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The American Tariff House of Lords—March 3 The Earl of CLARENDON wished to ask the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, what compensation would be given to merchants who were injured by the new tariff, established by the United States, several provisions of which constituted an infraction of treaties existing between that country and England. There was great injustice done to British merchants, and by that very country which took every care to insist on the full appropriation to itself of all rights or advantages guaranteed by the very treaties they were constantly violating or evading.

#OTD #Trade & #Diplomacy #History news (1845) - Questions brought up in #HouseofLordsUK regarding American tariffs.

06.03.2026 16:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Court Sees “Grizzly” Dance - Reporting History Assistant City Attorney of Minneapolis Gives Terpischorean Illustration and Convinces Judge. Minneapolis.—W. G. Compton, assistant city attorney, danced the "grizzly bear" in Municipal court here to s...

see also: attorney doing the Grizzly Bear (I may need to go do some more articles on this 😀 )

www.reporting-history.com/2024/04/24/c...

05.03.2026 16:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“High Flier” Planning Air Trip Over Everest PARIS, Mar. 4—By the simple process of flying over Mount Everest, tallest mountain in the world, M. Callizo, daring French flier, hopes to accomplish what climbers have failed many times to do. Numerous expeditions have fought their way through the lower recess the Himalayas only to be compelled to turn back when they were within striking distance of the top. The last such expedition ended tragically.

#OTD #French #Aviation #History news (1926) - Callizo to attempt altitude record over Everest.

04.03.2026 20:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, it makes me want to put someone's head in a woodchipper...

04.03.2026 19:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Part two of the podcast will touch upon Clinton's later years as an award-winning musician.

04.03.2026 18:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Churchill wrote enough books about Churchill so we don't have to.

04.03.2026 18:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There's a reason Massholes don't actually like the Kennedy's.

OK, a lot of reasons...

04.03.2026 16:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What Imperialism Has Done El Nacionalista de Ponce for Feb. 20th in an extremely interesting article gives its readers to understand that the Porto Rican people have been reduced to the level of serfs without religion, patriotism, or shame, and that a government of gold has been constituted here for the benefit of Yankee corporations. Yankee imperialism is in need of servile Porto Rican labor it contends.

#OTD #PuertoRican #History News (1926) - Nothing to say on this one that wasn't said better by Bad Bunny.

03.03.2026 18:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Coolidge Believes Air Fund Too Big Regards $85,000,000 Program of Navy Conflicts With Peace Economy. President Coolidge does not approve the five-year building program for the Naval Air Service, calling for an appropriation of $85,000,000, which has been reported out by the House naval affairs Committee. The President considers this sum far too large to coincide with his ideas of a peace time expenditure for aircraft. He also thinks the amount exceeds what the Aircraft Board appointed by him to make recommendations for proper development had in mind.

#OTD #Aviation #NavalHistory news (1926) - Coolidge balks at naval air expenditures.

03.03.2026 01:10 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Fishing From The Wharf Sir, —I beg to ask why fishing on the Queen-street Wharf has been put a stop to. This is hard on the poor. Many a scanty meal, if supplemented by a few schnapper, would be more appetising and satisfying to a hungry family. The order against fishing on the wharf cannot have arisen for want of space. Whole bees are often without a ship, so that downright cussedness must have caused this hard order to be issued; Wellington, where there is three times the shipping, the wharf is crowded with fishermen, all day long.

#OTD #Auckland #NewZealand #History news (1895) - City politicians stop pier fishing, causing outrage.

01.03.2026 19:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Six Expeditions Will Start This Summer To Locate North Pole Mystery of North Sea Will Be Lure Many Explorers Byrd and Wade Will Lead American Expeditions Into Ice Bound North NEW YORK, March 1 (AP)—The urge that sent Hendrik Hudson battling through polar seas in 1807 in search of a northwest passage to the spice islands of the east today still stirs the blood of modern explorers who seek to solve the mysteries of the northern seas.

#OTD #Arctic #Exploration #History news (1926) - Byrd and Wade to lead expeditions to the pole.

