#OtD 6 Nov 1922 79 coal miners were killed in an explosion in Pennsylvania. Despite the mine being rated gaseous and miners being burned by gas at least four times, the mine was rated non-gaseous at the insistence of new mine operators stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10657/…

This is just horrible news. Leslie was a great guy, and I always enjoyed kicking culture stuff around with him. We don’t take COVID or long COVID anywhere near seriously enough. He’ll be terribly missed.

Hear what the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest known narrative, sounded like in Standard Babylonian: soundcloud.com/historiansplai…

Paul Muad’Dib Seeing how people actually look when donning such armour could easily inform people on great ways to approach visualisation.

Wake up babe sky's on fire again

The election in "Red, White & Royal Blue" is a victory for the imagined "Emerging Democratic Majority" of Sun Belt cities and service industries that has been prophesied since the 1990s but never materialized. #RWRB #RWRW #RWRBMovie youtube.com/watch?v=rPEb9Z…

Well turns out American political discourse was a proxy war between Indians and Pakistanis all along.

Man you don’t even have elections

24 Nov 1588: In a chariot, with trumpets, Elizabeth I enters St Paul's #London for a thanksgiving service to mark the defeat of the #Spanish Armada #otd (NMM)

In stead of sending a link to old threads every time someone uses the term "Dark Ages", I decided to put it all in an article. Why most historians no longer use the biased misnomer “dark ages”. Read it here: fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/25/why… or here: fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/why-most-his…

Eighteen centuries before Adam Smith!!! 🤯 “There must be farmers to produce food, men to extract the wealth of mountains and marshes, artisans to process these things and merchants to circulate them. There is no need to wait for government orders; each man will play his part,