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#OnThisDay, 8 Apr 1959, Mary K Hawes initiates a project to create the first universal programming language for computers used by businesses and government. Grace Hopper led the team that then created COBOL. Some mainframes are still using it.
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#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly. Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.
In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
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Love a vintage #quilt that looks modern! Barbara Brackman is featuring quilts from the 1939-40 NY World's Fair in her quilt history blog today and this one especially caught my eye
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2024/01/quilt-contests-1939-1940-new-york.html
Quilt Contests: 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
In 1939 and 1940 New York held a World's Fair while Europe began six years of World War II. The Fair sponsored a 1940 quilt contest "Throu...barbarabrackman.blogspot.com
If you were Black and woke up in NYC on Monday, July 13, 1863, things got terrifying quick. For Black New Yorkers, there was no reprieve. Black life was dispensable to white mobs & law authorities. The Civil War, poverty, & rabid racism in 19th-century New York explains the events of that week. For Black Americans, the NYC Draft Riots were a heinous episode in an already brutal age. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum.
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This is a 440-pound heart from a blue whale, the largest known animal to ever exist. The heart was so large that technicians had to douse it in 1,000 gallons of formaldehyde. Read more about it here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/painstaking-process-preserving-blue-whales-heart-180964038/
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The Painstaking Process of Preserving a 400-Pound Blue Whale Heart
This massive specimen is now on display in Canada’s Royal Ontario MuseumJennifer Nalewicki (Smithsonian Magazine)
By today’s standards he seems mild. Even Obama praised him. Along with Lincoln, Republicans trot Ronald Reagan out every time Democrats praise the communication wizardry of Obama, Clinton, or Kennedy, or the stalwart composition of FDR or integrity of Truman. In reality, Reagan was an impenetrable facade of congeniality who was quite hostile to civil rights.
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From 1865 forward, Black Americans gathered in TX every year to honor and celebrate freedom. These celebrations evolved into what is known as Juneteenth, but were also 'Jubilee Day' and 'Emancipation Day.’ Black Americans were prohibited from using public spaces to celebrate, so they collected money to purchase land to carry on the tradition. Emancipation Park in Houston, TX was purchased in 1872 for $1,000.
11/16
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Although emancipation didn’t happen overnight for everyone—in some cases, enslavers withheld the information until after harvest season—celebrations broke out among newly freed Black people, and Juneteenth was born!
10/16
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Final emancipation from the Emancipation Proclamation happened on June 19, 1865 in Galveston Texas, two months after the surrender at Appomattox. Commemoration of this date would become the celebration JUNETEENTH. Enslaved people in states that fought for the Union — Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, and Kentucky — did not become emancipated until December 6, 1865, with the passage of the 13th Amendment.
9/16
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In Texas, slavery continued as the state experienced no large-scale fighting or significant presence of Union troops. Many enslavers outside the Lone Star State moved there, as they viewed it as a safe haven for slavery. After the war ended in the spring of 1865, General Granger’s arrival in Galveston that June signaled freedom for Texas’ 250,000 enslaved people and later solidified by the 13th Amendment.
8/16
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Actual Emancipation took time. As the Union Army rolled into different regions of the South, they emancipated the enslaved people there. SInce this happened over time, each region had their own dates. The enslaved people in the mid-Atlantic recognized April 4 as their Emancipation Day, when abolition came to DC. MS celebrated on May 8; in FL, May 22; AL & GA, May 28; MO, August 4; and KY & TN, August 8.
7/16
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But in reality, the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t instantly free any enslaved people. The Proclamation only applied to places under Confederate control and not to slave-holding border states or rebel areas already under Union control. However, as Northern troops advanced into the Confederate South, many enslaved people fled behind Union lines.
6/16
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At last, a messenger pushed through the crowd, confirming long-awaited news. The day of Jubilee had arrived. 4 million souls freed! Black Americans spilled into the streets, joy overflowing. Shouts reverberated through the air.. even strangers embraced one another. Tears of elation & relief streamed down many faces, while others bent their knees in prayer. Many, including Douglass, would never forget that day.
5/16
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Frederick.Douglass, in Boston, recounted the Watch Night at Tremont Hall, where he and others eagerly awaited the signing of the document. As the night progressed, anticipation mounted for the long-awaited moment when the Proclamation would come into effect on Jan 1, 1863. Douglass wrote that each passing minute seemed to dampen their hopes, as the clock struck 8, 9, and then 10 o'clock, with no news reaching them.
4/16
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It was well known that Lincoln would finally sign the Proclamation on January, 1, so Black Americans gathered where they could to await news of the signing. On New Year’s Day 1863, Black Americans in Beaufort, SC, gathered to hear Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson read the Emancipation Proclamation. He remembered the moment…I never saw anything so electric; it made all other words cheap…”
3/16
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Following Antietam, Lincoln spent much of 1862 writing the Emancipation Proclamation, being lobbied by Black leaders to include military service by Black men, & to expand its scope. While the Proclamation did not promise freedom to all enslaved people, it did provide a plan to free the enslaved people in the occupied territories of the South and to begin enlisting black men to fight in the Civil War.
2/16
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Juneteenth became more than just a celebration of freedom. It became a way for families to reunite; a way for Black Americans to organize politically, economically and spiritually; a way to educate and inspire future generations to come; and a way to show their pride, strength, and resolve.
12/16
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The 'Grandmother of Juneteenth' on her fight to get the holiday federally recognized
Juneteenth commemorates June 19th 1865, the day the last enslaved Black Americans -- in Galveston, Texas -- were informed that they had been freed – more tha...YouTube
Wired just posted an exclusive about how USPS is conducting warrantless mail surveillance.
Considering our current political landscape, it's worth stressing that USPS's system is actually rooted in historical efforts to criminalize birth control and labor radicalism (see follow-up post) #news #surveillance #labor #reproductivejustice #reproductiverights #histodons #history
The US Post Office Is Spying on the Mail. Senators Want to Stop It
The USPS carries out warrantless surveillance on thousands of parcels every year. Lawmakers want it to end—right now.Dell Cameron (WIRED)
The Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, #Iran is known as the #Pink #Mosque
It gets its name from rose-colored tiles covering mosque exterior & pink hue sunlight creates on interior when it shines through stained glass windows
Built in late 19th century during Qajar dynasty, the mosque is not just a place of worship, but a work of #art showing #beauty & #creativity of Islamic #architecture & #design.
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For decades, asbestos was sold as artificial snow. It could be bought in boxes to be sprinkled onto trees, ornaments, nativity scenes, etc. It was so popular, many older ornaments still have traces of asbestos.
It was also used in film. The most famous scene with asbestos snow is in Wizard of Oz (1939), when snow falls on Dorothy and her friends, waking them up.
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In fact, there were even hybrids!
The electric or gas Wood's Queen Victoria. Made in Chicago. Electrics were cleaner cars w/ fewer mechanical parts and commonly were marketed to women.
Here Miss Sidonia Furth of Seattle drives w/ a woman companion in Seattle. Ad from dealer that also sold Wintons & Caddys
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Beginning November 14, UAW Academic Workers have announced a statewide strike against the University of California.
The #strike may become the largest academic worker strike in US history.
You can show support for grad students, postdocs, and researchers in several ways. To learn how, check out:
https://fairucnow.org/support/
