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USLUCK<a href="https://www.usluck.com/630882/serial-killer-richard-ramirez-arrested-after-being-beaten-by-a-mob-on-august-31st-1985-los-angeles-2114x1290/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.usluck.com/630882/serial-killer-richard-ramirez-arrested-after-being-beaten-by-a-mob-on-august-31st-1985-los-angeles-2114x1290/</a> Serial Killer Richard Ramirez arrested after being beaten by a mob on August 31st 1985 Los Angeles.[2114×1290] <a href="https://channels.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/HistoryPorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoryPorn</a>

Bob the TravelerPtolemy XV Philopator Philometor Caesar, who was born OTD in 47 BC, was the last Pharaoh of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Egypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Egypt</a>; he was better known by his nicknames Caesarion and Ptolemy Caesar <a href="https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/egypt/aswan.html?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/egypt/aswan.html?s=mb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a>

Bob the TravelerEmperor Rokujō, 79th Emperor of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Japan</a>, died OTD in 1176 <a href="https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kofun/emperor-kaika.html?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kofun/emperor-kaika.html?s=mb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a>

USLUCK<a href="https://www.usluck.com/630868/the-serbians-should-have-known-tbh/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.usluck.com/630868/the-serbians-should-have-known-tbh/</a> The Serbians should have known tbh <a href="https://channels.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/HistoryMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoryMemes</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Memes</a>

Levka<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ConcentrationCamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConcentrationCamps</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WWII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WWII</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OccupiedPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OccupiedPalestine</a>"The Buchenwald concentration camp was one of the largest on German soil. It was liberated on April 11, 1945 by US soldiers.Concentration camp survivors were among several hundred guests attending theBuchenwald commemoration event on Sunday, April 6.In the run-up a conflict emerged between the organizers and the Israeli embassy. Bowing to pressure from the Israeli ambassador, the organizers revoked the invitation of German-Israeli philosopher Omri Boehm to speak at the event. Boehm, the grandson of Holocaust survivors, has been critical of the Israeli government.The final part of Sunday's commemoration event saw a young participant from a youth project speak about the lessons to be learned from Buchenwald — and about the need to speak out about injustice today, going on to say 'what are we waiting for? People are dying in Ukraine in a war, people are dying in Palestine in a genocide.'Memorial director Jens-Christian Wagner responded that should be possible to mourn those who were innocently killed there — but that in his view to speak of a 'genocide', especially at a commemoration in Buchenwald, was not appropriate.(. . .)By April 1945, around 56,000 people, mainly Jews, had been killed in Buchenwald. It was not until World War II was nearing its end in Europe that liberation finally arrived. When the first US Army tanks approached the concentration camp on April 11, 1945, determined prisoners began to rebel and stopped many soldiers from the SS guard detail from fleeing.After the end of the war, Thuringia became part of the Soviet-occupied part of Germany. The Soviets soon started using the Buchenwald site as one of their 'special camps,' where they mostly held local Nazi leaders, police personnel or owners of businesses that had used forced labor. It is believed that 7,000 more people had died there by 1950."<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/buchenwald-a-warning-against-the-dangers-of-extremism/a-72106652" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.dw.com/en/buchenwald-a-warning-against-the-dangers-of-extremism/a-72106652</a>

Scott P ✅Hey .. genealogists and historians! Do you create print books of your research .. either for friends/family or possibly larger distribution? I'm curious what tools you use. I've been in tech publishing for 30+ years, and the few books I've published, I used Adobe FrameMaker. It is really the best "old-school" tool for making "real" books (frontmatter, toc, lists, index, footnotes, etc). I'm working on a new (mostly free) workflow. (cont)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genealogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genealogy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publishing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/print" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#print</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

USLUCK<a href="https://www.usluck.com/630864/lady-with-beautiful-curly-long-har-posing-with-it-down-1890s-glass-negative/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.usluck.com/630864/lady-with-beautiful-curly-long-har-posing-with-it-down-1890s-glass-negative/</a> Lady with beautiful curly long har, posing with it down, 1890s. Glass negative. <a href="https://channels.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TheWayWeWere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheWayWeWere</a>

