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#OnThisDay, 7 Aug1948, Fanny Blankers-Koen wins her fourth gold Olympic medal at a single games: the first woman to do so.

Fanny had been regarded by critics as 'too old' at 30, and nicknamed 'the Flying Housewife”. Yes, really. 🙄

Watch footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_G0H-b3QE

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #OlympicWomen #Histodons

Fanny Blankers-Koen on the starting blocks of the cinder track at the London Olympics. She is a white woman with blonde hair in normal running gear for the time.

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 23 hours ago

#OnThisDay, 7 Aug1948, Fanny Blankers-Koen wins her fourth gold Olympic medal at a single games: the first woman to do so.

Fanny had been regarded by critics as 'too old' at 30, and nicknamed 'the Flying Housewife”. Yes, really. 🙄

Watch footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_G0H-b3QE

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #OlympicWomen #Histodons

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 3 days ago

#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim: the first journey of 100+km in a car by *anyone*.

She'd got tired of her husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road with her sons. And without him.

Along the way, she made running repairs to the engine and realised there would need to be refueling stations.

#WomenInSTEM #EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

The Mk3 Benz Patent-Motorwagen - the first practical motor car. It's like a pram with an engine on it.

studio photo of Bertha Benz. She is a white woman with dark hair.

Shawn Graham

@electricarchaeo@scholar.social · 3 days ago

My PKM Webnotes now comes with default content. This means that you could deploy a version of it for your own use, eg in a class where default notes contain an assignment, instructions, guidance. Code results (including plots) can be copied to clipboard via the ui. Each note has its own state so variables don't bleed from one note into another. External data loading enabled. https://pkm-webnotes.netlify.app/ and repo: https://github.com/shawngraham/pkmwebnotes #dh #pkm #archaeology #histodons

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 3 days ago

#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim: the first journey of 100+km in a car by *anyone*.

She'd got tired of her husband tinkering with his prototype so took it on the road with her sons. And without him.

Along the way, she made running repairs to the engine and realised there would need to be refueling stations.

#WomenInSTEM #EuropeanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 6 days ago

#OnThisDay, 2 Aug 1855, Elizabeth Ann Holman goes on trial in Plymouth, UK, for being a suspicious person because she was discovered to be a woman disguised as a man. The case is dismissed. As is a second charge against her for wearing trousers in 1858.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

newspaper cutting of the case detailing that she was charged for being a suspicious person. The highlighted text notes that she wore male attire "so that she could earn much higher wages as a man than she could have done otherwise".

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 6 days ago

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 7 days ago

#OnThisDay, 1 Aug 1911, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman licensed as a pilot in the US. She goes on to be the first woman to fly across the English Channel the following year.

https://carvehername.org.uk/bessie-coleman-and-other-early-american-aviators/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenPilots #Histodons

Harriet Quimby about to cross the English channel. She is a white woman in a silk flying suit. Her plane consists of a chair welded to a frame and very little else.

Newspaper headline reading 'woman awarded aerial licence' and confirming Harriet's name and the date

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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social · 7 days ago

#OnThisDay, 1 Aug 1911, Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman licensed as a pilot in the US. She goes on to be the first woman to fly across the English Channel the following year.

https://carvehername.org.uk/bessie-coleman-and-other-early-american-aviators/

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenPilots #Histodons

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The Conversation U.S.

@TheConversationUS@newsie.social · last week

The Roman Emperor Nero's response to a devastating fire in 64 CE offers a cautionary tale about leaders who surround themselves with sycophants rather than honest advisers.

A scholar of Greco-Roman antiquity explains: https://theconversation.com/roman-empire-and-the-fall-of-nero-offer-possible-lessons-for-trump-about-the-cost-of-self-isolation-257871 #USPolitics @histodons#Histodons

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@TheConversationUS@newsie.social · last week

The Roman Emperor Nero's response to a devastating fire in 64 CE offers a cautionary tale about leaders who surround themselves with sycophants rather than honest advisers.