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RIP Greg Hildebrandt who has left us to join his brother Tim in Middle Earth

Sept. 25, 1924:Lotta Crabtree, a roguish, cigar-smoking actress who became the country’s highest-paid performer of the 1880s, dies at 77 in New York. Dancing her way to fame in California Gold Rush mining camps, the petite “Nation’s Darling” earned a fortune & gave it to charity.

Today in New Jersey history: September 12, 1940: A massive explosion of 297,000 pounds of gunpowder at the Hercules Powder Plant in Kenville killed fifty-one workers. Another two hundred were injured. The force of the explosion was felt as far north as Poughkeepsie. Some speculated it was the result of sabotage, but no evidence of that was ever uncovered.

@simongerman600 Could both of these be AI? Aside from people's comments about the top photo, the bottom one doesn't seem to match up with modern Phoenix, and the image quality is distorted on both. The earliest match that I can find, from this May: instagram.com/the_paranormal…

Phoenix Arizona wouldn’t exist if air conditioning wasn’t a thing. 1930s vs 2020s.

July 3, 1924: Army Col. S.A. Campbell welcoming Rutgers College students to a Reserve Officers Training Corps camp in Plattsburgh, N.Y., and some of the recruits inspecting their rifles. (Mid-Week Pictorial)

#TombTuesday Detail of central niche on rear wall, Tomb of the Reliefs, late 4th or early 3rd century B.C.E., Necropolis of Banditaccia (Cerveteri), Italy (📸, CC BY-SA 2.0) #Archaeology #History

#TombTuesday The Tomb of the Bulls (Tomba dei tori) is an #Etruscan tomb in the Necropolis of Monterozzi near Tarquinia, Lazio #Italy It was discovered in 1892 and has been dated back to 540–520 BC. #Archaeology #History #Art

@100YearsAgoNews The largest one (2nd to right) could be D/S Estrella, built in 1920: warsailors.com/singleships/es…

@100YearsAgoNews The leftmost ship, D/S Bollsta, built at Akers mek. Verksted that same year: krigsseilerregisteret.no/en/skip/4059

May 1924: The Akers Shipyard in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway.

@Geneannagist A little rough around the edges, but I've found Google Drive really useful for local history work.

Hi #genealogytwitter! Question! I want to digitise my family archive I want it to be on some sort of one drive/server where I can update it and won’t have to resend folders to my family each time. It has to only be accessible by the people I add. Any recommendations?

#HistoryofPainting John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American landscape painter. #TheFreeExhibition "View of the Shrewsbury River, New Jersey", 1859 Collection @zimmerlimuseum Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University Source/Photographer Google Cultural Institute

Somerville, New Jersey Somerset County Population: 12,063 Photos from Google Places API Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somervill…

@SalinaBBaker The inn is still around, too! It used to stand in New Brunswick, NJ - my college town - but was moved to an open-air museum across the river in the 1970s.

John Adams & Benjamin Franklin once shared a bed in 1776 at a crowded inn in a small room with only one window. They didn't build a fort but they did argue over whether or not the window should be open. Franklin wanted it open. Adams wanted it shut. Oh to be a fly on the wall. .

RAF bombers & cruiser HMS Suffolk attacking German-controlled airfield at Stavanger, hoping to break Luftwaffe's control of the skies above Norway.

Sycamore re-listed today at $5.8M. Truly one of the finest estates in New Jersey. The photos used today sadly are unflattering vs those previously. On 47-acres, mostly preserved farmlands, the Luce estate (LuShan) is top notch architecture by Adams & Prentice [Weichert photos]

@HIMBYbusiness @Eric_Erins Oddly enough, the only other city in the running was "Cumberland Gap" (Middlesborough, KY, pop. 3,271). A group of residents mounted a tiny bid of their own in 1890, managing to get a single vote in Congress: worldsfairchicago1893.com/2024/03/10/cum…

@Eric_Erins What city is the woman in yellow supposed to be? Can’t make out what’s on her headband

1890’s Chicago Posting

Henryville, IN, United States Population: 1,905 Photos from Google Places API

Califon, New Jersey Hunterdon County Population: 1,046 Photos from Google Places API Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califon,_…

Hudson Maxim, explosives inventor and his wife at their property at Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey in 1917. His brother invented the machine gun that bears his name, but Hudson stuck with explosives, even after his left hand was blown off.