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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 14h

Le Corbusier’s handwritten notes for 'L’Habitation Moderne' as viewed through his glasses – photo by Yoneda Tomoko, 2003 (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo) Le Corbusier was born on this day – 6 October – in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1887 🗃️

b&w photo of a sheet of paper with handwritten text viewed through one of the rounded lenses of a pair of glasses

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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Köln, 4. Oct 1626 Bei Geldern haben die Spanier angefangen zu graben (Rhein zur Maß) / der Canal soll 14 Schuch breit und 14 tief gegraben werden [1] / Graf Heinrich von Bergh selbst beim Anfang gewesen und eine Schaufel genommen, den ersten Stich in die Erde im Namen des span. Königs getan ... 1/2

Het begin van de aanleg van de Fossa Eugeniana, 1626 Delineatio & descriptio novi canalis, qui non ita pridem derivari cepit circa Rhenum in Mosam quod opus ceptum 21. die Septembris, anni 1626

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bring back engraved invitation tickets to university lectures! Look at this beauty from 1798: an invitation to a lecture on "Dramatic Literature" at the School of Eloquence on 3rd May 1798. #academicchatter

a paper invitation ticket to Professor Nogo's Lecture on Dramatic Literature. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1983-U-1926

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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Isaac Commelin, 27, heiratet am 4. Okt 1626 Cornelia Bouwer, 19. Er ist als Buchhändler und Verleger in Leiden tätig. Gibt 1646 das von ihm zusammengestellte Werk "Begin Ende Voortgangh, Van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie" heraus. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_C...

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Isaac Commelin – Wikipedia

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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mo ☽ 25. Sept. / 5. Okt. 1626 #Anhalt400 Von Harderwyck mit meiner freündtlichen herzlieben gemahlin nach Amersfoort (5 M.) Von da nach dem Essen gen Utrecht (3 M.) (die meilen gerechnet nach den stunden, wie es hier zu lande braüchlich ist)

alte Karte mit Route Harderwijk - Amersfoort - Utrecht

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

May their memory be a blessing. #HistorischenNachbarn 🗃️🏚️

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 October is the feast day of St Francis of Assisi: here he is with lambs and preaching to birds. BL Add 15710; St Bonaventure, Legenda Sancti Francisci, illuminated & transl. by the nun Sister Sibilla von Bondorf; Germany; 15th c; ff.103r, 107v @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Heron forms the initial 'A'(urem) St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 342; Calendar, Lectionary, Gradual, Sacramentary; 10th century / 11th century with 12th century additions; St. Gall; p.596 (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy weekend! 🦔 ❤️ Here’s a lovely ancient Egyptian blue faience hedgehog made some 3,800 years ago! Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Urge your academic library to purchase this big, beautiful brick of a book.

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Icke-Bernd Geschichtsliebhaber & auch ein Naturfreund ! @icke-bernd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#Berlin 04.10.1925 Vor der ehemaligen Feuerwerkerschule in der Invalidenstraße im Tiergarten wird das Denkmal für die im 1.Wk gefallenen Feuerwerker eingeweiht. Vor über 600 Jahren wurde der Beruf des Feuerwerkers erstmals urkundlich erwähnt. Er bediente Feuerwaffen & stellte Geschosse her.

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Berlin-Lichterfelde-Oberfeuerwerker-Vorderes-Relief

2025 Feuerwerker-Ehrenmal am Gardeschützenweg 73.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Microfiche catalogue system at Sydney University's Fisher Library in 1985 – the state-of-the-art microfiche catalogue superseded the library's card catalogue for all items acquired after 1983 (University of Sydney Archives) 🗃️

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Volkswagen might be on the skids today, but back in 1959 they were manufacturing Volkswagen Beetles fitted with dashboard-mounted coffee machines 🗃️

b&w news clipping with photo of a car dashboard with a metal coffee machine attached and a ceramic cup beneath

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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mo ☽ 4.⁄14. Sept. 1626 #Anhalt400 Ich bin mit vnsern 3 Junkern und Obersten leütenant Mario, vornemlich aber mit meiner freundlichen herzlieben gemahlin vndt vnserm frawenzimmer nach Amsterdam gefahren, zu waßer 7 M. Widerwertigen windt gehabt, sind etwas spät angekommen ...

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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So ☉ 3.⁄13. Sept. 1626 #Anhalt400 Predigt, viele personen, heylige Nachtmal empfangen. Nachmittags wieder in die predigt. Der Oberste leutnant Mario ist zu mir kommen vndt hat mich besucht.

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Siegfried Arndt died in New York, never returned to #Berlin. Schneider 🧔 became president of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Industry and Commerce, died in 1977, a journalism award still bears his name. A memorial plaque at Mehringdamm 33 🏚️ remembers Arndt and Hugo Baum. #HistorischeNachbarn 🗃️

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Of the Lagro family that had lived and worked at 🏚️ Belle-Alliance-Str. 92, Gerhard Lagro returned to #Berlin in 1957. He founded a textile business. #HistorischeNachbarn 🗃️

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The Art of Being Lucky.” Hardly anyone knows that the company behind Odol was “Aryanized,” bit by bit. In 1935 Ernst Schneider 🧔 received a quarter of the holding company for nothing. Nothing was returned until 1951, and not Mehringdamm 33.🏚️ #HistorischeNachbarn #Aryanization 🗃️

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Restitution impossible. The company that had owned the building 🏚️ Belle-Alliance-Str. 92 was dissolved on 21 November 1946 and ceased to exist in 1948. But why? The documents 🗃️ don’t give a the reason. #HistorischeNachbarn #Restitution #Berlin #History

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After the sale of the house 🏚️ and the plots the company still existed. The Baum family had disappeared from the shareholders’ list, Siegfried Arndt, by then in Lucerne, was still on it. In 1941, Ernst Schneider 🧔 changed the company’s object to asset management. #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin 🗃️

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ernst Schneider 🧔 had been appointed managing director of Industrie-Hof Belle Alliance GmbH 🏚️ in 1926, without sole power of representation. Nearly ten years later, Arndt granted him shares in a secret agreement to protect his companies. Did Schneider honor the agreement? #HistorischeNachbarn

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Lagro & Richter perfume factory 🏭️ was closed in 1937. The Kohlensäure-Industrie and the Industrie-Hof were further “aryanized.” 🏚️ Starting in 1940, the snow chain factory employed forced labourers at Belle-Alliance-Str. 92. #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin 🗃️

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ernst Baum, the eldest son of Hugo Baum, was forced to emigrate in March 1935, first to Switzerland and later to Brussels. His brother Günther, a gynecologist, remained in Berlin. Siegfried Arndt first went to Switzerland and then to the U.S. #HistorischeNachbarn #Aryanization 🗃️ #skystorians

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We are continuing this series now in English. Some of the #HistorischeNachbarn at Belle-Alliance-Str. 92 are forced to flee #Berlin in 1933.🗃️

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Developing microfilm in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., in June 1942 (photo by Royden Dixon, Library of Congress) 🗃️

b&w photo of a man standing side-on to camera, wearing a long apron and touching a large frame from which long strips of film negatives are hanging

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kennen Sie Odol? 💧 Die Lingner-Werke stellten es her. Siegfried Arndt und die Erben von Hugo Baum erwarben 1930 die Aktien der Lingner-Werke. Ein Poolvertrag zwischen ihnen regelte ihre Interessen. Auch für das Grundstück 🏚️ Belle-Alliance-Str. 92. #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin #skystorians 🗃️

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Der Deutsche Lozon-Vertrieb 🏚️ in der Belle-Alliance-Str. 92 arbeitete erfolgreich: 10.000 Apparate in Betrieb, Zweigstellen bis Antwerpen und Stockholm, Vertragslieferant der Stadt #Berlin. Bis 1933. Dann wurden die Familie Lagro und die Gesellschafter als Juden verfolgt. #HistorischeNachbarn 🗃️

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 22/09/2026

Welcome to the Public Domain AUTUMN (1930)! 🍂🪾🌾🌰🥮 This 3rd entry in the seasonal Silly Symphonies 🎶 cycle was released in February, but the #AutumnEquinox is the time to enjoy it. 👀 Watch the full fall 🍁 short ⤵️ archive.org/details/autu... #FallEquinox #SeptemberEquinox #Disney #Animation

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Das Haus in der Belle-Alliance-Str. 92 gehörte der Industrie-Hof Belle Alliance GmbH, deren Eigentümer wiederum Hugo Baum und Siegfried Arndt waren (über die AG für Kohlensäure-Industrie). #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin #Geschichte #History

