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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 2d ago

To-day we have #Songleikr of #Denmark.

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#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 2d ago

#MassLynching is an American tradition & on #ThisDayInHistory in 1891 it was the turn of 11 unlucky #ItalianAmericans in #NewOrleans. They were broken out of gaol, shot & hanged in trees; all were entirely unconnected to the source of mob anger. Newspaper coverage was #racist af.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 2d ago

The #PunitiveExpedition began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1916, when Pres. #WoodrowWilson sent a US Army force to invade #Mexico in search of #PanchoVilla. They stopped looking after a month when confronted by Mexican troops, but stayed in the country illegally until February 1917.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 2d ago

In the #YubaCityB52Crash, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1961, the US narrowly avoided nuking itself again. A USAF #B52Stratofortress carrying two nuclear weapons came down hard in #SutterCounty, ripping both of its weapons free of the wreck. Fortunately, their safety mechanisms worked.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 2d ago

#KarlMarx is the most consequential #economist of the past two centuries, and his work as a #sociologist identified the struggle against #oppression as a key motor of history. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1883 he died in London. Meanwhile, the #RulingClass keeps adapting and lives on.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 2d ago

#AlbertEinstein, the iconic German-Jewish physicist, was born on #ThisDayInHistory in 1879. In addition to his pioneering work on space-time, he was a committed #socialist and #antifascist who favoured a democratic #Palestine, and likened the #Zionist right to #Nazis & #Fascists.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 2d ago

The #KuwaitRoundabout mass killings in the #GazaStrip were on #ThisDayInHistory in 2024. #Palestinian civilians seeking food aid were attacked, with 21 killed outright & another 155 wounded. #IDF denies involvement but available evidence clearly suggests another racist #WarCrime.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 2d ago

#OperationLitani, the 1978 Israeli invasion of #Lebanon, began on #ThisDayInHistory. They occupied the south up to the #LitaniRiver, *cough* 'coincidentally' the northern border that #GreaterIsrael advocates want. 2000 were killed before IDF left, but they invaded again in 1982.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 2d ago

The #apartheid state of #SouthAfrica bombed the headquarters of the #ANC in London on #ThisDayInHistory in 1982 in an act of international #StateTerror with no deaths. This raised pressure on the #WhiteSupremacist state, with little support left for Pretoria beyond USA & Israel.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 2d ago

The #ColumbiaEagleMutiny was #ThisDayInHistory in 1970. Two #MerchantMarine sailors hijacked a former #VictoryShip carrying #napalm for use in the #VietnamWar, risking their lives to save others. War exists because most people lack the courage to put the weapons aside and say no.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 3d ago

TRIGGER WARNING
The #MiddlePassage and #AtlanticSystem #slavery were so brutal that when, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1737, a slave ship arrived in #StKitts with 251 slaves, 100 of the men jumped overboard. The English crew tried to save their 'cargo' but 33 evaded 'rescue' and sank.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 3d ago

Here again is rock band #JadaL of #Jordan.

https://youtu.be/Sg95t93bXT8
https://youtu.be/nkeLYw18xPk
https://youtu.be/yXx_cADVTH0
https://youtu.be/VP1xeUEE-ns
#FlashbackFriday #LunchtimeListens

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 3d ago

26-year-old Black paramedic #BreonnaTaylor was killed by #police who broke into her home #ThisDayInHistory in 2020. They blind-fired 20 times, hit her with five, offered no aid as she bled out, then filed a fake report listing no injuries.
It can't be reformed; #AbolishThePolice.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 3d ago

British-German astronomer #WilliamHerschel discovered the seventh planet, #Uranus, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1781. A unique world that spins on its side with a 98-degree axial tilt, its pale cyan colour comes from a frigid atmosphere made up mainly of hydrogen, helium, & methane.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 3d ago

The #CiampateDelDiavolo in #Campania, Italy, were positively identified on #ThisDayInHistory in 2003, in the science journal #Nature, as 350,000-year-old #hominid footprints. They were likely left behind in the #PyroclasticFlow by a group of #HomoHeidelbergensis children.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 3d ago

During the #Holocaust, #Nazis revived the mediaeval practice of ghettos & made them much more inhumane. The #KrakówGhetto had 15,000 crammed into a space where 3,000 had lived. #ThisDayInHistory in 1943 they began a two-day liquidation, with most going to the #Bełżec #DeathCamp.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 3d ago

The #KappPutsch began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1920. For five days the new #WeimarRepublic, founded after the #GermanRevolution, was chased from Berlin. But the gov's call to #GeneralStrike & refusal of bureaucrats to back the coup doomed it. Amnesty for putschists was a mistake.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 3d ago

The #MahdistUprising in #Sudan that began in 1881 had its greatest success with the ten-month #SiegeOfKhartoum, which began #ThisDayInHistory in 1884. #MuhammadAhmad, called #TheMahdi, led an anti-colonial nationalist movement against Egypt, which had controlled Sudan since 1820.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · 3d ago

The #BattleOfĐiệnBiênPhủ began #ThisDayInHistory in 1954. The #FrenchUnion dug into a fortified position to break #ViệtMinh supply lines but the #Vietnamese surrounded them with artillery concealed in tunnels. After a two-month siege, the French empire was broken in Indochina.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

To-day's picks are by #Baxon of #Botswana.

https://youtu.be/a7nECPWb9u4
https://youtu.be/lsuHiEWGD0Y
https://youtu.be/CCEC_vv6ebI
https://youtu.be/PnnScQ_Nvgg
#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

#WEBDuBois was born on #ThisDayInHistory in 1868. Across a long life he was an #antiracist activist and the first Black #Harvard PhD. His short book #TheSoulsOfBlackFolk, his work on #Reconstruction, and his appeal to the UN against US #HumanRights violations remain important.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

The Imperial Japanese submarine #I17 managed to wreak havoc on the west coast of the US by surfacing on #ThisDayInHistory in 1942 and firing its deck gun at some oil rigs near #SantaBarbara. It did little damage but scared the bejeezus out of Californians unused to war at home.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

Sure, war is hell, but destroying civilian populations is a shite way to wage it. The UK RAF, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1945, bombed the fuck out of the city of #Pforzheim, a target of no strategic value, killing 17,600 people and wrecking 83% of the urban area in just 22 minutes.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

Never mind the land seizures, napalmed villages, and torture — on #ThisDayInHistory in 2005 the gov. of #France decided that school "courses should recognize in particular the positive role of the French presence overseas, notably in north Africa,", aka #imperialist #propaganda.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

The #Vainakh peoples of the #NorthCaucasus were subject to #genocide from #ThisDayInHistory in 1944. The USSR forcibly deported the #Chechen & #Ingush to Central Asia and up to 200,000 were lost. They could not return to their lands until 1957, as acts of #Stalin were undone.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

Having noticed the #GreatFamine in #Ireland was causing tenant farmers to lapse in #rent payment, the #IrishCoercionBill was introduced in parliament on #ThisDayInHistory in 1846. This would have allowed #MartialLaw to be declared in Ireland, since property comes before people...

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

PKK leader #AbdullahÖcalan was abducted in #Kenya on 15 Feb. 1999 by Turkish intelligence with #CIA help. He was imprisoned on İmralı Island and, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1999, charged with treason and separatism, and this despite #PKK moving away from violence ~six years prior.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

The #AnfalCampaign began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1988. #SaddamHussein empowered #ChemicalAli to pursue #KurdishGenocide in northern #Iraq. 80% of their villages were destroyed, most farmland was seized, and over 100,000 #Kurds were killed, with survivors in #ConcentrationCamps.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

The #ShenlongCoup, on #ThisDayInHistory in 705, removed #WuZetian, #China's only empress regnant. She governed from 660-683 due to her husband's stroke, then held power in her own right until 705. Her reforms to the #CivilService expanded the #TangDynasty's meritocratic features.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

During the Last Great War between Rome & Persia, #Sassanid ruler #KhosrowII, who had conquered much Roman land, was deposed by his son Sheroe on #ThisDayInHistory in 628. That son then executed his father and brothers, gave back Byzantine lands for peace, & triggered a civil war.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD

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Snarky history professor; autistic bibliophile; anti-Zionist Jewish humanist; anarchist internationalist; antifa mountain man; geeky cat & bird dad; lover of Emily; views expressed are my own.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

The foundation stone of #HagiaSophia was laid on #ThisDayInHistory in 532 by the Roman Emperor #JustinianI. The previous basilica burnt down one month prior during the #NikaRiots. The current & third on that site in #Constantinople/#İstanbul is the finest of antique Christendom.

