000 Jahren ausgeübt wurden.
If you care about #history and myth, especially the myth that we (humans) have always lived by the sword, highly recommend The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future (1987, Riane Eisler).
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'Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing' is the fantastic and groundbreaking debut studio album by English hardcore punk band Discharge, released in May 1982
Does anyone know if the anarchists of the first international era had worries about which businesses they patronised? Did they worry about buying Unilever soap because it was made using palm oil from the Congo or whatever?
My guess is no because consumerism was in its infancy and also it feels a bit of a contemporary bourgeois preoccupation. On the other hand, it was the era, more of less, of the birth of consumer co-ops so, maybe.
I would really like to know and I would also like to know when shopping did acquire political overtones.
The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, #Iran is known as the #Pink#Mosque
It gets its name from rose-colored tiles covering mosque exterior & pink hue sunlight creates on interior when it shines through stained glass windows
Built in late 19th century during Qajar dynasty, the mosque is not just a place of worship, but a work of #art showing #beauty & #creativity of Islamic #architecture & #design.
Me: Pre-colonial times, the people of what we later known as “Filipinos” were already feared across what we know today as Asia-Pacific. Post-colonial times, Filipinos are still a force to reckon with, and they know to never wake the sleeping Philippine eagle if they want to keep the current status quo.
“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”
@jared
Feels like only half the story if you don't say what England did to them in response:
The plethora of primary sources emanating from the propertied upper classes detail how the mass public hangings at the Luddite trials suppressed the destruction of private property and the perceived threat to “public peace” from the Luddite “disturbances.” http://www.sfu.ca/~poitras/JSR_proof_20.pdf