Levka<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EdithPiaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdithPiaf</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WWII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WWII</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#France</a>"But even though these stories hold their own specific allure, there is one overarching era of her life that was not only definitive to the rest of her career, but to the history of the world. It revolved around the Second World War. As soldiers went off to fight and defend their countries from the oncoming Nazi invasion, it was the job of entertainers like Piaf to often cajole the troops, but in her case, this seemingly took quite a different tack. The trouble with her life story being as elusive as it was is that details are scant, and we have to base our judgments solely on allegations, so there is no way of definitively getting to the heart of the matter. But nevertheless, the singer was accused of being an integral cog in a force of French resistance by helping to set captives from her native country free. But how exactly did she achieve this? By singing to them, of course. Well, it’s not quite as straightforward as this, but it was the essence of the idea. Legend has it that Piaf, while touring prisoner of war camps during the German occupation of France in 1944, had a hand in setting a selection of the captives free through a series of covert moves in the midst of her performances.Some say this could have been in the region of hundreds or even thousands of prisoners, but it is clear by now that there is little chance of ever discerning a definitive truth. Allegedly, the singer would pose with prisoners for photographs after her concerts had ended, as part of an elaborate scheme in which the pictures would then be developed and blown up to feature only the captives’ faces, and thus used to create falsified travel documents to aid their escape. The rumour was so hot that it landed Piaf in front of the épuration légale, in other words, a purge trial following the conclusion of the war and the fall of the Vichy regime in France, in which she was formally accused of the supposed crime and allegedly blacklisted from being played on radio stations for a short time. However, soon after the trial, Piaf returned to the performing circuit undeterred, and it certainly did the prospects of her career no harm. Going on to the most prolific part of her tenure in the years that followed, it’s clear that Piaf was the true original blueprint for what it means to be an elusive star. Indeed, her status almost seems to be at odds with each other in every aspect; how can we know so relatively little about someone so culturally revered, and for the truth of her story to remain so mired in mystery, even to this day? It was perhaps this elusive illusion that has kept her enigmatic enthral alive far longer than the woman herself.<a href="https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-edith-piaf-allegedly-helped-hundreds-escape-nazi-death-camps/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-edith-piaf-allegedly-helped-hundreds-escape-nazi-death-camps/</a>

Dr. Rosanne WelchFrom Paris to Columbus to California: Screenwriter Grace Cunard Was the Ultimate Hyphen as an Actress-Writer-Director (And Sometimes Editor) – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, August 2025 – On Screenwriting and Media with Dr. Rosanne Welch<a href="https://scriptmag.com/from-paris-to-columbus-to-california-screenwriter-grace-cunard-was-the-ultimate-hyphen-as-an-actress-writer-director-and-sometimes-editor" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://scriptmag.com/from-paris-to-columbus-to-california-screenwriter-grace-cunard-was-the-ultimate-hyphen-as-an-actress-writer-director-and-sometimes-editor</a>Read More <a href="https://rosannewelch.com/2025/08/23/from-paris-to-columbus-to-california-screenwriter-grace-cunard-was-the-ultimate-hyphen-as-an-actress-writer-director-and-sometimes-editor-dr-rosanne-welch-script-magazine-august-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://rosannewelch.com/2025/08/23/from-paris-to-columbus-to-california-screenwriter-grace-cunard-was-the-ultimate-hyphen-as-an-actress-writer-director-and-sometimes-editor-dr-rosanne-welch-script-magazine-august-2025/</a><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/screenwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#screenwriting</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#women</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#movies</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/tv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tv</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/column" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#column</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/article" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#article</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/script" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#script</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/scriptmagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scriptmagazine</a>

Bob the TravelerCaptain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling OTD in 1923 on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours; any on-board lavatory would have been crude <a href="https://toilet-guru.com/blog/32.html?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://toilet-guru.com/blog/32.html?s=mb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/aviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aviation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a>

