Is this the best all-female punk rock/grunge band of all time?

They have such energy and power on stage, it's hard to top.

L7 – Shit List

Brian Baker of Minor Threat at Patrick Henry Elementary School Fair, Arlington VA, May 1982.

Photo by Rusty Moore.

Typical Girls - The Slits

Viv Albertine
Tessa Pollitt
Ari Up
Palmolive

Photos by Ray Stevenson

43 years ago today
What a crazy show that must have been

Bad Brains
Minor Threat
Double-O
Irving Plaza, NYC, May 15, 1982

Every year on May 15, Palestinians mark Nakba Day to commemorate the ethnic cleansing of Palestine upon the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.

Zionist forces expelled about 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands between 1947 and 1949, capturing 78 percent of historical Palestine.

Today, Palestinians and their supporters commemorate the Nakba – “catastrophe” in Arabic – with marches, protests and other events.

@palestine
#Palestine
#Nakba
#history

Monumental relief found in Nineveh palace – The History Blog
https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/73149

"Dating to the around 645-635 B.C., the relief depicts the king and two major deities accompanied by other unidentified figures. The find is unprecedented both for its massive size and for the gods it depicts. No other depictions of the high deities Ashur and Ishtar have been found in any Assyrian palaces."

In our magazine: Our Editor Lise Olsen takes us to the #Austin studio of Stephen Harrigan, as he explores his own religious upbringing, a famous prophecy, and the life of a child prophet in his compelling new book. https://www.texasobserver.org/stephen-harrigan-profile-book-sorrowful-mysteries/

#Texas #Mexico #culture #history #religion #books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

You can be against #antisemitism AND #zionism at the same time.

But as with being aware with what is happening in #Gaza, you need to be aware of why the #nazi talking point "Jews run the world economy" has a tiny slither of truth to it.

As always we have to look back at #history - and #economy, in and around #Europe to understand why that is. #Usury is key here, which is also the foundation of #capitalism.

Why are #JEWS #RICHER and MORE POWERFUL? | #visualeconomiken

https://youtube.com/watch?v=S3BFtM4ozvw

https://www.europesays.com/2077681/ NASA Scientists Rediscovers Abandoned U.S. Nuclear Base in Greenland #DonaldJTrump #Greenland #history #JdVance #military #nuclear #USArmy

Historical Seed Catalogs: Field, flower and garden seeds by Lee Pioneer Seed Co (1905) – 14 in a series

https://welchwrite.com/agn/2018/11/23/historical-seed-catalogs-field-flower-and-garden-seeds-by-lee-pioneer-seed-co-1905-14-in-a-series/

Book Highlights Cats in Japanese Woodblock Prints

Cats been companions to people for centuries, but they've also served as creative muses for countless artists across the world. In Japan, felines have held particular importance ever since they arrived in the 6th century by way of Buddhist monks from China. Their popularity became so widespread that by the mid-1800s, kitties were frequently depicted in ukiyo-e, or Japanese woodblock prints. Artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798–1861) was especially fond of cats and created a variety of illustrations where felines are the stars.

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/05/14/book-highlights-cats-in-japanese-woodblock-prints-shared/

FEPs, SLEPs, APEs, AIPs, PEEPs, CEPs, SKIPs, SPECs, TIPs, CFEPs, NEPs, JEPs, BIPs, DEPs, DEPs, KEPs, JEPs, WEPs, IPEPs...

A lot of projects name proposals after PEPs rather than RFCs.

What are they? Where did PEPs come from? Here's @flufl on the origin!

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2025/peps-and-co/
#Python #PEP #RFC #etymology #history #blog

“[#otd 1961] The nine Freedom Riders and five regular passengers sat frozen to their seats as the mob shouted for the Freedom Riders to come out. Some tried to force open the door. this brought the two Alabama state investigators out from undercover – they ran to the front of the bus and braced themselves against the pull lever, holding the door shut. Enraged, the [white] mob began pounding on the bus with pipes and slashing the tires …. [The driver] revved the engine and backed up. The numb, terror stricken passengers, watched Anniston policemen move in from positions on the fringe of the crowd to direct the bus out of town, as though they had suddenly awaken to a traffic problem.”
— Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters (1988)
#history #police #books

FAYTORS, or FATORS. Fortune tellers.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

#OnThisDay, 14 May 1943, Vera Leigh returns to France to work as a courier for the British Special Operations Executive.

A fashion designer, Leigh had fled France in 1942 after running escape lines for Allied airmen.

After her return, Leigh carried documents and equipment such as guns and explosives around her network's area. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was executed at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.

“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”

#OnThisDay, 14 May 1925, Virginia Woolf publishes Mrs Dalloway.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #LiteraryWomen #Histodons

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#Blog KW 20: Welche vermittlerischen Aufgaben hat eine #Historikerin in einem #Kreisarchiv? Die Kommunikationsexpertin Jacqueline Laci stellt ihren Arbeitsalltag im #Interview vor und gibt Ratschläge:

https://www.historischer-augenblick.de/vermittlung-kreisarchiv/

#PublicHistory #Archiv #Vermittlung #History @histodons #Reutlingen #Tübingen #Historikerinnen