After 1639, foreigners were not allowed to enter Japan, and Japanese people were not allowed to travel abroad. Japan would remain closed off to the world for more than two centuries.
Well, sort of. The truth was much more complicated, centering on a weird little man-made island in Nagasaki Harbor. Dejima was a sort of jail and a site of fascinating cultural exchange.
Later than the Cuban missle crisis for me, but we did have to crouch in cloak rooms or under our desks for drills. My kids go through shooter drills - far scarier. Our drills were still presaging abstract threats, but my kids know that active shooters are not an abstraction.
🇰🇷🇯🇵🇩🇪 Am Montag hatten wir an der Professur für #DigitalHistory die Kolleg:innen Soo Hyun Mun (#HanyangUniversity , Südkorea), Naoko Morita (#SophiaUniversity , Japan) und Sung Un Gang (@tuberlin) zu Gast, um uns über den Wandel der historischen Fachkulturen in Südkorea, Japan, Deutschland und 🌎-weit auszutauschen. 🤓
Wir sprachen über den großen Benefit, den infrastrukturelle Großprojekte wie @4Memory erzeugen, über die Rolle des Communitybuildings für die Entwicklung und Anerkennung digitalhistorischer Forschung und natürlich darüber, wie wichtig und fruchtbar der internationale Austausch für das Feld ist! 🌍🤝🌏
That's helped me find it with a double T: “The vulgar word for a skeleton.” and also a verb:
“ To be ottomised; to be dissected. You'll be scragged, ottomised, and grin in a glass case: you'll be hanged, anatomised, and your skeleton kept in a glass case at Surgeons' Hall.’
#OnThisDay, June 19, 1964, having survived a 60-day filibuster, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the US Senate, a milestone in the struggle to extend civil, political, and legal rights and protections to African Americans and to end segregation (depicted in All The Way, 2016)
Teaching about slavery in schools and doing it well isn’t just about teaching the harshness of slavery. And educators can make #Juneteenth about so much more than the end of slavery.
The song ‘Born in the USA’ has been used in iconic – and ironic – ways.
An example is in 1984, when Ronald Reagan used the song in his reelection and announced that Bruce Springsteen and him shared the same American dream. The Boss vehemently disagreed.
#OnThisDay, June 17, in 1972, five burglars connected to senior figures in the Nixon administration were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. (depicted in All the President’s Men, 1976)
LAND. How lies the land? How stands the reckoning? Who has any land in Appleby? a question asked the man at whose door the glass stands long, or who does not circulate it in due time.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)