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Bob the Traveler<p>SSBN-659, the USS Will Rogers, was commissioned OTD in 1967. See her head: <a href="https://toilet-guru.com/submarine.html?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toilet-guru.com/submarine.html</span><span class="invisible">?s=mb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/submarine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>submarine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Bob the Traveler<p>Blanche of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a>, Duchess of Orléans, was born OTD in 1328 <a href="https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/france/loire-valley/amboise.html?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cromwell-intl.com/travel/franc</span><span class="invisible">e/loire-valley/amboise.html?s=mb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
UFO FEED<p><a href="https://www.ufofeed.com/118154/moonwalk-up-the-stairs-at-ur-the-worlds-first-symbols/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ufofeed.com/118154/moonwalk-up</span><span class="invisible">-the-stairs-at-ur-the-worlds-first-symbols/</span></a> Moonwalk Up the Stairs at Ur: The World’s First Symbols <a href="https://channels.im/tags/AlternativeHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlternativeHistory</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a></p>
Bob the Traveler<p>Emperor Go-Saga, 88th Emperor of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a>, was born OTD in 1220 <a href="https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kofun/empress-hibasuhime.html?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan</span><span class="invisible">/kofun/empress-hibasuhime.html?s=mb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn<p>Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #402 [April Fool's Day repost]: The Blue Peacock.<br>.<br>.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bluepeacock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bluepeacock</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coldwar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nukes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuke</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclearweapons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclearweapons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/warfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warfare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/strangebuttrue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strangebuttrue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wtf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wtf</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/butwhytho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>butwhytho</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aprilfools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aprilfools</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webcomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webcomic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uselessfacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uselessfacts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uselessfactsbadlydrawn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uselessfactsbadlydrawn</span></a></p>
Bob the Traveler<p>OTD in 1865, US troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeated pro-slavery Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line <a href="https://toilet-guru.com/blog/57.html?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toilet-guru.com/blog/57.html?s</span><span class="invisible">=mb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CivilWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BLM</span></a></p>
Moya Moya ShashinHistory <br> 歴史 <br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nature?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/monochrome?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monochrome</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/bnw?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bnw</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tree?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tree</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/history?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/film?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ilford?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ilford</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pentax?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pentax</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/japan?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japan</a>
Austrian<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Babeuf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Babeuf</span></a> and his comrades had been long forgotten, and this massive work now told the first and most thoroughgoing story of the Babeuvist saga. The book proved to be an inspiration to revolutionary and communist groupings, and it sold extremely well, the English translation of 1836 selling 50 000 copies in a short space of time. For the next decade of his life, the previously obscure <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Buonarroti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buonarroti</span></a> was lionized throughout the European ultraleft." <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aphet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aphet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
USLUCK<p><a href="https://www.usluck.com/488073/we-all-got-scammed-again/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">usluck.com/488073/we-all-got-s</span><span class="invisible">cammed-again/</span></a> We all got scammed again <a href="https://channels.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/HistoryMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryMemes</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a></p>
Bob the Traveler<p>Today is the feast day of Saint Cellach mac Congaile, Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland, previously the Abbot of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Iona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iona</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/scotland-isle-of-iona/iona.html?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/sc</span><span class="invisible">otland-isle-of-iona/iona.html?s=mb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
