#old history

[sanseterrer]

Drutsk. A cold snowy March day

[kimberly40]

Memorial for the 6 textile workers who were shot and killed on October 1, 1929 while picketing Marion Manufacturing Company in Marion, North Carolina.

The four men were Sam Vickers, Randolph Hall, Luther Bryson, and George Jonas. Two additional workers, James Roberts and T. L. Carver, died later of their wounds. The law enforcement officers were charged with murder but would later be acquitted in court.

This memorial is located off of Baldwin Ave in Marion, North Carolina in front of the old mill.

[behindthecrowns]

In London King George V has often been seen early in the morning riding in the Row with a friend. Once he saw a little girl with a very large camera, vainly trying to take a picture of him. Pulling up his horse, he asked her wheter she would find it easier if he stood still. "Oh, yes your majesty, now i can get a lovely one" said the little girl. The King's smile was very kind, as he rode away, fori his love of all children is well known.

[oscarwetnwilde]

James Wilby as Ofonius Tigellinus in Ancient Rome: The Rise And Fall Of An Empire. (2006)

[couldtheyescortelliewilliams]

(OP note: The submitter only wrote 1918 Turkey, so I’m assuming they meant the partition of the Ottoman Empire. If that’s incorrect, please let me know.)

[lunasapphire]

The word ‘grimoire’ — used to describe a book of spells — led to our modern word ‘grammar’

Christopher Dell, The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic an illustrated history page 11 paragraph five.

[wolfsnake]

People acting as if women never had any job before current times is SO FUNNY TO ME. bro women have been working. Just bc they had less rights do not mean they were not working

[pixietinky]

[swedebeast]

I even had AMV's on the damn CD's.

And here it is. First saw it back before 2005 in a damned DC++ file-sharing network. What a time.

[waywordvibes]

Happy 461 years, five months, and 15 days death-day anniversary to Adham Khan, general and absolute mad lad.

So earlier after tackling Latin, I decided to look up the differences between French and Latin, when I came upon the word ��fenêtre”, the French word for “window”.

It immediately occurred to me that the word defenestration has something to do with the root word “fenêtre”, leading me to look up the origins of the word defenestration.

My search lead me to the wiki page. On that page, there were several cases of (un)popular/famous people getting defenestrated.

On that page was one such man. Adham Khan.

Here’s what the wiki article had to say about his death, which was (imo amusingly) just one bullet point in a long, long list of defenestrated victims.

I have no idea how to feel about this, but lemme tell you I SCREAMED when I realized that the two women at the end — Adham’s mother and Akbar’s wet nurse — aren’t two different people. It’s the SAME WOMAN bc they were literally her kids. Maham Anga was the foster mom of Adham and Akbar’s part time (former) wet nurse.

She literally had to watch as one of her sons yeeted the other one OUT OF A WINDOW, not once but TWICE and then told the other one “good job” and promptly died exactly 40 days longer, which for some reason is the same number of feet her kid had to fall (the first time).

Anyways, Happy death day to Adham!!

I hope he didn’t run into any stairs leading into Heaven-

[sarahhenao]

Parson Fisher House (Blue Hill, Maine)

Parson Fisher House (Blue Hill, Maine): Parson Jonathan Fisher, who served as minister to the quiet town of Blue Hill in the late 18th century, was a man of extraordinary talents, from designing his own house and building his own clocks to preaching sermons in five languages (including Aramaic). As if that weren't enough, his primitive landscapes of the region are widely regarded as among the best from the area.

[sanseterrer]

The territories adjacent to the village of Shupeni were inhabited more than a thousand years ago, back in the ancient era of Ancient Russia. On the shores of immemorial Druti, in pine forests, covered with shrubs and trees, a few ancient monuments have survived — burial mounds. And to the side there is an old Shupenskaya road, which has existed since about 1772.

According to handwritten sources, the aforementioned village has been known since 1522, when permission was given to a certain nobleman V. Grigorovich to build a castle and tavern here, to settle these places, and to conduct trade. In 1580, the village of Shupen found its mention in the Barkulabov chronicle, at that time it continued to be the property of the gentry. At the end of the XVIII century vodka production was organized here, and there was a house for detours guarding the state border. In 1860, a wooden church was built in the village; twenty-five years later, it became known about the presence of a bakery store and a parish school, for which a building was allocated at the beginning of the 20th century. There was also a chapel and a watermill in Shupeni.

«…lies the village of Shupen… In that village… and the manor house is wooden of simple architecture. On the Druti River, a flour mill with a single supply, which operates throughout the year, grinds bread for household use. [ … ] On this churchyard (Shupenskaya church), the Uniate church in the name of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the houses of the clergy are wooden of simple architecture» («Cameral and economic notes of the Mogilev Viceroyalty», the end of the XVIII century).

May 10, 2025; part three

[kimberly40]

Appalachian Garden Folklore:

In the mountains of Appalachia, it is said to be bad luck to say thank you if you ever receive cuttings or plants as a gift. The plant will not thrive. This is just one of many old folklore tells handed down from generation to generation.

A lot of these folklores pertain to gardening. This was a way of life for many Appalachians and was taken very seriously. Their lives depended on their gardens producing well.

•Dreaming of thorns is bad luck.

•Tomatoes should be planted on Memorial Day.

•It’s good luck to steal herbs.

•A snowy winter portends a good year for crops.

•After planting a hill of beans, press the soil with your foot for good luck.

•Planting peppers when you’re mad, makes the peppers grow hotter.

•If 2 people’s hoes hit together, they will work in the same field next year.

•Trees that bloom twice in one year will have a bad crop.

•If you spit in your hands when cutting wood-you’ll have good luck.

•Don’t plant your garden until the oak leaves are the size of mouse ears.

•Always plant your potatoes on Good Friday.

•Plant your greenbeans on Good Friday.

•Anything planted on the first day of Spring will live.

•Bury nails around the roots of Hydrangea to make the blooms blue.

•To keep crows from bothering your garden, kill one and hang it nearby.

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[behindthecrowns]

George V had yet to acquire a knowledge of politics. It was perhaps to mask his insecurity that he fell into the lifelong habit of voicing his opinions at lenght and in trumpet tones. A lady in waiting noted in her diary after dining at Windsor: "The King spoke loud and abused the German Emperor, not caring what he said, but the Queen was silent." Half a century later Queen Mary recalled that trait of her husband "He NEVER liked to go round and round". And as she spoke she made a circular movement with her fingers.

[thewitchoftheweed]

in honor of 4chan exploding, I want to remind you all that they used to do “raids” on Tumblr.

they tried to flood the popular tags with gore and porn. this was when Homestuck was at its peak, so they were a target too. (side note: tags barely functioned at all at this point so trying to make them useless was like throwing a molotov into an already burning building but try telling that to 4channers)

but the Homestuck fandom was ready and countered by flooding the tag with weirder, more explicit Homestuck porn and gore.

to the point that the trolls themselves got weirded out, fucked off, and never attempted a “raid” again.

everyone moved on but I stayed there because that is one of the funniest fucking things to happen on this website.