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This unique self-portrait, also known as “view from the left eye”, is the creation of Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (famous for his work on supersonic fluid mechanics), who was born #onthisday in 1838. Read more about the image here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/self-portrait-by-ernst-mach-1886 #OTD

She stuck to her cover story and was released a few months after her arrest. She then successfully convinced the orphanage to return her baby to her, and went into hiding until liberation.She was awarded the Croix de Guerre by France. 2/2

#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Italian #Physicist Alessandro Volta (1745) - credited as the inventor of the electric #Battery.Birth Anniversary of Persian polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201) - considered the creator of #Trigonometry as a mathematical discipline.Today is #PlutoDay to commemorate the anniversary of the discovery of Pluto in 1930.https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

#OnThisDay, 17 February 2014, Somayya Anwar Jabarti has her name on the masthead of the daily Saudi Gazette, an English language newspaper, for the first time. She was the first woman to be editor-in-chief of a national newspaper in Saudi Arabia.

Recorded #OnThisDay 44 years ago:Simple Minds - Peel Session 1982The complete session recorded by Simple Minds on 15 February 1982 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on 1 March 1982.Tracklist:1. Promised You A Miracle (0:07)2. Love Song (4:53)3. Sons And Fascination (10:44)4. King Is White And In The Crowd (17:28)https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2013/07/simple-minds-peel-session-1982.html#SimpleMinds #PeelSessions #OTD

@stefan "On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives."

#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 2014, women ski jump for the first time at the winter Olympics. Germany's Carina Vogt (pictured) wins gold. Previous objections to the event included a man saying, in 2005, that it was “not appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view”. *2005*.#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined. "I certainly don't want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression."#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BlackHistoryMonth #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University. Two of her PhD students, Bea Schwarz and then Christine Buisman, identified the fungus causing a disease in elm trees. They were building on Dina Spierenburg's work which had identified it as a new disease.Hence it being called Dutch Elm disease.#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons