International Women’s Day 2020: The women who shaped geek culture — Geek Native

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The 8th of March is International Women’s Day, and I think the art of Andrew Dobson makes a good point. Women have always been part of geek culture. There’s Ada Lovelace who created the first computer program, Mary Shelley who created the sci-fi horror genre and Emma Orczy who created the masked vigilante genre with…

International Women’s Day 2020: The women who shaped geek culture — Geek Native

Happy International Women’s Day, everybody.

Clifford McBride in the The Pasadena Post, California, May 10,… — Yesterday’s Print

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Clifford McBride in the The Pasadena Post, California, May 10, 1928

Clifford McBride in the The Pasadena Post, California, May 10,… — Yesterday’s Print

Ah, could’ve been drawn yesterday.

Sophie Scholl (21), Hans Scholl (24) & Christoph Probst (24) who were members of the German anti-Nazi resistance group, The White Rose were executed by guillotine on this day in 1943. — Making Histolines

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Sophie Scholl (21), Hans Scholl (24) & Christoph Probst (24) who were members of the German anti-Nazi resistance group, The White Rose were executed by guillotine on this day in 1943. || https://ift.tt/39Uzq3F AnonymousJoe12871245

Sophie Scholl (21), Hans Scholl (24) & Christoph Probst (24) who were members of the German anti-Nazi resistance group, The White Rose were executed by guillotine on this day in 1943. — Making Histolines

From Wikipedia:

All three were noted for the courage with which they faced their deaths, particularly Sophie, who remained firm despite intense interrogation, and intimidation by Freisler during the trial. She replied: “You know as well as we do that the war is lost. Why are you so cowardly that you won’t admit it?”^[29] Immediately before Hans was executed, he cried out “Es lebe die Freiheit! – Long live freedom!”, as the blade fell.^[8]

1728: Joseph Barret — ExecutedToday.com

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January 17, 1728: Joseph Barret, of St. Giles’s in the Fields, was indicted for the Murder of James Barret, (his Son, aged 11) by flinging him down, and giving him a mortal Bruise on the left Side of the Head of which he instantly died. He was a second Time indicted on the Coroner’s Inquisition…

1728: Joseph Barret — ExecutedToday.com

I have ancestors which share the name of this guy!… Let’s hope he wasn’t one of mine.

The 200-year-old diary that’s rewriting gay history — BBC News

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A Yorkshire farmer’s journal from 1810 reveals surprisingly modern views on being gay.

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Okay this is fascinating to me. Check it out:

“It must seem strange indeed that God Almighty should make a being with such a nature, or such a defect in nature; and at the same time make a decree that if that being whom he had formed, should at any time follow the dictates of that Nature, with which he was formed, he should be punished with death.”