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Sep 5

A thread on the funerals of historical figures

1. The top photo is the only surviving photo of President Lincoln’s funeral; the bottom is a touched-up close-up of his face.

2. The embalmed bodies of Archduke Franz Ferdinand & Duchess Sophie in their caskets, June, 1914.

3. The body of Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, at her funeral in 1982. She suffered a mild cerebral hemorrhage while driving & drove off a mountainside.

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Sep 4

Steve Irwin was tragically killed 18 years ago today when a stingray's barb pierced his chest.

He would have been 62 years old today

In his honor, here's a thread of Steve's best moments 🧵

1. Steve Irwin's classic ESPN commercial with the Florida Gator

2. That time he rode in to break up a kookaburra fight

3. Steve & his wife Terri talking about the first time they met

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Sep 4

A thread of where companies started & where they are today

1. Steve Jobs outside the garage of his childhood home, where he started Apple //// Apple Park in 2024

2. The 10"x15" wooden shed where the Harley-Davidson Motor Company started out in 1903 in Wisconsin & the replica of the shed today at the Harley-Davidson museum.

3. Jeff Bezos started Amazon out of this Bellevue, Washington, home in 1995, which he and his wife at the time, MacKenzie Bezos, rented for $890 per month.

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Sep 2

The NFL season begins in 3 days

How about some football history?

A thread on how ALL 32 NFL teams got their name 🧵

1. New England Patriots - Initially called the Boston Patriots when the team was founded in 1959, the founding member of the AFL became part of the NFL in 1970. When the team moved from Boston (where they played in various stadiums) to their current home in Foxborough in 1971, the name changed, too.

The “Patriot” part of the team's moniker was the result of a host of options submitted by locals when Boston began developing a team. “Patriots” was a nod to the revolutionary history and spirit of Boston, and the team's first logo featured colonial militia troops (minutemen).

The Patriots mascot, Pat Patriot, was created by cartoonist Phil Bissell in 1960.

2. Dallas Cowboys - When the AFL was founded in 1959, Dallas was one of the cities awarded a team. The Dallas Texans grew under the auspices of Lamar Hunt. To counter the inception of the AFL, however, the rival league - the NFL - decided to expand.

As part of this expansion, Dallas became home to the Dallas Rangers. The Dallas Rangers didn't last long. Due to the existence of a minor league baseball team called the Rangers, the owner of the football franchise, Clint Murchison Jr., and general manager Tex Schramm scrambled for another option.

Both men wanted something that made sense in Texas, didn't want an animal, and knew Texans wasn't an option. They came up with 12 potential names, narrowed it down to three, and when Schramm pushed Murchison to make a choice, the team owners simply said, “Okay, Let's go with Cowboys.”

Several years later, Murchison actually thought about changing the name back to Rangers. He'd never considered “Cowboys” to be anything more than a temporary name. When the possibility of another name change went public, calls flooded into the team. Out of 1,148 calls, only two said to change the name to Rangers. Another 1,138 wanted the Cowboys to stay. The other eight simply voted that “Murchison is stupid.”

3. Pittsburgh Steelers - Established in 1933, Pittsburgh's football team was originally called the Pirates, matching the city's baseball team. In 1940, a fan contest led to a name change, and the team became the Steelers.

The winning entry came from Joe Santoni, a mill worker who wanted to honor the city's steel industry. This industrial heritage is reflected not only in the team’s name but also in its mascot, Steely McBeam, introduced in 2007. The "Mc" in the mascot's name was inspired by the Rooney family’s Irish roots.

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Aug 30

12 bizarre yet fascinating historical facts you've definitely never heard before

A thread 💙

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Jadwiga, a canonized saint & the first female monarch of Poland, held the title of King as Queens couldn’t rule, but the law didn’t state that a King had to be male.

2/12. In 1979, Casio made a pocket calculator that doubled as a cigarette lighter, also known as the ‘calculighter’.

3/12. Ancient Rome is known for enjoying violent forms of entertainment - public executions, animal hunts, chariot racing, and gladiatorial games. However, the blood and gore didn’t stop with the spilling of gladiator blood – they drank it too!

Records show that between the 1st and the 6th century, theological and medical authors believed that the consumption of gladiators’ blood or livers could cure epilepsy.

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Aug 29

A thread of American Civil War images you've (probably) never seen before

1. Teenage soldiers - both black & white, some as young as 12 - serving in the Union Army, 1861.

2. A Union soldier's drawing & journal entry of his pet cat, 1861.

“Virginia (born in Seceshia)

Became attached October 14, 1861

Portrait of

my cat. I had her four months in the army. She was not afraid of horses, guns or any noise. Used to be with me on picket and regularly buried herself to sleep inside my arm. I sent her home by a sick soldier.”

3. A starved Union soldier who survived imprisonment in the notorious Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia.

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