@tntype @dbellingradt @BiblioWingate @dohanian I found some time yesterday to go over British and American consular trade reports between the 1870s and 1910s and it appears that the majority of printing paper in Bilad al-Sham was imported from Austria-Hungary.
Such a beloved holiday song, but its story is quite sad
#Shchedryk was composed by #MykolaLeontovych based on Ukrainian #folkMusic during #WWI, when #AustriaHungary and #Russia waged terrible fighting in #Ukraine
And he composed it in #Pokrovsk
Pokrovsk at this very moment is seeing terrible fighting:
Mykola was assassinated at age 43 by a chekist (#Soviet security agent: any Ukrainian seen as nationalistic even remotely was seen as a threat)
The pandemic caught up with him on Monday, 14 October 1918. As the fever overcame him, he fell into a delirium, so he did not notice the large crowd gathering in the square outside. Day by day, while he mumbled and muttered and tossed and turned in his sweated-through sheets,
Playing for both teams: 6 LGBTQ+ spies from history
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/gay-queer-spies-double-agents
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits - this propaganda porcelain, from 1914 - depicting the two Kaisers: Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany: Kaiser Franz-Josef of Austria-Hungary.
Went to my first #pride yesterday in #graz, #austria. I also came out to my parents as #bisexual. It was a lot of fun and I will go there next year too.
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