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<p>An abandoned power plant in Hungary, built in the 1950s. At its peak, the 165-Megawatt facility was heavily polluting, producing 100 tonnes of sulphur dioxide daily until closing around 2000. It later served as a set for the Blade Runner 2049 movie.</p><p><a href="/tags/urbex/" rel="tag">#Urbex</a> <a href="/tags/bladerunner/" rel="tag">#BladeRunner</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a> <a href="/tags/hungary/" rel="tag">#Hungary</a></p>

<p>&quot;By the end of 1994, there were roughly 10,000 websites on the web. It was still early days and most of the websites were quite basic in structure.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-web-design/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/1994-web-design/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/1994-web-d</span><span class="invisible">esign/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined. </p><p>&quot;I certainly don&#x27;t want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression.&quot;</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>Starting a new thread with photos from <a href="/tags/ninemilecanyon/" rel="tag">#NineMileCanyon</a> in <a href="/tags/utah/" rel="tag">#Utah</a>.</p><p>This is one of the most concentrated collections of <a href="/tags/rockart/" rel="tag">#RockArt</a> in the US. Mostly pecked <a href="/tags/petroglyphs/" rel="tag">#Petroglyphs</a> that are from 800 to 200 years old, with a few red painted <a href="/tags/pictographs/" rel="tag">#Pictographs</a> mixed in.</p><p>Note there is a new problem with <a href="/tags/vandalism/" rel="tag">#vandalism</a> to these important artifacts. 🙁 Everyone should work to protect them!</p><p><a href="https://richard.mdpaths.com/travel/road_trip_2026/11_nine_mile_canyon/index.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="richard.mdpaths.com/travel/road_trip_2026/11_nine_mile_canyon/index.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">richard.mdpaths.com/travel/roa</span><span class="invisible">d_trip_2026/11_nine_mile_canyon/index.html</span></a><br> <br><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/naturephotography/" rel="tag">#NaturePhotography</a></p>

<p>Statue of Henrietta Lacks, statue in Bristol, England. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Henrietta_Lacks" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Henrietta_Lacks"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_o</span><span class="invisible">f_Henrietta_Lacks</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/statue/" rel="tag">#statue</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/map/" rel="tag">#map</a></p>

<p>They’re not UNIX v4 tapes, but if you know, then you definitely know. 🏆 </p><p><a href="https://icm.museum" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>icm.museum</a></p><p><a href="/tags/software/" rel="tag">#software</a> <a href="/tags/archive/" rel="tag">#archive</a> <a href="/tags/preservation/" rel="tag">#preservation</a> <a href="/tags/tape/" rel="tag">#tape</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#data</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a>: i love her mississippi goddam face, so here is an evolution of eunice kathleen waymons wearing it well, in honour of what would have been her 93rd birthday.<br><a href="/tags/ninasimone/" rel="tag">#ninaSimone</a> <a href="/tags/illustration/" rel="tag">#illustration</a> <a href="/tags/botd/" rel="tag">#botd</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/northcarolina/" rel="tag">#northCarolina</a> <a href="/tags/france/" rel="tag">#france</a> <a href="/tags/activism/" rel="tag">#activism</a> <a href="/tags/jazz/" rel="tag">#jazz</a></p>

<p>Vous aimez l&#x27;Histoire ? Vous voulez soutenir son étude, les publications, les jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs qui travaillent sur la cour de France, et plus largement la cour ?</p><p>N&#x27;hésitez pas à devenir membre de l&#x27;association Cour de France qui a besoin de vous !<br>👑 👸 🤴 🏰 </p><p><a href="https://cour-de-france.fr/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>cour-de-france.fr/</a></p><p>Dans les projets à venir : une table ronde à Blois ; une journée des Doctorant·es ; le Prix de Thèse ; des publications en ligne et sur papier...</p><p><a href="/tags/histoire/" rel="tag">#Histoire</a> <a href="/tags/histoiredelart/" rel="tag">#HistoireDelArt</a> <a href="/tags/recherche/" rel="tag">#recherche</a> <a href="/tags/veille/" rel="tag">#veille</a> <a href="/tags/université/" rel="tag">#université</a> <a href="/tags/roi/" rel="tag">#roi</a> <a href="/tags/reine/" rel="tag">#reine</a> <a href="/tags/princesses/" rel="tag">#princesses</a> <a href="/tags/prince/" rel="tag">#prince</a> <a href="/tags/etudescuriales/" rel="tag">#EtudesCuriales</a> <a href="/tags/courdefrance/" rel="tag">#CourDeFrance</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/esr/" rel="tag">#ESR</a> <a href="/tags/storiadellarte/" rel="tag">#StoriaDellArte</a> <a href="/tags/storia/" rel="tag">#Storia</a> <a href="/tags/histodon/" rel="tag">#Histodon</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#histodons</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>

<p>The February 25th 1986 <a href="/tags/peoplepower/" rel="tag">#PeoplePower</a> in the <a href="/tags/philippines/" rel="tag">#Philippines</a> was the first successful non-violent &#x27;People Power&#x27; revolution in the modern era, which became an inspiration for many starting with the 1987 South Korean uprising.</p><p><a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/riseup/" rel="tag">#RiseUp</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a></p>

