History, anything goes, including pictures

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The "Ring Lady" of Herculaneum - a Roman woman around 45 years of age, who died near the ancient waterfront of the Roman town during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. She was found surrounded by her gold jewellery and still wearing two gold rings on her left hand.
 

RnR said:
23 February 1886 – 22-year-old Charles Martin Hall produced his first samples of man-made aluminum, using a relatively inexpensive method. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.

After failing to find financial backing at home in Ohio, Hall went to Pittsburgh where he made contact with the noted metallurgist Alfred E. Hunt. They formed the Reduction Company of Pittsburgh which opened the first large-scale aluminum production plants. The Reduction Company later became the Aluminum Company of America, then Alcoa. Hall was a major stockholder, and became very wealthy.

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Today, Alcoa is the world’s eighth largest producer of aluminum, with its corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Alcoa conducts operations in 10 countries.
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Real aluminum leaf is the most expensive metal in the world.
 
RnR said:
24 February 1955 – Steve Jobs, American businessman, who co-founded Apple and Pixar is born.

On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world.

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Steven Paul Jobs (24 February 1955 – 5 October 2011) was an American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the chairman, chief executive officer, and a co-founder of Apple Inc., CEO and majority shareholder of Pixar, a member of The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak are widely recognised as pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
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I am reading his oldest daughter's memoir right now, Small Fry. Not a nice guy at all nor was the rest of the family for that matter. He denied paternity at first until DNA proved he was her father. Wasn't much of one after that. I did not like this man. I flatly refuse to buy his products.
 
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February 25
1956 Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Why Famous: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from Joseph Stalin's death in 1953 to 1964.

Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, supporting the early Soviet space program and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. These were often ineffective, especially in agriculture.

Khrushchev ordered major cuts in conventional forces, hoping to rely on missiles and nuclear weapons to defend the Soviet Union. He also lead the USSR during the Cuban missile crisis which these policies helped cause.

Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev.
 
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February 25
1956 Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Why Famous: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from Joseph Stalin's death in 1953 to 1964.

Khrushchev was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union, supporting the early Soviet space program and for several relatively liberal reforms in areas of domestic policy. These were often ineffective, especially in agriculture.

Khrushchev ordered major cuts in conventional forces, hoping to rely on missiles and nuclear weapons to defend the Soviet Union. He also lead the USSR during the Cuban missile crisis which these policies helped cause.

Khrushchev's party colleagues removed him from power in 1964, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev.
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Now apparently, Stalin is back to being a hero
 
According to Checkiday.com, today is

Inconvenience Yourself Day​

Observed​

  • the fourth Wednesday in February (since 2006)​


Inconvenience Yourself Day is not merely about inconveniencing oneself, it is about acknowledging others, putting them first, and having a positive effect on their lives.​

The day helps people become more attentive to others, and realize how their actions impact them. It's about giving oneself some inconvenience, so the day will be less inconvenient for others.​

It was started by Julie Thompson of the Environmental Resources Network in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.​

 
Dogs Are Descended from A 15-Million-Year-Old Species
The oldest known specific breed was called Saluki. These dogs were pets belonging to the Ancient Egyptians. The earliest dogs are thought to have emerged at around the same time as human hunter gatherers, and more modern dogs are also descended from wolves.

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RadishRose said:
According to Checkiday.com, today is

Inconvenience Yourself Day​

Observed​

  • the fourth Wednesday in February (since 2006)​


Inconvenience Yourself Day is not merely about inconveniencing oneself, it is about acknowledging others, putting them first, and having a positive effect on their lives.​

The day helps people become more attentive to others, and realize how their actions impact them. It's about giving oneself some inconvenience, so the day will be less inconvenient for others.​

It was started by Julie Thompson of the Environmental Resources Network in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.​

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Beautiful, thanks Radish
 
Lewkat said:
I am reading his oldest daughter's memoir right now, Small Fry. Not a nice guy at all nor was the rest of the family for that matter. He denied paternity at first until DNA proved he was her father. Wasn't much of one after that. I did not like this man. I flatly refuse to buy his products.
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Yes he had a very cruel streak.
 
Ruthanne said:
Dogs Are Descended from A 15-Million-Year-Old Species
The oldest known specific breed was called Saluki. These dogs were pets belonging to the Ancient Egyptians. The earliest dogs are thought to have emerged at around the same time as human hunter gatherers, and more modern dogs are also descended from wolves.

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That reminded me... 🤣 🤣

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Furryanimal said:
Holdomor-the deliberate starvation of Ukraine by Stalin in the 1930s.
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An event most haven’t heard of.One things for sure... they didn't have a lock on starvation.
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Holdomor-the deliberate starvation of Ukraine by Stalin in the 1930s.
An event most haven’t heard ofOne things for sure... they didn't have a lock on starvation.
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Holdomor-the deliberate starvation of Ukraine by Stalin in the 1930s.
An event most haven’t heard of.
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One things for sure... they didn't have a lock on starvation.
Appalachian children in the 30's. :( :(


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Ruthanne said:
Dogs Are Descended from A 15-Million-Year-Old Species
The oldest known specific breed was called Saluki. These dogs were pets belonging to the Ancient Egyptians. The earliest dogs are thought to have emerged at around the same time as human hunter gatherers, and more modern dogs are also descended from wolves.

