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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 05/08/2026

Best Bond villain; wrong answers only.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 21/07/2026

Share someone who looks stylish wearing a hat.

Thomas Jane as Josephus Miller in The Expanse. Photo of the head and shoulder of a white man wearing a hat.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 13/07/2026

He gave us so much more than one ping. RIP Sam Neill.

The great Sam Neill as Vasili Borodin in The Hunt For Red October.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 14/06/2026

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 14/04/2026

VA-area peeps - if you can, get to my good friend @korystamper.bsky.social 's book talk Friday in Charlottesville. Even if you can't, stop what you're doing right now and get a copy of True Color and enjoy a romp through the wacky world of the unsung heroes who labored to bring you begonia!

begonia (n) 3-s : a deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral (see CORAL 3b), bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger than sweet william — called also gaiety

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 06/04/2026

Yeah. Women Without Men would like a word...

Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor. Tell her she's "dependent and desperate." Go on, I'll wait...

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 04/03/2026

Part two of the podcast will touch upon Clinton's later years as an award-winning musician.

George Clinton. Musician, not the American VP. Which could be why he's smiling.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 18/02/2026

I don't know @dreadships.bsky.social, maybe we shouldn't be so hard on the French ships. em, never mind... #NavalHistory #NavalHysterical

The Hoche, an.. unusual-looking French ship design. It's like a country bar full of drunken line dancing monkeys decided to become naval architects, but preserve the Jack & Coke fueled mindset, all the while caring not a fig for things like "stability", "fluid dynamics", "practicality", or, to be honest, "taste".

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 26/01/2026

Not in the snow (she's a Shih Tzu. IYKYK...), but here is Raven enjoying the fire here on an exceptionally cold DC day.

Image of a small black Shih Tzu reclining in a blue, walled puppy bed. She is surrounded by several toys. A fire is burning in the fireplace behind her, giving a peaceful winter ambiance.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 12/01/2026

#OTD #Aviation #History news (1931) - Hope for aviators fading, as Mrs. Beryl Gwyn Hart and Lt. William "Flying Bill" MacLaren are more than a day overdue in the Azores on their Atlantic crossing. Heavy storms may be to blame. www.reporting-history.com/2026/01/12/h...

The seaplane "Tradewind" as seen from the port side. It sits on the water nose-in to a dock, in front of a rocky shore with trees behind it.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 03/12/2025

#OTD #Movie news 1925 - The author is content with changes made from book to movie. Those were apparently happier times for writers...

Advertisement for the movie "A Son of The Sahara", with a vaguely "Arabic" dressed man on a horse with a woman across his lap.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 29/11/2025

Some #WW2 #NavalAviation history - Bureau of Ships Chiefs talks about the US aircraft carrier surge, including conversions from other ship types. #Aviation #Navy #NavalHistory www.reporting-history.com/2025/11/29/o...

Picture of an aircraft carrier from the side, showing rows of airplanes with folded wings on deck and sailors performing their work.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 23/11/2025

There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy And God I know I'm one

Pope Leo XIV, most absolutely certainly not signing of his mis-spent youth in New Orleans. Or... is he?

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 07/11/2025

Authorities open Tutankhamun's sarcophagi to reveal the Pharaoh's body. #Egyptology #History #Archaeology www.reporting-history.com/2025/11/07/u...

Howard Carter and one of the foremen work on the innermost coffin of King Tutankhamun.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 03/09/2025

#OTD #Aviation #NavalHistory 🗃️ news (1925) - The US Airship Shenandoah destroyed by intense wind storm over the midwest. 14 crew are killed in the breakup and crash, including the captain. Responders rush to the scene by air from several bases in the east. www.reporting-history.com/2025/09/03/s...

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 02/09/2025

#OTD #MaritimeHistory news - RMS Majestic sails despite the ongoing seaman's strike over pay. The Majestic, previously Bismarck, was reparations to replace the Britannic (lost to a mine in 1916). She was the largest ship in the world until the Normandie. www.reporting-history.com/2025/09/02/m...

Picture of the RMS Majestic, a three-funneled ocean liner.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 18/08/2025

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.

A black and white illustration of Momminmamma. she is sitting and knitting (likely something warm for someone's adventure) and her hand bag sits next to her.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 01/08/2025

#OTD #Aviation #History (1925) - The "Chicago", veteran of the historic around-the-world flight, to be moved to the Smithsonian. www.reporting-history.com/2025/08/01/1...

