CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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CarveHerName
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1h 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
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kcm
@kcm@mastodonapp.uk
Controversialist, catalyst and facilitator, quietly providing different ideas and views of the world. Born: London; early 1950s. Chemist; PhD in spectroscopy. Worked in IT for 35 years; retired as a senior project manager Founding Secretary, Anthony Powell Society. Chairman of my GP's patient group. Other interests include: family history; photography; naturism; mysticism & comparative religion; science ... Aka @kcm
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kcm
@kcm@mastodonapp.uk
Controversialist, catalyst and facilitator, quietly providing different ideas and views of the world. Born: London; early 1950s. Chemist; PhD in spectroscopy. Worked in IT for 35 years; retired as a senior project manager Founding Secretary, Anthony Powell Society. Chairman of my GP's patient group. Other interests include: family history; photography; naturism; mysticism & comparative religion; science ... Aka @kcm
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@kcm@mastodonapp.uk
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1h ago
Today on my blog, notes of a few things that happened in this month 100 years ago.
https://zenmischief.com/2026/05/may-1926/
#1926 #otd #May #blog #zenmischief
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Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
Husband, father, side project enthusiast: https://stefanbohacek.com/projects Big fan of the #fediverse: https://stefanbohacek.com/fediverse Enjoy my work? Here's how you can pay me back: https://stefanbohacek.com/support-my-work/ He/him. 🗺️ Bratislava ➜ NYC ➜ NJ
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Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
Husband, father, side project enthusiast: https://stefanbohacek.com/projects Big fan of the #fediverse: https://stefanbohacek.com/fediverse Enjoy my work? Here's how you can pay me back: https://stefanbohacek.com/support-my-work/ He/him. 🗺️ Bratislava ➜ NYC ➜ NJ
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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18h 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
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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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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Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD toots & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Supported and made possible by you: https://liberapay.com/workingclasshistory/
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Working Class History
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@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
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2d ago
#OtD 29 Apr 1945 the body of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was dumped in Milan's Piazzale Loreto, where partisans were massacred by the Gestapo the previous year. His body was attacked by the crowd until it was hung up. More in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/
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Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD toots & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Supported and made possible by you: https://liberapay.com/workingclasshistory/
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Working Class History
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@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
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2d ago
#OtD 28 Apr 1826 weavers protesting for better wages and threatening to damage the new 'powerloom' factories are cleared from the streets by troops in Manchester, England, only a few days after widespread machine-breaking riots across East Lancashire https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9970/weavers-protests-suppressed
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CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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3d 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
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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4d ago
#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
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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6d ago
#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
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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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
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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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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HistorySheWrote
@bethroots@mindly.social
USA. Cat lover, data scientist, veteran, glass crafter, scrapbooker, family historian and occasional blogger. Northern Arizona native living in the mid-Atlantic region of the east coast of the US. Genealogy is primarily USA and Sweden, with some Scotland and Germany. Avatar is an AI mashup of my photos, via the Time Machine at MyHeritage. Header photo is the San Francisco Peaks in Northern Arizona, the home of my heart.
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HistorySheWrote
@bethroots@mindly.social
USA. Cat lover, data scientist, veteran, glass crafter, scrapbooker, family historian and occasional blogger. Northern Arizona native living in the mid-Atlantic region of the east coast of the US. Genealogy is primarily USA and Sweden, with some Scotland and Germany. Avatar is an AI mashup of my photos, via the Time Machine at MyHeritage. Header photo is the San Francisco Peaks in Northern Arizona, the home of my heart.
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@bethroots@mindly.social
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Apr 10, 2026
#OTD 9 April. Two brothers, cousins to my grandmother, shared a birthday.
Henry Martini was born in 1863, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Eugene Martini was born in Centralia, Illinois, in 1874.
Their lives were very different. Henry went into mining and eventually become a coal mine superintendent. He and his wife had 15 children and many descendants who are DNA matches.
Eugene, a retail salesman, married twice, losing a wife and daughter to early deaths. Two children grew to adulthood and one had children. So far no DNA matches to his branch have been found.
