On this day, 19 March 1933, German Jewish photographer Gerta Pohorylle (better known as Gerda Taro) was arrested by the Nazis in Germany and interrogated about a supposed communist plot to overthrow Hitler. She was ready known to authorities as a member of a communist youth group who was involved in distributing anti-fascist leaflets. After two weeks’ detention she was released, she managed to escape the country using a fake passport and was sheltered by communists in Paris before heading to Yugoslavia. She later became famous photographing Republican forces during the Spanish civil war.
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On this day, 19 March 1933, German Jewish photographer Gerta Pohorylle (better known as Gerda Taro) was arrested by the Nazis in Germany and interrogated about a supposed communist plot to overthrow Hitler. She was ready known to authorities as a member of a communist youth group who was involved in distributing anti-fascist leaflets. After two weeks’ detention she was released, she managed to escape the country using a fake passport and was sheltered by communists in Paris before heading to Yugoslavia. She later became famous photographing Republican forces during the Spanish civil war.
We have made available one of her iconic photographs, of a militiawoman in training, to help fund our work: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/gerda-taro https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1945655938952880/?type=3
Happy #FossilFriday! Today we bring you Allosaurus. Did you know? This intimidating carnivore reigned as one of the Late Jurassic’s top predators some 140 million years ago.
In the Museum’s Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs, Allosaurus is posed feeding on a partial carcass of the sauropod Apatosaurus. You can spot another Allosaurus in the Museum’s Rotunda, where it’s depicted attacking another long-necked dinosaur, the Barosaurus, and its young.
Photo: E. Louis/© AMNH
#fossils #paleontology #museums #nyc #amnh (at American Museum of Natural History)
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The white-nosed coati (Nasua narica) has a tail that’s just as long as its body, but its nose may be its most impressive feature!👃🏼
With an abundance of sensory receptors around its snout, this raccoon relative has a sharp sense of smell. A variety of muscles at the tip of its nose make it highly flexible—perfect for poking around the forest floor for grubs, ants, and beetles. When drinking water, the coati can even curl its nose upwards to avoid getting it wet! It has a wide range across the Americas, from Arizona to the Andes.
Photo: vic_206, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr
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Spectacularly camouflaged to mirror kelp or seaweed, the leafy sea dragon (Phycodurus eques) inhabits seagrass meadows and seagrass beds around the southern coast of Australia.
Like seahorse males, sea dragon dads are the ones to carry the developing offspring, up to 100-250 fertilized eggs. But while seahorses have a pouch, sea dragons tuck their precious cargo under their tails into “eggcups” that hold one egg each, nourishing it with oxygen until hatching day.
Photo: John Turnbull, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, flickr
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