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Some thoughts on leaders and culture.
Hitler had wanted to become a painter when he was young.
But his drawings and paintings were mediocre, and he failed to gain entry into Vienna’s prestigious art school.
He applied twice and they rejected him each time.
Yet, Hitler nevertheless considered himself a preeminent authority on art and culture.
48 years ago today
Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson of The B-52′s making their worldwide debut at a Valentine’s Day house party in Athens, GA, February 14, 1977.
Photo by Kelly Bugden
#punk #punkrock #newwave #womenofpunk #theb52s #history #punkrockhistory
As it is St. Valentine's Day tomorrow, and no doubt there will the usual nonsense about how it was either invented by card companies or an ancient Roman werewolf festival, here's the real origins - https://www.hypnogoria.com/folklore_valentines.html
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Life in 1961
President Eisenhower, age 71, leaves public life, warning in his farewell speech to the nation of the military-industrial complex and its pervasive role in formulating US policy.
President Kennedy, age 43, is in his first year as president.
Kennedy executes plans begun during the Eisenhower administration for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba; but the invasion fails
#PhallusThursday is not usually known for its modesty and yet this ancient graffito found as part of restoration work of the Colosseum seems a subtle touch on such an immense structure!
Did you know?
On December 29, 1927, at Our Lady Help of Christians Church in Tottenville, Father Joseph V. Hyland received Dorothy Day into Catholicism following her conversion when he baptized her daughter, Tamar.
https://medium.com/@AngieMangino/the-legacy-of-dorothy-day-1897-1980-e5c5580153bc
#History #Dorothy Day #Catholic Worker #Tottenville History #Writing
"History is a weapon", una obra de Carrie Reichardt.
#carriereichardt #art #arte #history #weapon #historyisaweapon #lahistoriaesunarma #mosaic #mosaico #anarchism
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It is March 20, 1912.
Theodore Roosevelt, the former president, has been out of office for three years.
Tonight, he is opening his campaign for reelection with a speech in Carnegie Hall.
Three thousand people have come to see him.
Political activists and social workers fill the balcony.
And men and women in evening dress fill the main floor.
I'm reading Thomas Piketty's 'Brief History of Equality' at the moment - highly recommended.
If you're on the left it probably won't change your basic oveview of economic history, but it will equip you with a hell of a lot more carefully documented evidence to back your views.
So far, I'd pick out a couple of fascinating points.
First, the processes of enclosure and colonisation at the inception of capitalism were not just forced land-grabs, but ideological changes in the meaning of 'ownership'. Ownership is a set of rights over land, things - and people - that are defined in convention, law, etc - and that change over time. Enclosure wasn't just putting up fences on land previously owned - it was a change in the meaning of ownership, from the rights and obligations of feudalism to the 'absolute title' (lack of obligations) of capitalism. And crucially, Piketty points out, …
I'm reading Thomas Piketty's 'Brief History of Equality' at the moment - highly recommended.
If you're on the left it probably won't change your basic oveview of economic history, but it will equip you with a hell of a lot more carefully documented evidence to back your views.
So far, I'd pick out a couple of fascinating points.
First, the processes of enclosure and colonisation at the inception of capitalism were not just forced land-grabs, but ideological changes in the meaning of 'ownership'. Ownership is a set of rights over land, things - and people - that are defined in convention, law, etc - and that change over time. Enclosure wasn't just putting up fences on land previously owned - it was a change in the meaning of ownership, from the rights and obligations of feudalism to the 'absolute title' (lack of obligations) of capitalism. And crucially, Piketty points out, the struggle over this understanding of ownership - what rights and obligations are socially legitimate - continues, for example in limitations on landlords' power to set rent, evict, etc...
A second fascinating point relates to the connection between European dominance and capitalism. It's often assumed that although slavery and colonialism were necessary to fund the investment behind the industrial revolution, giving Europe its head start and hence dominant position, the parallel development of capitalism also contributed to this. However, applying Adam Smith's contemporary description of an effective capitalist economy, Piketty finds that in fact both Chinese and Ottoman societies were more 'capitalist' at the inception of the industrial revolution. So what really made the difference? Centuries of European wars - more command-and-control establishments, bigger navies, better weaponry, etc - in short: force, and the ability/willingness of Europeans to use it. Or to put that another way - Adam Smith glossed over the role of force in making capitalism work.
#Blog KW 7: Erneute #Lehrtätigkeit trotz #NS-#Vergangenheit? Urgeschichtsprofessor Gustav Rieks #Wiedereinsetzung trotz Mitgliedschaft und Tätigkeit in der SS zeugt von internen #Machtkämpfen sowie von gesellschaftlicher „Reinwaschung“ durch Sympathie:
▶️ https://www.historischer-augenblick.de/gustav-riek/
#Geschichte #History #Historiker @histodons #Lehre #Professor #Aufarbeitung #Universität #Tübingen #Uni
The Mystery of the World’s Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
In the 1850s, cuneiform was just a series of baffling scratches on clay, waiting to spill the secrets of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia
By Joshua Hammer
Austen Henry Layard at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/40288
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It is January 1, 1942.
A little book has been published, entitled “You Can’t Do Business With Hitler.”
In simple terms, the book explains the folly of Charles Lindbergh and other “America First” isolationists who argue that America could survive and ‘do business’ in a Nazi-dominated world.
The book’s author is Douglas Miller.
#OnThisDay, 12 Feb 1983, around 200 to 300 women protested the Law of Evidence in Lahore. The law effectively made women’s testimonies worth half that of men’s.
The police used tear-gas and batons before arresting 50 of the protestors. The day is now Pakistan's Women's Day.
From the base of the Column of Antoninus Pius. While the main scene depicts the apotheosis of Antoninus and his wife Faustina, the side panels (of which this is one) depict the decursio equitum performed at the funeral. Riders appear to move in a ring around the praetorian guard at the centre.
The Prize Papers collection will change the way we see the past. The research possibilities are almost unlimited.
More than 500 000 documents, 19 different languages, more than 130 different document types - confiscated time capsules taken from captured ships 1652–1815.
Join us for the conclusion of the three-part podcast series “Secrets of the Prize Papers” with insights from Dr Annika Raapke Öberg (Uppsala) and me: pod.link/1460242815
