Jill Scott-Davies

Early painting of Mary Tudor at her coronation. She is a pale white woman with loose blond hair

#OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1553, Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of England: the first queen of England to get as far as a coronation and to rule in her own name.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EnglishHistory #Tudors 🗃️

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painting of Maria Mitchell looking through a telescope. She is a white woman with dark hair.

“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.”

#OnThisDay, 1 Oct 1847, American Maria Mitchell spots comet C/1847 T1.


#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM 🗃️
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The reason the amendment prohibiting living people from appearing on our money was passed in 1866 was due to the first superintendent of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who put himself on money. Like Trump, he was also a sexual predator: lincolnconspirators.com/2018/02/01/t... 🗃️ #skystorians

This looks like a great volume (due out Feb next year)! I'm really pleased that I was able to contribute a chapter. Mine is: "The Bastille and the Roundabout: Popular protest and the revolutionary past of the Gilets Jaunes"

🗃️ #FrenchHistory #SkyStorians

A woman is being frogmarched along cobbles by two policemen, with another apparently gesturing to her to calm down.

#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a fascist march through the area. Of the 79 protestors arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured).

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory 🗃️
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Carpet on our bedroom floor would do me!!

I think it’s about accountability! It’s too big, a high profile project!

Palantir has pulled out of involvement with the UK Digital ID card, according to an interview with their UK CEO on Times Radio. They’re concerned about the reputational damage of being involved with an unpopular Starmer policy.

The American Federation of Government Employees filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for inserting partisan political statements into furloughed employees’ automatic out-of-office replies during the government shutdown without their consent.

The generals weren’t the only ones who gave Kegsbreath a bad review.

Nobody likes her. Not even, CHINA!

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I now have a 14 yo daughter. How the bloody hell did that happen?!

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Trump quotes

This is the third time the federal government has been shut down under Trump.

Does ANYONE approve of this?

Florida Removes 700,000 Children From Health Care Plan - NewsBreak "Children need health coverage to access the preventive and routine services they need to grow up healthy," Tricia Brooks said.

Don't call yourself Pro Life or a Christian if you're OK with kicking 700,000 children off of Medicaid. share.newsbreak.com/faej9cs7

Exactly...

A fresh break in the alleged Mike Johnson Grindr case has people screaming "Release the DMs!" - Queerty Things just keep getting twistier and turnier

A fresh break in the alleged Mike Johnson Grindr case has people screaming "Release the DMs!"

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

Save the date: On Oct. 8, Reps. Ro Khanna, Thomas Massie, and Marjorie Taylor Greene will hold a press conference — joined by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse — to discuss the discharge petition to force a vote on Khanna and Massie's bill, the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

If you were wondering about Gov Newsom's troll game, he's still at it...🤭😅🤣