01.03.2026 18:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Boy Scouts To Clean Winslow Landing Field Following completion of leveling and grading the runways of Winslow’s new municipal landing field, which will be finished some time this week, the Boy Scouts, upholding their creed of “doing a good turn daily” will turn out Saturday and start work of clearing the entire field of old tin cans which have been dumped on the grounds in days gone by, so that Winslow’s new field will present a spick and span appearance to birdmen who will light here in the future.

#OTD #Arizona #History news. 1926 - #BoyScouts step up to clear out new landing field.

26.02.2026 18:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Deny Wine Served By A Nude Girl In A Bath Tub Full Wine New York. Feb. 24.—(AP)—While Broadway gossiped today of a bacchanalian party reported to have been given Monday night by Earl Carroll, theatrical producer, on the Great White Way, the official investigations to ascertain the facts were started. Police Commissioner McLaughlin took steps to determine whether there was a display of nudity and prohibition agents made preparations to learn whether a bathtub full of wine was served, as had been reported.

#OTD #Theater #History - Raise your hand if you want to go back to a time when nude bathtub wine was our worst scandal.

25.02.2026 15:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Little Italy” Gang Kills 41st Victim Slaying Follows U. S. Raids on Chicago “Bad Lands." Deportations Asked. CHICAGO, February 24. —As immigration inspectors prepared deportation proceedings against a dozen aliens taken in raids on “Little Italy” and planned to renew their round-up next week, a man, identified as Baldelli, the Eagle, was found shot to death in an alley today. He was the forty-first victim of gang warfare in recent years.

#OTD #Chicago #History news (1926) - Gang murder victim found, raids on "undesirables" ongoing.

24.02.2026 17:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That sounds delightful, and would go great with the gingerbread loaf I just put in, because it's snowing and I have a craving for a cup of tea and gingerbread. As one does.

22.02.2026 21:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Dry Agents Not to Buy Expensive Booze New York, Feb. 21—(AP)—A federal order has been issued instructing prohibition agents in this city to confine their purchase of liquor evidence to the less expensive drinks, such as gin or whiskey, selling from 50 cents to a dollar a drink, and to refrain buying champagne and other of the more expensive drinks. Federal officials said today that henceforth in their drive to padlock places selling liquor, the agents will no longer purchase champagne at $20 and $25 a quart. Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, February. 22, 1926

#OTD #Prohibition news 1926 - Agents in sting operations instructed to buy cheap cocktails and not splash out for champagne.

Sure, take away the one job perk...

22.02.2026 16:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

February 21, 1863 – One of the Heroic Women A naval command should be bestowed on the heroine of this achievement. Among the American vessels captured by the pirate Retribution, was the American brigantine J. P. Ellicott of Bucksport, Me., A. Deveraux, master. Her officers and crew were taken on board the pirate and placed in irons. A crew was placed on board the brig, consisting of Gilbert Hay, prizemaster, recently from fort Lafayette; and John Gilbert, mate; and five seamen.

#OTD #CivilWar #MaritimeHistory news - One of the ladies takes back the ship.

21.02.2026 21:44 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Sound of Silence Cover in Classical Latin (BARDCORE) YouTube video by the_miracle_aligner

ok all the "post a banger that is not in English" posts? I have a bunch, but how about this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx3c...

21.02.2026 02:29 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

And to you as well!

20.02.2026 15:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

February 19, 1863 – News From St. Louis St. Louis, Feb. 18, 1863. The great iron-clad gunboat Neosho was launched to-day at 4 o’clock. She is designed on the Monitor plan. Gen. Davidson’s division has been joined to the army of the frontier, and not attacked, as the telegraph blunderingly said lately.

#OTD #CivilWar news - USS Neosho launched, and other items from St. Louis.

19.02.2026 20:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

February 18, 1863 – News From Port Royal From South Carolina.—A Port Royal letter of the 3d February, says most of Gen. Foster's fleet has arrived here in good condition. The "First South Carolina Negro Regiment" arrived from an expedition 60 miles up the St. Mary's river, Georgia, to Woodstock, which they burned after having repulsed the enemy in a severe engagement. They also destroyed a rebel saltworks. The regiment fought like veterans and repulsed superior numbers.

#OTD #CivilWar #BlackHistory - 1st SC Negro Regiment conducts successful raid on rebel territory.

