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  1. April 21, 1898 was the start of the Spanish-American War.

    It is the date that defines who and what a veteran in the United States means.

    This is why this is such a significant day in Veterans' advocacy.

    We can stop making veterans, especially with elective wars that accomplish nothing and make things worse.

    #Veterans #VeteransAdministration #ThisDayInHistory #IranWar #TrumpWars #TrumpEpsteinWar

  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD#Hist

    The first intentional ingestion of #LSD occurred on April 19, 1943, when Hofmann ingested 250 μg of LSD.

    #thisDayInHistory

  3. social.emucafe.org/naferrell/h

    November 25 marks New York’s Evacuation Day. What is Evacuation Day? I humbly cite to me:

    New York’s Evacuation Day, not to be confused with Massachusetts’ Evacuation Day, is a former New York annual holiday that fell on November 25. It marked the organized November 25, 1783 British evacuation of New York City, which coincided with General George Washington leading American troops to Fort George to complete the transfer of power.

    Nicholas A. Ferrell

    Learn more in my 2023 article on Evacuation Day. If you happen to be into karaoke, you can impress your friends or colleagues with your rendition of an olden Evacuation Day song.

    #evacuationDay #nycHistory #thisDayInHistory #uSRevolutionaryWar #usHistory

  4. 📅 This Day in History: Sept 27, 1908
    Production of the Ford Model T begins.
    And we were all worse for it.

    jay walking through life
    jay walking through life
    a country day i fife
    for Ford tried to forge
    all of us into his whores
    but i refuse, a hypocrite i know
    as i show my Subaru in tow

    #ThisDayInHistory #ModelT #Ford #Poetry #AntiIndustrial #Subaru #AutomobileVerse

  5. 🕋 In 622, the Prophet Muhammad completed the Hegira—migration from Mecca to Medina—marking year 1 of the Islamic calendar.

    #ThisDayInHistory #Hijrah #Muhammad #IslamicHistory #Poetry #DailyVerse

  6. Lt. Col. Petrov saved us all
    Lt. Col. Petrov became like a wall
    While leaders and fools pushed for a drop
    He remembered the wisdom of going full stop:
    Keep Calm And DONT DROP THE NUKES

    #ThisDayInHistory #StanislavPetrov #AntiNuke #ColdWar #NuclearDisarmament #Poetry #PetrovDay #WWIIIAVERTED #KeepCalm #DisobeyWithWisdom #DailyVerse

  7. Lt. Col. Petrov saved us all
    Lt. Col. Petrov became like a wall
    While leaders and fools pushed for a drop
    He remembered the wisdom of going full stop:
    Keep Calm And DONT DROP THE NUKES

    #ThisDayInHistory #StanislavPetrov #AntiNuke #ColdWar #NuclearDisarmament #Poetry #PetrovDay #WWIIIAVERTED #KeepCalm #DisobeyWithWisdom #DailyVerse

  8. Lt. Col. Petrov saved us all
    Lt. Col. Petrov became like a wall
    While leaders and fools pushed for a drop
    He remembered the wisdom of going full stop:
    Keep Calm And DONT DROP THE NUKES

    #ThisDayInHistory #StanislavPetrov #AntiNuke #ColdWar #NuclearDisarmament #Poetry #PetrovDay #WWIIIAVERTED #KeepCalm #DisobeyWithWisdom #DailyVerse

  9. Lt. Col. Petrov saved us all
    Lt. Col. Petrov became like a wall
    While leaders and fools pushed for a drop
    He remembered the wisdom of going full stop:
    Keep Calm And DONT DROP THE NUKES

    #ThisDayInHistory #StanislavPetrov #AntiNuke #ColdWar #NuclearDisarmament #Poetry #PetrovDay #WWIIIAVERTED #KeepCalm #DisobeyWithWisdom #DailyVerse

  10. A brother once opined:
    “The mountains are calling, and I must go.”

    But for me,
    it is the people I most hoe.
    They are thirsty.
    And need some drink.

    And I —
    half-full or half-empty,
    depending on the day —

    still poor, I think.

    #ThisDayInHistory #Yosemite #Poetry #JohnMuir #BartenderPoet #NatureVsNurture #ServiceIndustry

  11. On this date in 1676, two accurate Clocks were set in motion at Greenwich Royal Observatory. This marked the start of Greenwich Mean Time, which became a world standard in 1884.

    10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 25 September.

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/

    #ThisDayInHistory #onthisday #OnThisDate #otd #25September #September25

  12. On this date in 1676, two accurate Clocks were set in motion at Greenwich Royal Observatory. This marked the start of Greenwich Mean Time, which became a world standard in 1884.

    10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 25 September.

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/

    #ThisDayInHistory #onthisday #OnThisDate #otd #25September #September25

  13. On this date in 1676, two accurate Clocks were set in motion at Greenwich Royal Observatory. This marked the start of Greenwich Mean Time, which became a world standard in 1884.

    10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 25 September.

