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[Dave Woodbury] — Exploring history & historic sites (mainly American Civil War, & the West—Woodbury Historical Tours: whtours.org). Host of the Central Coast Conference, Monterey, CA (https://tinyurl.com/bdd6h6w2). Happily ensconced on the Left Coast.
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 17d
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
3rd Central Coast Conference
SELDOM HEARD HISTORY of the CIVIL WAR ERA
Stanton Center, Monterey, California, May 1-3, 2026
Enjoy a full weekend of presentations by a stellar lineup of historians, exploring fresh perspectives on the American Civil War. tinyurl.com/3k5t6tfx
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 12h
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Tribal Cemetery, Ba Dah Mod Jo Cemetery, Fort McDowell, Maricopa County, Arizona
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 1d
Congrats to University of California professors & alumni for being awarded 5 Nobel Prizes!

California’s scientists are leading the world in crucial breakthroughs.

www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
University of California sets world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week
The UC system made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.
www.sfchronicle.com
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 2d
Johnnie Diacon (Mvskoke)
There Goes the Neighborhood #1, 1993
Oil on stretched canvas
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 2d
“People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

Photo: Kurt #Vonnegut, Jr., 11 Nov 1922 - 11 Apr 2007, by Yousuf Karsh, 1990. National Portrait Gallery.
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 3d
preparing for another road trip through Apacheria
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 4d
— Pueblo Revolt (1680-1692 C.E.) —
The Pueblos banded together on Aug 10, 1680 to expel the Spanish from the Southwest. The revolt, led by Po’pay from Ohkay Owengeh (San Juan Pueblo), temporarily drove European invaders from the country (NPS). Photo: Pecos National Historical Park
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 5d
Capt. Cankles will be cussing on the morrow, when this news breaks
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 5d
Honestly, I didn't expect this announcement, but it's well-deserved. I'm sure the president will agree. #NobelPeacePrize #JimmyKimmel
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 6d
Great Smoky Mountains
"The mountain, known as Clingmans Dome since 1859, has been a sacred place for the Cherokee people, serving as a place of prayer, reflection, and gathering of mulberries for medicine. In fact, the name Kuwohi translates to 'the mulberry place' in Tsalagi, the Cherokee language"
The Tallest of the Great Smoky Mountains Is—Officially—Kuwohi
The return of the Indigenous name of Tennessee’s highest point has meaning beyond what’s on a map.
www.atlasobscura.com
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7d
Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt
Print featuring a black stylised dog looking up to purple animal ghost-like creatures which float above it
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 9d
Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 9d
On September 5, 1856, the Arabia hit a snag in the Missouri River, and quickly sank. When the wreckage was dug out of a Kansas cornfield in the late 1980s, the snag (tree trunk) was still stuck in the hull. It is on display in the Arabia Steamboat Museum today. www.1856.com
A painting of the Steamboat Arabia sinking on the Missouri River. Photo of the submerged tree trunk that punctured the hull of the Steamboat Arabia, on display at the Steamboat Arabia Museum.
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 10d
T.C. Cannon (Kiowa/Caddo) 1946– 1978. “Collector #5 (Man in Wicker Chair)” 1975, oil/acrylic. From the Nancy and Richard Bloch Collection. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of T.C. Cannon. © 2017 Estate of T.C. Cannon. From a past exhibit at Phoenix's Heard Museum heard.org/exhibition/i...
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 12d
Presidio of San Franciso
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 12d
Dame Jane Goodall (1934-2025)
by Wendy Barratt, 2023 © Wendy Barratt, 2023
National Portrait Gallery, London
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 14d
A flyer for the Central Coast Conference in Monterey next May. The presenters are prolific authors, and first-rate historians. #BookSky 💙📚
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 15d
". . .the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party, the first European Americans to cross the Sierra Nevada with wagons. All 52 people survived the journey to California, including two infants who were born on the westward journey."
Tracing the forgotten path of the first wagon train to cross the Sierra
Everyone knows the Donner Party. These are the people who came before.
www.sfgate.com
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 16d
General George McClellan's forage cap. This well-tailored kepi, also known as a chasseur cap, was a taller type than most Civil War kepis and popular with soldiers of all ranks, who sometimes placed a wet sponge or handkerchief under the crown to keep cool. [National Museum of American History]
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 16d
MEMPHIS BELLE — Boeing B-17F — on display in the WWII Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force (located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio). U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock. More photos and info: tinyurl.com/5byfmfz2
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 16d
Day of Infamy speech
When Pres. Roosevelt edited a typed copy, he made one of the best known presidential edits in U.S. history, changing the words "world history" to "infamy." Image: 1st draft, p. 1. FDR Presidential Library and Museum of the NARA. Read more: fdr.blogs.archives.gov/2016/12/02/d...
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 16d
James K. Polk's sail is on display at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 16d
Willard Midgette, "Sitting Bull Returns" at the Drive-In, 1976, oil on linen canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Donald B. Anderson, 1983.109
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 16d
Guernica to Wounded Knee, 2012
by Stan Natchez
(MFA museum, Boston)
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 17d
Doc's place, Cannery Row
Monterey, California
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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 17d
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
3rd Central Coast Conference
SELDOM HEARD HISTORY of the CIVIL WAR ERA
Stanton Center, Monterey, California, May 1-3, 2026
Enjoy a full weekend of presentations by a stellar lineup of historians, exploring fresh perspectives on the American Civil War. tinyurl.com/3k5t6tfx