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Civil-Secretary-2356 t1_iyc8xtu wrote

Reply to Questions For Labor Historians: Resistance In Company Towns? by Ahruzimel

Not sure if this is relevant but there is a YouTube true crime channel called mysterious wv. I do remember one episode that seems to look into a shootout between sheriff's/company representatives and miners in the state. I can't remember the name of the video or where exactly this took place but I thought it an excellent video.

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DreddPirateBob808 t1_iyc78cf wrote

Reply to comment by Skynetiskumming in Lost islands cited in Welsh folklore and poetry are plausible, new evidence on the evolution of the coastline of west Wales has revealed by marketrent

I live at the bottom of a mountain that would have been a glacier at the end of the ice age. There was a lot of water up there and when it melted it would have filled the valley. There's a bronze age circle (possible older) there and evidence of long term occupation. If the people had moved north just in time for the melt to really get going they'd have see major flooding and destruction

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reportingfalsenews t1_iyc6jv5 wrote

Reply to 30,000 Medieval items available online for the first time --- Seven European institutions created a database of 34,000 new images of medieval items, including manuscripts, books, and coins. by Culturedecanted

Unfortunately the quality seems to be pretty low. I just randomly clicked on the 11th century: https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/time/11-11th-century?page=2

Some of the "items" are just pictures of digsites or info-letters, there is no grouping of them, and worst: they seem to be all in the local language.

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Seienchin88 t1_iyc4upq wrote

Reply to comment by monsantobreath in On April 2, 1941, a Japanese foreign minister asked Pope Pius XII to speak to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, so as to avert "a war of mutual destruction” by marketrent

And then the US spared the Emperor and even kept him...

Prince Konoe (who was briefly a major part in the discussions between the government and the occupational force) said he was shocked when he heard from MacArthur that he intended to keep the Tenno... The Japanese had the plan to offer the abdication of the Tenno but pleading for his life, instead they were casually told - yeah he can stay.

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GooseShartBombardier t1_iybvf2z wrote

Reply to 30,000 Medieval items available online for the first time --- Seven European institutions created a database of 34,000 new images of medieval items, including manuscripts, books, and coins. by Culturedecanted

I'm going to be taking a deep dive into this these next few weeks, but in the meantime lol at the miscategorized Enfield 1907 Mk 111 bayonet. Most definitely not medieval, barring the unlikely scenario of some hapless time traveler: https://proxy.europeana.eu/2022362/_Royal_Museums_Greenwich__http___collections_rmg_co_uk_collections_objects_533163?view=http%3A%2F%2Fcollections.rmg.co.uk%2FmediaLib%2F491%2Fmedia-491937%2Flarge.jpg&disposition=inline&api_url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.europeana.eu%2Fapi

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fallen3503 t1_iybcwpu wrote

Reply to Questions For Labor Historians: Resistance In Company Towns? by Ahruzimel

Coal Creek Wars. Basically miners in east Tennessee near knoxsviile go to war with the state of Tennessee because the state rented out convict labor to make money after the Civil War. When the mining company's figure out it was cheaper to rent convicts than to deal with miners trying to unionize and gain better working conditions, they fired the miners and just used convict labor. The miners put down their picks and picked up their rifles and fought for almost 2 years.

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sn3kyj3d1 t1_iybcs63 wrote

Reply to Questions For Labor Historians: Resistance In Company Towns? by Ahruzimel

Look up the Homestead, PA strike. This was a steel mill town and Carnegie owned the mill. They literally barricaded the town and if you tried to enter they beat the shit out of you. Carnegie sent some barges in with Pinkerton and about a dozen people died from the gun battle. The national government ended up sending the military in to break it up.

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