USLUCK<p><a href="https://www.usluck.com/488069/a-punt-gun-used-for-duck-hunting-but-were-banned-because-they-depleted-stocks-of-wild-fowl1910/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">usluck.com/488069/a-punt-gun-u</span><span class="invisible">sed-for-duck-hunting-but-were-banned-because-they-depleted-stocks-of-wild-fowl1910/</span></a> A Punt Gun, used for duck hunting but were banned because they depleted stocks of wild fowl,1910 <a href="https://channels.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/TheWayWeWere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheWayWeWere</span></a></p>
Bob the Traveler<p>Gaston Eyskens, born OTD in 1905, served three terms as Prime Minister of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Belgium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Belgium</span></a>, holding the position from 1949 to 1950, 1958 to 1961 and 1968 to 1973 <a href="https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/belgium/belgian-beers/?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cromwell-intl.com/travel/belgi</span><span class="invisible">um/belgian-beers/?s=mb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Bob the Traveler<p>Iran officially overthrew the Shah OTD in 1979 <a href="https://toilet-guru.com/islamic.html?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toilet-guru.com/islamic.html?s</span><span class="invisible">=mb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Hannah Howe<p>Monday 1 April 1963</p><p>Sir Edmund Hillary has halted his latest Himalayan climbing expedition and ordered his whole team to help fight a smallpox epidemic that is sweeping through Sherpa villages. Doctors are already in the district and vaccines will be flown in.</p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SocialHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialHistory</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Music</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Films" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Films</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/TrafficWardens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrafficWardens</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/1960s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1960s</span></a></p>
IT News<p>On Egyptian Pyramids and Why It’s Definitely Aliens - History is rather dull and unexciting to most people, which naturally invites exci... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/on-egyptian-pyramids-and-why-its-definitely-aliens/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/04/01/on-egy</span><span class="invisible">ptian-pyramids-and-why-its-definitely-aliens/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/originalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>originalart</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/aprilfools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aprilfools</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/featured" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>featured</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pyramid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pyramid</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/nojoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nojoke</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a></p>
Liberal Currents<p>“Lynching postcards are one of those pieces of American <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> that strip the bark off of anyone the first time they learn about it.” <a href="https://www.liberalcurrents.com/kristi-noem-made-a-lynching-postcard/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">liberalcurrents.com/kristi-noe</span><span class="invisible">m-made-a-lynching-postcard/</span></a></p>
cloudless_sky<p>Ein wechselhafter Tag in <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Potsdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Potsdam</span></a> (bei Berlin)</p><p><a href="https://norden.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> von 2013 mit Canon EOS 350D </p><p>1) Sommerresidenz des Königs von Preußen, Schloß Sanssouci (Baujahr 1745 bis 1747)<br>2) Orangerie (Baujahr 1851 bis 1864) im Park von Sanssouci</p><p><a href="https://norden.social/tags/garten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>garten</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/UNESCO_Weltkulturerbe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNESCO_Weltkulturerbe</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/UNESCO_Weltkulturerbe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNESCO_Weltkulturerbe</span></a> <a href="https://norden.social/tags/castel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>castel</span></a></p>
Bob the Traveler<p>Sigismund I the Old was King of <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poland</span></a> and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death OTD in 1548 <a href="https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/poland/?s=mb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cromwell-intl.com/travel/polan</span><span class="invisible">d/?s=mb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>travel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Texas Observer<p>The new book from Lise Olsen traces a forensic anthropologist’s decades-long attempt to restore the identities of the victims of one of <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a>’ most prolific serial killers—and explores the shocking reasons why so many boys who were kidnapped, tortured, and killed by a murderer trolling <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Houston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Houston</span></a> neighborhoods in the early 1970s remained anonymous for so long. <br><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/the-scientist-and-the-serial-killer/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.org/the-scientis</span><span class="invisible">t-and-the-serial-killer/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/CriminalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/GulfCoast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GulfCoast</span></a></p>
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:<p>📖 Death Is Our Business (⭐⭐⭐⭐) <a href="https://follow.coryd.dev/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://follow.coryd.dev/tags/Nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nonfiction</span></a></p><p>The disturbing inside story of how the Wagner private military company exploits a warring world.In 2014, a well-trained, mysterious band of mercenaries arrived in Ukraine for Russia's first attempt to claim the country as its own. Upon ceasefire, the “Wagner Group” faded back into shadow, only to reemerge in the Middle East, where they'd go toe-to-toe with the U.S., and in Africa,...</p><p><a href="https://www.coryd.dev/books/9781639733361" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">coryd.dev/books/9781639733361</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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