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The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html!
"On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist @timbl."
Happy birthday, web!
An abandoned palace hidden in plain sight on a busy street. Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹🏰
#Portugal #Architecture #History #Photography #Abandoned #Urbex #UrbanExploration
Uragasaurus kalasinensis: New dinosaur discovered in Thailand
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crely7g8xepo
In recognition of #Juneteenth today, we’re sharing scans of General Order No. 3, the document that informed enslaved people in Texas that they were free on June 19, 1865, carrying out the Federal Government’s final execution of emancipation. 📜
Read the text in scans based on the original handwritten records preserved by the U.S. National Archives and saved to the Internet Archive ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/general-order-3-juneteenth-details
During the Revolution, American Women Fought for Freedom, Spied on the British, Cared for the Sick and Fell in Love. A New Exhibition Reveals Their Rich Wartime Stories
by Meilan Solly
Books in American Revolutionary War at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/196
