It is International Romani Day. Educate yourself and support your local Romani community. #romani #ethnicgroup #gypsy #history #culture #roma #historyfacts

https://youtube.com/shorts/L9aijewEuwg?si=nqVoj3LprVjyoJrW

Old advice. We were told many years ago that babies and toddlers shouldn't have artificial sweeteners. Then the UK govt decided sugar was the big bad thing so that advice disappeared and the sugar tax came in.
Now 'new' research shows sweeteners are bad.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy6g2dl44lo

I don't have the best memory but it seems the media has collective amnesia about key facts.

Ever bounced a baby, rolled paint, or enjoyed instant replay? Thank Canada’s unsung inventors!

Here are six things you did NOT know were Canadian. #CanadianInventions #Innovation #HistoryFacts #canada

https://youtu.be/Ijxa-26qXmg

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This chart shows the average weekly diet of one working class family from Oxfordshire in England, in 1912.
It was included in the book “How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem” by B. Seebohm Rowntree and May Kendall, published in 1917.
Source: “How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem”, Rowntree & Kendall, pp. 59-63, pub. 1917.
#historyfacts #history #WW1 #commonwealthwar #ww1 #ww1history #community #heritage

The fact that Jack the Ripper has now been DNA-identified, was not on my BINGO card for 2025

during the roman invasion of the british isles, what the roman colonisers initially mistook for a bloodthirsty army of smurfs was actually just the indigenous hobbit population adorned in their traditional battle-woad #HistoryFacts

Yellowmead stone circle near Sheepstor in Devon, England is a concentric Bronze Age stone circle consisting of four stone rings set into each other. The largest is 20 meters wide and the smallest 6 meters. It is located on Yellowmead Down.

The circles once surrounded a burial mound, although this is now barely visible. To the south-west some possible rows of stones branch off, crossed by a post-medieval leat that once served a nearby tin works.

The site was excavated and restored by Rev. H Breton in 1921. In 2008, geophysical surveys and a small excavation were carried out to determine if the 1921 restoration had been done accurately (it was) and to find out if they were buried additional elements in the peat. Fallen stones were found in line with some of the stone rows, suggesting that further features may lie downstream below the slope.

#archeology #archeologist #civilizations
#archeologicalsite #castle #ancient
#history #historyfacts #historynerd #historybuff

"The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838-1900" sheds light on how turbulent population changes led to anxieties in the Ottoman elites and the state. #History #19thCentury #Muslim #Ottoman #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/483/the-politics-of-reproduction-in-ottoman-society-18/

The Man Who Married the Thunder Sister is a legend of the Cherokee nation about a young warrior who falls in love with a Thunder Sister and follows her home where he finds nothing is what it seems to be, not even the young woman. #History #Cherokee #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2552/the-man-who-married-the-thunder-sister/

Ghosts, demons, spirits, and monsters have been haunting humanity for at least 3,500 years. #History #Ghost #Death #Demons #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/collection/282/a-gallery-of-ghosts-demons-spirits--monsters/

New Testament is the name for the second half of the Christian Bible, compiled from the 2nd century CE, after the separation of Christianity from Judaism. #History #TheGospels #NewTestament #Christianity #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/New_Testament/

Throughout 1938, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the leader of Nazi Germany, threatened to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. #History #AdolfHitler #Appeasement #Czechoslovakia #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2555/hitlers-occupation-of-czechoslovakia/

The Ulunsuti tales of the Cherokee deal with the mystical jewel, the Ulunsuti ("transparent"), a diamond on the forehead of the great horned serpent Uktena. #History #Cherokee #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2551/ulunsuti-tales/

The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) was a US military expedition of exploration, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, whose goal was to explore the newly acquired western lands that comprised the Louisiana Purchase and to reach the Pacific Ocean. #History #LouisianaPurchase #CorpsOfDiscovery #MeriwetherLewis #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition/

"In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica 1750 - 86" is a detailed account of the life of Thomas Thistlewood, an Englishman who moved to Jamaica in the mid-18th century and became a plantation overseer and later a small-scale landowner. #History #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/479/in-miserable-slavery-thomas-thistlewood-in-jamaica/

The Battle of the Little Bighorn (25-26 June 1876) is the most famous engagement of the Great Sioux War (1876-1877). #History #SittingBull #GreatSiouxWar #USHistory #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn/

Dolley Madison (1768-1849), born Dolley Payne, was a prominent American First Lady, a function she held both during the presidency of her husband, James Madison, and for his predecessor, the widower Thomas Jefferson. #History #DolleyMadison #FirstLady #JamesMadison #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Dolley_Madison/

Old Testament is the Christian name for the books of the Jewish scriptures that constitute the first half of the Christian Bible. #History #OldTestament #Christianity #Bible #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Old_Testament/

My Life on the Plains or Personal Experiences with Indians (1874) is a full-length narrative by George Armstrong Custer (l. 1839-1876) of his time out west from 1867-1874. #History #WashitaMassacre #BlackKettle #USHistory #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2550/custers-account-of-the-battle-of-washita-river/