Nobody Cares about History

[Innula Zenovka]

The history of a great invention -- splinter-free toilet paper

Positive Post Thursday: Wiping Away Pain

The Heroic Tale of Splinter-Free Toilet Paper

jacipriano.substack.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

A video about the political system of the Iroquoise Haudenosaunee Confederacy:

What a fascinating approach to the checks and balance system of governance. Thank you.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Unearthed: The Original Holodomor Film - The Unknown Holocaust

In 1983, Taras Hukalo wrote and directed the first full-length documentary on the Stalin-manufactured Ukrainian famine, which killed millions. In it, you can hear from the survivors themselves.

www.political.tips

 

[Soen Eber]

What a fascinating approach to the checks and balance system of governance. Thank you.

Yes, when they were drafting the U.S. constitution, they had the tribal elders in an upstairs room to advise them, and my understanding is there was constant and steady foot traffic going up and down the stairs for the entire session. This was 43 years before Andrew Johnson pulled a Trump on them.

 

[Govi]

Yes, when they were drafting the U.S. constitution, they had the tribal elders in an upstairs room to advise them, and my understanding is there was constant and steady foot traffic going up and down the stairs for the entire session. This was 43 years before Andrew Johnson pulled a Trump on them.

You mean Andrew Jackson?

 

[Soen Eber]

Yes, Andrew Jackson, not that other jackass.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Twenty-five minute Guardian documentary

Lengthy article based on the documentary

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Guardian article

 

[Essence Lumin]

The bombing of MOVE in Philadelphia took place 40 years ago.

Forty years ago, the city of Philadelphia used a helicopter to drop a bomb the size of a backpack on a group of residents.

The May 13, 1985 bombing was the shocking end to a contentious standoff between police and MOVE, a group that emerged in the ‘70s as a back to nature movement, but transformed into a Black liberation group that later sparked controversy and tension with law enforcement.

In the end, 11 people were dead and 61 families were displaced as dozens of rowhouses burned in a massive fire.

“It was one of the most devastating days in the modern history of the city,” said MOVE Commission chairman William Brown. “Nearly two square blocks of a comfortable residential area lay wasted by fire. Sixty-one families, some 250 men, women and children were homeless. Their achievements and aspirations consumed in the terrible fire that we all watched on our TV sets.”

MOVE at 40: Looking back at the 1985 commission and its ‘unconscionable’ findings

After five weeks of hearings with more than 90 witnesses, the MOVE Commission determined the city’s bombing was an “unconscionable” act.

whyy.org

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Marie Nejar obituary: black German child actress in Nazi films

Schoolgirl chosen to work on propaganda films for Goebbels who went on to be a singer dies aged 95

www.thetimes.com

Evernote Link

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Speaking of history.

I already knew how worthless and sensationalist the History Channel is, but when they advertised the 2-episode miniseries "Sitting Bull", one of the major focuses of my college post-grad work, I had to watch it - mainly because I'm an OCD geek.

I wasn't disappointed. It would take me several days to run down the detailed list of glaring inaccuracies they trotted out in 2 hours. It would be pedantic and trivial, so I'll spare you the scroll count Let's just say that when they cast Michael Spears as the chief they didn't look like they'd ever picked up a history book. (Add in my usual guffaws of derision when they portray historic events using bad actors wearing horrible wigs).

What a striking resemblance, right?! *Laughs* Anyway.

On the major points of his life so far, they're fairly close to the story told by the Oglala and Hunkpapa legends but with the inevitable History Channel-Pop Culture mishmash of fact and myth.

Tonight they talk about the Custer fight, the subject of one of my umdergrad theses. They don't give a crap, but I plan to watch with DVR running and pad/paper in hand.

I'm a history bitch.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Times The History Channel Lied To You

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Times The History Channel Lied To You

The answer is all the times, well except the very early days when they actually had history on their channel.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

The answer is all the times, well except the very early days when they actually had history on their channel.

Back when Travel Channel was actually about travel, instead of Aliens and Ghosts?

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

 

[Kokoro Fasching]

Speaking of history.

I already knew how worthless and sensationalist the History Channel is, but when they advertised the 2-episode miniseries "Sitting Bull", one of the major focuses of my college post-grad work, I had to watch it - mainly because I'm an OCD geek.

I wasn't disappointed. It would take me several days to run down the detailed list of glaring inaccuracies they trotted out in 2 hours. It would be pedantic and trivial, so I'll spare you the scroll count Let's just say that when they cast Michael Spears as the chief they didn't look like they'd ever picked up a history book. (Add in my usual guffaws of derision when they portray historic events using bad actors wearing horrible wigs).

What a striking resemblance, right?! *Laughs* Anyway.

Well, they both have 2 eyes, a nose, a mouth and hair. Although the one on the left has a ear, you cant' say with 100% certainly that the one on the right does have a ear in the same place..... Also, based on the forehead, they both may have a penis?

 

[Casey Pelous]

...On the major points of his life so far, they're fairly close to the story told by the Oglala and Hunkpapa legends but with the inevitable History Channel-Pop Culture mishmash of fact and myth.

Oh, no. Have they worked in some flying saucers? Can science not explain something? Atlantis people? Are there (white) Aryan Atlantis people giving the primitive (brown) people some technology they could not possibly have figured out on their own?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Everyone knows what a logjam on a river is (I presume?). But imagine one so dense you could walk on it, and in some places couldn't even tell where exactly the actual river is underneath it. And then imagine that logjam takes up 160 miles of the river.

That was the Great Raft of the Red River in northwestern Louisiana, a truly immense and unique natural wonder. Nobody at the time had ever seen anything like it, and nothing of a similar scale exists anywhere else in the entire world in modern times. But it existed here...up until the early 1800's when we destroyed it, and all of the communities that relied on it, because basically money.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Holy fuck get to the fucking point. I thought TED Talks were the worst for self-indulgent rambling. I'm two minutes in and he's talking about his fucking coffee.

tl;dw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Raft

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Sadly the Wikipedia entry glosses over the environmental damage and completely omits the displacement of the Caddo people, both of which are the bulk of the content of the second half of the video.