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@newsgroup@social.vir.group · 1h ago
Every empire tells itself its resource grabs are unique, justified by necessity. From Roman grain to Persian Gulf oil, the extraction script barely changes-only the technology and rhetoric get an update. #history #geopolitics #ResourceExtraction
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@historyofpunkrock@sfba.social · 5h ago
38 years ago today Fugazi at Lafayette Park, Washington DC, May 01, 1988. All for zero bucks 👍 Photo by Bill Crandall #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #fugazi #history #punkrockhistory
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@PugJesus@piefed.social in historyartifacts · 2h ago

Combination gun-spear with spring-loaded blade, Germany, ~1580 AD

https://www.khm.at/en/artworks/spiess-mit-springklinge-und-einfacher-radschloss-schiessvorrichtung-371586-1
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@PugJesus@piefed.social in historygallery · 8h ago
Christian king of Norway, Haakon Haraldsson, in dispute with his pagan subjects, 10th century AD (oil painting 1860 AD, Peter Nicolai Arbo)
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 16h 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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@bobthetraveler@mastodon.world · 16h ago
Emperor Bidatsu, 30th Emperor of #Japan, ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne OTD in 572 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kofun/emperor-suinin.html?s=mb #travel #history
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@PugJesus@piefed.social in historygallery · 1d ago
King Harald Hardrada of Norway dying at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, England, 1066 AD (painted 1870 AD, Peter Nicolai Arbo)
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@DarkGalloway@mastodon.scot · 1d ago
Callie's Port, Back Bay, Monreith. The caves here were once hiding places for both smugglers and covenanters. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Galloway #SouthernScotland #History
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@PugJesus@piefed.social in historyartifacts · 1d ago

Statue of the Buddha, bronze, Pakistan, 1st-2nd century AD

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 1d 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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@PugJesus@piefed.social in historygallery · 1d ago

Norwegian Ski Competition (painted ~1898 AD, Gustav Wentzel)

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@xankarn@mastodon.online · 1d ago
Per Guardian: The man who launched his first bid for the presidency by descending a golden escalator, who has sloshed gold paint all over the White House, not to mention the Aurelian hue he has coloured his own skin, would like us to believe that he, and he alone, is the channel through which America’s so-called “Judeo-Christian” lineage now flows, and that he, and he alone, should be credited for all its future greatness. #history #uspol #semiquincentennial https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/trump-freedom-truck-museum-exhibit
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@xankarn@mastodon.online · 1d ago
In *Erasing History: How Fascists Re-write the Past to Control the Future,* Jason Stanley observes the “mutually reinforcing” relationship between representation and practice. How we describe and talk about the past informs how we practice politics and frame the rights of citizenship today. These stupid A250 trucks are driving around today as SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act (6-3) and these two things are mirror images of each other. #history #uspol #law #democracy #semiquincentennial
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@xankarn@mastodon.online · 1d ago
Back to the Guardian: “The US is back at war. Its president has threatened to destroy an entire civilisation, posted AI images of himself as Jesus and survived his third assassination attempt, while on the domestic front federal officers have killed American citizens at point-blank range. Quite the year to be celebrating American greatness.” #history #uspol #law #democracy #semiquincentennial
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@xankarn@mastodon.online · 1d ago
And then this: At the bottom there’s a QR code that encourages you to “discover more fun and quizzes at PragerU”. The code links to PragerU’s website page Capitalism 101. “Sign up to learn why capitalism is the greatest and fairest economic system ever known,” it says. “Capitalism gave us great prosperity, yet why is it so misunderstood and even demonized?” #history #uspol #law #democracy #semiquincentennial
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@xankarn@mastodon.online · 1d ago
Why is capitalism interrogated and sometimes despised by the people who come into contact with it? Because this is America, you boot-licking moral blanks, and we express ourselves and reflect on our many different experiences freely. Because that is our right as citizens, to resist your attempts to dictate truth and historical knowledge. #history #uspol #law #democracy #semiquincentennial
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@PugJesus@piefed.social in historyartifacts · 2d ago

Walking stick of Emperor Franz I with a hidden stiletto, Austria, ~1815 AD

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@DarkGalloway@mastodon.scot · 2d ago
Baltersan Castle, close to Maybole. A tower house built in 1584 to replace Baltersan House, by the Kennedys. It was abandoned by the mid-18th C. #blackandwhitephotography #Scotland #Ayrshire #SouthernScotland #History
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@PugJesus@piefed.social in historyartifacts · 2d ago

Sword, Germany, ~1540 AD

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@surf@flipboard.social · 2d ago
Dive into history, culture, philosophy and science with JD Goulet. https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01kn1rzj2hfhkakcps495k9kve #History #Culture #Philosophy #SurfFeeds #SurfApp #SurfSocial
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