CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Born #onthisday in 1837, A. C. Swinburne. Read Julian Barnes on when the poet had Maupassant round for lunch. A flayed human hand, porn, the serving of monkey meat + inordinate amounts of alcohol, all made for a truly strange Anglo-French encounter: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/an-unlikely-lunch-when-maupassant-met-swinburne #OTD

#OnThisDayAPRIL 5, 1866: BLACK GROCERS PROTEST TAXES SUPPORTING CONFEDERATESRobert Williams and other Black grocers wrote a letter to the Florida Freedmen’s Bureau calling for an end to high taxes levied against them to support former Confederates.https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/black-grocers-protest-taxes/

#OnThisDay First portable #CellPhone call was made (1973) by Martin Cooper of #Motorola.Birth Anniversary of English #Primatologist and #Anthropologist Jane Goodall (1934).Happy Birthday Eddie Murphy (1961).https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

#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

#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen (1805) - Danish author best known for writing children's stories. His birthday is celebrated as International #ChildrensBook Day.India won 2011 Cricket World Cup - becoming the first country to win the Cricket World Cup final on home soil.Today is World #Autism Awareness Day.https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 2019, Zuzana Čaputová was elected as President of Slovakia. She was the first - and so far only - woman to hold the role.She had gained national prominence as a lawyer when she led a 14-year case against an illegal landfill.

#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to 'take up crocheting' instead.Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #CanadianHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay Birth Anniversary of Wilhelm Röntgen (1845) - inventor of X-Rays that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics.Happy Birthday #Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino (1963). He has received many industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the Palme d'Or.Today is World #Theatre Day.https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

#OnThisDay, 26 Mar 1974, Gaura Devi and 27 village women prevent the logging of trees in the village of Rini in the Himalayas. They confront armed men from the lumber company and hug the trees to stop them being felled.https://carvehername.org.uk/women-fighting-deforestation-gaura-devi/#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory#Histodons

#OnThisDay: Birth Anniversary of #American #Poet Robert Frost (1874).Birth Anniversary of Paul Erdős (1913) - one of the most prolific #Mathematicians and producers of mathematical #Conjectures of the 20th century.https://knowledgezone.co.in/news

@CarveHerName I've been there, about 9 years ago. Seeing those machines (and the statue of Turing) was so impressive.

Plewman was executed at Dachau in Sept 1944. She posthumously received the Croix Du Guerre and the King's Commendation for Brave Conduct. A street in Marseilles is named after her.2/2

#OnThisDay in 1849, an enslaved man named Henry Brown made his bid for freedom, by shipping himself in a box to the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society in downtown Philadelphia. Read his story here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-narrative-of-henry-box-brown-1849

@CarveHerName - Impressive; A real Hero helping her country.

#OnThisDay, 22 March 1982, around 250 people blockade Greenham Common airbase in the UK. 34 are arrested. It was the first mass non-violent protest by the Greenham Common peace women.Photo: Paula Allen.Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/greenham-women-22-march-1982/#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem. She was later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #DutchHistory #Histodons

@publicdomainrev he got the 2 and 6 right. and one of the zeros. not too bad, isaac, not too bad.

Pioneering French photographer Felix Nadar died #onthisday in 1910. @AllisonCMeier explores his determined efforts to document the beauty and terror of this realm of the dead: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/photographing-the-dark-nadars-descent-into-the-paris-catacombs #otd

@CarveHerName Alaska, where men are men.And women win the Iditarod.