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#Illusion is the most tenacious weed in the collective #consciousness; #history teaches, but it has no pupils.Antonio Gramsci #quote #quotes #anarchocommunism

New Podcast! "27 February 1937: Woolworths sitdown strike" on @Spreaker #history #women #woolworthshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/27-february-1937-woolworths-sitdown-strike--69728392

Howard Hughes wanted to make a wooden aircraft twin engine fighter in 1937. It would have used Duramold which is a composite material process where birch or poplar plies are impregnated with phenolic resin and laminated together in a mold under heat. The general idea is similar to what the British started thinking of making in 1937 and led to the Mosquito (Image 1) Hughes D-2 would have been more smooth and used twin booms. There are not many images of the D-2 (Image 2).The US army airforce were not enthused about using wood in aircraft. The role of fast twin engine fighter made out of metal was filled by the Lockheed P-38 (Image 3).Hughes gave up making the D-2 out of wood, and started working on a metal twin engine designated XF-11. There are photographs of Hughes testing the XF-11(Image 4).In senate hearing testimony, Hughes claimed that the USAAF stole his idea for a twin engine boom aircraft.#aircraft #history #ww2

#OTD February 26, 1776, the Continental Congress agreed to pay the expenses of French printer Fleury Mesplet and to give him “25 Half Joes to remove Himself, his Family and Types to Canada and there set up a free Press.” Mesplet would eventually found the Montreal Gazette newspaper. But his purpose on this trip was to help Benjamin Franklin persuade the French Canadians to join the American Revolution. He was left behind with his printing press when Franklin and the Continental Army fled for home in May 1776. (The half joe was a Portuguese gold coin commonly used in the 13 colonies.)#hedidnotconquer #canada #history #books #montreal #quebec

@EricMartin Bravo! Great surrealist vibe à la Tanguy.

Hey Prof. @anulahtinen , did you see the paper on a 16th century bailiff at Kokemäki that Tapio Salminen and I wrote?https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10761-024-00732-y#history #archaeology

New Podcast! "26 February 1906: Cerbère orange carriers strike" on @Spreaker #france #history #womenshttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/26-february-1906-cerbere-orange-carriers-strike--69728383

#UrbanExploration #CityParks #History #Mandarin #Jacksonville #Florida #HarrietBeecherStowe https://www.mandarinmuseum.org/visit/schoolhouse https://www.mandarinmuseum.org/mandarin-history/harriet-beecher-stowe Walter Jones Historical Park, Mandarin neighborhood, Jacksonville, Florida

@DavidM_yeg @JourneysInFilm here’s an “opposite” example. In Find Me Falling Harry Connick, Jr. plays a one-hit wonder musician. In one scene he’s writing a new song on his guitar, and singing the words he’s written. But the chords he’s playing - and he really is playing - are jazz shapes, not the cowboy chords you’d expect to see for the type of musician he’s playing/the genre of song he’s writing.(In any scene that involves musicians my wife routinely asks me, are they really playing?)

@guyjantic ohhhhh i think its my autism that lets me pull random factoids that seem unrelated into a cohesive narrative