Levka<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpRegime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpRegime</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smithsonian</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nazis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EntarteteKunst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EntarteteKunst</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gleichschaltung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gleichschaltung</a>"It was the latest in a long line of attacks Trump has made on the Smithsonian, a network of 21 museums based in Washington, D.C., since taking office. In June, Kim Sajet, then the director of the Smithsonian-overseen National Portrait Gallery, resigned, following Trump’s attempt to fire her for being, in his words, 'a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI.' Then, on Aug. 12, the White House issued a letter to the Smithsonian announcing it would begin a 'comprehensive initial review' of selected Smithsonian museums to 'ensure alignment with the President’s directive to celebrate American exceptionalism' and 'remove divisive or partisan narratives.' Following up on Trump’s post, a White House official stated that the President 'will explore all options and avenues to get the Woke out of the Smithsonian and hold them accountable.'This routing out of undesirable leaders and content from a country’s museums has precedent in Nazi Germany — a link that becomes even more apparent when we consider Trump’s own hatred of modern art and architecture.'I’ve always felt that a lot of modern art is a con,' Trump wrote in his 1987 book, The Art of the Deal. In 2016, he said of modern art shown in a Brooklyn Museum exhibition that 'it’s not art. It’s absolutely gross, degenerate stuff.'His use of the word 'degenerate' was particularly significant. 'Degenerate art' — or, in German, 'entartete kunst' — was a term coined by the Nazi Party in the 1920s to describe modern art, which was seen as antithetical to the Nazi project.In 1931, as Hitler was leading the Nazi Party to unprecedented success in German parliamentary elections, he announced that he would 'release a tornado' against modern art. Upon his appointment as chancellor of Germany in 1933, he announced a new policy specifying that 'all artistic productions with cosmopolitan or Bolshevik tendencies must be thrown out of German museums and collections.'(. . .)The Smithsonian has, troublingly, already removed references to Trump’s impeachments from its exhibits."<a href="https://forward.com/opinion/764116/smithsonian-trump-degenerate-art/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://forward.com/opinion/764116/smithsonian-trump-degenerate-art/</a>

David W. JonesThe ancient Greeks and Romans grappled with housing crises, too<a href="https://theconversation.com/the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-grappled-with-housing-crises-too-261860" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-grappled-with-housing-crises-too-261860</a>> From exorbitant rents to an undersupply of affordable homes, ancient societies faced some familiar-sounding problems – with serious social consequences.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homelessness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greed</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#housing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greece</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ancient</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rome</a>

Bob the TravelerItalian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed OTD in 1927 <a href="https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-revolutionary/anarchists.html?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-revolutionary/anarchists.html?s=mb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NewYorkCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewYorkCity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a>

Bob the TravelerEmperor Go-Shirakawa, 77th Emperor of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Japan</a>, ascended to the Chrsanthemum Throne OTD in 1155; he would be the last absolute ruler before the Shogunate took power <a href="https://toilet-guru.com/shogunate/?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://toilet-guru.com/shogunate/?s=mb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a>

USLUCK<a href="https://www.usluck.com/630848/serial-killer-ed-kemper-posing-with-the-officers-who-arrested-him-in-1973-700x549/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.usluck.com/630848/serial-killer-ed-kemper-posing-with-the-officers-who-arrested-him-in-1973-700x549/</a> Serial Killer Ed Kemper posing with the Officers who arrested him in 1973. [700×549] <a href="https://channels.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/HistoryPorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoryPorn</a>

Preston MacDougallThe wetlands and the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Tennessee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tennessee</a> city in which they have been restored (from being a city garbage dump) during construction of the Discovery Center are both named after <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/RevolutionaryWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RevolutionaryWar</a> hero Lieutenant Hardy Murfree. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy_Murfree" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy_Murfree</a>This feathered resident and the bull rushes don’t care about that <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a>.

Bob the TravelerOTD in 1382, the Golden Horde led by Tokhtamysh laid siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Moscow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Moscow</a> <a href="https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/russia/moscow.html?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/russia/moscow.html?s=mb</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a>

USLUCK<a href="https://www.usluck.com/630832/cortes-says-calm-the-fuck-down/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.usluck.com/630832/cortes-says-calm-the-fuck-down/</a> Cortes says “Calm the fuck down” <a href="https://channels.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/HistoryMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoryMemes</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Memes</a>

USLUCK<a href="https://www.usluck.com/630828/my-mom-and-her-new-living-room-suite-circa-1970/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.usluck.com/630828/my-mom-and-her-new-living-room-suite-circa-1970/</a> MY MOM AND HER NEW LIVING ROOM SUITE, CIRCA 1970. <a href="https://channels.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TheWayWeWere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheWayWeWere</a>

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