Teacher,M.Res & Ba.Hons.1st History LJMU 2013-17 Milit.&War,Slavery&abolition,legit. commerce,Antarctica,Maritime&Ind. heritage, museums,Local History. L.F.C.🚩
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Amazing Flag from @NASA Apollo 8 (Dec.21–27, 1968) @Lpoolcentlib 1st crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit & 1st human spaceflight to reach the Moon. Given city of #Liverpool by the #USA 3 #astronauts Borman, Lovell @tomhanks, and Anders 1st to photograph far side of #MOON
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Re Liverpool waterfront development. Fast forward 1870. the old custom house and surrounding scene obliterated. A town entirely industrialised. George's dock expanded and the waterfront brought forward again, accommodating George's baths.
ALT A painting. Aeriel view showing Liverpol waterfront in 1870. Docks, warehouses, sailboats, a busy town.
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#OTD - 1971: The setting up of Liverpool Heritage Bureau is approved
walkingbook.co.uk/liverpool/…
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In the middle of Antarctica, at the point furthest from the sea in any direction, a bust of the despotic Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin pokes out of the snow.
He's been there since 1958, staring towards Moscow.
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#Liverpool OTD - 1858: General Tom Thumb opens at the Teutonic Hall, Lime Street
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Why does Florida steal most of Alabama’s coastline, despite the latter being an older state?
Well, it’s complex, and of course the British and Spanish were involved…
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George's dock a year open 1772. Henry Berry (name re George III). Old custom house (still giving space to the 'new' one at the Old Dock), recedes. Dock traffic mixed including local, transatlantic/slave/colonial trade. The American civil war brews. March of warehouses starts.
ALT A painting of Liverpool's Georges dock in 1772. Showing many sailboats, foot traffic, warehouses and the town behind
ALT A painting of george's dock in Liverpool being built in 1768. Showing a damn holding back the river, major construction works, men, machines and the town behind
Hoping to go to this non square/rectangle state next year or 2028 to visit my cousin near Denver.
Colorado looks like the one US state you could draw with a ruler. Four straight sides, job done. Easy.
Except it doesn't have four sides and it's not a square. It's a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon, with 697 sides.
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About 1,200 km (745 miles) off Mexico lies a lonely ring of coral that belongs to France. In July 1917 an American warship found its last inhabitants: three women, a teenage girl and seven children.
However, that very same morning two of the women had killed their 'king'.
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ALT The Clipperton Island survivors photographed in 1917, identified on Commons as Tirza Rendón, Alicia Rovira Arnaud, Altagracia Quiroz, the teenager Rosalía and seven children; individual identifications unverified. Credit: unknown photographer, public domain, via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SobrevivientesClipperton.jpg
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7 November 1980. Steve McQueen died (aged 50). Films include The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt, The Cincinnati Kid, Papillon, Le Mans, The Towering Inferno and The Thomas Criown Affair. He never won an acting Oscar.
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"I’ll never be as good an actor as I want to be.
But I’ll be good." — Steve McQueen
He died of a heart attack at the age of 50 this day in 1980, a few hours after surgery for terminal cancer
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#OnThisDay in 1917, the #Bolsheviks overthrow Russia's provisional government in the world's first organised revolution.🔴🇷🇺 Discover the revolution of 1917 here👉: buff.ly/f3f0mLv #OTD #RussianHistory #Revolution
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BREAKING NEWS! Serious Disorder breaks out on the London Underground Northern Line this afternoon👇🤷♂️😂
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This week on HISTORY'S DEVILS we're talking about "the man who would not die" - the Russian mystic / creepy conman
RASPUTIN!
Listen to the full episode here ⬇️
open.spotify.com/show/2ngsX5…
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#OnThisDay in 1911, Captain Scott’s main polar party departed from Cape Evans hut, Ross Island, to begin their expedition south.
Eight days prior on 24 October, Scott dispatched an earlier support party equipped with two motor sledges to lay supplies. These failed after little more than 50 miles (80 km) of travel.
Scott’s main party comprised 12 men, equipped with ponies, sledges and dogs. Only four of these men could accompany Scott all the way to the South Pole; Henry Bowers, Edgar Evans, Laurence Oates and Edward Wilson. What played out over the following weeks is one of history’s greatest tales of endurance and exploration.
📸Scott's Party at The South Pole. Scott's group took this photograph of themselves using a string to operate the shutter on 17 January 1912, the day after they discovered Amundsen had reached the pole first. Antarctica New Zealand Pictorial Collection, Public Domain.
#inspire #explore #discover #Antarctica #RobertFalconScott #SouthPole #OTD
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In 1940, #RMSNiagara was secretly carrying 8 tons of British gold bound for America when it hit a German mine and sank off the coast of New Zealand...🪙 ⚓ Discover the full story👉️: buff.ly/J1mSwL6 #Maritime #BritishHistory
