The most triggering thing you can do to a birder is call something a "sea gull" and that's exactly what Utah's legislature did when they chose their state bird
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Historians in Berlin. Established in 1999. Our motto is: Think History! www.factsandfiles.com #History #Archives #Provenanceresearch
Le Corbusier’s handwritten notes for 'L’Habitation Moderne' as viewed through his glasses – photo by Yoneda Tomoko, 2003 (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo) Le Corbusier was born on this day – 6 October – in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1887 🗃️
Köln, 4. Oct 1626 Bei Geldern haben die Spanier angefangen zu graben (Rhein zur Maß) / der Canal soll 14 Schuch breit und 14 tief gegraben werden [1] / Graf Heinrich von Bergh selbst beim Anfang gewesen und eine Schaufel genommen, den ersten Stich in die Erde im Namen des span. Königs getan ... 1/2
Bring back engraved invitation tickets to university lectures! Look at this beauty from 1798: an invitation to a lecture on "Dramatic Literature" at the School of Eloquence on 3rd May 1798. #academicchatter
Isaac Commelin, 27, heiratet am 4. Okt 1626 Cornelia Bouwer, 19. Er ist als Buchhändler und Verleger in Leiden tätig. Gibt 1646 das von ihm zusammengestellte Werk "Begin Ende Voortgangh, Van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie" heraus. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_C...
Isaac Commelin – Wikipedia
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Mo ☽ 25. Sept. / 5. Okt. 1626 #Anhalt400 Von Harderwyck mit meiner freündtlichen herzlieben gemahlin nach Amersfoort (5 M.) Von da nach dem Essen gen Utrecht (3 M.) (die meilen gerechnet nach den stunden, wie es hier zu lande braüchlich ist)
May their memory be a blessing. #HistorischenNachbarn 🗃️🏚️
Facts & Files@factsandfiles.bsky.social · 7d agoSiegfried Arndt died in New York, never returned to #Berlin. Schneider 🧔 became president of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Industry and Commerce, died in 1977, a journalism award still bears his name. A memorial plaque at Mehringdamm 33 🏚️ remembers Arndt and Hugo Baum. #HistorischeNachbarn 🗃️
4 October is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi: here he is with lambs and preaching to birds. BL Add 15710; St Bonaventure, Legenda Sancti Francisci, illuminated & transl. by the nun Sister Sibilla von Bondorf; Germany; 15th c; ff.103r, 107v @blmedieval.bsky.social
Heron forms the initial 'A'(urem) St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 342; Calendar, Lectionary, Gradual, Sacramentary; 10th century / 11th century with 12th century additions; St. Gall; p.596 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
Happy weekend! 🦔 ❤️ Here’s a lovely ancient Egyptian blue faience hedgehog made some 3,800 years ago! Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
Urge your academic library to purchase this big, beautiful brick of a book.
#Berlin 04.10.1925 Vor der ehemaligen Feuerwerkerschule in der Invalidenstraße im Tiergarten wird das Denkmal für die im 1.Wk gefallenen Feuerwerker eingeweiht. Vor über 600 Jahren wurde der Beruf des Feuerwerkers erstmals urkundlich erwähnt. Er bediente Feuerwaffen & stellte Geschosse her.
Microfiche catalogue system at Sydney University's Fisher Library in 1985 – the state-of-the-art microfiche catalogue superseded the library's card catalogue for all items acquired after 1983 (University of Sydney Archives) 🗃️
Volkswagen might be on the skids today, but back in 1959 they were manufacturing Volkswagen Beetles fitted with dashboard-mounted coffee machines 🗃️
Mo ☽ 4.⁄14. Sept. 1626 #Anhalt400 Ich bin mit vnsern 3 Junkern und Obersten leütenant Mario, vornemlich aber mit meiner freundlichen herzlieben gemahlin vndt vnserm frawenzimmer nach Amsterdam gefahren, zu waßer 7 M. Widerwertigen windt gehabt, sind etwas spät angekommen ...
