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todayshistory · 1 year

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Today In History:

A bit of January 31st history…

1863 - 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina volunteers, mustered into US army

1865 - US Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery

1876 - US orders all Native Americans to move into reservations

1950 - US President Truman publicly announces support for development of a hydrogen bomb (pictured)

1985 - South African President PW Botha offers to free Nelson Mandela if he denounces violence

2019 - Colonization of the Americas in the late 1500′s killed so many people it cooled the planet and led to a “little ice age”, according to a scientific report published in “Quarternary Science Review”

2020 - UK finally withdraws from the European Union (Brexit)

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nerdygaymormon · 6 months

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#mattxiv #lgbtqia #queer history #most would be in their 50’s & 60’s today

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i-was-today-years-old-when · 10 months

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i learned that there's a Japanese beetle that when eaten by a frog will haul ass through its digestive system and escape out the back end unscathed (x)

#today i learned #facts #truth #history #animals

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froody · 5 months

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The Italian restaurant in my mom’s hometown WAS definitely a mob front. The owner briefly served in the Italian military, immigrated to America in his twenties back in the early 70s, mysteriously had enough money to open a chain of Italian restaurants and was convicted for trafficking cocaine across the Virginia/West Virginia area and spent 15 years in prison.

My mom had worked as a waitress at the place while she was a teenager and throughout her 20s and she realized that when she was sent to the restaurant’s sister location in West Virginia in a mysteriously packed car by her mysteriously nice boss, it probably wasn’t pizza ingredients she was hauling. It was the 80s. She was a tiny, very naive, conventionally attractive church girl with no criminal record so she was the perfect unwitting drug mule.

The thing was, this restaurant and the man who operated it were locally loved. Beyond large scale organized cocaine trafficking, food was his other passion. Everyone waited anxiously for him to get out of prison and when he did this guy started a crusade against the corrupt local sheriff’s office. He started doing anti-police brutality advocacy work WHOLEHEARTEDLY. Donating to local families who had been victims and participating in local drives and awareness campaigns.

Made men usually do local charity work but the balls on this guy to take up sword and spear against shitty corrupt ineffectual law enforcement. Incredible. One thing about Appalachians is that we hate the cops and we love social agitators. This guy lived a long eventful life and died recently of natural causes and the overwhelming outpouring of love for him on Facebook was incredible, a uniting force that the town had not seen in decades, everybody was sharing their favorite stories about him and I’m sure local law enforcement was fuming.

#the history of the mafia in Appalachia is really interesting #how Italian organized crime thrived from the 60s to the 90s in Appalachia and still exists there today #swooped right in after the coal boom

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abnerkrill · 1 year

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i hope everyone knows that the last wga strike was ~100 days and it's a pretty common phenomenon for strike support to tank after a month or two when it feels like it's dragging on and some writers and talk show hosts are crossing picket lines and trying to "return" to "normal" because of people's livelihoods etc when they're really just scabs. sure hope that we keep that in mind and are prepared for the long haul and aren't just in it while it's convenient for us <3

#wga #wga strike #if you read that day-by-day history on twitter i shared earlier today you will see #that studio support went from 4% to 7% during the strike according to some polls #and support for the guild went down #but we wouldn't do that to them would we :) would weeee :)))))

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flowersforfrancis · 7 months

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nortism · 4 months

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it actually wasn’t netflix who turned alexander the great gay, it was ben willbond in 2009 on hit children’s tv show horrible histories

#i genuinely believe that if horrible histories came out today conservatives would lose their minds #horrible histories #ben willbond #bbc ghosts #alexander the great #mine

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sopuu · 2 years

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WHAT TIMELINE AM I ON

#OF COURSE HE WON BY 0.1%#LITERALLY EXPLODING #i’m so happy to have watched this battle unfold in real time #context for those who don’t know it’s the tumblr sexyman poll on twitter. internet history was made today #and also toby fox writing fanfic is absolutely the very last thing i expected this year #dw sans likes it #mp100 #mob psycho 100 #reigen arataka #undertale #sans #sanssweep #reigensweep #my doodles #edit: i’m glad this is my legacy #sopuuart

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humanoidhistory · 7 months

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Voyager 1 looks back at Saturn, November 16, 1980.

#saturn #space #history #planet #astronomy #nasa #science #today in history #november 16

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aimbutmiss · 5 months

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I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING AT THIS SEQUENCE Zoro looks so concerned

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todayshistory · 2 years

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Today In History:

A bit of November 6th history…

1917 - Bolshevik Revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution (pictured)

1945 - House Committee on Un-American Activities begins investigation of 7 radio commentators

1975 - 1st performance by punk band The Sex Pistols at St Martins College, London

1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini takes over Iran

2018 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) is the youngest person ever elected to the US House of Representatives at 29 years old

2018 - Human longevity less than 10% dependent on genetics according to study published in “Genetics” based on 400 million people

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mangomybeloved · 2 months

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i hate to say it, like i love watcher, but my thoughts on them leaving youtube is this is too much too soon, like the bulk of their fans are probs younger/unable to afford another subscription fee, plus youtube has always been where they've been?? it's just so stark to go from this being the site you put your content on for years and then to go full cold turkey, no more posting on youtube ever

and i'll be honest, they don't have enough content to warrant a separate site/subscription all together. dropout is able to pull it off because they have the full rotation of shows and cast as well (dnd, game changer, etc), whereas for watcher, they only have a few couple really successful shows and those are primarily only focused on ryan and shane.

and tbh, i don't think they have a big enough audience to launch it either, like their marketing team could do better on advertising their shows! like, i haven't been keeping up with their recent shows cause either i don't see it on my youtube algorithm at all or i have to go out of my way to go see it.

and i don't know this just feels like a kick to the face to their fans, like even dropout has shorts on youtube and keeps up all their content on youtube like some episodes and the entirety of season one of fantasy high, and now i'm seeing in the comments, that their international fans outside of the usa won't even able to subscribe cause of how payment works which is :///, so yeah, watcher, it's been nice knowing ya, but i don't know how this move will turn out for you, i'm sorry to say

#watcher #luna.txt #man this friday is a shit day to be a fan of anything first yuri on ice and now this #i was so excited to see what today's news would be and this is so shitty #like i dont understand why they dont stick to the youtube and patreon format???#it doesnt make much sense to me #and ill say i say all this as a subscriber of dropout like dropout has such a variety of shows and cast its worth it to me to pay the $6 #but for watcher???? ehhhhh not so much ill be fr i only watch their cooking shows or puppet history #and well since they havent done either of those in a while? and now theyre doing this? im out

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i-was-today-years-old-when · 1 year

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TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)