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Heute vor 3 Jahren griff 🇷🇺 die 🇺🇦 wieder an. Seit 3 Jahren kämpft die 🇺🇦 gegen die Invasoren. Europa darf gerade jetzt die 🇺🇦 nicht alleine lassen. Es muss gelten: Nichts ohne die 🇺🇦 , nichts über den Kopf der 🇺🇦 hinweg. Die Sicherheit der 🇺🇦 ist auch unsere Sicherheit.

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I've always liked the way #archaeologist Ken Feder uses a George Carlin comedy routine to describe how human civilizations work and thus to distinguish between the way #archaeology treats evidence vs. the way Ancient Aliens "theorists" and other crackpots argue.

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February 1942: Austrian author Stefan Zweig and wife Lotte Altmann kill themselves in Brazil out of despair over the fate of European civilization “My spiritual home destroyed itself”: Stefan Zweig’s Suicide Note survives blog.nli.org.il/en/d...

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22 Feb. 1919: "The Hatchet"--the shipboard newspaper of the USS George Washington, carrying President Wilson home from peace talks, celebrates the first president's birthday with a special issue. Fun fact: the Secretary of the Navy mentioned here is Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1/3

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This night, 34 years ago, we were preparing to cross the Saudi Arabia-Iraqi berm to help free Kuwait. Three years ago, Putin gave the order to violate the territory and sovereignty of our partners and friends in Ukraine. We must continue support.

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Playing now: Vieux Farka Touré: Mon Pays pitchfork.com/review... sample: Vieux Farka Touré - "Peace" (Official Video) - YouTube www.youtube.com/watc...

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Hansel Mieth was among those who took photographs at Japanese internment camps, photographs which I believe were not released for many years. This is Heart Mountain, in Wyoming, for which the NPS page is still up. www.jstor.org/stable/commu... www.jstor.org/stable/commu...

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Argentine president opening files on Nazi ‘ratlines’ that trafficked Eichmann, Mengele https://www.timesofisrael.com/argentine-president-opening-files-on-nazi-ratlines-that-trafficked-eichmann-mengele/

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22 Feb. 1790: poet, dramatist, & recently appointed history professor Friedrich Schiller married Charlotte von Lengenfeld. Postcard from the Schiller death centenary year 1905 reflects the extent to which the couple came to epitomize domesticity for the cultivated bourgeoisie 1/3

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TO: <THE PUBLIC SPHERE> From: J. Habermas Please respond to this email with a pamphlet confirming that you were reading and discussing political stuff in the coffeehouses. Failure to do so crushes my theory. #skystorians

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In today’s #BreakfastPaleography, let’s get to know Gottschalk of Lambach (the 12th c. monastic artist/scribe who was the subject of my dissertation & first book) by looking at one of his greatest works, Berlin Staatsbib. MS Theol. Lat. q. 140: resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0001B8C60...

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A characteristically beautiful catalogue, full of tempting items. Some great finds!

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"the world of my own language having disappeared for me and my spiritual home, Europe, having destroyed itself...I think it better to conclude in good time" --famed Austrian author Stefan Zweig and his wife, Lotte Altmann, commit suicide in Brazilian exile, 22 February 1942

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Intriguing symposium on #medieval philosophy: Aristotle Among the Believers: How Jews, Christians, and Muslims Made the Philosopher Their Own hybrid March 4 events.blackthorn.io...

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#OnThisDay 1949. One of those David Low cartoon that, thanks to Trump and Putin, seems at least as appropriate to our times as to the age of Stalin, Bevin and the Brussels Pact…

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this is how it's done

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Zelensky said he had brokered a peace deal for Canada to take over the USA, during a summit to which the US was not invited.

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I guess that depends, Daniel, my friend. Are we including the "phantom time" hypothesis of Heribert Illig, et al., according to which a medieval conspiracy of popes and emperors added 297 years to the calendar? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom... If not, I'll stick with the long 19th century 😆

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Fellow historians, out of curiosity, what is the longest and the shortest century/period your field and community is working with? For example like a long European nineteenth century from 1789-1914, or a long Cold War from 1947-2025. Thank you #skystorians for your replies, let the fun starts here:

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Coffee, anyone? The year is 1761 and this boy is carefully serving coffee to the workers in an #earlymodern print shop. (1/2)

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The Associated Press and the President barely over a century ago (Anno 1919) bsky.app/profile/citi...

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A circa 1760 porcelain etui molded into the shape of an asparagus stalk with silver mounts, possibly manufactured at Mennecy. An etui was used for carrying needles, small scissors, jewelry or other small items, similar in purpose to snuff boxes containing tobacco. A fun little 'box'.

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21 February 1916 Battle of Verdun begins. Traditionally seen (debate continues) as a calculated German attempt to break the stalemate in the west, not by winning, but by drawing the French into a battle of attrition that would bleed them white youtu.be/1krztItfcR8... 1/2

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21 February 1848: The Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels published (in London but in the German language). This postal souvenir card from eastern Germany (Soviet zone, not yet the GDR) commemorates the centennial

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When ChatGPT was new, I asked it to write poem about death in the spirit of Emily Dickinson Not only was it terrible verse and easily intelligible, with cloying images: it also ended with a consoling message ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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This is why #AI is as yet no threat to poets and literature

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20 Feb. 1962: John Glenn’s 1st orbital flight nasa.gov/centers/gle... This image has always embodied for me the allure & beauty of space travel in the early days 1st US postage stamp issued on day of event it commemorated: prepared in great secrecy postalmuseum.si.edu/... 1/2

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Well, guess I dodged a bullet (or slab of concrete) by going to hear Boston Symphony last night rather than today. Great concert. Historical small forces in the 2 Haydn symphonies. Soloist Isabelle Faust in Stravinsky Violin Concerto earned multiple curtain calls and an encore

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Ah, the pleasures of academic life. First, campus was closed for 3 days because they could not remove the ice from the walkways. Today: we're open, and it's an advising day, so the computerized system with student records is down. Can't make this stuff up 🤯

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warum immer weniger menschen geisteswissenschaften studieren? tja hm vielleicht weil sie systematisch und seit langer zeit als als unnütz, nicht verwertbar, zu wenig konsumierbar und unnötig hingestellt werden? aka "WAS WILLST DENN DAMIT SPÄTER MAL ARBEITEN?!?!?!"

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Apropos of absolutely nothing, a commemorative Welsh mug on the occasion of the beheading of Louis XVI

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