"The scientists strongly suspect that these gravitational waves are the collective echo of pairs of supermassive black holes — thousands of them, some as massive as a billion suns, sitting at the hearts of ancient galaxies up to 10 billion light-years away — as they slowly merge and generate ripples in space-time."
On this day, 27 June 1905, the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in Chicago, Illinois. One of the first multiracial unions in the US, the IWW advocated all workers uniting into one big union, taking control of society and abolishing capitalism. It’s founding conference lasted from June 27 to July 8, and was attended by over 200 workers including legendary labour organisers like Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood and leading Black anarchist Lucy Parsons. It organised large swathes of previously unorganised workers in the US, and pioneered many innovative new types of industrial action like slow-downs and sabotage. Parsons at its founding convention delivered a speech arguing for sit-in strikes, which would sweep the US 30 years later, declaring: “My conception of the strike of the future is not to strike and go out an starve, but to strike and remain in and take possession of the necessary property of production.” The IWW won big improvements for hundreds of thousands of workers, and for its troubles faced savage repression from employers, with many organisers beaten, jailed and murdered. It also spread to other countries including Chile, Australia and South Africa. It still exists today, although much smaller than it was, and its members are active in many organising projects. We’ve got a number of great books where you can learn more about the IWW, as well as other items celebrating the union, in our online store. Proceeds help fund our work: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/iww https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=651651877008031&set=a.602588028581083&type=3
Une Boulangerie dans le quartier juif avant 1914 /2019 .. 27 rue des rosiers paris 4 eme arrt .. Albert Harlingue/Roger Viollet .. مخبز في حارة اليهود ١٩١٤/٢٠١٩ ..#paris #France (à Paris, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5-Z5_Zi3-W/?igshid=19cl98lg60uqz
🔸 “The “Oxford Arm” Inn, London, demolished in 1878, was an excellent example of the galleried Inns now becoming every year more scarce. As was said by a writer in the Athenaeum of May 20th 1876: “Despite the confusion, the dirt, and the decay. he who stands in the yard of this ancient Inn may get an excellent idea of what it was like in the days of its prosperity, when not only travellers in coach or saddle rode in and out of the yard, but poor players and mountebanks set up their stage for the entertainment of spectators, who hung over the galleries or looked on from their rooms - a name by which the boxes of a theatre were first known.” The “Oxford Arms” was situate, as shown in No.3, at the end of a short lane leading out of the west side of Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row. The buildings were disposed on four sides of a large courtyard, being bonded on the west by the old City Wall. But little is known of the history of the “Oxford Arms.” That it existed before the Great Fire is proved by an advertisement in the London Gazette for March, 1672-3, quoted in Cunningham’s Handbook of London:- “These are to give notice that Edward Bartlett, Oxford Carrier, hath removed his Inn in London from the Swan at Holborn Bridge to the Oxford Armes in Warwick Lane, where he did Inn before the Fire. His coaches and wagons going forth on their usual days, Mondays, Wednesdays and Frydays. He hath also a hearse, with all things convenient to carry a Corps to any part of England.” The Inn was within the area of the Fire, in which it no doubt perished, being rebuilt, however, a few years later on the old plan. In Strype’s Stowe we read that the “Oxford Arms” was much frequented by persons attending the Market, i.e., Newgate Market, close by. #victorianchaps #victorian #retro #goodolddays #vintage #history #london🇬🇧 #oldphoto #1870s #dickensian #streetlife #nostalgia (at London, Unιted Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CodNGiSAsCH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Meymand is a very ancient village in Iran. It is believed to be a primary human residence in the Iranian Plateau, dating back to 12,000 years ago. Many of the residents live in the 350 hand-dug houses amid the rocks, some of which have been inhabited for as long as 3,000 year
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Andre Derain - Self Portrait with a Cap, c.1905
André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.
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Spotted while house-hunting, unfortunately it wasn’t for sale.
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Oh my gosh.
