Pauline Park
@paulinepark.bsky.social
LGBT & Palestine solidarity activist & writer
Howard Carter & Lord Carnarvon entered #Tutankamen's tomb #OnThisDay in 1922 in the greatest discovery in the history of Egyptology; #KingTut was a minor boy king who only ruled for a decade but his was the only tomb in the Valley of the Kings left undisturbed...
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Howard Carter & Lord Carnarvon entered #Tutankamen's tomb #OnThisDay in 1922 in the greatest discovery in the history of Egyptology; #KingTut was a minor boy king who only ruled for a decade but his was the only tomb in the Valley of the Kings left undisturbed...
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
"'Reunification' with China is 'not an option' for #Taiwan, Premier Cho Jung-tai #卓榮泰 said yesterday, after Chinese state media reported that the issue was brought up in a telephone call between #XiJinping #習近平 & #DonaldTrump": Xi's claim is an imperialist one~!
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"'Reunification' with China is 'not an option' for #Taiwan, Premier Cho Jung-tai #卓榮泰 said yesterday, after Chinese state media reported that the issue was brought up in a telephone call between #XiJinping #習近平 & #DonaldTrump": Xi's claim is an imperialist one~!
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...
"Casablanca" premiered in New York City #OnThisDay in 1942. I visited the #WarnerBros studios in #Hollywood six years ago & paid homage to #HumphreyBogart & #IngridBergman & one of my favorite #films of all time (7.28.19)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casabla...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casabla...
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"Casablanca" premiered in New York City #OnThisDay in 1942. I visited the #WarnerBros studios in #Hollywood six years ago & paid homage to #HumphreyBogart & #IngridBergman & one of my favorite #films of all time (7.28.19)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casabla...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casabla...
Anna Mae Bullock was born in Nutbush, TN #OnThisDay in 1939; she would become famous as #TinaTurner, though the story of her abusive relationship with Ike Turner wouldn't become widely known until the 1993 biopic film about her life:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpF...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Tu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpF...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Tu...
November 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Anna Mae Bullock was born in Nutbush, TN #OnThisDay in 1939; she would become famous as #TinaTurner, though the story of her abusive relationship with Ike Turner wouldn't become widely known until the 1993 biopic film about her life:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpF...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Tu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGpF...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Tu...
"Casablanca" premiered in NYC #OnThisDay in 1942, among the greatest movies in Hollywood history; the cinematic masterpiece of #MichaelCurtiz has so memorable scenes, including the one in which La Marseillaise drowns out the Nazis:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casabla...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casabla...
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Casablanca" premiered in NYC #OnThisDay in 1942, among the greatest movies in Hollywood history; the cinematic masterpiece of #MichaelCurtiz has so memorable scenes, including the one in which La Marseillaise drowns out the Nazis:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casabla...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casabla...
"After #BenjaminNetanyahu bizarrely tweeted a Jacobin story about #JeffreyEpstein’s ties to #EhudBarak last week, Israeli politicos are denouncing us as antisemitic conspiracy theorists — without engaging with what’s in the story," writes Branko Marcetic:
jacobin.com/2025/11/epst...
jacobin.com/2025/11/epst...
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"After #BenjaminNetanyahu bizarrely tweeted a Jacobin story about #JeffreyEpstein’s ties to #EhudBarak last week, Israeli politicos are denouncing us as antisemitic conspiracy theorists — without engaging with what’s in the story," writes Branko Marcetic:
jacobin.com/2025/11/epst...
jacobin.com/2025/11/epst...
Joseph von Eichendorff died #OnThisDay in 1857; his poetry inspired more than 50,000 musical settings — more any other German poet — including setting of his poem "Im Abendrot" by Richard Strauß:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=envQ...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Joseph von Eichendorff died #OnThisDay in 1857; his poetry inspired more than 50,000 musical settings — more any other German poet — including setting of his poem "Im Abendrot" by Richard Strauß:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=envQ...
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vier_le...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=envQ...
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vier_le...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_...
Morticia & Gomie waited very politely until I invited them to join me in bed for a little catnap three years ago today & sniffed the bed curiously at first; the family that sleeps together keeps together 🐱 (11.26.22) #chatons #gattini #gatitos #Kätzchen #kattunger #새끼고양이
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#Germany committed the first #genocide of the 20th c. in what is now #Namibia & tragically & ironically is supporting, funding & arming #ApartheidIsrael's violent ethnic cleansing of the illegally occupied West Bank & ongoing #GazaGenocide 🍉
www.dw.com/de/bundesreg...
www.dw.com/de/bundesreg...
