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  1. [Planned Reroute] #18th 16th/18th buses will operate in both directions via 18th, Damen, and Roosevelt.

    transitchicago.com/travel_info

  2. FBI busts 18th Street Gang in East LA raid

    misryoum.com/us/today/fbi-bust

    Federal agents have launched a massive takedown of the notorious 18th Street Gang — a major player in the drugs epidemic. The FBI spearheaded a raid on an apartment block in east Los Angeles early Thursday after a years-long...

    #FBI #busts #18th #Street #Gang #East #raid #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  3. Tree /human hybrid. Book illustration from Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754), author of the satirical fantasy Niels Klim's Underground Travels (1741) #satire #scifi #Enlightenment #18th #18thC

  4. “Constructed shortly after the British evacuated New York, the structure was built in both the pre-Revolutionary Georgian and Federal styles, and sits on land formerly owned by British Loyalist, James Delancey. It was finished the same year George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States and New York City became the first Capital of the nation.” #New York #History #18th Century untappedcities.com/daily-what-

  5. J’ai craqué pour ce petit dessin acheté en salle des ventes à Quimper. Je ne parviens pas à identifier l’auteur pour l’instant mais il reste de l’espoir !
    (Et je prends les suggestions 😉)

    #HistoireDelArt #Dessin #18th #18esiecle #ArtHistory

  6. In the #18th Century Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809) and Washington Irving (1783 – 1859) were in Greenwich Village. #history
    citybeautifulblog.com/2025/01/

  7. [20:51] Sinead O’Connor’s son Shane found upcoming 18th birthday ‘daunting experience’, inquest told

    The son of Sinead O’Connor found his imminent 18th birthday a “very daunting experience” as he would no longer have access to specialist health and welfare services for young people, an inquest into his death at age 17 heard.

    independent.ie/irish-news/sine

    #Sinead #18th #age17

  8. Joseph Foord: The Man Who Brought Water to Fadmoor and Gillamoor

    This is Sleighthome Dale, which is drained by Hodge Beck. Bransdale is upstream and Kirkdale is downstream, but it's unclear where one dale ends and the other begins.

    Across the dale, there's a limestone plateau called Boon Hill, with the twin villages of Fadmoor and Gillamoor. In the 18th century, both villag ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31948

    #NorthYorkMoors #SleightholmeDale #TabularHills #18th-century #history

  9. The Rise and Fall of Alum Production in Great Ayton

    As I descend from Capt. Cook's Monument, approaching Gribdale Terrace, the former whinstone quarrymen's cottages gleam white, with Cliff Rigg rising behind them. Before me, in the centre of the photo is a range of sandstone buildings mapped as Bank House Farm on the 1853 OS Six-inch map, but an auction advertisement in ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31921

    #AytonBank #GreatAyton #Gribdale #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #alum #history

  10. The Ionic Temple, Rievaulx Terrace

    They say that things often come in threes, and that certainly seems to be the case for me this week, as I have encountered the Duncombe family for the third time. 
    In 1687, a nouveau riche banker named Sir Charles Duncombe purchased the Rievaulx and Helmsley estates for the staggering sum of £90,000. He was known as one of the richest commoners in ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31846

    #NorthYorkMoors #Rievaulx #18th-century #history #NationalTrust

  11. The old road to Westerdale

    The moors are filled with standing stones that span across different periods in history. You can find prehistoric monoliths, medieval structures, and even contemporary edifices scattered throughout the vast terrain.

    According to the 1853 6" O.S. map, there is a boundary stone labelled Stockesley Cross located near the ruins of a supposed smugglers' hideout ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31792

    #Basedale #NorthYorkMoors #Westerdale #18th-century #medieval

  12. In Baysdale Beck

    Two stoops or gateposts mark a long-lost crossing of Baysdale Beck about 275 metres upstream of the modern-day ford at Hob Hole. The width between the post suggests a passage on foot and for pack horses only.

