Daniel🎗🏴 ॐ
@DannyDutch
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International Bastard. As seen on Crimewatch. Not here much anymore. ▪️ DannyDutch on Instagram ▪️ DannyDutch on BlueSky 🦋
United Kingdom
Joined February 2009
In case anyone's wondering where I'm hanging out these days, you will find me in the empyrean where the butterflies fly. It's good there. Devoid of the musky stench of decay, rage and deception. I’ll post on Twitter occasionally, but it’s no longer the place for me. #Bluesky
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Bob Geldof gets a bad press these days, but the guy will always be cool asf to me. At just 33 and through sheer force of will he decided to highlight the famine taking place in Ethiopia and raise a fuck-ton of money to help. Watch this. 👇🏻.#LiveAid40.
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After watching a BBC report on Ethiopia's 'biblical famine,' Bob Geldof puts a band of rock stars together and records a song that sparks a global response, inspiring millions.
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Why is through pronounced ‘throo’ but rough is ‘ruff’? . English: where spelling and pronunciation argue daily. 👇🏽.
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Ever wondered why English is so wildly inconsistent? Why dough, tough and bough look like cousins but sound like strangers? Or why you can run out, run up, run over, or even run down, and each one...
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In the 1930s, Floreana Island in the Galapagos became home to German idealists, a fake baroness, and rising tensions. Then came vanishing settlers, a mummified body, and a mysterious death. One of the strangest unsolved island mysteries. 👇🏼.
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In 1929, long before the Galapagos Islands became synonymous with eco-tourism, conservation cruises, and Instagrammable marine iguanas, they were considered remote, harsh, and largely uninhabitable....
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Steel, scars, and student honour. Explore the centuries-old German tradition of Mensur, a ritualised sword-fighting practice rooted in university life, and cultural identity. From medieval origins to modern revival, it's genuinely fascinating. 👇🏼.
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In the quiet halls of Germany’s historic university towns, a distinctive sound might once have echoed through the courtyards: the sharp clash of steel against steel, punctuated by the measured...
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He charmed the Prince of Wales,spent his time parting the wealthy in Manhattan from their jewels. He escaped prison with a birthday cake and laundry ammonia. Meet Arthur Barry, the most polite criminal of the 1920s. 👇🏼.
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If you ever find yourself romanticising the glitzy outlaws of the 1920s, spare a thought for Arthur Barry, a polite burglar whose life seemed lifted from a crime caper novel but was all too real....
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The Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator, a British product from the 1920s, is a scroll-map navigator in the shape of a watch. It came with tiny interchangeable instructions that you scrolled manually to see which roads to take when driving. 👇🏼.
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Long before we had celebrity voices telling us when to take the next left or warning us about average speed cameras, drivers had to rely on far humbler contraptions to find their way about. It’s easy...
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Meet Jeffrey Manchester: he robbed McDonald’s from the roof, lived in Toys R Us behind the bikes, and charmed everyone while on the run. Polite, patient and just a bit bonkers. 👇🏽.
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Most career criminals make headlines for their violence or brash defiance. Jeffrey Manchester, however, earned his notoriety by being unfailingly polite, oddly considerate, and for living in places...
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Born this day in 1912: Alan Turing. Father of modern computing and codebreaker who helped end WWII. Britain thanked him with chemical castration and a criminal conviction for being gay. 👇🏽.
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It’s strange to think that a shy, awkward mathematician who loved long-distance running and chemical experiments would end up cracking Nazi codes, dreaming up the modern computer and, heartbreaking...
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Jim Carrey as 'Johnny Abdul' on Living Colour. How has this aged?
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Did you know that "Lord of the Flies" almost didn't make it to our bookshelves?. It was passed over so many times!.👇🏽.
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When Lord of the Flies first arrived on bookshop shelves on 17 September 1954, it did so with little fanfare and modest expectations. Yet William Golding’s unsettling tale of shipwrecked English...
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On this day in 1982, 'God's Banker' Roberto Calvi was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London, pockets stuffed with bricks and cash. It was initially ruled a suicide. 👇🏽.
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In the early summer of 1982, Roberto Calvi, chairman of Italy’s largest private bank, Banco Ambrosiano, vanished from the intricate world of European high finance. By then, Calvi was a man living on...
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The day Hustler founder, Larry Flynt was shot by a white supremacist because he had printed pictures of interracial couples in his magazine. 👇🏽.
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In the 1970s, Lawrenceville, Georgia, was hardly the sort of place you’d expect to see splashed across national headlines. It sat about thirty miles out from Atlanta — close enough for commuters,...
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A very happy birthday to American hip hop artist Kendrick Lamarr, 38 today! 🍰🎉
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Why did medieval artists paint baby Jesus with the face of your grumpy uncle? Apparently it was supposed to symbolise divine wisdom and maturity. 👇🏽.
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Strolling through any European art gallery that houses works from the Middle Ages to the early Renaissance, one cannot help but notice something oddly humorous: the baby Jesus — and indeed most other...
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In 1958, the Lumbee Tribe turned the tables on the KKK in North Carolina. Known as the Battle of Hayes Pond, hundreds of local men, many armed and some war veterans, surrounded a Ku Klux Klan rally and forced the Klansmen to flee into the dark swamps. 👇🏼.
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On a cold January evening in 1958, an open cornfield near a quiet pond in Robeson County, North Carolina, became the unlikely stage for one of the most remarkable local acts of defiance against the...
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'May I have the pleasure of seeing you home?' The 'flirtation cards' 19th-century men used to woo ladies (but they had to be returned if she wasn't interested).👇🏼.
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In an age long before swipes, likes and texted emojis, Victorian society found its own coded means for a glance across a ballroom to evolve into something more. Among the discreet tools in the...
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April 1994: Seven tobacco CEOs swore under oath to Congress that nicotine wasn’t addictive. Internal papers proved they not only knew how addictive tobacco is, but had approved a modified strain of tobacco named Y1 that produced higher nicotine levels. 👇🏼.
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When seven of America’s most powerful corporate leaders raised their right hands before Congress on 14 April 1994, the world watched to see if they would finally acknowledge what countless scientific...
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In 1991 a historic concert took place in Moscow to an estimated crowd of 1.6m people. This concert, part of the “Monsters of Rock” festival, happened a few months before the official dissolution of the Soviet Union. 👇🏼.
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What if I told you that one of the largest human gatherings ever recorded for a concert—an estimated 1.5 million people—took place not in the open fields of Glastonbury or under the bright lights of...
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This is a gallery of the Empire State Building being built, focusing on the guys that worked with next to no safety equipment a quarter of a mile in the sky. 👇🏽.
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When people think of the Empire State Building, they picture a towering, steel-framed icon slicing into the Manhattan skyline. But behind its 102-storey silhouette lies a story just as awe-inspirin...
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On this day in 68, Roman Emperor Nero commited suicide. In order to avoid being dragged through the streets of Rome and being beaten to death, he begged his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat. Epaphroditos refused. 👇🏽.
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In the early summer of 68 CE, the last direct descendant of Julius Caesar and Augustus lay trembling in a suburban villa outside Rome, deserted by nearly everyone who once swore fealty to him. Just...
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