November 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#Germany committed the first #genocide of the 20th c. in what is now #Namibia & tragically & ironically is supporting, funding & arming #ApartheidIsrael's violent ethnic cleansing of the illegally occupied West Bank & ongoing #GazaGenocide 🍉
www.dw.com/de/bundesreg...
www.dw.com/de/bundesreg...
#Maud was born in London #OnThisDay in 1869, the daughter of the future Edward VII of England & cousin & later wife & queen of Haakon VII of #Norway... #Norge
www.unofficialroyalty.com/queen-maud-o...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
#Maud was born in London #OnThisDay in 1869, the daughter of the future Edward VII of England & cousin & later wife & queen of Haakon VII of #Norway... #Norge
www.unofficialroyalty.com/queen-maud-o...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_of...
www.unofficialroyalty.com/queen-maud-o...
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I'm breaking my fast with #dairyfree almond milk & coconut yogurt, wild blueberries, walnuts & raw cacao nibs, eating for the first time in 18.5 hours; read the Mercy for Animals report on #AnimalCruelty in the #dairy industry:
dairy.mercyforanimals.org
dairy.mercyforanimals.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'm breaking my fast with #dairyfree almond milk & coconut yogurt, wild blueberries, walnuts & raw cacao nibs, eating for the first time in 18.5 hours; read the Mercy for Animals report on #AnimalCruelty in the #dairy industry:
dairy.mercyforanimals.org
dairy.mercyforanimals.org
Neue Zürcher Zeitung: "Grossbritannien bereitet sich auf die Machtübernahme durch die rechtsnationale Partei Reform UK unter einem künftigen Premierminister Nigel Farage vor. Labour und Tories fürchten die Vernichtung. Dass es so weit kommen konnte, ist ihre eigene Schuld":
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November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Neue Zürcher Zeitung: "Grossbritannien bereitet sich auf die Machtübernahme durch die rechtsnationale Partei Reform UK unter einem künftigen Premierminister Nigel Farage vor. Labour und Tories fürchten die Vernichtung. Dass es so weit kommen konnte, ist ihre eigene Schuld":
trib.al/qMB2QOX
trib.al/qMB2QOX
#ApartheidIsrael, #DonaldTrump's US & #fascist Argentina were the only member states to vote against a resolution reaffirming the absolute prohibition of #torture (169 member states voted for): this is an indictment of #Zionism & its #fascist collaborators
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251124-un-...
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251124-un-...
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#ApartheidIsrael, #DonaldTrump's US & #fascist Argentina were the only member states to vote against a resolution reaffirming the absolute prohibition of #torture (169 member states voted for): this is an indictment of #Zionism & its #fascist collaborators
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251124-un-...
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251124-un-...
Dagmar of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg was born in Copenhagen #OnThisDay in 1847; as the tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna, she would give birth to #NicholasII & warned him about marrying the future tsaritsa Alexandra & warned about Rasputin, but to no avail...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_F...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_F...
November 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Dagmar of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg was born in Copenhagen #OnThisDay in 1847; as the tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna, she would give birth to #NicholasII & warned him about marrying the future tsaritsa Alexandra & warned about Rasputin, but to no avail...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_F...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_F...
"I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten" ~ Gandalf in "The White Rider," chapter 5 in "The Two Towers" (the second book of "The Lord of the Rings," by J.R.R. Tolkien)
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 AM
"I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten" ~ Gandalf in "The White Rider," chapter 5 in "The Two Towers" (the second book of "The Lord of the Rings," by J.R.R. Tolkien)
John Harvard (1607), Dagmar of Denmark, a.k.a., Maria Feodorvna, tsaritsa of Russia (1847), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Maud of Wales, queen of Norway (1869), Eugene Ionesco (1909), Charles M. Schulz (1922), Eugene Istomin (1925) & Tina Turner [Anna Mae Bullock] (1939) were born #OnThisDay...
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
John Harvard (1607), Dagmar of Denmark, a.k.a., Maria Feodorvna, tsaritsa of Russia (1847), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Maud of Wales, queen of Norway (1869), Eugene Ionesco (1909), Charles M. Schulz (1922), Eugene Istomin (1925) & Tina Turner [Anna Mae Bullock] (1939) were born #OnThisDay...
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I woke up from a #dream six years ago today (11.25.19) in which I sang "Vivi, tiranno" from #GeorgFriedrichHändel's #opera #Rodelinda; here's Andreas Scholl singing the aria at the Met (11.11.11):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS4i...
www.opera-arias.com/handel/rodel...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodelin...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS4i...
www.opera-arias.com/handel/rodel...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodelin...