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 29/05/2025

#OTD 🗃️ news - Corum’s Race Car Wreck Wipe out at the #Indy500! Race descend on Indianapolis. "it was easy to tell in the benevolent smiles of self-satisfaction the guests who had been wise enough to make their reservations months In advance. " www.reporting-history.com/2025/05/29/c...

Picture of 1925 Indianapolis 500 winner Pete De Paolo, sitting in his car (Duesenberg, number 12). 5 men stand behind the car.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 08/05/2025

Gustave Flaubert died #OTD, but Anteater Flaubert lives on! #Muppets

Image from Muppet Treasure Island featuring (left to right) Flaubert the anteater, Miss Piggy (as Benjamina Gunn) and Kermit (as Captain Smollett).

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 07/05/2025

In honor of #PennyBlackDay, let's wind our way on the journey from the pre-paid stamp to contract shipping with "Stamps to Shipping, and a Lot in Between." #ConnectedPoints #Connections #c19th www.reporting-history.com/2025/05/06/s...

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 30/04/2025

#OTD #CivilWar 🗃️ news - Death of Major General Smith "At the time of his death he was colonel of the Third Infantry—one of the best regiments in the service." With Smith's death, Grant would go on to partner with Sherman, a winning combination. www.reporting-history.com/2025/04/30/a...

General Smith, staring at the camera in a manner suggesting he'd rather be out doing something useful. He wears a uniform, and has an impressive mustache, which possibly has an army rank on its own.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 25/04/2025

It was only a few months ago, but I certainly miss it, too. Hope this helps!

A picture looking across the Grand Canal in Venice at night. The buildings across the canal are lit with a soft glow, mist drifts over the water, and the sky is cloudy.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 25/03/2025

Me in the national security team group chat

Photo from Casablanca, with (l-r) Captain Louis Renault, Victor Laszlo, Rick Blaine, and Ilsa Lund.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 23/03/2025

We were just there in January (my first time). Can't wait to go back, and we're seriously considering relocating to Venice if/when we move out of the US.

Venice. An iconic picture of the Grand Canal with the Salute (Santa Maria della Salute), taken from the Academia Bridge.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 21/03/2025

#OTD #CivilWar 🗃️ news - The Position of Gen. Pope It's a hot time down by the Mississippi shore tonight!

A line drawing map of General Pope's position around New Madrid, MO, showing federal and rebel positions in and around the town, as well as various vessels on the Mississippi River.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 17/03/2025

Life imitating art (poorly...) Wendy: Well, *thank* you for popping in and protecting us. Otto: If it wasn't for us, you'd all be speaking *German!* Singing "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles..."

Otto from A Fish Called Wanda, "reminding" an English woman that if it weren't for the US, they'd be speaking German. Life imitates art, usually poorly.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 14/03/2025

After this week, we all need a treat. I offer you the Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy. I'm certain this will end well. Recipe and backstory in Alt text (because you always write a good alt text so everyone can enjoy, don't you - and if not, why don't you?!) #Cocktails #Glasgow #CopingMechanisms

Picture of a cocktail in a fancy glass on a table. It is an unearthly orange color, but not the vivacious orange of a sparkly Aperol spritz. No, this is the rambunctious orange of of that true working class hero, Irn Bru!

Created this evening in response to the horrors of the last week, and in honor of my Glaswegian Nana, who made it through TWO world Wars (working in an aircraft factory during the 1st), the Depression, and (in all honesty) being part of our family.

I call it "The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy" and it is crafted of Irn Bru and Caribbean spiced rum. The combination gives off a whiff of colonialism but tastes like a victory lap after a pub crawl (or, Saturday morning regret, depending on your experience).

If this, plus a Glaswegian grandmother, doesn't qualify me for an immediate residency and passport, I'm not sure what will... (Not that anyone would want to leave the Good Old USA in these times, of course)

You are welcome. Go forth and drink respon.., who am I kidding, I've been out drinking in Glasgow *. Get pissed!

(* Though the worst I was wrecked while living in Scotland was going out with a bunch of Norwegian oil rig workers in Arbroath. Holy Mother of Moles!

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 10/03/2025

#OTD #CivilWar 🗃️ News - Naval Battle at Hampton Roads Confederate ironclad Virginia (ex-Merrimac) comes out to make a fuss among the Federal vessels. www.reporting-history.com/2025/03/10/m...

