Alexandra Nicole Hill

@ANHill
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Prof. Humanities, Valencia College | Mother of 4 dragons, a cat, and a dog | Interested in #ArtHistory and #PublicHistory | Ancient to Early Modern Humanities |progressive pedagogy, #OER and #RPG in the classroom | #Histodon & #Histodons | #Ungrading | #Humanities
You've all heard of Elf on the Shelf, but in Canada we have:

The first computer bug was a literal bug.

To be exact, a moth.

On Sept 9, 1947, a moth got trapped in Harvard University's Mark II computer -- causing multiple errors.

This bug disrupted the electronics inside the Mark II.

Here's a photo of that first computer bug.

Merry Thanksgiving!
Ugh. I live in the Bad Place
Lurking here tonight because I am sick, and realized I’ve hardly been on the bird site at all in the past week or so. Huh, imagine that
Are you a #history teacher? We've got free lesson plans and ideas for using #podcasts in the classroom. Check them out at https://digpodcast.org/for-educators/ @histodons #opensource #OER
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So comical when people on Twitter saying “Don’t leave—We need to fight and win the war.” Dude, you’re just tweeting ffs.

Very pleased to announce to @histodons #histodons that my first ever article, which reconsiders marital separation in early modern England through petitions, has been published in the Cultural and Social History journal.

You can read it here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14780038.2022.2146476

Introduction for #histodons, #twitterstorians: I work on early modern European cultural history and have written about the Republic of Letters, history of museums and collecting, tulipmania, relationships of art/science/economics in the early modern period, history of the book, Dutch history. Current project: representation and commemoration of Nova Zembla and Dutch identity, 1590s to the present.

Made a group for History of Medicine:

@historyofmedicine

Tag it to share with the group, and follow to get all the group posts.

#histmed #history #histodons #HistoryOfMedicine