November 26, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I woke up from a #dream six years ago today (11.25.19) in which I sang "Vivi, tiranno" from #GeorgFriedrichHändel's #opera #Rodelinda; here's Andreas Scholl singing the aria at the Met (11.11.11):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS4i...
www.opera-arias.com/handel/rodel...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodelin...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS4i...
www.opera-arias.com/handel/rodel...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodelin...
#OnThisDay in 1491, the last emir of #Granada signed the Treaty of Granada marking the completion of the #Reconquista which would lead to the expulsion of Moriscos & Jews from the newly unified #Spain of #LosReyesCatólicos de #España, a key turning point in history:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_...
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 AM
#OnThisDay in 1491, the last emir of #Granada signed the Treaty of Granada marking the completion of the #Reconquista which would lead to the expulsion of Moriscos & Jews from the newly unified #Spain of #LosReyesCatólicos de #España, a key turning point in history:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_...
#CaterinaCornaro was born #OnThisDay in 1454, becoming the last ruling monarch of an independent #Cyprus in 1474 before being deposed by Venice in 1489; #GaetanoDonizetti wrote an #opera based on her life; here's the aria "Viene o tu":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZKK...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheri...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZKK...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheri...
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
#CaterinaCornaro was born #OnThisDay in 1454, becoming the last ruling monarch of an independent #Cyprus in 1474 before being deposed by Venice in 1489; #GaetanoDonizetti wrote an #opera based on her life; here's the aria "Viene o tu":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZKK...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheri...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZKK...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheri...
Elizaveta Petrovna seized power in a coup d'état #OnThisDay in 1741 with the help of the Preobrazhensky Guard created by her father, Peter the Great; as the absolute ruler of #Russia, the Empress Elizabeth was a distinctly mixed bag, though she was a great builder...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Elizaveta Petrovna seized power in a coup d'état #OnThisDay in 1741 with the help of the Preobrazhensky Guard created by her father, Peter the Great; as the absolute ruler of #Russia, the Empress Elizabeth was a distinctly mixed bag, though she was a great builder...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
I'm breaking my fast with a mix of Greek yogurt & cashew & coconut yogurt, wild blueberries, walnuts & raw cacao nibs, eating for the first time in 16 hours 🫐 #IntermittentFasting #Blaubeeren #blåbær #blåbär #myrtilles #mirtilli
November 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I'm breaking my fast with a mix of Greek yogurt & cashew & coconut yogurt, wild blueberries, walnuts & raw cacao nibs, eating for the first time in 16 hours 🫐 #IntermittentFasting #Blaubeeren #blåbær #blåbär #myrtilles #mirtilli
Catarina de Bragança was born in the palace of Vila Viçosa in Portugal #OnThisDay in 1638; she became queen consort to Charles II but bore him no children, so his brother succeeded him as James II; the borough & county of #Queens may have been named for her (1683):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheri...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheri...
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Catarina de Bragança was born in the palace of Vila Viçosa in Portugal #OnThisDay in 1638; she became queen consort to Charles II but bore him no children, so his brother succeeded him as James II; the borough & county of #Queens may have been named for her (1683):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheri...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catheri...
Carl Maria Von Weber's #opera "Das #Waldmädchen" may have premiered in Prague #OnThisDay in 1800; the score was lost not long afterwards & only recently rediscovered; sometimes I feel like a Waldmädchen in a large forest full of dangers as well as delights...
diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/ob...
diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/ob...
November 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Carl Maria Von Weber's #opera "Das #Waldmädchen" may have premiered in Prague #OnThisDay in 1800; the score was lost not long afterwards & only recently rediscovered; sometimes I feel like a Waldmädchen in a large forest full of dangers as well as delights...
diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/ob...
diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/ob...
Caterina Cornaro (1454), Yi Hwang (1501), Lope Félix de Vega Carpio (1562), Andrew Carnegie (1835), Karl Benz (1844), Carrie Nation (1846), Pope John XXIII [Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli] (1881), #HelenGahaganDouglas (1900), Augusto Pinochet (1915) & Rosa Von Praunheim (1942) were born #OnThisDay...
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Caterina Cornaro (1454), Yi Hwang (1501), Lope Félix de Vega Carpio (1562), Andrew Carnegie (1835), Karl Benz (1844), Carrie Nation (1846), Pope John XXIII [Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli] (1881), #HelenGahaganDouglas (1900), Augusto Pinochet (1915) & Rosa Von Praunheim (1942) were born #OnThisDay...