The CSS Virginia ramming the USS Cumberland.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 27/02/2025

Insecure men: women should return to traditional roles! me: OK then...

picture from the TV show Vikings showing Lagertha (Kathryn Winnick), several other armed (and very capable) women, and a number of men who know better than to mess with them.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 11/02/2025

🗃️ news (1926) - The Fascist Aristocracy A helpful reminder from the 12 Colonies, by way of 1920's Italy. "The distinction between opposition to the party in power and treason to the country has not yet become clear.." www.reporting-history.com/2025/02/11/t...

A black screen with crisp typeface with a central theme of the Battlestar Galactica universe - "This has all happened before and it will happen again"

Sorry, but that's about as positive as it gets for most of the show.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 25/01/2025

#OTD #NavalHistory 🗃️ news - Modern British Battleships More like early aircraft carriers, but this was a transitional time. "A clear deck space gives a long, broad sweep for the launching of airplanes" www.reporting-history.com/2025/01/24/m...

HMS Eagle underway. An early battleship to carrier conversion.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 23/01/2025

#OTD #CivilWar 🗃️ news - General Zollicoffer Brief bio sketch of late Confederate general. "He was a man of narrow but rather acute mind.." Well, that's.. something.. www.reporting-history.com/2025/01/23/j...

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 23/01/2025

#OTD #NavalHistory 🗃️ news - Will Leave Sub S-19 Alone Until Weather Clears "Heavy seas kicked up by yesterday’s storm have driven the submarine further onto the bar, it was said." www.reporting-history.com/2025/01/22/w...

Photo of submarine stranded on a sand bar.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 09/01/2025

So, how's it going for all of you?

drawing of a man watching a snowman titles "New Years Resolutions" melting, with a thought bubble picture of a robust unmelted snowman labelled same. The drawing is titled "January Thaw".

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 25/12/2024

"You'll be visited by three spirits." ("Results may vary")

well, no one said they were wise men. Clarkson, Hammond, and May.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 25/12/2024

OK, it is time! Best CC ever. I will die on this hill.

Michael Caine as E. Scrooge (also answers to Marley). The greatest adaptation of Dickens ever. I will die on this hill.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 19/12/2024

Shih Tzu Claus (AKA Salem) wishes you a happy holiday season.

A small black shih tzu being held up. She is wearing - reluctantly at best - a red and white Santa hat.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 16/12/2024

#Egyptology news from 1901—Pyramids of Sakkara "..we left all this grandeur and magnificence behind, and went home in the early moonlight .. taking with us ineffaceable impressions, which will make all other sights in the world hereafter seem but pigmies." www.reporting-history.com/2024/12/15/p...

Newspaper photo of the entrance gate to the temple of Khens at Karnak. It shows a large Egyptian stone entryway, the entrance taller than the adjacent palm trees.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 09/12/2024

#OTD #CivilWar 🗃️ news - The Fight With the Rebel Steamer Patrick Henry "It is said by those who witnessed the entire engagement that the Patrick Henry was handled in a thoroughly seamanlike manner .. and her guns were worked to perfection." #NavalHistory www.reporting-history.com/2024/12/08/d...

CSS Patrick Henry, showing a sidewheel steamer under steam.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 04/12/2024

I'll take this. It's certainly one of the nicer things I've been called online 😑

Bluesky Roast results, which states:

Reporting History: The Historical Curator We Didn't Know We Needed

Delving deep into the archives, with a side of witty commentary

"An unlikely mix of history buff and internet sage, serving spicy takes on old news."

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 27/11/2024

#OTD #CivilWar 🗃️ news - Sailing of the Stone Fleet "They go now to illustrate the ideas of commerce which prevail in the darker portion, girt with sandbars, of our disturbed republic." (AKA blocking rebel ports) #c19th #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory www.reporting-history.com/2024/11/27/n...

The Stone Fleet 1861. Showing a large group of vessels under sail, heading to their date with destiny.

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Reporting History @reporting-history.com · 22/11/2024

#OTD #CivilWar 🗃️news - The Capture of Our Ministers to France and England How dare the perfidious Yankees take our perfectly legitimate diplomats! " In short, there is no way of escape for the North from a war with England.." #c19th www.reporting-history.com/2024/11/22/n...

The USS San Jacinto fires a warning shot across the bow of the steamer Trent.

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