<p>Oh this is nice!</p><p>&quot;Journey through the Computer History Museum&#x27;s vast collection of archival materials, objects, and oral histories and learn about the visionaries, innovations, and untold stories that revolutionized our digital world.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.computerhistory.org/collec</span><span class="invisible">tions/catalog</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/computers/" rel="tag">#computers</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/computerhistorymuseum/" rel="tag">#ComputerHistoryMuseum</a></p>

<p>An article from last year that celebrates the 40th anniversary of &quot;.com&quot;.</p><p>&quot;Four decades ago, the first domain was registered and the initial batch of top-level domains came to be. Nearly a billion domains have been registered since then.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.dotcom.press/history-of-do</span><span class="invisible">mains</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com</a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/dotcom/" rel="tag">#DotCom</a></p>

<p>Fuente del Ángel Caído, fountain in Madrid. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuente_del_%C3%81ngel_Ca%C3%ADdo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuente_del_%C3%81ngel_Ca%C3%ADdo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuente_d</span><span class="invisible">el_%C3%81ngel_Ca%C3%ADdo</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/statue/" rel="tag">#statue</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/map/" rel="tag">#map</a></p>

<p>49 years ago<br>The first all-female punk rock group The Slits made their live debut, opening for The Clash at the Harlesden Coloseum (often cited as the Roxy Club) London, March 10 &amp; 11, 1977</p><p>Buzzcocks and Subway Sect were also on the bill</p><p>📸 Ian Dickson </p><p><a href="/tags/punks/" rel="tag">#punks</a> <a href="/tags/punkrock/" rel="tag">#punkrock</a> <a href="/tags/theslits/" rel="tag">#theslits</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/punkrockhistory/" rel="tag">#punkrockhistory</a></p>

<p>A once-grand synagogue, converted into a swimming pool. Now abandoned and decaying. Somewhere in Poland.</p><p>Built at the start of the 20th century, this Polish synagogue was stripped and desecrated by Nazi forces, who converted it into a swimming pool for soldiers.</p><p>It remained a community pool for 50 years post-war. Now privately owned and hollowed out by a 2023 fire, the building stands as a sad ruin. </p><p><a href="/tags/poland/" rel="tag">#Poland</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/holocaust/" rel="tag">#Holocaust</a> <a href="/tags/abandonedplaces/" rel="tag">#AbandonedPlaces</a> <a href="/tags/urbex/" rel="tag">#Urbex</a> <a href="/tags/urbanexploration/" rel="tag">#UrbanExploration</a> <a href="/tags/ruins/" rel="tag">#Ruins</a> <a href="/tags/lostplace/" rel="tag">#LostPlace</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a>: if most of the people born into privilege were like nancy cunard (born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#otd</a> in 1896), maybe we wouldn&#x27;t have such an itchy collective guillotine finger. this fashionable fash-basher &amp; anti-racism campaigner (&amp; heir to the cunard shipping line) was a writer who became a muse to man ray, james joyce &amp; langston hughes. <br>when she wasn&#x27;t busy being effortlessly avant-garde, nancy worked as a translator for the french resistance.<br><a href="/tags/nancycunard/" rel="tag">#nancyCunard</a> <a href="/tags/antifascist/" rel="tag">#antiFascist</a> <a href="/tags/antiracist/" rel="tag">#antiRacist</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 18 Mar 1979, the first National Black Women’s Conference started in Brixton, London, arranged by the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD). Over 300 women attended.</p><p>OWAAD was founded by Stella Dadzie and Olive Morris in 1978 to bring a black feminist perspective to political action. </p><p>Morris died in July 1979 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In 2024, she was recognised for her work with a blue plaque.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/britishhistory/" rel="tag">#BritishHistory</a> <a href="/tags/london/" rel="tag">#London</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.” </p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistorymonth/" rel="tag">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/worldwar2/" rel="tag">#WorldWar2</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>

<p>RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market.</p><p>History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/rfk</span><span class="invisible">-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/publichealth/" rel="tag">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="/tags/vaccines/" rel="tag">#Vaccines</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a></p>

<a href="/tags/stormerarchive/" rel="tag">#StormerArchive</a> <a href="/tags/dailystormer/" rel="tag">#DailyStormer</a><br><br>Looking at Christianity Objectively<br><br>Andrew Anglin<br>Total Fascism<br>April 10, 2013<br><br>Tor link: <br><a href="http://stormer5v52vjsw66jmds7ndeecudq444woadhzr2plxlaayexnh6eqd.onion/looking-at-christianity-objectively/" rel="nofollow">http://stormer5v52vjsw66jmds7ndeecudq444woadhzr2plxlaa...</a><br><br>PDF uploaded.<br><br>Tags: <a href="/tags/andrewanglin/" rel="tag">#AndrewAnglin</a> <a href="/tags/christianity/" rel="tag">#Christianity</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/race/" rel="tag">#Race</a> <a href="/tags/religion/" rel="tag">#Religion</a> <a href="/tags/spirituality/" rel="tag">#Spirituality</a>

