Moulay Al-Rashid ibn Sharif was Sultan of #Morocco from 1666 until his death OTD in 1672 after a fall from his horse https://toilet-guru.com/morocco/meknes.html?s=mb #travel #history
Moulay Al-Rashid ibn Sharif was Sultan of #Morocco from 1666 until his death OTD in 1672 after a fall from his horse https://toilet-guru.com/morocco/meknes.html?s=mb #travel #history
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I'm wondering what would have happened if the Eastern Bloc had used Agile instead of the 5-year plan.
Happy 160th anniversary of a bunch of murderous cowards finally giving up on the idea that they should own other human beings.
"The Battle of Appomattox Court House [...] was the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia before they surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac under the Commanding General of the United States Army, Ulysses S. Grant."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House
The first British-built Concorde 002 made its maiden flight OTD in 1969 from Filton to RAF Fairford https://toilet-guru.com/blog/17.html?s=mb #travel #history
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville used his phonautograph machine to make the oldest known recording of an audible human voice OTD in 1860 https://cromwell-intl.com/technical/wma-or-flac-to-mp3.html?s=mb #history
Jimmu, legendary first Emperor of #Japan and descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, supposedly died OTD in 585 BC https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kofun/uwanabe.html?s=mb #travel #history
Missing WWI boxcar gifted to NJ by France in 1949 has been found https://www.byteseu.com/905556/ #affiliate #Antiques #AntiquesU0026Collectibles #bus #Collectibles #Distance #Europe #France #freight #history #I #II #jersey #local #LocalAffiliateTravel #long #LongDistanceBusU0026Rail #new #NewJersey #Overall #OverallPositive #Positive #Rail #RailFreight #Travel #u0026 #War #World #WorldWarI #WorldWarII
Warlord Dong Zhuo had his troops evacuate the Eastern Han capital city Lyoyang and burn it to the ground OTD in 190 https://toilet-guru.com/china.html?s=mb #travel #China #history
Jimmu, legendary first Emperor of #Japan and descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, supposedly died OTD in 585 BC https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/kofun/emperor-kaika.html?s=mb #travel #history
Pope Benedict VIII died OTD in 1024 https://toilet-guru.com/avignon-papacy/?s=mb #travel #history
@paulbusch Interesting bit of history — thanks for sharing.
It's especially disturbing because that land was never HBC's to sell to anyone, either from an Indigenous or a settler perspective.
While HBC had a colonial trading monopoly over the territory, even under exploitative settler law, it was (and to a large extent, is) Indigenous land according to the 1763 Royal Proclamation, which still has legal force in Canada.
Moulay Al-Rashid ibn Sharif was Sultan of #Morocco from 1666 until his death OTD in 1672 after a fall from his horse https://toilet-guru.com/morocco/casablanca-tangier.html?s=mb #travel #history
Good Morning #Canada
The troubles of The Hudsons Bay Company have dominated Canadian retail news recently, with experts offering opinions on how the 355 year old company ultimately failed. But the #HBC downfall likely began 155 years ago when they gave up ownership of almost a third of Canada’s land. HBC wanted to sell the land to the Americans for an estimated $40M but was forced by Britain to settle for $1.5M. We dodged a musket ball....
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ruperts-land#:~:text=The%20HBC%20signed%20the%20deed,effect%20until%2015%20July%201870.
Because most people are economic illiterates and innumerate, believe conservatives are good at governance.
“The biggest similarity is a crisis of competence,” said Kenneth Rogoff, a professor of economics at Harvard. “Liz Truss’s policies may have made sense in some other world. But they just came out of the blue, so they didn’t have any credibility.”
#Britain #UK #history #LizTruss #Conservatives #economics #leadership #RiggedMarkets
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/world/europe/trump-tariffs-markets-liz-truss.html
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