Notices tagged with history, page 5

Researchers have long created facial approximations of people from the past. But Live Science asks: How accurate are these reconstructions? https://flip.it/FeTFZX
#Science #DNA #History

To celebrate 36 years of SDF we've made a set of 5 postcards from high resolution scans of photos from the 1990s and a screenshot from our Plan 9 server

They are available in our #fundraiser store

https://sdf.org/?store

#support #postcard #history #1990s #bbs #community

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is…HAND PUSH WORKER (cigarettes):

"rolls tobacco in small piece of parchment, inserts end of parchment in end of paper sheath; pushes tobacco from one to the other."

Dict Occp'l Terms (1927) #history
📷 Rolling cigarette papers, 1909 c/o Library of Congress

Stunning 2,700-year-old sculpture unearthed in Iraq.

Smithsonian Magazine reports: "Archaeologists hope to reunite the 18-ton torso of the Assyrian deity with its head, severed by smugglers decades ago."

https://flip.it/YvCrkK

#Archaeology #History #Sculpture #Iraq #Art

Owen Jones: "With growing public fury at the horrors unleashed by Israel against Gaza, the cheerleaders of this crime have a strategy. Those who oppose it are to be harassed, intimidated, fired. Here we document what's happening, who has been targeted - and why we must fight it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcVVVSgt7LY #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #history #politics

The SDF Incompatible Timesharing System Boot Camp begins today! Learn about ITS in a friendly communal environment with a new TURIST orientation and self-paced challenges announced on Sunday!

https://sdf.org/its

#learning #hacking #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #history #ai

What Christians Aren't Taught About Zionism
https://vigilante.tv/w/gK8XNJNGZgezSp3WQko8N1
#news #kazaria #jew #jews #Judaism #christianity #bible #religion #politics #culture #ukraine #war #conflict #israel #Palestine #islam #hebrew #jesus #history #zionism #world #usa

I look forward to the day when we have to explain the oil industry to the next generation in the same way that our history teachers explain that yes, it used to be common to use lead in makeup, to smoke on planes, and to teach workers using radioactive paint to lick their brushes.

#science #oil #history

Did ancient Egyptians know meteorites came from space?

Smithsonian Magazine reports: "Hieroglyphic texts suggest they understood the rocks, which contained valuable iron, did not originate on Earth."

https://flip.it/P.yBu8

#Egypt #AncientEgypt #Space #Meteorites #History

“Vote NO on Woman Suffrage” 🙄

Not ancient #history, but just a century ago.

Source: State Archives of North Carolina

@wonderofscience Nice! Thanks for the share.

It reminds me of this interactive #earth time travel site. Plug in the name of a city, then go back in various increments all the way to 750 million years ago, and see where the city was.

https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#0

Pro tip: Click on Display Options and tick "Show equator". I got very disoriented by the changing land masses! #geology #history #science

Florida’s revised #history standards includes this:

“Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

Two anthropologists explain this as a deeply entrenched ‘switching mechanism’, where “the story about the horrors of the slave system is transformed into a story about opportunity, success and the American dream.”

https://theconversation.com/why-separating-fact-from-fiction-is-critical-in-teaching-us-slavery-214233

#Histodons #Education @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon

I got a rather special gift today from the Japanese team: the first phone shipping with Opera in Japan, which was also the first phone in Japan to ship with a full Internet browser.

The Kyocere AH-K3001V.

People were in line to buy the phone, with the line going far into the street. This was in 2004, so long before the iPhone was launched.

The phone had a special Opera button and there were billboards on the local trains marketing the phone as the first phone to provide full Internet access.

This is part of the special relationship we have with Japan and still have, but now with Vivaldi.

#Vivaldi #Japan #mobile #Internet #History #browser

Sleepy prince.👑 1955. #CatsOfYore #Cat #Cats #History #catsodon #catsofmastodon #catcontent #ilovecats #vintage https://www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-photo/sleeping-kitten-wearing-a-miniature-crown-news-photo/3323448

How a Smithsonian curator discovered the Hope Diamond’s many secrets.

Smithsonian Magazine reports: "The storied past of the 45.52-carat sapphire-blue gemstone hails back to the days before the French Revolution."

https://flip.it/ZP2._O

#Diamond #Gems #Smithsonian #History #Geology #Museum

While figures like Martin Luther King Jr. & Rosa Parks are well-known, there were countless local leaders who galvanized their communities. People like Fannie Lou Hamer (MS), Ella Baker (VA), and Amelia Boynton (Selma AL), who emphasized the importance of grassroots organizing, were pivotal to the success of the Civil Rights Movement in America.

Image: Amelia Boynton knocked unconscious during Bloody Sunday.

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@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe @BlackMastodon@chirp.social #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #BlackHistory

Born in 1910, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin perfected X-ray crystallography, a type of imaging using X-rays to determine a molecule’s three-dimensional structure.

She determined the structures of insulin, penicillin & vitamin B12, leading to tremendous advances in medicine.

Hodgkin was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. She also advocated for world peace, campaigning against both the Vietnam War & nuclear weapons. https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/dorothy-hodgkin #HistoryRemix #science #history

Beaches are places of intertidal liminality. Transient, impermanent and ever changing. To be the first person to walk on the sands as the tide retreats, is to find the world remade.

#Galloway #Scotland #History #blackandwhitephotography

@SDF May you donate both to https://icm.museum ??

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #history #bbs

An assortment of postcard ideas from 1990-2002 pictures for the SDF Computer museum BOOTSTRAP members. Each person who joins BOOTSTRAP will receive 6 along with stickers, a card and other goodies.

https://icm.museum

#postcard #community #history #museum #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing