@WellingtonChineseHistory@cloudisland.nz
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2d ago
Wellington Chinese History
@WellingtonChineseHistory@cloudisland.nz
Tracing and recording sites of significance to the Wellington (New Zealand) Chinese communities. General content warning: May contain discussions on racism, including historical racism and lived experiences of racism. #Histodon These posts are for historical interest, and are posted apolitically. Some posts are automated.
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#OnThisDay May 15 1913 SUPREME COURT CRIMINAL SESSION CHINAMAN ASSAULTED Vincent Furniss and George Patrick McNamara, found guilty of common assault, having assaulted a Chinaman, Charlie Yung Sing, and caused him grievous bodily harm.
https://wellingtonchinesehistory.fandom.com/wiki/SUPREME_COURT,_Evening_Post,_15_May_1913
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@WellingtonChineseHistory@cloudisland.nz
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May 10, 2026
Wellington Chinese History
@WellingtonChineseHistory@cloudisland.nz
Tracing and recording sites of significance to the Wellington (New Zealand) Chinese communities. General content warning: May contain discussions on racism, including historical racism and lived experiences of racism. #Histodon These posts are for historical interest, and are posted apolitically. Some posts are automated.
cloudisland.nz
Race Aliens: In 1916 the number of non-Europeans in New Zealand was 3204. The increase in 4 ½ years has was 69.73%. Nearly ¾ of this increase has been due to the expansion in number of Chinese and Indian residents. Evening Post #OnThisDay 10 May 1923
https://wellingtonchinesehistory.fandom.com/wiki/Race_Aliens,_Evening_Post,_10_May_1923
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@wikipedia_fr@wikis.world
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May 09, 2026
Wikipédia en français
@wikipedia_fr@wikis.world
Wikipédia en français. Compte animé par des contributrices et contributeurs bénévoles de la version francophone de Wikipédia.
wikis.world
9 mai 1921 : Naissance de Sophie Scholl, figure de la résistance allemande face au nazisme.
Avec les autres membres du réseau étudiant « La Rose blanche », elle est arrêtée par la Gestapo en février 1943 et exécutée.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scholl
#CeJourLà #OnThisDay
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@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
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May 07, 2026
Tim Hayes
@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
I’m writing an ongoing series of urban fantasy novels which I’m tentatively referring to as the Wheel of the Year Sequence. Set in contemporary times and, it’s in a similar vein to series such as The Dresden Files, The Rivers of London, and A Discovery of Witches, depicting a world where magic and the supernatural are real but hidden away from the majority of the population. Largely set in the UK, much of the narrative is centred on London.
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#onthisday
Angela Carter was born on this date back in 1940.
She was known for revitalising fairytales and infusing them with eroticism, making their passive heroines sexier, smarter and stronger.
Carter initially emboldened other literary authors to tackle supernatural themes afresh.
Her approach, duly toned down for mass consumption, became a model for the feminist-lite reinvention of other disregarded genres in print and on screen, in adult and children’s fiction – from vampire horror (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight) to SF dystopia (The Hunger Games) to Disney princesses with attitude (Frozen, Brave) playing a significant part in fantasy’s resurrection and its ascendancy in the bestseller and box office charts since the late 90s.
#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #onthisday #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
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May 05, 2026
Tim Hayes
@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
I’m writing an ongoing series of urban fantasy novels which I’m tentatively referring to as the Wheel of the Year Sequence. Set in contemporary times and, it’s in a similar vein to series such as The Dresden Files, The Rivers of London, and A Discovery of Witches, depicting a world where magic and the supernatural are real but hidden away from the majority of the population. Largely set in the UK, much of the narrative is centred on London.
indieauthors.social
#onthisday
Delia Derbyshire was born on this date back in 1937.
Her claim to fame is she was the woman who arranged an electronic realisation of Ron Grainer’s theme of the Doctor Who series in 1963. The rest, as they say, is history.
Probably one of the most well know television themes to be created and produced entirely with electronics.
Grainer attempted to credit her as co-composer but was prevented by the BBC bureaucracy because they preferred that members of the workshop remain anonymous.
