Pauline Park
@paulinepark.bsky.social
LGBT & Palestine solidarity activist & writer
#HansMemling's birthdate isn't known but we do know he died #OnThisDay in 1494; these are the German artist's portraits of Tommaso di Folco Portinari & Maria Maddalena Baroncelli Portinari: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Me... www.wikiart.org/en/hans-meml...
Gen. Lothar von Trotha crushed the #Herero at the Schlacht am #Waterberg #OnThisDay in 1904. Germany officially recognized the aftermath of the Battle of Ohamakari in Deutsch-Südwestafrika (now Namibia) as constituting genocide: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbon... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
Holy Roman Emperor Henry V (1081), #FriedrichLudwigJahn (1778), Claus von Bülow (1926), Raymond Leppard (1927), Jerry Falwell, Sr. (1933), Allegra Kent [Iris Cohen] (1937), Anna Massey (1937), Elizabeth Holtzman (1941), Pervez Musharraf (1943) & Steve Wozniak (1950) were born #OnThisDay...
#OnThisDay in 1500, Portuguese explorer Diego Diaz became the first European to see #Madagascar; of course, it was the indigenous Malagasy of Austronesian origin who actually discovered the island sometime between 200 BCE & 500 CE... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogo_D...
Charles the Bald, Louis the German & Lothair signed the Traité de Verdun #OnThisDay in 843 ending the three-year Carolingian civil war; the Vertrag von Verdun divided up their grandfather Charlemagne's empire, creating what would become #France & #Germany... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_...
#OnThisDay in 1862, Confederate troops attacked German immigrants in the Battle of the Nueces, killing dozens & wounding many more; German Texans were overwhelmingly pro-Union & anti-#slavery & the #NuecesMassacre is commemorated with a monument in Comfort: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueces_...
I walked down the lakeshore path along the shores of Lake Mendota on my visit to Madison 15 years ago yesterday, thinking about how I used to jog on this path when I was an undergrad at the University of Wisconsin so many years before (8.9.11)
#WolfgangAmadeusMozart completed the Serenade No. 13 in G major #OnThisDay in 1787 & called K. 525 "Eine Kleine Nacht-Musick" in his personal catalogue of his works; here's the Wiener Philharmoniker performing "Eine kleine Nachtmusik": www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OMA... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eine_kl...
#ToddBlanche referred to himself as #DonaldTrump's personal lawyer at the Senate confirmation hearing: it was a gaffe because it's exactly what the new attorney general is & it's an indictment of the GOP that 50 Republicans voted to confirm him; he'll be godawful, of course...
Edith's wedding is the high point of episode two of season three of "Downton Abbey" & Sir Antony Stralland does the right thing; the drama of Mrs. Hughes' diagnosis & the intrigue between Thomas & Mrs. O'Brien adds to what is one of the best episodes in the entire series 🇬🇧
#AndrewCuomo terrorized #MichaelEvans & drove him to #suicide: just one of so many lives the governor of #NewYork destroyed with his ruthlessness; other than maybe Donald Trump, is there anyone more thoroughly #evil & corrupt in American politics today...? nypost.com/2021/01/09/m...
Otto the Great's German army annihilated a #Hungarian army at the Battle of Lechfeld #OnThisDay in 955, ending the Magyar invasions of western Europe — a turning point in the #history of the continent... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
Spain's #Ceuta crisis was manufactured by #Morocco's Mohammed VI because of #PedroSánchez' criticism of #ApartheidIsrael's #GazaGenocide & violent ethnic cleansing of the West Bank & opposition to #DonaldTrump's illegal war on #Iran; #FreePalestine & #FreeWesternSahara from illegal occupation~! 🍉
"The Wizard of Oz" premiered in Green Bay (Wisconsin) #OnThisDay in 1939; arguably the greatest film of all time, the movie featured lyrics & music by E.Y. 'Yip' Harburg & Harold Arlen, including "Over the Rainbow": www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH1C... www.history.com/this-day-in-...
#JackHaley was born in Boston #OnThisDay in 1898, immortalized as the Tin Man in my favorite #film of all time, #TheWizardOfOz (1939); here's Jack Haley as the Tin Man singing "If I Only Had a Heart": www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6S... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ha...
I arrived in #Madison for a weekend 15 years ago today only to find a rally on the steps of the #Wisconsin state capitol call for the recall of right-wing Republican Gov. Scott Walker (8.10.11); the recall ultimately failed but so did Walker's abortive presidential campaign~!
#OnThisDay in 1920, Turkey acceded to the Traité de Sèvres, imposed by France & Britain, which created Iraq & seized #Palestine, later handing it over to #Zionist terrorists after the bombing of the King David Hotel, leading to the creation of #ApartheidIsrael 🍉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_...
I curried organic French lentils & steamed organic quinoa & organic spinach, sprinkling za'atar on the legumes in solidarity with all those under fire from #ApartheidIsrael — funded with $3.8 billion a year in US taxes + $33 billion in new funding; the US should support #BDS to #FreePalestine~! 🍉
Out-FM ( @outfm.bsky.social)'s Naomi Brussel will talk with me on WBAI 99.5 FM New York at 8 p.m. on Tuesday about the campaign to make NYC's LGBT organizational names bi- and trans-inclusive. I'll then reads a story by Oscar Wilde in the form of a fairy tale: outfm.org/liberation/
#PhilippNicolai was born in Germany #OnThisDay in 1556, remembered for some of the most famous #Lutheran #hymns, including "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" — sung here by the Ensemble Aurora: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IGX... lutheranreformation.org/history/phil... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp...
Camillo Benso was born on this day in 1810; the Conte di Cavour was the architect of Italian reunification & is in that sense is Italy's equivalent of Otto von Bismarck, working for the reunification of Italy while the Prussian was working for German reunification... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camillo...
"So many wishes shipwrecked," says Fabio Magnasciutti in his cartoon for Domani as Italy & the European Union fail to address the migrant crisis (8.10.26); #GiorgiaMeloni's anti-immigrant policies & xenophobic rhetoric will only deepen the crisis engulfing Europe...
#DonaldTrump is right: his vision for the US is radically different from that of #AbdulElSayed; the former has a #fascist vision of the US under #whitesupremacy while the latter has a progressive vision of inclusion & government that intervenes to help the American people~!
"La dignità è un lusso che non ci possiamo più permettere" (dignity is a luxury we can no longer afford), Altan says in a cartoon on the front page of Monday's La Repubblica (8.10.26)
"La dignità è un lusso che non ci possiamo più permettere" (dignity is a luxury we can no longer afford), Altan says in a cartoon on the front page of Monday's La Repubblica (8.10.26)
I remember when the right-wing Manhattan Institute & NY Post predicted that 2 million New Yorkers would flee the city if #ZohranMamdani was elected mayor of #NewYorkCity; so how many have left since then? I can guarantee you millions will not flee #Wisconsin if #FrancescaHong is elected governor~!