    "Ploughman", writing in 1908, observed that "the supports of an ancient bridge is still preserved, by the interweaving strength of the numerous roots of trees".
    ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31597

    #Basedale #Baysdale #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #medieval

  13. 18th-Century Valentines

    I noticed new trees have been planted on Busby Moor, that stretch of Cleveland Hills below Cringle Moor and Green Bank.

    And so to St. Valentine's day, isn't this year flying by?

    Francis Grose's 'A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue', written in 1785, defines a 'valentine' as 'the first woman seen by a man, or man seen by a woman on St. Valentine's ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31547

    #CringleMoor #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #Valentine'sDay

  14. “T’ biggest hill in all Yorkshur”

    It is generally accepted that the now populous district of the North Riding which we call Cleveland is bounded on its southern extremity by the Cleveland Hills. This is not so.

    The district of Cleveland comprises the archdeaconry of that name, which extends considerably farther south, as far as Picker ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31516

    #ClevelandHills #CliffRidgeWood #NorthYorkMoors #RoseberryTopping #18th-century #medieval #NationalTrust

  15. Abandoned sandstone quarry near Turkey Nab

    A pair of cairns have been constructed on the nab itself, where once a gibbet stood, last used so I understand, in 1729, when Willam Parkinson was hung there in chains.

    My notes say that Parkinson was tried at York assizes for the murder of a Scottish drover at Great Broughton. He was brought back north for the sentence to be carried out. All wi ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31443

    #BankFoot #inglebygreenhow #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century

  16. In 1740, High Farm, Pinchinthorpe (centre of photo) was owned by Ralph Ward

    Ward, a Guisborian, was "once described as the richest commoner in North Yorkshire" property in Boulby, Loftus, Aislaby (Yarm), Sandsend, and Guisborough. He was related to the Pease family of Darlington and through his sister's marriage to the Jackson family.

    Farming seemed to have been his main business, buying ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31290

    #Pinchinthorpe #18th-century #OnThisDay #OTD #RalphWard

  17. Sunset from Cliff Rigg

    A very wet run this morning over the Cleveland Hills.

    And after lunch, the sun came out. Blue skies.

    So I dragged the dog up to Cliff Rigg for the sunset.

    And she repaid me by thorough belching — I made that phrase up, inspired by the 18th-century expression of a 'thorough-cough' which is coughing and breaking wind backwards at the same t ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=31131

    #ClevelandHills #CliffRigg #18th-century #lexicography #NationalTrust #sunset

  18. On me bike which meant I had to negotiate Guisborough’s busy town centre!

    Surprisingly quiet.

    The town cross is relatively modern but the steps are worn, perhaps part of the Medieval Market cross although a 17th or 18th century engraving shows circular steps.

    Perhaps the engraving also shows the town's bull-ring which was located very near the cross. Yes, bull-ba ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=30845

    #EastCleveland #Guisborough #18th-century #BloodSports #BullBaiting #Regency

  19. Some days photographic opportunities are few and far between

    Today was such a day. Rain, drizzle, a brief interlude of bright sunshine, then more drizzle, followed by a touch of rain.

    I was on the bridleway mapped as Skinner Howe Cross Path crossing Great Hograh Moor when the sun made one of its brief appearances. This is looking north-west across Baysdale ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=30817

    #Basedale #Baysdale #GreatHograhMoor #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #Christmas #MincePies

  20. Guisborough Races, 1784: Asses, Mens’ sack race, Ladies, and a Soap-tail’d Pig

    Guisborough, population around 17,000. At the turn of the 19th-century, in the 1801 cenus, it was a mere 1,719. This was the eve of the industrial revolution, nevertheless it was the largest town in the area, the focal point of trade, although the alum industry, once a major employer, was in decline.
    ...

    fhithich.uk/?p=30745

    #Guisborough #HighcliffNab #NorthYorkMoors #18th-century #sports