<p>⏳ Times up. Sadly, this historical place is about to disappear forever.</p><p>Demolition work is underway on the site, progressing steadily at this 1940s aircraft research facility. Once at the cutting edge of aerodynamics R&amp;D, the site&#x27;s 8x8ft supersonic tunnel tested flight components at Mach 2.5.</p><p>Already the smaller 3x3 tunnel facility and control room have been levelled; this one looks to be set to be next.</p><p><a href="/tags/aerodynamics/" rel="tag">#Aerodynamics</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/coldwar/" rel="tag">#ColdWar</a> <a href="/tags/england/" rel="tag">#England</a> <a href="/tags/abandoned/" rel="tag">#Abandoned</a> <a href="/tags/urbanexploration/" rel="tag">#UrbanExploration</a> <a href="/tags/urbex/" rel="tag">#Urbex</a></p>

<p>✨Cyrene ✨</p><p>This <a href="/tags/mosaicmonday/" rel="tag">#MosaicMonday</a> we celebrate the princess Cyrene who leant her name to the Greek colony in Libya. In myth she is known as the daughter of Hypseus, king of the Lapiths and the Naiad Chlidanope. Her sons by Apollo were Aristaeus and Idmon. Aristaeus sounds like the kind of god we’d love to met as he was the god of animal husbandry, bee-keeping and cheese making. Idmon became a famed seer. Cyrene herself was famous as a huntress, and reputedly called ‘lionkiller’, and was at times a companion of Artemis.</p><p><a href="/tags/ancientgreece/" rel="tag">#AncientGreece</a> <a href="/tags/ancientrome/" rel="tag">#AncientRome</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a></p>

<p>✨Orpheus✨</p><p>This <a href="/tags/mosaicmonday/" rel="tag">#MosaicMonday</a> we celebrate Orpheus, whose musical gifts were such that he was capable of attracting all manner of animals to his side. In this mosaic panel, found near Edessa and dated to 194 CE, Orpheus plays his lyre and predator and prey alike are soothed by his song.</p><p><a href="/tags/ancientrome/" rel="tag">#AncientRome</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/orpheus/" rel="tag">#Orpheus</a></p>

<p>⛪An abandoned church hall, later used as a nightclub. Somewhere in England.</p><p>Built in 1903 as a Methodist Central Hall, before its 1990s rebirth as a nightclub. It was a legendary rave venue for two decades.</p><p>The building’s history hasn&#x27;t been without tragedy. It was the site of several fatalities: a fatal fall from the clock tower in the 90s, a murder outside the venue, and a drug-related death in the 2000s.</p><p><a href="/tags/england/" rel="tag">#England</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/buildingsatrisk/" rel="tag">#BuildingsAtRisk</a> <a href="/tags/photography/" rel="tag">#Photography</a> <a href="/tags/abandoned/" rel="tag">#Abandoned</a> <a href="/tags/urbex/" rel="tag">#Urbex</a> <a href="/tags/church/" rel="tag">#Church</a> <a href="/tags/nightclub/" rel="tag">#Nightclub</a></p>

<p>RE: <a href="https://mas.to/@Gustodon/116335079017953616" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mas.to/@Gustodon/116335079017953616"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mas.to/@Gustodon/1163350790179</span><span class="invisible">53616</span></a></p><p>I mean c’mon people. The racist 1994 Clinton <a href="/tags/crime/" rel="tag">#Crime</a> Bill co-authored by <a href="/tags/biden/" rel="tag">#Biden</a>, HRC calling Black teens “superpredators,” <a href="/tags/obama/" rel="tag">#Obama</a> droning more people than any <a href="/tags/potus/" rel="tag">#POTUS</a> in <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> including an American teenager and Arabs innocently attending a wedding, HRC endorsing the illegal coup in <a href="/tags/honduras/" rel="tag">#Honduras</a> (supporting murder exactly like Kissinger himself would have), Obama vacationing while Black Missourians in Ferguson were being gassed by militarized <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#police</a>, Biden deporting more Haitians than any POTUS in history and smearing our college students who opposed his <a href="/tags/genocide/" rel="tag">#genocide</a> in <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#Palestine</a> “antisemitic.” Vichy <a href="/tags/democrats/" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> hardly repaired any of the damage of fascist <a href="/tags/republicans/" rel="tag">#Republicans</a>.</p>

<p>Episode Two of Talking Galloway Podcast with Bob Peace, former Police Man, Scout Master and Mountain Rescue Team member. <br>Talking everything from <a href="/tags/mountainrescue/" rel="tag">#MountainRescue</a> To <a href="/tags/squirrel/" rel="tag">#Squirrel</a> Rescue, including spitfire crashes and walking with kids!</p><p><a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/walking/" rel="tag">#walking</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/scotland/" rel="tag">#scotland</a> <a href="/tags/galloway/" rel="tag">#Galloway</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/audio/" rel="tag">#audio</a></p>