A wonderful old glasshouse, disused and rusting. Somewhere in the south of France

#France #AbandonedFrance #History #Greenhouse #Nature #Plant #Plants

Neglected Elegance: the beauty of once-grand buildings now abandoned and decaying.

As decades pass, the styles and tastes of the era are artfully captured in the #architecture and furnishings of contemporary buildings. Now, these abandoned buildings serve as time capsules, distilling the essence of a bygone era. I have spent 10 years exploring their beauty, searching out forgotten gems around the world

Explore more photos - https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/portfolio/abandoned-places/neglected-elegance/

#Portfolio #Photography #History #Abandoned

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.

Watch her speech here: https://nobel-videocdn01.azureedge.net/video/lecture_1993_lit_morrison_98_496.mp4

#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

"Most women think politics aren't lady-like. Well, I'm no lady. I'm a human being."

#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1921, Agnes Macphail, wins a seat in the Canadian House of Commons. She was the first woman to be a Canadian MP.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1934, the Turkish Parliament voted to allow all women over 22 the vote, and women over 30 the right to stand in elections.

The first women were elected the following year.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #TurkishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

A wonderful old glasshouse, disused and rusting. Somewhere in the south of France

#France #AbandonedFrance #History #Greenhouse #Nature #Plant #Plants

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.

Watch her speech here: https://nobel-videocdn01.azureedge.net/video/lecture_1993_lit_morrison_98_496.mp4

#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 4 Dec 1978, Dianne Feinstein was formally sworn in as Mayor of San Francisco.

She had been the acting Mayor after the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk the week before.

She goes on to win two more terms, and to be elected to the US Senate where she served until her death in 2023.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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🏭Industrial masterpiece. In the 1930s, this behemoth machine was, at the time, the biggest gas engine ever built! Now it stands rusting and abandoned inside an old power plant somewhere in Luxembourg.

#AbandonedEngineering #Luxembourg #Photography #Industry #Industrial #Rust #LostPlace #Explore #History #Machine #Engineering

“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”

#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Her refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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“I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.”

#OnThisDay, 3 Dec 1990, Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first woman to be President of the Republic of Ireland.

"In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom."

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #IrishHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 3 Dec 1910, Emmeline Freda Du Faur becomes the first white woman to climb Aoraki (Mount Cook) in New Zealand.

If other women climbed it earlier, their climbs were not recorded.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1934, the Turkish Parliament voted to allow all women over 22 the vote, and women over 30 the right to stand in elections.

The first women were elected the following year.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #TurkishHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

"Most women think politics aren't lady-like. Well, I'm no lady. I'm a human being."

#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1921, Agnes Macphail, wins a seat in the Canadian House of Commons. She was the first woman to be a Canadian MP.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #Histodons