The realm of Korinthia spans from rugged mountains hosting mysterious temples honoring little-known gods, to sunny islands in a wine-dark sea. Learn a little of the great word-horde of their tongue to make your journeys easier. #travel #history https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/greece/greek/vocabulary.html?s=mc

does anyone know a museum or collection that contains a working/operational Ericsson AXE10 digital telephone exchange? #telecom #ericsson #history #retronetworking

Terrarium Industrialis, England

The Terrarium Industrialis lies hidden inside an abandoned building, glass-encased verdant gems against a 1950s Modernist concrete shell.

Read more: https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/industrial/terrarium-industrialis-england/

The Capacitor Plague of the Early 2000s - Somewhere between the period of 1999 and 2007 a plague swept through the world, de... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/18/the-capacitor-plague-of-the-early-2000s/ #electrolyticcapacitor #capacitorplague #history

7 Wonders Armada Etienne Hebinger #greece #greek #history #art #mythology #pagansky #heathensky #booksky #litsky

TIL: My computer is roughly 9,000,000% faster than what Mr. Babbage believed his engine would be, at multiplying two 20 digit numbers.

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and even scented.

https://www.dw.com/en/ancient-statues-were-colorful-and-perfumed/a-64426809?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf

The term "literate" comes from the Latin littera, and would have meant formally educated. So even those who could read AND understand but who had not been to formal schooling would not be considered literate in the medieval sense. With formal education being expensive and restricted--usually only available to priests and nobles--we get our skewed statistics of the population being wildly illiterate. https://www.veritastabletop.com/talking-about-talking/ #history

Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
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Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in raids and sweeps.

https://www.propublica.org/article/more-americans-will-be-caught-up-trump-immigration-raids?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

A ruined city, once a prosperous port, contains remains of a large temple. No one lives here today, in the far east of Korinthia's largest island. #history #travel https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/greece/crete/eastern-crete/itanos.html?s=mc

#KennedyCenter Announces New All #White Production of #Hamilton. This is disgusting, un-american and does not represent most Americans. #trump #maga #censorship #boycott the #KennedyCenter #theater #plays #history https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/kennedy-center-announces-new-all-white-production-of-hamilton/

"The surviving tiles and fireplaces are (largely) all that’s left of those homes and of some of Altadena’s most historic architecture."

Marah Eakin for Dwell‬: https://longreads.com/2025/03/17/the-grassroots-race-to-save-altadenas-historic-batchelder-tiles-before-the-bulldozers-move-in/

#history #archaeology #technology

Archaeologists have discovered that humans discovered metallurgy much earlier than previously thought. Hunter-gather societies worked copper as early as 9,000 years ago. This is thousands of years earlier than previously thought. Using advanced technology such as x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy it has been confirmed that copper smelting was much earlier, leading to a re-think of metallurgy history. https://archaeology.org/news/2025/03/17/new-evidence-emerges-on-origins-of-metallurgy/

@classicalmusic
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 6 in B minor Op. 74
"Pathetique"

Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
The Philharmonia Orchestra

Recorded on June, 1959
at Kinsway Hall, London

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCAXaan3FJQ

“... remind them that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now...”
--White House Press Secretary Boopsie Liesalot (Karoline Leavitt)

Is somebody going to tell her that our Continental Army fought with guns and uniforms made in France?

We also had a (likely) gay Prussian general lay the foundation for our army.

Times and countries change Boopsie.

#History
#StupidLeadership

Sources: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5199036-statue-of-liberty-white-house-french-politician/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben

154 years ago, on March 18, 1871, the Paris Commune, the world's first dictatorship of the proletariat, was established.

Monday 18 March 1963

Britain and the Space Age. Research is ongoing for a manned space plane capable of going into orbit. A long series of wind-tunnel tests on models are being made at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. Also under consideration, the likely shape of planes to come.