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Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed the 1938 Kristallnacht attack on Hamburg’s Bornplatz Synagogue. The windows shattered and Torahs lay burning in the street.

Now, plans to rebuild the synagogue are dividing Germans: is it a symbol of Jewish revival or painful erasure of #history?
https://theconversation.com/kristallnachts-legacy-still-haunts-hamburg-even-as-the-city-rebuilds-a-former-synagogue-burned-in-the-nazi-pogrom-241069
#histodons #holocaust #jewstodon #krystallnacht

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest was a devastating loss for the Romans and included the loss of three military standards (considered sacred).

But let’s not forget Arminius’ charisma. Arminius was the trusted Germanic officer who was instrumental in organising the ambush that would make Augustus cry.

#CheekyFacts #AncientRome #History

In what the actual fuck? news:

"Archaeologists Are Bewildered by a Skeleton Made From the Bones of at Least Eight People Who Died Thousands of Years Apart"

#archaeology #RespectForTheAncestors

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-are-bewildered-by-a-skeleton-made-from-the-bones-of-at-least-eight-people-who-died-thousands-of-years-apart-180985419/

#history

Julia the Elder was Augustus’ only biological child. Julia did her duty and had six children, but nothing (not even daddy) was going to stop her from having a good time!

When Augustus found out, he made her pay the price with exile…

#CheekyFacts #AncientRome #History

Who discovered that popcorn could be a toasty, tasty treat? These kinds of food mysteries are pretty hard to solve. #food #archaeology
https://buff.ly/3Avtt00

#history

My new YouTube video is here! It's about the Kybalion and the Hermetic House of Life and how annoying the Kybalion is! It features @[email protected] and lots of shaky photographs. Please enjoy!
#Kybalion #Chicago #history #hermeticism #video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOXUuyK-M4

You never know where a town might pop up — even if it was established, and later abandoned, during the Bronze Age. The remains of a town being dubbed al-Natah was recently discovered in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia. al-Natah was built around 2,400 BC and home to about 500 residents. It lasted 1,000 years, but no one knows why it was abandoned. There’s more from @CBSNews: https://flip.it/y9KClc
#Science #BronzeAge #History #SaudiArabia #Archeology

What a 500-year-old shipwreck can tell us about how we age.

From @[email protected] at @ArsTechnica: "Henry VIII's favorite warship, the Mary Rose, sank in battle in 1545. Archaeologists successfully raised the ship in 1982, along with thousands of articles and the remains of 179 crew members—all remarkably well preserved thanks to the anaerobic conditions of the shipwreck created by the layers of soft sediment that accumulated over the wreckage."

https://flip.it/x-w9LO

Here's the original study: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0311717

#Archaeology #Shipwreck #Science #Aging

#history

re: some of my recent work on EN Wikipedia, I see an Indonesian wikipedian published this long article about another New Order era internment camp I hadn't heard about in Sulawesi.

https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamp_pengasingan_Moncongloe

#history #Internment #Indonesia

Caligula famously threatened to make his horse, Incitatus, a consul, but didn't go through with it.

But perhaps it should be more widely known that Caligula did appoint
Incitatus a priest of his personal cult.

No neigh-sayers please, this horse is the best!

For more details on Incitatus’ great turn as a priest, check out Dio Cassius’ Roman History 59.28.6.

#CheekyFacts #AncientRome #History

meanwhile, artwashing of colonialism in germany continues:

https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/magazine #colonialism #artwashing #germany #history

#MosaicMonday

These delightful fish and other marine creatures are part of a larger floor panel in the ‘House of the Man of Letters’ from Harbiye (modern Türkiye).

May they add delight to your Monday!

🏛️ Art Institute of Chicago

#AncientRome #History

Messalina is famous/infamous for her marriage to the emperor Claudius, but did you know she was also related to him?

Turns out Claudius’ penchant for marrying relatives didn’t start with Agrippina… Messalina had ancestry going back to the families of Mark Antony AND Augustus!

#CheekyFacts #AncientRome #History

I've created a new YouTube video, and it's about the Kybalion! Currently it is only available to Patreon members. Enjoy!
#kybalion #Hermeticism #Chicago #history

https://www.patreon.com/posts/nightmare-of-115311053?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Did you know that the ancient Roman aqueduct in Segovia, Spain built in the first century CE was still in use until 1973?

That's just shy of two thousand years of water supply. Yes, Roman engineering was THAT good!

Deep dive into more details about the wonders of Roman aqueducts in ‘Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire’ - out next week!

https://ulyssespress.com/books/your-cheeky-guide-to-the-roman-empire/

#CheekyFacts #AncientRome #History

“The National Archives museum, under Biden-appointed U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan, has been working to reshape its narrative of American history in order to make white conservatives more comfortable … The museum has removed references to Martin Luther King Jr., Japanese internment, Native Americans, union organizers, and birth control … A photo of King was replaced with one of Richard Nixon meeting Elvis Presley.”

#UnitedStates #history #neoliberalismToFascismPipeline https://mastodon.social/@law_geek/113411290482072568

Not even magnificent wealth can save you from the gods. We’re looking at you, Crassus 👀

#CheekyFacts #AncientRome #History

#FrescoFriday

The stunning blue really sets off the cream of the deers and winged figure. Thought to date the C1st CE, the style of using stucco over painted backgrounds results in a beautiful and gestural art form.

#AncientRome #History

"Welcome to the nettime mailing list!"

https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9510/msg00000.html

"[The internet mailing list Nettime, created in 1995, 29 years ago] has been widely recognized for its seminal role stimulating and disseminating ideas about Netzkritik or Net Critique, net.art, and tactical media and pioneered practices such as "collaborative filtering"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime

#OTD #OnThisDay #internet #TheWeb #history #InternetHistory #MailingList #NetArt #nettime

"The War of the Worlds", directed and narrated by Orson Welles, was performed and broadcast live 86 yeas ago #OnThisDay.

It is "infamous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is disputed, as the program had relatively few listeners."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)

#OTD #history #radio #halloween #scifi #aliens #TheWarOfTheWorlds

#ReliefWednesday

Although much of this sarcophagus is missing, the details that remain are telling. It is thought to depict the hero, Meleager with Herakles (with club in tow) and Atalanta (unfortunately headless).

🏛️Art Institute Chicago

#AncientRome #History

Happy birthday, ARPANET!

"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969

#arpanet #internet #history #OTD #OnThisDay #technology

Scientists say skeletal remains found in a castle well belong to figure from 800-year-old saga.

From CNN: "The 800-year-old Sverris saga, which follows the story of the real-life King Sverre Sigurdsson, includes the tossing of the body of a dead man — later known as 'Well-man' — down a well during a military raid in central Norway in 1197."

https://flip.it/2-.l5a

Here's the full study: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)02301-0

#History #Archaeology #Norway #Norse #Science #Anthropology

Not many people can say that the country they were born in no longer exists.

"The First Czechoslovak Republic emerged from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in October 1918."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Czechoslovak_Republic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Czechoslovakia

#czechoslovakia #slovakia #CzechRepublic #czechia #history #OnThisDay #OTD

Not many people can say that the country they were born in no longer exist.

"The First Czechoslovak Republic emerged from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in October 1918."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Czechoslovak_Republic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Czechoslovakia

#czechoslovakia #slovakia #CzechRepublic #czechia #history #OnThisDay #OTD