#genealogy
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Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
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Working Class History
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Apr 09, 2026
#OtD 9 Apr 1968 Zofia Kossak-Szczucka died aged 78. After helping Jews escape the Holocaust, Zofia was arrested and sent to Auschwitz but was released thanks to the Polish Underground https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10876/zofia-kossak-szczucka-dies
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CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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CarveHerName
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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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Don Trueten 
@thomas@mastodon.trueten.de
"Those are my principles. If you don’t like them - I have others." Groucho Marx Born @ 318.43 ppm in HH/Germany work: Social hammock. (Retired) Ex. Metal Worker. Long-term Trade Unionist. politics: Antifa e.V. (platinum member). Fucking angry old #Anarchist. photography: Umbruch Bildarchiv, Berlin Donate: https://www.paypal.me/ThomasTrueten https://liberapay.com/Trueten/donate Financial Supporter of Mastodon: https://opencollective.com/don-trueten State of health: #Disabled / #NotJustSad / #PanicSyndrome #Meshtastic: Heart of DarkNess + Court Jester + Diabolus ex Machina
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Don Trueten
@thomas@mastodon.trueten.de
"Those are my principles. If you don’t like them - I have others." Groucho Marx Born @ 318.43 ppm in HH/Germany work: Social hammock. (Retired) Ex. Metal Worker. Long-term Trade Unionist. politics: Antifa e.V. (platinum member). Fucking angry old #Anarchist. photography: Umbruch Bildarchiv, Berlin Donate: https://www.paypal.me/ThomasTrueten https://liberapay.com/Trueten/donate Financial Supporter of Mastodon: https://opencollective.com/don-trueten State of health: #Disabled / #NotJustSad / #PanicSyndrome #Meshtastic: Heart of DarkNess + Court Jester + Diabolus ex Machina
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@thomas@mastodon.trueten.de
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Mar 16, 2026
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HistorySheWrote
@bethroots@mindly.social
USA. Cat lover, data scientist, veteran, glass crafter, scrapbooker, family historian and occasional blogger. Northern Arizona native living in the mid-Atlantic region of the east coast of the US. Genealogy is primarily USA and Sweden, with some Scotland and Germany. Avatar is an AI mashup of my photos, via the Time Machine at MyHeritage. Header photo is the San Francisco Peaks in Northern Arizona, the home of my heart.
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HistorySheWrote
@bethroots@mindly.social
USA. Cat lover, data scientist, veteran, glass crafter, scrapbooker, family historian and occasional blogger. Northern Arizona native living in the mid-Atlantic region of the east coast of the US. Genealogy is primarily USA and Sweden, with some Scotland and Germany. Avatar is an AI mashup of my photos, via the Time Machine at MyHeritage. Header photo is the San Francisco Peaks in Northern Arizona, the home of my heart.
mindly.social
@bethroots@mindly.social
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Mar 15, 2026
#OTD 14 March 1955, Esstella Margaret Crispen Pitcher, age 55, died in Benton Harbor, Michigan. I have always wished that I had known this sweet sister of my grandmother. All I know of her is through the family photos and stories. Esstella had scarlet fever as a child and was fragile throughout her life. She married Henry Pitcher and they had one daughter. Henry died two years before Esstella. Both were gone too soon.
https://scrappinmyhistory.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-favorite-photo-52-ancestors.html
#genealogy
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Project Gutenberg
@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest producer and distributor of free ebooks. For more information, visit our website at: www.gutenberg.org
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Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest producer and distributor of free ebooks. For more information, visit our website at: www.gutenberg.org
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@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social
·
Mar 14, 2026
Happy π Day! And Albert Einstein was born #OTD 147 years ago!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
Isaac Newton used infinite series to compute π to 15 digits, later writing "I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi#cite_note-Newton-60
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Einstein at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630
#books #mathematicsDay
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kcm
@kcm@mastodonapp.uk
Controversialist, catalyst and facilitator, quietly providing different ideas and views of the world. Born: London; early 1950s. Chemist; PhD in spectroscopy. Worked in IT for 35 years; retired as a senior project manager Founding Secretary, Anthony Powell Society. Chairman of my GP's patient group. Other interests include: family history; photography; naturism; mysticism & comparative religion; science ... Aka @kcm
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kcm
@kcm@mastodonapp.uk
Controversialist, catalyst and facilitator, quietly providing different ideas and views of the world. Born: London; early 1950s. Chemist; PhD in spectroscopy. Worked in IT for 35 years; retired as a senior project manager Founding Secretary, Anthony Powell Society. Chairman of my GP's patient group. Other interests include: family history; photography; naturism; mysticism & comparative religion; science ... Aka @kcm
mastodonapp.uk
@kcm@mastodonapp.uk
·
Mar 01, 2026
New today on my blog: a quick look at some things which happened in March 1926.
https://zenmischief.com/2026/03/march-1926/
#1926 #otd #March #blog #zenmischief
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Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
#OtD toots & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Supported and made possible by you: https://liberapay.com/workingclasshistory/
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Working Class History
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@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
·
Mar 01, 2026
#OtD 1 Mar 1954 a group of students at Indiana University started the Green Feather Movement to protest against a McCarthyist attempt to ban Robin Hood from school books for promoting communism https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8111/green-feather-movement
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Alexander S. Kunz
@alexskunz@mas.to
I'm a landscape photographer and photography & Lightroom instructor, teacher, tutor, expert in San Diego, California. Certified Chaparral Naturalist, class of 2015. Fond of native plants. Introvert. Ambient music lover. Doomer. Tries to steer clear of politics on social media. Loves dogs. Hates cilantro. Nov '22 dead bird site migrant. Born at ~3.8B world population & trying to accept things as they are. He/him. Most posts auto-deleted after 2 months.
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Alexander S. Kunz
@alexskunz@mas.to
I'm a landscape photographer and photography & Lightroom instructor, teacher, tutor, expert in San Diego, California. Certified Chaparral Naturalist, class of 2015. Fond of native plants. Introvert. Ambient music lover. Doomer. Tries to steer clear of politics on social media. Loves dogs. Hates cilantro. Nov '22 dead bird site migrant. Born at ~3.8B world population & trying to accept things as they are. He/him. Most posts auto-deleted after 2 months.
mas.to
@alexskunz@mas.to
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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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