So ☉ 3.⁄13. Sept. 1626 #Anhalt400 Predigt, viele personen, heylige Nachtmal empfangen. Nachmittags wieder in die predigt. Der Oberste leutnant Mario ist zu mir kommen vndt hat mich besucht.
vor400 (1626)@vor400.bsky.social · 4w agoDo ♃ 31. Aug⁄ 10. Sept. 1626 #Anhalt400 Harderwyck. Gestern Predigt. Danach sind wir spazieren gegangen. Briefe. Heute habe ich meine schreiben zusammen gelegt vndt absolviret. Historica gelesen, vndt anschläge [Pläne] gemacht.
May their memory be a blessing. #HistorischenNachbarn 🗃️🏚️
Facts & Files@factsandfiles.bsky.social · 7d agoSiegfried Arndt died in New York, never returned to #Berlin. Schneider 🧔 became president of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Industry and Commerce, died in 1977, a journalism award still bears his name. A memorial plaque at Mehringdamm 33 🏚️ remembers Arndt and Hugo Baum. #HistorischeNachbarn 🗃️
Siegfried Arndt died in New York, never returned to #Berlin. Schneider 🧔 became president of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Industry and Commerce, died in 1977, a journalism award still bears his name. A memorial plaque at Mehringdamm 33 🏚️ remembers Arndt and Hugo Baum. #HistorischeNachbarn 🗃️
Of the Lagro family that had lived and worked at 🏚️ Belle-Alliance-Str. 92, Gerhard Lagro returned to #Berlin in 1957. He founded a textile business. #HistorischeNachbarn 🗃️
“The Art of Being Lucky.” Hardly anyone knows that the company behind Odol was “Aryanized,” bit by bit. In 1935 Ernst Schneider 🧔 received a quarter of the holding company for nothing. Nothing was returned until 1951, and not Mehringdamm 33.🏚️ #HistorischeNachbarn #Aryanization 🗃️
Restitution impossible. The company that had owned the building 🏚️ Belle-Alliance-Str. 92 was dissolved on 21 November 1946 and ceased to exist in 1948. But why? The documents 🗃️ don’t give a the reason. #HistorischeNachbarn #Restitution #Berlin #History
After the sale of the house 🏚️ and the plots the company still existed. The Baum family had disappeared from the shareholders’ list, Siegfried Arndt, by then in Lucerne, was still on it. In 1941, Ernst Schneider 🧔 changed the company’s object to asset management. #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin 🗃️
Ernst Schneider 🧔 had been appointed managing director of Industrie-Hof Belle Alliance GmbH 🏚️ in 1926, without sole power of representation. Nearly ten years later, Arndt granted him shares in a secret agreement to protect his companies. Did Schneider honor the agreement? #HistorischeNachbarn
The Lagro & Richter perfume factory 🏭️ was closed in 1937. The Kohlensäure-Industrie and the Industrie-Hof were further “aryanized.” 🏚️ Starting in 1940, the snow chain factory employed forced labourers at Belle-Alliance-Str. 92. #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin 🗃️
Ernst Baum, the eldest son of Hugo Baum, was forced to emigrate in March 1935, first to Switzerland and later to Brussels. His brother Günther, a gynecologist, remained in Berlin. Siegfried Arndt first went to Switzerland and then to the U.S. #HistorischeNachbarn #Aryanization 🗃️ #skystorians
We are continuing this series now in English. Some of the #HistorischeNachbarn at Belle-Alliance-Str. 92 are forced to flee #Berlin in 1933.🗃️
Developing microfilm in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., in June 1942 (photo by Royden Dixon, Library of Congress) 🗃️
Kennen Sie Odol? 💧 Die Lingner-Werke stellten es her. Siegfried Arndt und die Erben von Hugo Baum erwarben 1930 die Aktien der Lingner-Werke. Ein Poolvertrag zwischen ihnen regelte ihre Interessen. Auch für das Grundstück 🏚️ Belle-Alliance-Str. 92. #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin #skystorians 🗃️
