I'm NOT suggesting Mary Jones the Bible was a time traveller (or a witch). But if she was, she could have made at least some effort and used an alias every now and then.

#OTD (Mar 13) in #OrganizedCrime #History: none are convicted of #NewOrleans police chief's assassination, #Mafia counterfeiters are guilty in #NewYork, #Buffalo extortionist gets a year, Vitale is removed from #NYC magistrate bench, #Costello talks to #Kefauver panel, Tramunti is guilty on #narcotics charge, boss #Gotti beats rackets charge, Cali is killed at #StatenIsland

#MafiaHistory #Histodons @mafiahistory

A good-natured pandemonium breaks loose in the Zenana during the festival of #Holi, the #Hindu Festival of Colours

A princess stands watching behind the crowd, identifiable by her red Halo

(I too would be doing the disappearing act!)

c1800 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Rajasthan, #India (Property of Cleveland #Museum of #Art) sold by Sothebys (March 15, 2017)

#HappyHoli

The preliminary results of the #SEXLAVES project, coord. by Xurxo Ayan Vila and Carlos Otero, have been published in World Archaeology.

The project focuses on the archaeological study of materials found in #brothels in NW Spain that were in operation at the end of the 20th century.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2024.2407976

@archaeodons
@histodons

Rev. Jesse Jackson, hand in hand with fellow Black leaders, crossed Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 9, marking 60 years since “Bloody Sunday.”

His has been a momentous journey through the history of Black Americans and their struggle for equality and inclusion https://theconversation.com/how-jesse-jackson-embodied-southern-politics-and-changed-american-elections-247435 #CivilRights
@histodons #Histodons @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon

#OnThisDay, 13 Mar 1990, Ertha Pascal-Trouillot became the provisional president of Haiti. She was the first woman to hold the role.

She stabilised the country for long enough for it to hold a free and fair election.

“I accepted the position in the name of Haitian women. I did it as a service to my country. I did it with love and determination.”

Going to #Ireland in 12 days and I’m looking for some good historical fiction to set the mood! Any #Viking scholars and #histodons know if there are any good novels about Turgesius, for instance?

**The Emergence of Pastoralism East of the Jordan Valley**

The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

_“Drawing from the archaeological and biomolecular records, Makarewicz will first investigate how the spread of domesticated goats and sheep during the mid-seventh millennium into the rapidly changing built Neolithic environments of the Jordanian highlands sparked the emergence of a novel form of animal management central to pastoralism: seasonal transhumance.”_

#Video length: one hour and eight seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xlGot6ur0g

#Lecture #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #Culture #History #Histodon #Histodons #MiddleEast #Asia @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

Over the past several decades, as mainstream has struggled to make ends meet, a small number of conglomerates have bought up many independent newspapers. Sometimes they shut them down, sometimes they continue to publish but generally with vastly reduced local coverage. Anyone who's been paying attention knows this.

What you may not know is that these conglomerates also acquire copyright to the papers they buy, even when they shut them down. 1/

Just started Antonia Fraser's The Warrior Queen. She asserts the USA is the lone culture to **not** have a historical Warrior Queen we can look to w pride. I'm sitting here trying to think of 1 woman fr ~400yrs of #history who could qualify as a national power and force to be reckoned with. #histodons #sschat

#OnThisDay, March 12, 538 AD, Ostrogothic king Witigis ended his year-long siege of Rome and retreated, conceding the city to Byzantine general Belisarius. The siege decimated the city's population, and defeat broke the power of the Goths (depicted in Kampf um Rom, 1968)