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LordWoolamaloo
@LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago

"There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied in the one, I shall indulge the other..."

Happy birthday to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, born 30th August, 1797. Portrait by Richard Rothwell, 1840.

#MaryShelley#MaryWollstoncraftShelley#Writer#Author#Auteur#OTD#Anniversaire#Frankenstein #books #livres #bookstagram#FrankensteinDay #bookdstodon
LordWoolamaloo
@LordWoolamaloo@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago

"There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied in the one, I shall indulge the other..."

Happy birthday to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, born 30th August, 1797. Portrait by Richard Rothwell, 1840.

#MaryShelley#MaryWollstoncraftShelley#Writer#Author#Auteur#OTD#Anniversaire#Frankenstein #books #livres #bookstagram#FrankensteinDay #bookdstodon
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday
#OtD 29 Aug 1923 anti-Nazi resistance fighter and sculptor Truus Oversteegen was born in Schoten, Netherlands. With her sister she sabotaged railways and killed fascists, on one occasion leading an SS officer into the woods to be shot. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10077/truus-oversteegen-born
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
#OtD 29 Aug 1970 Ruben Salazar, US Army vet and the first Mexican-American mainstream media journalist to write about the Chicano community, was killed by police during an anti-Vietnam war protest. A 10-inch teargas projectile was shot at his head https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10080/ruben-salazar-killed-by-police
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
#OtD 29 Aug 1970 Ruben Salazar, US Army vet and the first Mexican-American mainstream media journalist to write about the Chicano community, was killed by police during an anti-Vietnam war protest. A 10-inch teargas projectile was shot at his head https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10080/ruben-salazar-killed-by-police
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
#OtD 29 Aug 1979 after years of fruitless campaigning, 30-40 activists took direct action and occupied the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare in protest at homosexuality being classified as a mental illness. They quickly won https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12479/lgbt-occupation-of-swedish-health-board
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
#OtD 29 Aug 1979 after years of fruitless campaigning, 30-40 activists took direct action and occupied the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare in protest at homosexuality being classified as a mental illness. They quickly won https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12479/lgbt-occupation-of-swedish-health-board
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Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
#OtD 28 Aug 1830 in Kent, UK a threshing machine was destroyed by angry labourers, starting the Swing rebellion. Workers sent demands to bosses signed by "Captain Swing", and if the bosses did not cave in, mobs would smash the machines https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9980/swing-riot-in-kent
Chirayu :verified: :twit:
@mountdiscovery@twit.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#OTD in 1883, the culmination of the 🌋#Krakatoa eruption: one of the deadliest volcanic events in recorded history.

Read Gerard Manley Hopkins' letters describing the odd optical effects made by the ash cloud that were seen as far away as UK

via @pluralistic on X
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-krakatoa-sunsets/
Chirayu :verified: :twit:
@mountdiscovery@twit.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#OTD in 1883, the culmination of the 🌋#Krakatoa eruption: one of the deadliest volcanic events in recorded history.

Read Gerard Manley Hopkins' letters describing the odd optical effects made by the ash cloud that were seen as far away as UK

via @pluralistic on X
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-krakatoa-sunsets/
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#OtD 27 Aug 1974 Black inmate Joan Little killed a white prison guard in self-defence from sexually assault and escaped from the Beaufort County jail in South Carolina, US. She faced the death penalty, but with widespread support was acquitted https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9885/joan-little-kills-guard
Working Class History
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago
#OtD 25 Aug 1944 a group of 32 Spanish and eight French resistance fighters tackled an entire German column of 1300 in La Madeleine, France. The battle lasted until the next day, ending when the Nazis surrendered, and their commander killed himself https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9715/french-resistance-tackles-german-column