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Just caught my fridge telling my microwave(who is a gossip) that 'I've opened this account...
An 1882 description of Turkey Creek in Kansas City: “a live, impetuous stream, meanders at will through the place seemingly priding itself on its independence in designating its own path, regardless of the points on the compass, or the predominating requirements of this expeditious age…”
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The Free City of Danzig is established, today in 1920, a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) & nearly 200 other small localities in the surrounding areas
The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened, today in 1955
The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, today in 1985
An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council, today in 1988
The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands, today in 1988
Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans, today in 2007
Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated, today in 2002
Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated, today in 2012
The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland, today in 1920
Good morning from Tipperary
What Elon Musk was doing to me over on X. The place is trash.
Yeah same 😂
I may have to start wearing this more often now that The Joker has been elected President and he's filling cabinet positions with The Penguin, The Riddler, Scarecrow, Bane and Poison Ivy
#BatDog #GothamsInTrouble #WhatIsWrongWithHumans
#Dogs
An illustration of a skeleton leading an old hunched man by the hand - presumably into death.
Me, leading people from the other place to #Bluesky!
Welcome, newbies! I'm a medical historian who likes to remind people the past was pretty awful.
If you ever wondered what would happen if you needed a leg amputated in 1832, or if you had a toothache in 1765 - look no further.
The Sun. Taken at night. Not looking up at sky but down through 8000 miles of the Earth. Not with light but neutrinos
A gunman kills four people and injures 12 others during a shooting spree across Rancho Tehama, California. He had earlier murdered his wife in their home, today in 2017
Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars, today in 1971
American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser, today in 1967
Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana, today in 1960
The "Apalachin meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high-level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee, today in 1957
Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher, today in 1910
Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published as The Whale in the USA, today in 1851
German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope, today in 1680