LightNews LightNews
nielb.bsky.social
@nielb.bsky.social
33 followers 88 following 490 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
STAGE ROOF FALLS ON COMPANY OF 60 Three Persons, Including a Principal, In 'Song of the Flame,' Badly Hurt at Wilmington. PANIC NARROWLY AVERTED Chorus Continues to Sing and Jack Haskell Calms the Puzzled Audience.
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
Leather From Author's Skin Used in Binding of His Book
December 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
POLICEMEN'S PLEAS END ROW IN CHURCH Calm Brooklyn Baptists in a Heated Quarrel Over Ousting Minister. NOT THE PLACE FOR A FIGHT After Patrolman So Advises Them, Members of the Congregation Postpone Action.
December 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes #scopesMonkeyTrial #inheritTheWind
Scopes Conviction Stands; Defense Fails to File Bill
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
Millions Hear Tolstoy by Air From Old Phonograph Record
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
British Discover the Turkey; In Big Demand for Christmas
December 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
DRAMATISTS FIGHT FILM GRIP ON STAGE Propose Defensive Alliance With Equity Against "Corner" by Fox Plan. FEAR LOSS OF SALE RIGHTS Movie Producers Would Sacrifice Stage Run, They Say—Hope to Avoid Joining A. F. of L.
December 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
600,000 IN TENIS CROWD ALL FLORIDA, MENACING HEALTH Authorities Are Struggling With the Serious Problem of Preventing Epidemic. CITIES GUARD CAMPS WELL But Rural Communities Pay Little Attention to Sanitation or Water Supply. CAMPS STEADILY INCREASING State and City Governments Handicapped by Sudden Enormous Population Increase.
December 5, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
Universe May Have No Beginning or End, Renewing Itself, Says Sir Oliver Lodge
December 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
Armenian Orphans Make Rug For White House Christmas
December 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
JEWELED SKELETON IS FOUND BY PROROK IN TOMB OF GODDESS Bones of Tim Hinan, the Inspiration of Tuareg Mythology, Is Unearthed in Hoggar. 15 BRACELETS ON ARMS Beads, Garnets, Carbuncles and Clothing of Variegated Colors Are Also Discovered. GOLD AND SILVER ALLOYED Antimony Was Probably Used to Harden It, Which Would Link Civilization to Carthage,
December 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
Women Sell Wine at Cost To Reform Swiss Villagers
December 1, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
New Hats Deafen and Blind Women in London Traffic
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS TWO ITALIAN TOWNS Bagnara, in Calabria, Is Devastated and Monteleone Suffers Heavily—Casualties Unknown. COLD WAVE STRIKES EUROPE England and France Are Buried in Snow—7 Bretons Drown—Floods in Portugal.
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
Electric Signals Will Protect Tobogganists in the Alps
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
Merchants Seek New Calendar of 13 Equal Months in a Year
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
Gov. Ferguson Issues 105 Thanksgiving Pardons, Bringing Total During Administration to 1,126
November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
White House Flock of Turkeys Grows as Thanksgiving Nears
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
Autos Are Still Too Noisy, Fifth Avenue Merchants Say
November 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
'Hats Off in Restaurants,' London Flappers' New Rule
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
TOMB YIELDS PROOF OF HIGH CIVILIZATION IN ANCIENT SAHARA Prorok Expedition Finds Wealth of Finely Wrought Jewels in Royal Pyramid. LINK WITH OLDEST TIME Statuette Belonging to Stone Age Was Apparently Handed Down Among the Tuaregs. VAST SEPULCHRE EXPLORED One Skeleton Is Found and Others Are Probably Burled Near By—Many Inscriptions There.
November 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
ALEXANDRA DIES AS KING WATCHES; ALL BRITAIN MOURNS Aged Queen Mother Succumbs to Repeated Heart Attacks, Surrounded by Family. PRINCE OF WALES IS LATE Canceling Banquet, Reaches Sandringham as End Comes—London Gaieties Cease. TALK OF A STATE FUNERAL Precedent Dates Back to tho Funeral of Henry VI's Mother In 1438.
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes #kingTut
FACE OF PHARAOH FINALLY EXPOSED Carter Completes the Unwrapping of the Mummy of Tut-ankh-Amen. IMPOSSIBLE TO X-RAY IT Discovery of the Full Regal Regalia Reveals the Splendor of Egypt of the 18th Dynasty.
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
MUSSOLINI SEEKS ARBITRARY, POWER; ASSAILS PARLIAMENT Bills of Revolutionary Character Presented as He Lauds Fascism, Winning Ovation. TO RULE ALL LEGISLATION Premier Would Be Responsible to King Only and Punish All Speaking Ill of Himself. CURB ON ITALIANS ABROAD Severe Penalties Are Provided for "Damaging the National Prestige."
November 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
nielb.bsky.social
100 years ago today: #onThisDay #history #newYorkTimes
PLAN POLAR DASH BY MYSTERY SLEDS French Naval Officers and Sverdrup, Norwegian, Will Use Latter's New Invention. GOOD OVER ICE AND WATER Sleighs Will Carry Planes, to Fly From Pole to Winnipeg, Chicago and New York.
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM