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.

#Computer #History #Mastodon

• PC (45%, 94 votes)
• Macintosh (4%, 10 votes)
• Atari / Commodore (24%, 52 votes)
• Other (PDP minicomputers etc.), please comment (25%, 53 votes)

209 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

Scientists make ‘exciting’ breakthrough in Amelia Earhart mystery

"Hidden letters and numbers discovered on aluminium panel believed to be from famous aviator’s aircraft"

#aviation #history #Earhart #AmeliaEarhart #interesting

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/amelia-earhart-plane-aluminium-panel-breakthrough-b2236648.html

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. https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/culture-as-code-rerun-eL9hlgGW 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.

#africa #history

https://schoolforafrica.org/uncategorized/the-greatest-west-african-scholar-of-the-16th-century-ahmed-baba/

"Dido", a commissioned illustration of the legendary founder and queen of Carthage. I enjoyed researching artifacts and styles from Phoenician culture - lots of Greek, Syrian, Egyptian and other influences.
Also note the reference to the Trojan war in the wall paintings! #mastoart #history

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.

Content warning: A little bit on my doctoral research (Indigenous Women's History) Click to open/close

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.