kolyaAug 1, 2024
I just saw a photo of a vigil for John Lennon in Central Park in 1980, with a woman holding a sign that said IMAGINE IF WE HAD GUN CONTROL. And it struck me how long this debate has been going on in the US. #khistory
kolyaFeb 15, 2024
Sandy Salisbury of Stratford Junior High School with Barbara Harrison, who hopes to be admitted to Stratford, at an integration dinner party, Arlington, Virginia 1958, photographed by #EveArnold. Stratford was the first public secondary school in Virginia to desegregate in 1959.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratford_Junior_High_School
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Arnold #khistory
Stratford Junior High School - Wikipedia

kolyaFeb 10, 2024
I marvelled how Lewis T. Powell, conspirator in the Abraham Lincoln assassination plot of 1865, seen here in wrist irons aboard the USS Saugus, kept such beautiful hair in a situation like that. Thankfully history boffins preserved this piece of knowledge: "Taken into custody, Powell was discovered to have a box of pistol cartridges, a compass, hair pomade, a brush and comb"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Powell_(conspirator)#:~:text=Taken%20into%20custody%2C%20Powell%20was%20discovered%20to%20have%20a%20box%20of%20pistol%20cartridges%2C%20a%20compass%2C%20hair%20pomade%2C%20a%20brush%20and%20comb #khistory
Lewis Powell (conspirator) - Wikipedia

kolyaFeb 10, 2024
"Neither argument had any effect on the protesters, who believed that the people of Harlem were going to rise up and join the demonstration, turning a campus rebellion into a biracial revolt. To Ranum, that was fanciful thinking. The radicals, most of them upper-middle-class white kids, spoke a language most Harlem residents would find incomprehensible: the language of Marxism."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-night-they-burned-ranums-papers/ #khistory
kolyaFeb 4, 2024
Margret Zimmermann von der Camilla-Mayer-Truppe, 1946 ohne Sicherung auf einem Drahtseil hoch über dem kriegszerstörten Heumarkt balancierend. #Köln #Cologne #khistory
https://cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/komska_yuliya_4_march_2021.php
https://www.ksta.de/koeln/historisches-koeln-1946-wer-war-die-seiltaenzerin-vom-heumarkt-194536
On the Wire above the Ruins | Yuliya Komska

Funambulism in postwar Germany

kolyaJan 7, 2024
I haven't posted enough pictures and my TL begins resemble a wall of text. That's not good. #offk #khistory
kolyaNov 21, 2023
Our species, Homo sapiens, has survived for about 200,000 years. Meanwhile Homo erectus survived ten times longer, for nearly 2 million years.  
More fun facts about the human origin: https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/factsheets/did-you-know-human-origins-facts
#khistory
Did You Know? – Human Origins Facts | Smithsonian Institution

Introduction The study of human origins is one of the most compelling areas of scientific discovery today. It is a vibrant field that encompasses the search for fossils, discovery of the major milestones in the origin of our species and advances in DNA research.

Smithsonian Institution
kolyaSep 29, 2023
Ich war in #Sanssouci und ich muss leider berichten, dass das Schlösschen ganz schön herunter gekommen ist. Feuchtigkeit war wohl schon immer ein Problem, aber wie schwer kann das sein, das mal neu zu streichen?
Die Orangerie war jedenfalls viel schöner und hat dann etwas entschädigt für den Anblick dieses gelben Rokoko Bungalows. #kphoto #khistory
kolyaSep 8, 2023

John C. Calhoun drawn by E. B. & E. C. Kellogg Lithography Company. Calhoun was the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.

I had no idea who he was, when I added the text and black border. Seems to fit him though. #kmeme #khistory

kolyaAug 1, 2023
On 25th October 1919 actress #MarieEmpress disappeared from a #Cunard #OceanLiner on its way from Liverpool to New York. #offk #khistory
https://www.newspapers.com/article/76533409/mystery-of-stateroom-no-480/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/76553598/actress-lost-at-sea-miss-marie-empress/