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Simon Wessely’s history of discrediting sick and disabled people.
#ME #LongCovid #MEHistory #psychiatrist https://t.co/Firic4EqEV
Our older daughter’s Maine ODP team had to borrow players from opposing team from Massachusetts to field a team this morning, so “Represent the District of Maine in soccer” can be checked off the bucket list.
#mehistory
What an amazing day! Year 2 had a fabulous time in their Great Fire of London Workshop. Thank you to Hitchin Fire Station for coming in and showing us around their fire engine. #MEHistory #MEYear2
Celebrate American's Nautical History @nelivingus Visit Maine @melivingcom #MaineHistory #Nautical #NauticalHistory #MaineLiving #ME #MEHistory #MELiving #MaineLove #MaineLife #RocklandME
Early outbreaks of ‘epidemic neuromyasthenia’ (currently called #MEcfs) G. Parish (November 1978) https://t.co/xCUfuN4JZM #MEAwarenessHour #MEHistory #PwME
Why history? Winston Churchill told James Humes – US presidential speechwriter – that "in history lies all the secrets of statecraft.” He reminded the Royal College of Physicians in 1944 that “the longer you can look back, the further you can look forward.”
#ME #MEhistory #1955
When did industry start requesting tax breaks?
I just discovered a 1913 newspaper article predicting a ten-year tax break for a recently-sold textile mill in Skowhegan, Maine. It had been shut down by an ultimately successfully @IWW-led strike in 1907. #mepolitics #mehistory
November 1905: A matter-of-fact report about children performing a minstrel show in Dexter, Maine's town hall. Dexter was later the first place in the United States where the Ku Klux Klan marched through the streets during the day time. #mepolitics #mehistory
In honor of #HelenKeller's birthday, here is a story about her planned speech to the Maine Legislature in 1939. #mepolitics #mehistory
Portrait of Omani Ahmad bin Na'aman, the first Arab emissary to the United States
In 1840, he was dispatched by the Sultan of Oman to New York, with his ship carrying a cargo of Persian carpets, coffee, dates, ivory tusks, gum copal, cloves, and salted hides
#History #MEHistory
Interesting spin on the worst 200th birthday ever. #mehistory
Maine regained its independence from Massachusetts 200 years ago this year. The pandemic cancelled the celebration, but it will accelerate the closure of a long post-colonial era, I argue in today's @BostonGlobe @GlobeIdeas section: https://t.co/UyKjWanH7k #MEPolitics
The State of Maine, as depicted in 1855 by Ballou's Pictorial, a publication in Boston. #maine200 #mehistory
“Jews and Arabs share genetic link to ancient Canaanites - Archaeological study finds” | Haaretz https://t.co/v9hxXt2z9Q https://t.co/92nsDz3qJt #AbrahamicUnderstanding #JewishHistory #MENA #MEHistory
New book on #CalaisMaine hitting bookstores in June! Kudos to the St. Croix Historical Society (our friends across the river!) #history #mehistory #Maine #downeast @TheCalaisAdv
My first stab at the new #AskME feature in the @PressHerald: How did Dirigo become Maine’s motto? It's an interesting story: https://t.co/GVAngKlrta #MEpolitics #MEhistory #Maine200
One more favorite this week, about a @BowdoinCollege exhibit on Rufus Porter, famed 1800s itinerant mural artist, inventor and publisher from Maine, by the inimitable @pphbkeyes #MEarts #MEhistory https://t.co/tLzzcqd89t
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