She was an English musician and composer of electronic music who worked with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s and has been referred to as "the unsung heroine of British electronic music."
#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #onthisday #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
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May 04, 2026
Tim Hayes
@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
I’m writing an ongoing series of urban fantasy novels which I’m tentatively referring to as the Wheel of the Year Sequence. Set in contemporary times and, it’s in a similar vein to series such as The Dresden Files, The Rivers of London, and A Discovery of Witches, depicting a world where magic and the supernatural are real but hidden away from the majority of the population. Largely set in the UK, much of the narrative is centred on London.
indieauthors.social
#onthisday
Alice Lidell was born on this date back in 1852.
This was the girl who would find fame as the eponymous heroine of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Check out the acrostic poem from the end of the second book spelling her name out in full:
A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July—
Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear—
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die.
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:
Ever drifting down the stream—
Lingering in the golden gleam—
Life, what is it but a dream?
It occurs to me, even if I was writing this on the anniversary of her death, not her birth, this is one little girl who’s never going to die. She’ll live on for ever in the books which tell her story.
#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #onthisday #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
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May 03, 2026
Tim Hayes
@TimHayes@indieauthors.social
I’m writing an ongoing series of urban fantasy novels which I’m tentatively referring to as the Wheel of the Year Sequence. Set in contemporary times and, it’s in a similar vein to series such as The Dresden Files, The Rivers of London, and A Discovery of Witches, depicting a world where magic and the supernatural are real but hidden away from the majority of the population. Largely set in the UK, much of the narrative is centred on London.
indieauthors.social
Machiavelli was born on this date back in 1469.
My anonymous Evil Criminal Mastermind in How to Succeed as a Supervillain by Following the Evil Overlord List considers him to be essential reading for all aspiring villains.
He reckons that Machiavelli’s The Art of War, and The Prince, along with General Sun Tzu’s book, also entitled The Art of War, comprise the three erudite Big Books of war, conflict, and dissent.
They’re all books which deserve to be added to the Evil Overlord’s required reading list, and he’s penned an addition to the beloved List which suggests: all those aspiring to wickedness are strongly advised to read, study, and memorise both versions of the Art of War along with The Prince and, once one has done so, read them again until you know them by heart.
Then, and only then, will you be ready to take over the world.
#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #onthisday #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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May 01, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 1 May 1944, South African Phyllis Latour parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the British Special Operations Executive.
She's never captured.
She died in 2023, in New Zealand.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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@WellingtonChineseHistory@cloudisland.nz
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Apr 30, 2026
Wellington Chinese History
@WellingtonChineseHistory@cloudisland.nz
Tracing and recording sites of significance to the Wellington (New Zealand) Chinese communities. General content warning: May contain discussions on racism, including historical racism and lived experiences of racism. #Histodon These posts are for historical interest, and are posted apolitically. Some posts are automated.
cloudisland.nz
#OnThisDay 1 May 1900: Evening Post publishes plea from Wellington fruit shop owners Wong Heong, Chow Fong, Ngan Lee, L. A. Pat, Yee Wah, & Yung Kee, that people not judge all Chinese fruit shops due to poor sanitary conditions of one Chinese fruit shop
https://wellingtonchinesehistory.fandom.com/wiki/CITY_CHINESE_FRUIT_STORES,_A_PROTEST,_Evening_Post,_1_May_1900
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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
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Apr 30, 2026
Stefan Bohacek
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online
Husband, father, side project enthusiast: https://stefanbohacek.com/projects Big fan of the #fediverse: https://stefanbohacek.com/fediverse Enjoy my work? Here's how you can pay me back: https://stefanbohacek.com/support-my-work/ He/him. 🗺️ Bratislava ➜ NYC ➜ NJ
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CW: Nazis, Hitler, suicide
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Reminder that the bunker where Adolf Hitler took his own life 81 years ago is now a parking lot.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fuhrerbunker-parking-lot
#OnThisDay #OTD #nazis #history
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 30, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.
Couriers like Wake would take messages and materials such as explosives, guns or grenades around the patch their network covered.
Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons
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@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social
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Apr 29, 2026
Democracy Matters 
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social
Husband/girl dad with faith that democracy is the way to go; still idealistic enough to believe it's achievable. The only thing I'm selling is democracy. Banned (3x!) by the fowl site for calling out GOP lies. #VoteBlue #TwitterRefugees #WashingtonDC #FightFascism #NoRepublicans #Ukraine
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#OnThisDay
APRIL 29, 1945: LIBERATION OF DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP, EXCEPT LGBTQ+ PRISONERS
When U.S. forces liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, some of those interned for homosexuality were not freed but rather were required to serve out the full term of the sentences they had received under the homophobic Nazi penal code.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/liberation-of-dachau-concentration-camp-except-lgbtq-prisoners/
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 28, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 28 April 1730 OS*, Anna Ivanovna is crowned the Empress of the Russian Empire.
The Privy Council picked Anna as she was widowed and childless. They imposed a set of Conditions through which they would control her.
She literally tore them up, and continued her uncle Peter the Great’s modernisation.
Like many Russian rulers, she could be cruel, vindictive and abuse her power.
*Old Style date
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #RussianHistory
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 27, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.
She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 25, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua. She served for six years, stabilising the economy.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CentralAmericanHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 22, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #BritishHistory #Histodons
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
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Apr 20, 2026
CarveHerName
@CarveHerName@mstdn.social
Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow for daily posts. We check replies irregularly during the week, and less at weekends. If you would like to support us then we love likes, follows and reposts. We also have a kofi for donations or subscriptions. And in the UK we have an affiliate bookshop.
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#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.
The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen #Histodons
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@mediocratese@climatejustice.social
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Apr 18, 2026
Zeke 🇨🇦
@mediocratese@climatejustice.social
Banner: Eden Grove old growth forest in the Fairy Creek watershed. We are living in the WORST novel ever written. 🫤 Naturalist, family man, carpenter, amateur photographer, acitivist, non practising artist. Born when CO2 was 313 ppm. Turtle Island resident in Lekwungen/Songhees Territory. Every photo I post is my own unless otherwise noted. As Canadian as possible under the circumstances. #elbowsup #GraveNewWorld
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#OnThisDay 2020
IMHO The best summation of #Covid19 still.
(unfortunately I do not know the artist)
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@FibroJedi@gamepad.club
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Apr 10, 2026
FJ Brodie
@FibroJedi@gamepad.club
💊 #Fibromyalgia Fighter 👨👩👧 Hubby to one, Dad to one ✏️ #Writer of original #fantasy fiction on WorldAnvil. 🖥 Gaming when health allows. 🌐 https://www.worldanvil.com/w/qal-ath-fj-brodie I have a horrendously short attention span and usually live in Survival Mode due to #ChronicPain. Names/Titles: He/Him/FJ #fedi22 #gamingonlinux #gaming #drawing #anxiety #actuallyautistic
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I forgot to post my #DailyDoodle for 9th April.
#OnThisDay in 1910, Halley's Comet was seen from New Zealand.
#doodle #ColouredPencils #handdrawn
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@FibroJedi@gamepad.club
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Apr 08, 2026
FJ Brodie
@FibroJedi@gamepad.club
💊 #Fibromyalgia Fighter 👨👩👧 Hubby to one, Dad to one ✏️ #Writer of original #fantasy fiction on WorldAnvil. 🖥 Gaming when health allows. 🌐 https://www.worldanvil.com/w/qal-ath-fj-brodie I have a horrendously short attention span and usually live in Survival Mode due to #ChronicPain. Names/Titles: He/Him/FJ #fedi22 #gamingonlinux #gaming #drawing #anxiety #actuallyautistic
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A slightly uncovered female hip from a statue
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Well, this was a challenge. I read about various events from the 8th April.
I chose to sketch only this part of the "Venus de Milo" statue, which was found 8th April 1820 on the island of Milos.
Trying to draw this material quickly was difficult.
And as with most of my #DailyDoodle posts, the number 8 and 4 are in the drawing too.
Apologies for the many inaccuracies!
(PS I'll add ALT shortly)
#datedoodle #onthisday
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