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03 Jul 2023 02:42

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/01/worlds-oldest-newspaper-prints-final-edition-after-320-years

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30 Jun 2023 01:43

Two women, one dressed as a man, in a garden. (Arthur Phillips, Australia, c.1910)
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27 Jun 2023 03:33

Voice of America (Victor Weisz, Daily Mirror, 1955).
The First Taiwan Strait Crisis saw conflict between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) under Chiang Kai-shek. President Eisenhower sided with Taiwan and helped initiate the American policy of defending the island's independence.

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23 Jun 2023 23:14

The Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova and her troupe at Abbotsbury swannery in Dorset, UK (1920s). She visited this, the only colony of mute swans in the world, to study the swans for her upcoming performance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. She unexpectedly died just a few years later.

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22 Jun 2023 01:26

In Iberia, especially Catalonia, on the evening before Midsummer the Bonfires of Saint John are lit, with celebrations around them and people jumping over.

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22 Jun 2023 01:26

Today is the Summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. It is a date of many traditions and celebrations, and is often known as midsummer.

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16 Jun 2023 23:57

On 16 June 1373 the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty was signed by King Edward III of England and King Ferdinand I and Queen Leonor of Portugal. Promising perpetual friendships, unions and alliances, it is the oldest treaty still in effect, thus making the Anglo-Portuguese alliance the oldest in history at 650 years old.

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14 Jun 2023 02:00

Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023). In this photo he is in Wales in 1966, holding monkeys with his future wife Anne DeLisle.
He was a Pulitzer Prize winning author, known for The Road and Blood Meridian, and considered one of the greatest American writers.

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09 Jun 2023 00:56

From the Cats of Yore account!

https://twitter.com/CatsOfYore

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07 Jun 2023 00:35

British troops, Juno.

http://www.theweek.co.uk/94101/d-day-landings-in-photos

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04 Jun 2023 01:20

Genoese colonies in Crimea in the 13th-15th centuries

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01 Jun 2023 01:17

Pōtatau Te Wherowhero was a Māori warrior. Facing growing encroachments by European settlers, the Māori sought to create a king to increase their influence against the British.
Te Wherowhero was asked. He responded "I am a snail. And what can a snail do?"
What exactly this meant was obviously lost on the early anthropologists who wrote down his words.
In any case, he eventually accepted the kingship, and tried to work with the British before dying in 1860. The Māori king still exists today.
(Image: George French Angas, 1847)

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28 May 2023 00:25

Village near Calcutta (Garden Reach) (Frederick Fiebig, India, 1851).
Garden Reach was a suburb of Calcutta where large 'garden houses' stood along the river's edge. This area appears to be more impoverished. The photograph has been hand-coloured.
The British Museum says that 'some 250 of [Fiebig's] photographs relate to Calcutta and form the earliest extensive photographic documentation of the city, made at a time when photography was just starting to supplant the engraving and the lithograph as the dominant medium of visual record.
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23 May 2023 01:28

Map of the Great Trek of the Boers (1835-1846).
The Boers were a group of isolationist white settlers in what is now South Africa. They came into conflict with the growing British administration for a number of reasons, partly due to their desire to simply be left alone, but perhaps most prominently the British opposition to slavery, which they practiced. They therefore decided to trek northwards into the lands of various African tribes.

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21 May 2023 01:13

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03 Jul 2023 02:39

The Wiener Zeitung ended its print run on Friday. It was generally considered the oldest running newspaper in the world, having run from 1703. The only pause was during the annexation of the country by the Nazis.
Amongst other things it reported on an early concert by Mozart, and printed a huge special edition upon the 1918 abdication of the Kaiser (2nd image).

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27 Jun 2023 03:33

https://thediplomat.com/2015/07/how-eisenhower-saved-taiwan/

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23 Jun 2023 23:14

https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/anna-pavlova-and-the-swans-of-abbotsbury.html

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22 Jun 2023 01:26

It is traditional to jump an odd number of times. Sometimes effigies representing witches or the devil are burnt. The tradition stems from an old fear of the shortening days and evil spirits making plans.

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22 Jun 2023 01:26

In Sweden, Midsummer is a popular celebration. A maypole (Midsommarstången) is put up and danced around. It probably originated to represent fertility, or as an axis connecting the worlds.

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19 Jun 2023 00:34

The great Irish statesman Daniel O'Connell (known as "The Liberator" for his championing of Irish nationalist causes) was reading the conclusion of Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop whilst on a train. Distraught by the death of Little Nell, he burst into tears, declared "he should not have killed her!" and threw the book out of the window.

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15 Jun 2023 00:06

When King Alexander of Serbia, an unpopular and authoritarian ruler, decided to marry the likewise unpopular Draga Mašin (pictured), there was uproar in Serbian society and his entire cabinet threatened to resign.
Đorđe Genčić, Interior Minister (right), told the king:
"Sire, you cannot marry her. She has been everybody’s mistress – mine included."
This earned him a slap in the face.

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11 Jun 2023 00:32

"The yellow peril" (Udo J. Keppler, Japan, 1904).
This shows a figure representing Russia being blinded by the light of Japan, bringing "enlightenment" "humaneness" and so on. Under Japan lies the dead figure of medievalism. Published during the Russo-Japanese war, this illustration shows the sense of modernism that had emerged in Japan and the perceived reversal of power between Russia and Japan.
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09 Jun 2023 00:56

Novelist Elinor Glyn with Candide and Zadig (Paul Tanqueray, 1931)

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07 Jun 2023 00:35

D-Day revisited is an informative, well-presented website:

http://d-dayrevisited.co.uk/d-day/cost-of-battle.html

And here are some myths:

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/05/opinion/opinion-d-day-myth-reality/index.html

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01 Jun 2023 22:16

The first Philadelphia pride march, 1972. (Photo: Kay Tobin Lahusen)

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29 May 2023 00:19

28 May 1923: The Irish Civil War ends when Frank Aiken and Éamon de Valera (pictured) order an effective surrender of the Irish Republican Army. The war had been fought between the IRA and pro-treaty forces. The pro-treaty forces had supported the Anglo-Irish Treaty which allowed Ireland independence under the British monarch and the partition of the island into north and south.

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24 May 2023 23:43

In October 1904, Russian warships opened fire on a group of defenceless British fishing boats. Despite having the capacity to utterly annihilate the boats, they were able to destroy only one, killing two of the crew. The incident ended with Russian warships firing on each other, and the crew of one ship laying down upon the deck with lifejackets on, believing they were sinking.
Known as the Dogger Bank incident, it nearly led to war between Great Britain and Russia.
As it turned out, the Russian fleet had believed the British boats were Japanese torpedo boats, overlooking the impossibility of the Japanese reaching the North Sea, as a result of widespread paranoia. Their crews were inexperienced, many being peasants.
This was not the Baltic Fleet's finest hour, but it was not their lowest either. After a long and arduous journey to Japan, taking several months, they were immediately apprehended by the Japanese fleet and routed.

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22 May 2023 00:46

The last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, 1858. Once spanning a vast territory over modern-day India and Pakistan, by his time the Mughal Empire was reduced to the city of Delhi. He lent a debatable amount of support to the Sepoy Rebellion against the East India Company, and during his trial was betrayed by an ally. Consequently, he was exiled to Rangoon where he later died in frail health. This is probably the only photograph of him, and consequently the only photo of a Mughal Emperor.

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21 May 2023 01:13

A 3D scan of the decaying wreck of the Titanic, released for the first time. The resting place of the ship is 2.3 miles below the surface and, since it is unable to be raised, scientists have instead been trying to capture as much of it as possible.