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/

    #ThisDayInHistory #onthisday #OnThisDate #otd #25September #September25

  14. On this date in 1676, two accurate Clocks were set in motion at Greenwich Royal Observatory. This marked the start of Greenwich Mean Time, which became a world standard in 1884.

    10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 25 September.

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/

    #ThisDayInHistory #onthisday #OnThisDate #otd #25September #September25

  15. On this date in 1676, two accurate Clocks were set in motion at Greenwich Royal Observatory. This marked the start of Greenwich Mean Time, which became a world standard in 1884.

    10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 25 September.

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/

    #ThisDayInHistory #onthisday #OnThisDate #otd #25September #September25

  16. 📜 New Substack Drop:
    Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink
    Four poems for four moments in American myth—
    💰 Greed (Black Friday, 1869)
    🪨 Reverence (Devils Tower, 1906)
    ⚾ Grace (Jackie Robinson & Ebbets Field, 1957)
    📚 Resistance (Little Rock Nine, 1957)

    I wrote sonnets and stanzas to hold what this country keeps forgetting.

    wittgensteinsmonster.substack.

    #ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #AmericanHistory #BlackFriday #LittleRockNine #JackieRobinson #DevilsTower #EshuElegbara #TheMirrorCycle

  17. 📜 New Substack Drop:
    Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink
    Four poems for four moments in American myth—
    💰 Greed (Black Friday, 1869)
    🪨 Reverence (Devils Tower, 1906)
    ⚾ Grace (Jackie Robinson & Ebbets Field, 1957)
    📚 Resistance (Little Rock Nine, 1957)

    I wrote sonnets and stanzas to hold what this country keeps forgetting.

    wittgensteinsmonster.substack.

    #ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #AmericanHistory #BlackFriday #LittleRockNine #JackieRobinson #DevilsTower #EshuElegbara #TheMirrorCycle

  18. 📜 New Substack Drop:
    Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink
    Four poems for four moments in American myth—
    💰 Greed (Black Friday, 1869)
    🪨 Reverence (Devils Tower, 1906)
    ⚾ Grace (Jackie Robinson & Ebbets Field, 1957)
    📚 Resistance (Little Rock Nine, 1957)

    I wrote sonnets and stanzas to hold what this country keeps forgetting.

    wittgensteinsmonster.substack.

    #ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #AmericanHistory #BlackFriday #LittleRockNine #JackieRobinson #DevilsTower #EshuElegbara #TheMirrorCycle

  19. 📜 New Substack Drop:
    Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink
    Four poems for four moments in American myth—
    💰 Greed (Black Friday, 1869)
    🪨 Reverence (Devils Tower, 1906)
    ⚾ Grace (Jackie Robinson & Ebbets Field, 1957)
    📚 Resistance (Little Rock Nine, 1957)

    I wrote sonnets and stanzas to hold what this country keeps forgetting.

    wittgensteinsmonster.substack.

    #ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #AmericanHistory #BlackFriday #LittleRockNine #JackieRobinson #DevilsTower #EshuElegbara #TheMirrorCycle

  20. 📜 New Substack Drop:
    Gold, Stone, Diamond, and Ink
    Four poems for four moments in American myth—
    💰 Greed (Black Friday, 1869)
    🪨 Reverence (Devils Tower, 1906)
    ⚾ Grace (Jackie Robinson & Ebbets Field, 1957)
    📚 Resistance (Little Rock Nine, 1957)

    I wrote sonnets and stanzas to hold what this country keeps forgetting.

    wittgensteinsmonster.substack.

    #ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #AmericanHistory #BlackFriday #LittleRockNine #JackieRobinson #DevilsTower #EshuElegbara #TheMirrorCycle

  21. Federal troops escorted nine brave Black students into Little Rock Central High School, enforcing desegregation.

    🎓 A Sonnet for Integration:

    They walked through walls of spit and shouted hate,
    Their books held tight like shields against the storm.
    Though fear and rage stood guard at every gate,
    They carved a path to make the future form...

    #LittleRockNine #ThisDayInHistory #Desegregation #Poetry #CivilRights #EshuElegbara

  22. Federal troops escorted nine brave Black students into Little Rock Central High School, enforcing desegregation.

    🎓 A Sonnet for Integration:

    They walked through walls of spit and shouted hate,
    Their books held tight like shields against the storm.
    Though fear and rage stood guard at every gate,
    They carved a path to make the future form...

    #LittleRockNine #ThisDayInHistory #Desegregation #Poetry #CivilRights #EshuElegbara

  23. Federal troops escorted nine brave Black students into Little Rock Central High School, enforcing desegregation.

    🎓 A Sonnet for Integration:

    They walked through walls of spit and shouted hate,
    Their books held tight like shields against the storm.
    Though fear and rage stood guard at every gate,
    They carved a path to make the future form...