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In ancient Egyptian religion, Anubis, the god of death, mummification, embalming, the afterlife, cemeteries, tombs, and the Underworld ... was usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head.

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25 February 1843 – Paulet Affair: Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain.

The Paulet Affair was a six-month occupation of the Hawaiian Islands in 1843 by British naval officer Captain Lord George Paulet, of HMS Carysfort. The dispute would take years to resolve.

The HMS Carysfort and Lord George Paulet, instigator of the Paulet Affair.

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Paulet took over Hawaii, he appointed himself and three others to a commission to be the new government, and insisted on direct control of all land transactions. Paulet destroyed all Hawaiian flags he could find, and raised the British Union Flag for an occupation that would last six months. He cleared 156 residents off the contested land of Richard Charlton, the British Consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii since 1825 after a request by Charlton.
 
25 February 1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.

Samuel Colt was an American inventor, industrialist, businessman, and hunter. He founded Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company and made the mass production of the revolver commercially viable.

Samuel Colt. Revolver patent 9430X, 25 February 1836.

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During the American Civil War, his factory in Hartford supplied firearms both to the North and the South. Later, his firearms were prominent during the settling of the western frontier. Colt died in 1862 as one of the wealthiest men in America.
 
25 February 1939 – The first of three and a half million Anderson air raid shelters appeared in North London.

The Anderson shelter was designed in 1938 by William Paterson and Oscar Carl Kerrison in response to a request from the Home Office. It was named after Sir John Anderson, then Lord Privy Seal with special responsibility for preparing air-raid precautions immediately prior to the outbreak of World War II. Anderson shelters were designed to accommodate up to six people. The main principle of protection was based on curved and straight galvanised corrugated steel panels. Anderson shelters were issued free to all householders who earned less than £5 a week. Those with a higher income were charged £7 for their shelter.

The first Anderson shelter was erected in 1939. It was built in a garden in Islington, London on 25 February, 1939.

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One and a half million shelters of this type were distributed between February 1939 and the outbreak of war. During the war a further 2.1 million were erected. Large numbers were manufactured at John Summers & Sons ironworks at Shotton on Deeside with production peaking at 50,000 units per week.
 
25 February in Australian History

• 1798 – John Hunter named Bass Strait in honour of George Bass.
• 1961 – Last electric tram service in Sydney.
• 2001 – Cricketer Don Bradman died in Adelaide aged 92.
• 2004 – Qantas launched its low cost domestic airline Jetstar.

Bradman is chaired off the ground by his opponents after scoring 452, a then world record for first-class cricket, against Queensland at the SCG. Commemorative coin.

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February 26
1797 Bank of England issues first £1 note
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One pound notes were introduced by the Bank of England for the first time in 1797, following gold shortages caused by the French Revolutionary Wars. The earliest notes were handwritten, and were issued as needed to individuals. These notes were written on one side only and bore the name of the payee, the date, and the signature of the issuing cashier
 
26 February 1606 – Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon becomes the first recorded European to land on Australia’s shores.

On 18 November 1605, the Duyfken sailed from Bantam to the coast of western New Guinea. After that, Janszoon crossed the eastern end of the Arafura Sea into the Gulf of Carpentaria, without being aware of the existence of Torres Strait.

19th-century artist impression of the ship Duyfken in the Gulf of Carpentaria. Replica of the Duyfken, currently moored in Western Australia.

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On 26 February 1606, Janzoon made landfall at the Pennefather River on the western shore of Cape York in Queensland, near what is now the town of Weipa. This is the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent. Janszoon proceeded to chart some 320 kilometres of the coastline, which he thought was a southerly extension of New Guinea.
 
26 February 1852 – John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the corn flake, is born.

Kellogg was an American medical doctor, nutritionist, inventor, health activist, anti-masturbation advocate, and businessman. He was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan which was founded by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. A major leader in progressive health reform, he combined scientific knowledge with Adventist beliefs, promoting health reform, temperance and sexual abstinence. His promotion of developing anaphrodisiac foods was based on these beliefs.

John Harvey Kellogg – aged about 29. Early Kellogg’s Corn Flakes advertisement.

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An anaphrodisiac is a substance that quells or blunts the libido. Kellogg is best known today for the invention of the breakfast cereal corn flakes, originally intended to be an anaphrodisiac, with his brother, Will Keith Kellogg.

:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: Must admit I don't think of abstinence and libido when eating my corn flakes, despite John Kellogg's best efforts.
 
26 February 1974 – Remains of Mungo Man discovered at Lake Mungo, New South Wales.

Mungo Man, was discovered by ANU geomorphologist Dr. Jim Bowler on 26 February 1974 when shifting sand dunes exposed the remains. Lake Mungo is in the World Heritage listed Willandra Lakes Region of New South Wales.

Mungo Man.

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Mungo man’s remains are the oldest human remains found in Australia and the age of 40,000 years is currently the most widely accepted age for the find. The skeleton had belonged to an individual who, based on evidence of osteoarthritis in the lumbar vertebrae, eburnation, and severe wear on the teeth with pulp exposure, was about 50 years old – relatively old for an early human – when he died.
 

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