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhD

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Snarky history professor; autistic bibliophile; anti-Zionist Jewish humanist; anarchist internationalist; antifa mountain man; geeky cat & bird dad; lover of Emily; views expressed are my own.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

The #DiocletianicPersecution, or #GreatPersecution of #Christians, began on #ThisDayInHistory in 303 with orders to destroy a church. This was the first time official #Roman policy had proscribed the Jewish splinter sect and across eight years of it ~3000 Christian were martyred.

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Snarky history professor; autistic bibliophile; anti-Zionist Jewish humanist; anarchist internationalist; antifa mountain man; geeky cat & bird dad; lover of Emily; views expressed are my own.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

Here is #TheLovedOnes from #Australia. #INXS covered the first of these tracks.

https://youtu.be/axUYL2I6KF8
https://youtu.be/hIQPCsp78b8
https://youtu.be/0yKYIdXtqzU
https://youtu.be/ccEtKc5TnGc
#PsychedelicSunday #LunchtimeListens

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Snarky history professor; autistic bibliophile; anti-Zionist Jewish humanist; anarchist internationalist; antifa mountain man; geeky cat & bird dad; lover of Emily; views expressed are my own.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

Pres. #WilliamMcKinley appointed #FrazierBaker the #PostmasterGeneral of #LakeCity, #SouthCarolina, in 1897. Only 'problem' was, he was Black. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1898 a #LynchMob set his house on fire and tried to murder his family. Baker & his daughter Julia were shot dead.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

Still think the US was founded on #liberty or #equality? One of #GeorgeWashington's slaves, #HerculesPosey, escaped #MountVernon on #ThisDayInHistory in 1797, on the first US president's 65th birthday. Posey's wife and children remained in slavery, not freed in Washington will.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

Yet another broken promise by the United States came in the form of the #AdamsOnísTreaty, signed on #ThisDayInHistory in 1819. In this deal, the US gained #Florida from #Spain in exchange for renouncing all claim to #Texas. Once #Mexico won independence in 1821 all bets were off.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

A #WildcatStrike broke out on #ThisDayInHistory in 2018, in which 20,000 #teachers in #WestVirginia walked out in protest of low pay and weak benefits. Teachers resisted even their own #union's arguments, coming back only after the legislature passed a bill for a 5% pay increase.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

Not the first successfully cloned animal but the first cloned mammal from an adult somatic cell, the birth and survival in Scotland of #DollyTheSheep was announced on #ThisDayInHistory in 1997. Dolly was born 5 July the previous year & her life helped advance #StemCell research.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

Two #IRA splinters were active during #TheTroubles. Initially larger, by the time of the #AldershotBombing in England, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1972, #OfficialIRA was noticeably smaller. This attack killed seven and wounded 19; the only military fatality was a Catholic chaplain.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

The #WhiteRose was a #nonviolent resistance movement in #NaziGermany distributing leaflets & making graffiti. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1943, #SophieScholl & #HansScholl were arrested. They were beheaded four days later. This is an archive of their leaflets: https://zurl.co/fqkYg

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Jan 16, 2026

#Egypt's greatest ruling queen, #Pharaoh #Hatshepsut, died on #ThisDayInHistory in 1458 BCE. She started as regent but usurped the throne & held it for 21 years, during which she expanded foreign trade & kept the peace. Her #FuneraryTemple is one of the finest of the #NewKingdom.

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@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social · Jan 01, 2026

The only #asteroid known to have been gravitationally rounded is #Ceres, now classified as a #DwarfPlanet, and discovered on #ThisDayInHistory in 1801 by the Italian priest #GiuseppePiazzi. Fans of #TheExpanse series know we should have already hollowed it out and colonized it.😜

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