    #LittleRockNine #ThisDayInHistory #Desegregation #Poetry #CivilRights #EshuElegbara

  24. Federal troops escorted nine brave Black students into Little Rock Central High School, enforcing desegregation.

    🎓 A Sonnet for Integration:

    They walked through walls of spit and shouted hate,
    Their books held tight like shields against the storm.
    Though fear and rage stood guard at every gate,
    They carved a path to make the future form...

    #LittleRockNine #ThisDayInHistory #Desegregation #Poetry #CivilRights #EshuElegbara

  25. Federal troops escorted nine brave Black students into Little Rock Central High School, enforcing desegregation.

    🎓 A Sonnet for Integration:

    They walked through walls of spit and shouted hate,
    Their books held tight like shields against the storm.
    Though fear and rage stood guard at every gate,
    They carved a path to make the future form...

    #LittleRockNine #ThisDayInHistory #Desegregation #Poetry #CivilRights #EshuElegbara

  26. 📜 This Day in History – September 24, 1957
    The Brooklyn Dodgers played their final game at Ebbets Field.

    Before they left, a man changed history on that diamond.

    🎩 Ode to Jackie Robinson:

    Jackie—number 42—
    you bore the weight no one else knew.
    You cracked the myth, exposed the lie.
    You turned a diamond to sacred sky.

    #ThisDayInHistory #JackieRobinson #EbbetsField #BrooklynDodgers #BaseballPoetry #EshuElegbara

  27. 📜 This Day in History – September 24, 1906

    Teddy Roosevelt designated Devils Tower as the first U.S. National Monument.
    A big rock. A bold move. A love letter to the wild.

    You made Trudeau proud, Teddy—
    with your jaw set firm, your laugh so heady.
    But most of all, you made us see
    the wild was worth its sanctity.

    The first of many marks you made—
    a monument to what won’t fade.

    #ThisDayInHistory #TeddyRoosevelt #DevilsTower #PublicLands #NaturePoetry #EshuElegbara

  28. A Roman temple to the god Mithras was found near Mansion House in London on this date in 1954.

    10 weird and wonderful things that happened on 24 September:

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/

    #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDate #onthisday #otd #24September #September24

  29. A Roman temple to the god Mithras was found near Mansion House in London on this date in 1954.

    10 weird and wonderful things that happened on 24 September:

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/

    #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDate #onthisday #otd #24September #September24

  30. A Roman temple to the god Mithras was found near Mansion House in London on this date in 1954.

    10 weird and wonderful things that happened on 24 September:

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/

    #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDate #onthisday #otd #24September #September24

  31. A Roman temple to the god Mithras was found near Mansion House in London on this date in 1954.

    10 weird and wonderful things that happened on 24 September:

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/

    #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDate #onthisday #otd #24September #September24

  32. A Roman temple to the god Mithras was found near Mansion House in London on this date in 1954.

    10 weird and wonderful things that happened on 24 September:

    topicaltens.blogspot.com/2022/

    #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDate #onthisday #otd #24September #September24

  33. CW: racism, white supremacy, state violence, school integration crisis

    📅 September 23, 1957
    President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas to escort 9 Black students into Central High School, facing down mobs and a defiant governor.

    They became known as the Little Rock Nine.

    #LittleRockNine #ThisDayInHistory #Poetry #CivilRights #Desegregation #BlackHistory #Justice

  34. CW: racial violence, lynching, police violence, murder

    📅 September 23, 1955
    An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted Roy Bryant & J.W. Milam for the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

    Decades later, we remember Ahmaud Arbery, murdered while jogging in Georgia.

    #Murder #EmmettTill #AhmaudArbery #ThisDayInHistory #BlackLivesMatter #SayHisName #Poetry #NeverForget #AbolishWhiteSupremacy

  35. An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted Roy Bryant & J.W. Milam for the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

    Decades later, we remember Ahmaud Arbery, murdered while jogging in Georgia.

    #Murder #EmmettTill #AhmaudArbery #ThisDayInHistory #BlackLivesMatter #SayHisName #Poetry #NeverForget #AbolishWhiteSupremacy

  36. An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted Roy Bryant & J.W. Milam for the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

    Decades later, we remember Ahmaud Arbery, murdered while jogging in Georgia.

    #Murder #EmmettTill #AhmaudArbery #ThisDayInHistory #BlackLivesMatter #SayHisName #Poetry #NeverForget #AbolishWhiteSupremacy

  37. An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted Roy Bryant & J.W. Milam for the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

    Decades later, we remember Ahmaud Arbery, murdered while jogging in Georgia.

    #Murder #EmmettTill #AhmaudArbery #ThisDayInHistory #BlackLivesMatter #SayHisName #Poetry #NeverForget #AbolishWhiteSupremacy

  38. An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted Roy Bryant & J.W. Milam for the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

    Decades later, we remember Ahmaud Arbery, murdered while jogging in Georgia.

    #Murder #EmmettTill #AhmaudArbery #ThisDayInHistory #BlackLivesMatter #SayHisName #Poetry #NeverForget #AbolishWhiteSupremacy