Pam from Michigan

Oct 25, 1871: the Great Western Railway introduces two new first class parlor cars at its Yonge Street station. One—owned by the railway—had velvet cushions, stained glass lights and floors “inlaid in Italian fashion” with black walnut and pine.

Oct. 23, 1926: A women’s “smoking contest” in Paris’ Belleville section. How one wins the event isn’t specified in the caption.

On Oct. 14, 1942, the SS Caribou was transporting 46 crew and 191 passengers to Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. Suddenly, U-69 emerged and hit the ship with a torpedo. The sinking killed 137 people. This is the story. 📸 Memorial University of Newfoundland 🧵 1/12

My fave #Michigan writer of Rust Belt rural fiction, @bonniejo.bsky.social has a new book out! "In this contemporary Christmas Carol, Campbell has created a gritty, spooky, and ultimately heartening holiday story that unfolds in an isolated farmhouse." #Books #BookSky wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Biochemist Dr. Florence Seibert developed the Purified Protein Derivative in the 1930s that standardized tuberculosis testing worldwide by 1952. Before her work, TB skin tests were inconsistent/unreliable.It remains the basis for the TB skin test used today. Born #OTD in 1897. #WomenInSTEM

None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

"The Things We Never Say" by Elizabeth Strout, shortlisted for #BookerPrize It puts into words the inner turmoil I've been feeling, discussing mental health & living in today's unstable environment. I also thought of how it would piss off some. #BookSky #Books thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

The best mound visit of JV’s career. 🥹

Japan just hit a new longevity milestone. More than 100,000 people in the country are over 100 years old.

On September 17, 1889, the grand Detroit International Exposition and Fair opened on 72 acres in the area known as Delray: www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online...

"Georgia O’Keeffe: Architecture" is now open at the Detroit Institute of Arts thru Jan 3, 2027 - dia.org/events/exhib... The groundbreaking exhibition features nearly 40 paintings that reveal a lesser-known side of the artist and invite you to see the built world in a whole new way.

Here is a real banger: Brandi Carlile covering Alanis Morissette's "Uninvited" at the #NewportFolkFestival #BrandiCarlile #AlanisMorissette #GirlsWithGuitars #music youtu.be/kyvDyZoyGUg?...

Detroit Institute of Art Exhibition; Georgia O’Keeffe: Architecture September 11, 2026 - January 3, 2027 dia.org/events/exhib... "East River from the 30th Story of the Shelton Hotel" By Georgia O'Keeffe, 1928 #art #artsky #Detroit #PureMichigan #Michigan #GeorgiaOKeeffe

Abandoned Film Theatre in Dresden Germany #Cinema #Photography

#maps www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

The story of the Brontë family began in the historic village of Thornton, on the western edge of Bradford. Here, at the Brontë Birthplace on Market Street, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne were born between 1816 and 1820, while their father, Patrick Brontë, served as curate of

Aug. 30, 1926: A mob storms a jail in Georgia and lynches a 45-year-old prisoner who had been accused of murdering a woman. The case is unusual for the South in that the lynching victim is white—and many of the killers will be identified and convicted for their crime. 1/6

The Lackfield family of Blackley, Manchester, set off on a day trip in the rain, August 1942 (Daily Express/SSPL/Getty).

Boy in a tin hat and his friends eat apples and read a comic, Liverpool, 1940, photo by Bert Hardy for Picture Post (Hulton/Getty).

Details (Pittsburgh-Corning sculptured glass module edition)

'You Blew Me Away' sculpture by Penny Hardy #womensart

226 Ansel Adams Photographs of Great American National Parks Are Now Online

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 840,000 Works of Art, Including Great Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer

Fabulous terra cotta on Irving School, Berwyn, Illinois

My ancestors lived in Toronto & SW Ontario at this time. Good coverage for 150 years ago. #NewspaperNerd #genealogy #Ontario #History #Canada

Girls in #STEM www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...

Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause https://mrf.lu/2Zrth

"After extracting and sequencing the boy’s DNA, scientists figured out that these centuries-old remains belonged to Private John Pumphrey of Maryland." #GeneticGenealogy #DNA #Genealogy

How a woman from Hull found her Icelandic family after taking a DNA test. 👇 BBC News - How a shipwreck, a DNA test and Facebook solved a family puzzle - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Creepy old candy 🧵

I watched a documentary about Wilmington, which was not taught in history class. Sickening way they rigged the courts and stole people's property. They Stole a City by Lauren Collins: 9781984878816 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/610949... #books #booksky #history

During the Great Depression, Douglass Crockwell made several paintings for the Works Progress Administration including this work from 1932, which celebrates the industrial workers at the newspaper plant in the town of Glens Falls, New York.

"Chinese were persecuted, not for their vices, but for their virtues." From Chapter 9, "The Chinese Must Go!" Book: "Strangers in the Land" by Michael Luo www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704981... #books #BookSky #history

On this day in 1897, The Excelsior docked in San Francisco. Three days later, the Portland arrived. On the two ships were Klondike prospectors who had collected $1.1 million in gold. The arrival of the ships sparked the Klondike Gold Rush. 📸 Library University Washington

73 years ago this week, the Stratford Festival in Ontario presented its very first performance under a tent: Richard III starring Alec Guinness.

Old photo: "Leigh Court Barn is an outstanding example of English medieval carpentry, and the largest cruck framed structure in Britain. Built for Pershore Abbey in about 1325, it is over 42 metres long with 18 cruck blades each made from a single oak tree". Text: English Heritage. Photo: me.

I remember watching this with my family. 🤣

The first ever aerial shot (colourised) of Los Angeles — taken in 1887 by Edwin H.Husher (from a hot air balloon at 9,000ft).

A rare spring-run salmon was detected this month making its way up the Klamath River into the upper basin for the first time in more than a century.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Jun 28, 1886: the Canadian Pacific Railway begins regular passenger service between Montreal, Toronto and Port Moody, BC. Unlike the huge celebration in Montreal, there were no recorded festivities in Toronto marking this historic occasion. 1/3