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Voyager 1's Saturn #photography: 💯 @NASAVoyager 1 flew by Saturn #OTD in 1980, discovering 3 moons (Atlas, Prometheus & Pandora) and taking this shot as it sped by on its way out of our solar system. Learn more about Voyager's rendezvous with Saturn: https://go.nasa.gov/3UEm8jP #NASAhistory https://nitter.net/NASAhistory/status/1591475916806721538#m

Voyager - Saturn Approach

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#Photography #otd #NASAhistory

#OtD 19 Aug 1936 the gay socialist poet Federico García Lorca was executed a month after the Spanish civil war commenced. "I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace." https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/

E39-40: The Spanish civil war – an introduction

Double podcast episode where we give a brief general overview of the Spanish civil war and revolution which broke out after the attempted military coup by right-wing general Francisco Franco 1936-1…
Working Class History
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#OtD 8 Aug 1942 Spanish civil war veteran Maria Perez Cruz was executed by the Franco regime on trumped up charges. A former nurse in the anarchist Iron Column militia, she was arrested in 1939 charged with various offences. More in this short biography: https://libcom.org/history/perez-maria-1917-1942-aka-la-jabalina

Perez, Maria, 1917-1942, aka La Jabalina

A short biography of Spanish anarchist Maria Perez, who fought with the Iron Column and was murdered by the Francoists in 1942
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