Born in 1852, Mary Titcomb had a strong desire for an education & career.

Mary became a librarian & making #books accessible to everyone was a priority. She came up with a children’s room & set up “book stations” in shops & post offices in town.

But Mary noticed people from rural areas weren’t visiting the #library. So, she secured funding to build & begin the nation’s first bookmobile. 📚

https://www.amazon.com.au/Library-Wheels-Titcomb-Americas-Bookmobile-ebook/dp/B078W6SQZQ #history

#podcast für Deutschland. Mit moi und der FAZ. Ausnahmsweise mal auf Deutsch.

"Tote Preussen auf dem Dachboden"

#history #geschichte #geschiedenis

https://m.faz.net/podcasts/f-a-z-podcast-fuer-deutschland/sensationsfund-von-waterloo-tote-preussen-auf-dem-dachboden-18625774.html?interaktiv_platzhalter&authId=1*18pgdh2*_a*Y3ItUFgycFZBUWVacEcyd1VJUk43ak54UUx3RTJ2OUhSNlVXWm45b09uZjctY1d0Yzcwc1VudGJHWjNBYkMwNQ..

@histodons@geschichteEdu@GeschichteFM

I never did an #introduction and I keep hitting the character limit on my profile blurb, so:

I'm Michele Ann Jenkins aka Maj.
I was federated before it was cool and have just been biding my time on FB and Reddit until a critical mass happened somewhere better and now here we are!

I am equally interested in anachronisms, futurism, and current events. In all timelines, looking to listen & learn from a diversity of voice and lived experiences.

Ever evolving tag cloud because I keep being reminded of other interests:

#Equality #Justice #Socialism
#Liguistics #SciFi #Taxonomy #OpenWeb #IA #UX #DigitalGovernance #Feminism #Journalism #Writing #Français #Geek #90s #Marginalia #UrbanPlanning #Expat #Immigrant #Python #Perl #Costuming #History #UrbanPlanning #Sustainability #Upcyling #Repairing #DIY #MLIS #InfoSci #Sighing

#Apple has contributed absolutely nothing to the #computing #history, except for design pieces for the #posh, who upgrade #computers every five years, #tablets every two years, and #phones every year, just to show off, as well as #waste #resources as very few other #companies might do.

Don't even get me started about the clearly amazing quality of #OpenSource #software, in which all Apple products are based, but made #close #source by them afterwards.

Your #work is #beautiful, @davidrevoy

27 December 1924 | A Polish Jew Jakub (Jack) Fogel was born in Turek.

In Auschwitz from 27 August 1943
No. 140964
Transferred to Fürstengrube sub-camp.

In 1945 he was on a death march, ending up on one of the ships in the Lubeck Bay that were mistakenly bombed by the British RAF on 3 May 1945. More than 7,000 prisoners were killed. Jakub survived.

After the war he emigrated to Australia.
Today he turns 98.
Happy birthday.

#Auschwitz #history #ww2 #Holocaust #birthday #otd #Turek #Australia

Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #energy

For thousands of years, fermenting beer was considered a household task for #women.

By the Middle Ages, some sold beer at English markets. Female brewers wore tall, pointy hats to be easily spotted. They stood by cauldrons & often had cats to keep mice away.

Sound familiar? It should.

You see, when male brewers felt threatened by their success, they accused the women of witchcraft. These rumors may have led to some witch iconography we still recognize today.

https://theconversation.com/women-used-to-dominate-the-beer-industry-until-the-witch-accusations-started-pouring-in-155940 #history

I am the Race and Justice Reporter at #Axios. I write about history and racism. Here's one:
The Underground Railroad to Mexico exposes a neglected history about the Black experience in the Americas. It's likely more enslaved Black people in the US escaped to Mexico than originally thought.
#undergroundrailroad #undergroundrailroadtomexico #blackhistory #history #latino #latinohistory #racism #slavery
https://www.axios.com/2022/02/08/underground-railroad-mexico-latinos-black-histoy

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.

Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their famous model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.

How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?

https://theconversation.com/sexism-pushed-rosalind-franklin-toward-the-scientific-sidelines-during-her-short-life-but-her-work-still-shines-on-her-100th-birthday-139249 #history #science

Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?

Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists of her time like Carnegie & Rockefeller.

But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.

Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history #women

We created the account at Mastodon only a week ago and this community here grown to over 32,000.

Thank you for welcoming us here, thank you for all boosts, comments, advice, support and your engagement.

We are still learning and try to find our specific language on this platform. Your feedback is much appreciated.

Remember with us and amplify our voice.

#mastodon #Memorial #NeverForget #history #education #memory #Remember #followerpower #follow #Holocaust #Shoah #community #fediverse

This amazing map shows travel time from London the rest of the world in 1881
#history #dataviz #travel

#history #weird #french #kings #royalty

#introduction #introductions

Hi all, I'm jmechner on #Twitter #Instagram, new here! I do #videogames, #books, #screenwriting and #comics.

I made #PrinceofPersia and #Karateka on #AppleII using rotoscoped #animation & released my #gamedev #journal. Nowadays I write & draw #graphicnovels #BD and #sketchbook #sketching. I'm from #USA, live in #France.

Interested in #drawing #art #illustration #games #gaming #retrogames #retrogaming #film #cinema #tech #technology #history. Suggestions welcome!

#history #war #humor #engineering

#model #sex #sexy #cucumber #history #egypt

I'm prepared to believe that you didn't notice any coughing at night after this.

#medicine #cough #cannabis #morphinesulfate #history #humor

There a pervasive belief that I've been guilty of that humanity in 1900 (and before) was completely off on questions of health and medicine compared to now. This still relevant document proves our ascendants knew some of their shit while the current antivax movement proves we aren't much better off now. #history

I remember when computers used to be built into keyboards. It was in-between the massive all-in-one computers with built-in tiny monitors and keyboard and before the horizontal desktop cases.
#computer #history #old