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The first version of the .NET framework was released on January 15, 2002, for Windows 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP.
In the 13th century a 7 year old schoolboy named Onfim doodled on his birch bark. He drew himself as a warrior & as “a wild beast” and scribbled a greeting to his friend Daniel.
These are his drawings, unearthed by archaeologists near Novgorod, Russia #history
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Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.
Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.
Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. aps.org/publications/apsnews/2… #women #history #science #energy
A court in Germany on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to murder in over 10,000 cases for her role as a secretary to the commandant of the German Nazi concentration camp Stutthof during World War II.
Irmgard Furchner was accused of being part of the apparatus that helped the camp function. The Itzehoe state court in northern Germany gave her a two-year suspended sentence.
More: apnews.com/article/prisons-dce…
#Stutthof #history #Nazis #Germany #SS #justice #woman #trial
German court convicts 97-year-old ex-secretary at Nazi camp
BERLIN (AP) — A German court on Tuesday convicted a 97-year-old woman of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders for her role as a secretary to the SS commander of the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp during World War II.Geir Moulson (Associated Press)
4. Sophie Koonin / This Talk is Under Construction / ffconf 2022
This is a nostalgic look back at the evolution of personal websites, and a look forward to how we can recreate this magic today. It's a manifesto for buildin...YouTube
Kamoinge is a group of black Photographers who formed in 1963.
Their mission statement: "Honour, document, preserve, & represent the history & culture of the African Diaspora with integrity & respect for humanity through the lens of Black Photographers"
This wonderful work is important to counterbalance the whitewashing of #History by mainly white, middle-class historians/reporters throughout time.
#BlackHistory #Photography #BlackMastodon #AmericanHistory #BlackTwitter
He also had remarkable memory & mimicry skills. He was not only able to memorize & play back complex musical pieces but to imitate animal sounds & entire conversations.
Athough exploited by his owner he was one of the most celebrated Blk concert performers of the 19th c. but is virtually unknown today
#BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon #BlackHistory #History #Music
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The exploitation of pianist Thomas ‘Blind Tom’ Wiggins, the musical prodigy born into slavery
Pianist Thomas ‘Blind Tom’ Wiggins, who became the first African-American to perform at the White House, had his talents taken advantage of from an early age.Sophia Alexandra Hall (Classic FM)
Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?
Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists like Carnegie & Rockefeller.
But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.
Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history #women #HistoryRemix
What was your first computer?
Please share if you remember the brand, model number, CPU or how great it was. Boost is very appreciated.
- PC (45%, 94 votes)
- Macintosh (4%, 10 votes)
- Atari / Commodore (24%, 52 votes)
- Other (PDP minicomputers etc.), please comment (25%, 53 votes)
Scientists make ‘exciting’ breakthrough in Amelia Earhart mystery
"Hidden letters and numbers discovered on aluminium panel believed to be from famous aviator’s aircraft"
Good morning. Here’s a quote for today. What’s the most important park of the quote? Mine is is in the reply. I’ll do a conversation topic post tomorrow. 😊
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #BlackAcademics #BlackDiaspora #BIPoc #black #blacklivesmatter #blackisbeautiful #diversity #DiversityEquityInclusion #dei #mastodon #racism #antiracist #asian #indigenous #indigenousPeople #mena #history #NativeAmerican #native #PursueBlackJoy
Really liked this podcast episode with Culture as Code. a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/c… really liked how Ben Horowitz talked about Haiti's revolution & Toussaint Louverture's leadership. I first read about it in C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins. More recently in the Revolutions podcast. It is not often that you hear business leaders talking about his leadership though.
#CLRJames #HaitiRevolution #History #Business #Podcast #RevolutionsPodcast
This is how the most exciting concerts are 👊
L7 in concert ➡️ an incredibly hot and sweaty night in Nashville, Tennessee in 1992. No stage, no barricade, total chaos total blast. Photo by Honey Salvadori
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #L7 #history #punkrockhistory
The greatest African scholar of the 16th century, Ahmed Baba.
According to John Henrik Clarke, Ahmed Baba’s life was a brilliant example of the range and depth of West African intellectual activity before the colonial era.
Ahmed Baba was born on Oct. 26, 1556, in Arwán, near Timbuktu, to the teacher, Ahmad bin al-Hajj Ahmad bin Umar bin Muhammed Aqit. He moved to Timbuktu at an early age to study with his father.
Ahmed Baba’s work ranged from biographies to commentaries, and he was one of the most celebrated professors. He was also the last Chancellor at the University of Sankore, Timbuktu. The University of Sankore has been compared to other higher learning institution during Muslim civilisation such as Al-Azhar in Egypt, Al-Qayrawan in Tunisia, Al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco and Qurtuba University in Spain. It also said to be a source of pride amongst African- Caribbean communities worldwide as it was a great intellectual institution dating back to civilisations in Mali, Ghana, and Songhai particularly during the 12th to 16th centuries.
Ahmed Baba strove to bring together the different ethnic groups that coexisted in Timbuktu at the time. For him, ethnic differences were less important than to knowledge. The Moroccans, despite holding Baba in open arrest, also considered him fully-fledged scholar.
Timbuktu’s institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research, which houses some 30,000 manuscripts and is one of Africa’s most important collections of Islamic scholarly texts and historical chronicles, is named after Ahmed Baba.
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The greatest West African Scholar of the 16th century, Ahmed Baba | SchoolForAfrica.org — Giving Children a Fighting Chance
The greatest African scholar of the 16th century, Ahmed Baba. According to John Henrik Clarke, Ahmed Baba’s life was a brilliant example of the range and depth of West African intellectual activity before the colonial era. Ahmed Baba was born on Oct.Jonathan (SchoolForAfrica.org)
Since it has been a increase of users lately, I'll follow the stream and #introduce myself 🙂 Better late than never.
My real name is Erik and I live in Sweden. Airikr is the old name of Erik from medieval Sweden.
My main interests are #programming, #photography, #cycling, #astronomy, #exploration, and #history.
I am a big fan of #opensource and #selfhosting and are working on open sourced projects like #serenum.
Following the 🧵 scholar.social/@andi/108166583…
My project aims to study the role of women within the Global Indigenous Movement #GIM since the foundation of the World Wide Web.
From a transnational perspective, I focus on indigenous women's organizations native to Brazil,
Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, India, Kurdistan and (even) Europe.
I am interested in their online self-representations: the way they make and theorize their own #history.
Andi Inácio (@andi@scholar.social)
Content warning: A little bit on my master's research (Indigenous Women's History)Scholar Social
Hello fellow humans (+machines)!!! Here's an #Introduction
I'm not-new to Mastodon but am a new sprout in scholar.social.
I'm a Global Southerner currently writing a thesis on Indigenous Women's #History.
I consider myself a go-between. As a historian, I'm a cultural mediator in-between past/present. Plus, I'm a translator and wikimedian. I edit scientific knowledge in academia outer-space and love to tackle meanings across languages.
Here I'm engaged in knowledge sharing and other funsies.