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

111 years ago, on the 21st of September 1915, Cecil Chubb bought Stonehenge for 6600 pounds. He donated it to the state three years later on a few conditions, including a maximal entrance fee of one shilling. English Heritage takes wage inflation into account to calculate the current price. #otd 🗃️

Sir Cecil Chubb in May 1926 on board RMS Aquitania

1928 image of Stonehenge with the remains of the aerodrome site in the background

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#Konferenzhimmel #FFO #FrankfurtOder Thema „Die 1990er Jahre im Museum. Gesellschaftlicher Wandel im Spiegel und Rückspiegel der Museumsarbeit“ des Museumsverbands Brandenburg 🤝 🤩 #history #geschichte #historians

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

1922 zog die Lagro & Richter, eine Parfümeriefabrik, ins Haus. Hermann Lagro und sein Sohn Manfred waren die Inhaber. Hermann Lagro lebte auch in der Belle-Alliance-Str. 92. #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mehringdamm 33 in #Kreuzberg, bis 1947 Belle-Alliance-Straße 92. Vorn ein Wohnhaus, hinten ein Hof mit 31 Firmen. Mehrere „Arisierungen“, eine Lüge. Neu in unserer Reihe #HistorischeNachbarn #Berlin #history #geschichte #historians

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This posse of railway workers on strike at the Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris on 28 February 1920 (Bibliothèque nationale de France) 🗃️

b&w photo of three men, all of them with moustaches, hats and armbands, standing on a railway platform

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Think History! Abonnieren Sie unseren Newsletter www.factsandfiles.com/ueber-uns/ne... und erfahren Sie Neuigkeiten aus unseren Projekten! #history #geschichte #historians

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Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Think History! Abonnieren Sie unseren Newsletter www.factsandfiles.com/ueber-uns/ne... und erfahren Sie Neuigkeiten aus unseren Projekten! #history #geschichte #historians

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vor400 (1626) @vor400.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Johann Christian, 35, Herzog von Brieg, heiratet 1 Jahr später erneut: am 13. September 1626 die erst 15-jährige Anna Hedwig von Sitzsch (Tochter des Hofmarschalls seines Neffen). de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_...

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Johann Christian (Brieg) – Wikipedia

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Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv Weimar @gsa-weimar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"So wenig man sich wieder Brüder und Schwestern schaffen kann, wenn Vater und Mutter todt sind, so wenig kann man sich Freunde erwerben wie die sind, die ein früheres, völlig verschwundnes Jugendverhaltniß uns verschaffte." #otd 1799 Goethe an Jean George d'Orville.

Tinte auf Papier, Goethe an Jean George d'Orville, [13.] September 1799, Briefkonzept (GSA 29/368,II, Bl. 1)

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At London’s Savoy Hotel, Monet painted dozens of canvases at once, sprinting between them as fog and light shifted. A witness said: “He ran from one canvas to another, in a frenzy, trying to capture the fugitive effects of light before they vanished.”

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The artfulness of this photograph of a fine art photography shopfront near Montpartnasse taken in 1948 by Édouard Boubat, who was born on this day (13 September) in Paris in 1923 🗃️

b&w photo of an old art photography shopfront with a broken sign and swirling white patterns smeared over the glass windows

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Romain Vincent @romainvincent.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me semble en avoir déjà parlé mais une demo est dispo pour Red Echoes Berlin, un jeu dans lequel vous incarnez des Spartakistes pendant la révolution de 1918-19 en Allemagne à la fin de la Grande Guerre : store.steampowered.com/app/4678370/... #JVH

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Nathalie Raoux @nathalieraoux.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

J'ai découvert un petit mémoire sur les ancêtres de Wo du côté de sa grand-mère maternelle, je suis joie. Moralité : écrivez l'histoire de votre famille et déposez-là dans un centre d'archives.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

2515 years ago, on the 12th of September 490 BCE, the Battle of Marathon took place. Athenian and Plataean forces stopped the first attempted invasion of Greece by the Persian Empire. A ten-year interbellum followed before the next invasion attempt in 480 BCE. #otd #history 🗃️

Reconstruction of the painting of the Battle of Marathon in the Stoa Poikile, after Carl Robert, Hallisches Winckelmannsprogramm (1895)

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