
Today in 1946, 79 years ago: Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
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Today in 1946, 79 years ago: Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
Today in 1946, 79 years ago: in the Nuremberg Trial (which began on November 20, 1945), the leaders of Nazism are sentenced; twelve are sentenced to death and three to life imprisonment.
Today in 1946, 79 years ago: in the Nuremberg Trial (which began on November 20, 1945), the leaders of Nazism are sentenced; twelve are sentenced to death and three to life imprisonment.
Today in 1946, 79 years ago: Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
Socialist, theosophist + women's rights activist Annie Besant was born #onthisday 1847. Read @ResObscura on her book Thought-Forms (1901), an intriguing work grounded in the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/victorian-occultism-and-the-art-of-synesthesia #OTD
30 septembre 1938 : Signature des accords de Munich entre Édouard Daladier, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler et Benito Mussolini.
Espérant éviter la guerre, la France et le Royaume Uni laissent Hitler annexer la région des Sudètes en Tchécoslovaquie.
Cependant Hitler viole cet accord 6 mois plus tard en annexant le reste de la Tchécoslovaquie, puis envahit la Pologne en septembre 1939, ce qui déclenche la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. #CeJourLà #OnThisDay
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accords_de_Munich
30 septembre 1938 : Signature des accords de Munich entre Édouard Daladier, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler et Benito Mussolini.
Espérant éviter la guerre, la France et le Royaume Uni laissent Hitler annexer la région des Sudètes en Tchécoslovaquie.
Cependant Hitler viole cet accord 6 mois plus tard en annexant le reste de la Tchécoslovaquie, puis envahit la Pologne en septembre 1939, ce qui déclenche la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. #CeJourLà #OnThisDay
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accords_de_Munich
#OnThisDay in 1791, the first performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Pictured here the magnificent set design for “The Hall of Stars” from Act 1, Scene 6, designed by the German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. (Buy a print of it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/the-hall-of-stars-a-design-for-the-magic-flute/) #OTD
#OnThisDay in 1791, the first performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Pictured here the magnificent set design for “The Hall of Stars” from Act 1, Scene 6, designed by the German architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. (Buy a print of it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/the-hall-of-stars-a-design-for-the-magic-flute/) #OTD
Born #onthisday in 1547, Miguel de Cervantes, author of one of the most illustrated books of all time, #DonQuixote. Read Rachel Schmidt on how the varying approaches to illustrating it have reflected + impacted its reading through the centuries: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-don-quixote #otd
Born #onthisday in 1547, Miguel de Cervantes, author of one of the most illustrated books of all time, #DonQuixote. Read Rachel Schmidt on how the varying approaches to illustrating it have reflected + impacted its reading through the centuries: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-don-quixote #otd
“Our heedless and destructive acts enter the vast cycles of the earth and in time return to bring hazard to ourselves."
#OnThisDay, 27 Sept 1962, Rachel Carson's influential book 'Silent Spring' is published, documenting the environmental impact of pesticides.
Read more here: https://carvehername.org.uk/sixty-years-of-silent-spring/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
“Our heedless and destructive acts enter the vast cycles of the earth and in time return to bring hazard to ourselves."
#OnThisDay, 27 Sept 1962, Rachel Carson's influential book 'Silent Spring' is published, documenting the environmental impact of pesticides.
Read more here: https://carvehername.org.uk/sixty-years-of-silent-spring/
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
#OnThisDay in 1940, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin died by suicide in the Spanish border town of Portbou whilst on the run from the Nazis. Here's Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/on-benjamins-public-oeuvre #otd
Born #onthisday in 1641, the very aptly-named Nehemiah Grew — an English botanist who was the first to depict the inner structure and function of plants in all their splendorous intricacy. ⠀
More of his images here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nehemiah-grew-s-anatomy-of-plants-1680 #otd
On this day in 1983 Stanislav Petrov saved the world by declining to start a nuclear war.
#OnThisDay in 1940, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin died by suicide in the Spanish border town of Portbou whilst on the run from the Nazis. Here's Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/on-benjamins-public-oeuvre #otd
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