Today is the 130th anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, which established that racial segregation laws did not violate the Constitution. In the Library's Prints & Photographs collection, there are many visual examples of the “separate but equal” doctrine in practice.

Map of early medieval ship burials across northern Europe. Monumental expressions of maritime mobility, culture rooted in sea travel connected people around the North Sea and created new elites that, in time, formed kingdoms. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... #MedievalMonday 🏺 #Archaeology

Coming soon! Saturday 23rd May at 9:05pm THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (1955) #BrianDonlevy #RichardWordsworth #MargiaDean #JackWarner #ThoraHird #GordonJackson sci-fi horror #TPTVsubtitles

I only watched a handful of episodes when NYPD Blue was on the air. But now I'm compelled to stream it after learning how the late David Mills earned his place in the writer's room—and changed the show's tenor. crimereads.com/nypd-blue-da... by David Masciotra via @crimereads.bsky.social

Men of 45 Commando come ashore on Sword Queen Red Beach at approx 09:10 on 6 June 1944. On the right is the burning Sherman Crab tank of Lieutenant John Allen, knocked out by the anti-tank gun in the bunker just visible in the very top left corner of the image. 📷 IWM A70 31-2

Very sad news www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

🎬️ THE DIRECTORS: SAM PECKINPAH (2018) 6pm #SamPeckinpah is the hard-hitting director in the spotlight; remembered as the man who reinvented the Western #TPTVsubtitles

#OtD 17 May 1890 the biggest rally outside London to date for the 8-hour working day was held in Aberdeen, Scotland with 10,000 in attendance stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8911...

It’s the 126th anniversary of the Relief of Mafeking after the small town containing about 2,000 British troops spent 217 days under siege from 5,000 Boers, during which there had been food shortages, sneaked out messages – and a truce every Sunday when the British played polo 🧵

A: great thread. B: it is a lasting regret that “Mafeking/to Maffick” no longer exists as a verb meaning “to celebrate extravagantly and publicly” as in upon hearing the news of the relief of Mafeking.

Finally – and perhaps inevitably, given the times in which it happened – William McGonagall wrote a poem about it. (There are 11 further verses in this vein.) web.archive.org/web/20120204...

"Cleaning Jesus", 1939 (printed 1960s), Southern Germany*, Photographer: Walter Martin.⁣

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

This Day in Labor History: May 15, 1984. 5,000 sugar workers around the town of Guariba, Brazil went on strike. This little known moment of worker resistance happened because of the terrible working conditions in an industry taking on increased global importance and capital investment by the 80s!!

It’s the 69th anniversary of Life magazine printing a story about a banker going to Mexico to eat magic mushrooms. A ten-year-old Terence McKenna saw it, prompting him to become an ethnobotanist and come up with the theory that human consciousness comes from psilocybin Obviously... 🧵

BERTH 24 (1950) | http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/705128/index.html

This excellent series is on iplayer. #Football #ACMilan #SerieA Berlusconi: Condemned to Win, Series 1: Episode 1: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002vzgb via @bbciplayer

'Design is a service. It’s purely logic, function and aesthetics.’ Happy birthday Margaret Calvert — 90 today.

Design legend Margaret Calvert is 90 today. Look at that cake! If you've ever admired a road, rail or metro sign in Britain it's likely she had something to do with it. One of Britain's design heroes - happy birthday to her. Photo by: @oshgallerylondon (IG) Cake by: mybaker.co

Want to subscribe to Private Eye but not sure you can commit to a whole year? We also have shorter subscriptions - from just £10 for five issues. ➡️ Subscription offers: checkout.private-eye.co.uk/SingleItem?I...

#OtD 10 May 1968 the "night of the barricades" took place in Paris. It saw some of the most severe street fighting of the May '68 rebellion. Books, reproduction posters and more from May 68 available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Monifieth Train Station. Taken from Union Street. That lad has quite the handkerchief! Date: c.1913 Collection: Engineers Negatives Collection (GD/Mus230) Reference: GD/MUS230/6/5/3

Sunrise over Africa...because someone asked for it, and because we can...last 4 hours to 0640 UTC. EUMETSAT.

𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝕬𝖌𝖔… The Eye delved into Christopher Harborne's background - his dual identity, his cryptocurrency connections, his enormous political donations - long before his undeclared £5 million personal gift to Nigel Farage. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1511, December 2019.

"On a windswept day exactly 161 years after his murder, Silas Soule’s white marble headstone attracts visitors. They leave coins sometimes on his headstone. He gets flowers, especially around Memorial Day. Last year, he got plates of food.” coloradosun.com/2026/05/10/s...

🗓️ #OTD in 1943 – COPP teams were self-supporting so they could be attached to any naval force that needed assistance. The downside was they often had to figure out their own way to transport four tons (3,600+ kg) of stores. COPP 6 was experiencing the challenge 83 years ago. #NavalHistory 🧵

Jean "Moebius" Giraud (1938-2012) was born 88 years ago today. This legendary French artist is obviously one of my favorites. A true visionary with a vivid imagination, who has inspired many. Here are some of his movie-related works on The Abyss (1989)↘️, TRON (1982)↗️ & Alien (1979)↙️.

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New Armored Police Cars (1939) Source: Hennepin County Library Maloney is in the middle; Shown in front of post office

EXCLUSIVE TRAILER - Takashi Miike's AUDITION is coming to 4K Ultra HD on June 16 from Arrow Video. We have your first look at Arrow's new restoration of the notorious 1999 J-horror classic. Audition has been restored in 4K from the original Super 16mm camera negative.

Get a flick through the Raith Rovers vs Rangers football programme from 1996 scanned in full into Flickr Click on the link below to read and enjoy #Raith #RaithRovers #RRFC #Rangers #RangersFC www.flickr.com/photos/11405...

The Sunhoney recumbent stone circle, standing in a copse of trees near Echt in Aberdeenshire and apparently largely undisturbed since it was placed here over 4,000 years ago. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot... #Scotland #SunhoneyStoneCircle #Echt #Aberdeenshire

Minor White. His mission, from 1946, was to capture the essence of the city, from corner to corner, yielded thousands of black-and-white photographs of a place that will be both familiar and alien to modern residents.

let the sewers bear your burdens

Inge Morath, Forty-eighth Street window washers, New York City, 1958

The Budd RB Conestoga transport resulted from concern that supplies of aluminium might be insufficient for aircraft production. Budd, which had experience in producing body shells for vehicles and railway carriages, proposed a twin engined transport utilising shot-welded stainless steel instead 🧵1/6

SPIDER-MAN was released 24 years ago today. The first part of Sam Raimi’s wall-crawler trilogy, and one of the films that kick-started the huge superhero genre, the behind-the-scenes story comes with great power and great responsibility… 1/50

New lines added to NPixts Store: The Great Wave of Pictavia and the Great Flood! And this weekend - all orders on the NPixt merch store get free UK shipping till Monday midnight! Get yourself some cool Pictish merch and support the Northern Picts project do more research! npixts.teemill.com

Coronation Street - written by Kay McManus (2nd May 1977). Albert's won first prize in Mike's competition (to find a new name for his retail outlet). He's not impressed with the prize though - a denim suit ....

Today's 2nd hand book haul. Courtesy of the Big Green Market #Burntisland #booksky

Weekend read: You'll have had your MSP then? We already know that a third of MSPs aren't coming back, due to retirements and (effective) deselections. But who is up for the electoral chop? And just how much risk are different MSPs in?

Good Morning From The Drummer, My Friends.

Happy 13th anniversary to that terrible misunderstanding at a WI meeting.

On today’s weekly walk in old Cairo, we passed a pair of wonderful curved apartment buildings…

Bollards have been knocked over

Flyer advertising a donation drive to support African Freedom Fighters https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2015.97.27.42

Soon after the #BerlinWall went up Erwin Schabe reported he’d been blocked from getting to school by East German Border Guards. The British then sent an escort. In his 40s he admitted he made the whole thing up to get off school!