18.02.2026 20:00 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I don't know @dreadships.bsky.social, maybe we shouldn't be so hard on the French ships.

em, never mind...

#NavalHistory #NavalHysterical

18.02.2026 18:55 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

February 17, 1863 – News of the Florida By the arrival of the Creole we have the following intelligence from-Havana: The Confederate gunboat Florida was coaling at Havana on the 20th ult. She departed the next day, the Bio Bio hence for New York, via Havana, leaving at the same time, but did not molest the latter, owing, it is said, to a pledge given the Captain General to that effect.

#OTD #CivilWar #NavalHistory news - CSS Florida at Havana and pursued after leaving port.

17.02.2026 18:55 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A Sea Monster Encountered Capt. Crabtree, who lately arrived at Frenchman’s bay, and now in this town, gives the following extraordinary account of a sea serpent, the authenticity of which may be depended on :— "On the 20th of June last, being on my passage from W. Indies, in the morning, having just made Mount-Desert island, distant nearly ten leagues, I suddenly got sight of a Serpent of an enormous size, swimming on the surface of the ocean, its head elevated about six or eight feet out of water, rather prone forward.

#SeaMonster #History news 1793 - Capt. Crabtree sights a sea monster.

17.02.2026 18:31 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I am probably not the only person in my Bsky world who immediately thought of the Type 93...

#NavalHistory #MuchTooGeeky

17.02.2026 02:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Havana Services In Memory Victims Battleship Maine Havana, Cuba. Feb. 15.—(AP)—Honors were paid !ate today to the 266 officers and men of the United States battleship Maine who perished when the warship was blown up in Havana Harbor 28 years ago today. In the presence of the president of Cuba and the American ambassador, a tablet containing the names of the men who met death in the disaster was unveiled on the…

#OTD #History News 1926 - Ceremony remembering the Maine held in Havana.

17.02.2026 01:19 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

February 16, 1863 – Rebel Trade at Nassau A correspondent of the New York Times, writing from Nassau January 31st, says that there were at that time about forty sailing vessels and steamers of a large class in that port, with cargoes for the rebels and beside these, the warehouses were all full of goods for the same market. The rebel steamers Herald and Leopard ran as regularly between that port and Charleston as the Sound boats do between New York and Boston.

#OTD #CivilWar #History news - Complaints that the port of Nassau #Bahamas was just as much a pirate town in 1863 as it was back in the buccaneering heyday.

17.02.2026 00:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

February 15, 1863 – The Fight At Donelson Mr. Slatter: I had the sad pleasure yesterday of reading a letter from a reliable member of Col. Starnes' 3d Tennessee Cavalry, detailing some of the casualties to our boys in the late disaster at Dovor, or Fort Donelson. He says that when the regiment to which he was attached arrived, the artillery, was playing on both sides; that Gen. Forrest formed them in line of battle and made a short speech, and ordered them to charge.

#OTD #CivilWar #History news - Report of unsuccessful Confederate attack on Fort Donelson.

15.02.2026 17:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

February 11, 1863 – Engagement of the Monitor Montauk An account of the second engagement of the Ericsson Monitor Montauk with the Confederate batteries at the mouth of the Ogechee river, states that the iron clad fired in the aggregate about eighty rounds, but was unable to breach the work in consequence of the thickness of the embankment. She was struck forty-six times, but received no other damage than the starting of some bolts in her pilot-house by a rifle shot, and the shattering of her smoke-stack.

#OTD #CivilWar #History news - Ironclad Montauk engages Confederate batteries.

11.02.2026 23:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Three Drowned in Schooner’s Wreck 18 Others Saved as Vessel Grounds Off Mass. Coast OWN FAULT OF VICTIMS Those Who Lost Lives Returned To Ship To Get Belongings—Another Daring Sea Rescue Reported Gloucester, Mass., Feb. 10 (AP)—Three members of the fishing schooner Ralph Brown's crew lost their lives today when the vessel was driven ashore in the blizzard off Briar Neck. Eighteen others, including the captain, reached shore safely.

#OTD #MaritimeHistory #Shipwreck #History (1926) - Fishing schooner wrecked in blizzard, 3 crew lost.

11.02.2026 01:05 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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