#captaincook

Pussy Galore's Emporiumpussygaloresemporium
2025-04-19

Turning Pages, Winning Treasures: The Bidders’ Journey at New England Book Auctions

... New England Book Auctions held a two-session sale on March 25 and April 2, offering more than 450 lots of books, lithographs, and other…

pussygaloresemporium.com/turni

2025-02-14

Hauʻoli Lā Hoʻomake iā Kapena Kuke!
Happy Death of Captain Cook Day!
instagram.com/p/CLRXjnrgSPA/?i
#Hawaii #Indigenous #CaptainCook #DeathOfCaptainCookDay

14th February James Cook’s death day

[Image: The Death of Captain James Cook by Johann Zoffany (1794)]James Cook was a British explorer and colonizer, who’s efforts ended with the colonization of Hawaii and New Zealand.

During Cook’s initial visit to Hawaii, he ordered his men to remove the wood used to border a sacred burial site called Morai.  The chiefs and high-ranking Hawaiians felt extremely offended and insulted but Cook kept stealing the wood from the sacred place.

Cook and his crew left the island soon after, and when they are back to Kealakekua Bay to make some repairs, Hawaiians used this opportunity to steal one of their long boats as retaliation for the offenses committed.[Image: King Kalaniʻōpuʻu’s feathered cloak]

Cook and some armed crew members tried to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the king (aliʻi nui) of Hawaii on the 14th of February 1779.  But James Cook and his men failed, and he was killed that very same day at Kealakekua Bay.Sources:

The Last Voyage of Captain Cook: The Collected Writings of John Ledyard

Hawaiian Historical Society Reprints Volumes 1-5
2025-01-26

Today in Labor History January 26, 1808: Soldiers took over New South Wales, Australia, during the Rum Rebellion. It was Australia’s only military coup. At the time, NSW was a British penal colony. William Bligh was governor of the territory. This was the same William Bligh who was an officer under Captain Cook when he attempted to kidnap the King of Hawai’i. He was also the same William Bligh who was overthrown in the Mutiny on the Bounty, in 1789. It is questionable why the British thought he’d do better in charge of a bunch of prisoners and unruly soldiers, than he did with a bunch of sailors. Perhaps they were just desperate. One of Bligh’s commissions was to reign in the Rum Corps, which held a monopoly on the illegal rum trade in Australia. They also controlled the sale of other commodities. Bligh started to enforce penalties for the illegal sale and importation of liquor. He also tried to provide relief to farmers, suffering from recent flooding and price-gouging by the Rum Corps, by providing provisions from the colony’s stores. The monopolists didn’t like his looting of the stores, from which they were profiting handsomely, nor his enforcement of the liquor laws. So, they arrested him and deported him to Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land. The military remained in control of NSW until 1810.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #hawaii #captaincook #williambligh #mutiny #bounty #australia #prison #colonialism #rum #rebellion #novel #film #tasmania #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon

Satirical cartoon of The arrest of Governor Bligh, 1808, artist unknown, watercolour drawing, attached to the left hand wall in the image is a sheet with text, “O what can the matter be.” Shows 3 soldiers in red uniforms, with black, cylindrical hats, dragging a cowering Bligh out from under a mattress where he was hiding. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Safe 4/5. By Unknown author – State Library of New South Wales, Safe 4/5, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17959234
Pat Hudson CartoonsPatHudsonCartoons@aus.social
2025-01-24
Single panel editorial cartoon titled No Words. Two men in a park looking up at a (shocked looking) statue of Captain Cook that has been vandalised with red paint. Caucasian man says angrily, “hurumph! I have NO words!!”. First Nations man replies, “took your language too, eh?”
2024-12-13

Learn more about #ChiefMaquinna.

This is a collection of words, photos and video clips for Hyas Tyee #Nuuchahnulth - Chief Maquinna. A greatly respected & important Chief of the Nuuchahnulth #Haida People, of the Haida Gwaii Islands, in #BritishColumbia #Canada.

Chief Maquinna (also transliterated: Muquinna, Macuina, Maquilla) was the Chief of the Nuuchahnulth People of #NootkaSound, during the heyday of the maritime fur trade in the 1780s and 1790s, on the #PacificNorthwest Coast.

British explorer #CaptainCook went looking (like so many #Europeans before and after him)or the Northwest Passage. He ran headlong into a thriving trade and business culture on the west coast, overseen by young Nuu-chah-nulth, Chief Maquinna.

The two men's encounter would forever change trans-Pacific trade and teach the European empire a lesson in diplomacy, they've managed to forget, many times over.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkf8fIcy

#BCFirstNations #ColonialBC #ColonialCanada #NativeChiefs #IndigenousChief #NativeBC #FirstPeoples #Maquinna #VancouverIsland #Nootka #VanIsle #PNW #Cascadia #ColonialResistance #BChistory #geopolitics #BCIndigenousHistory #CanadianHistory #PNWHistory #FirstNations #colonialism #BrokenTrust #TruthBeforeReconciliation #Landback #educational #HonourTheTreaties #BCpoli #CDNpoli #HistoryAndPolitics #JusticeForIndigenous

2024-08-22

“These would have been extraordinarily sought after in 18th-century Britain, during the golden age of shell collecting when single specimens could sell for thousands of pounds.”

Shells From Captain Cook’s Final Voyage Were Rescued From a Dumpster.

Long presumed lost, the collection of rare shells is now on display in England

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ #shells #CaptainCook #18thCentury #history

@SmithsonianMag

Shells From Captain Cook’s Final Voyage Were Rescued From a Dumpster
2024-06-09

Funny thing last week with #accents — for context, my visual acuity and #ventral stream are stronger than average, but I've got some #AuditoryProcessingDisorder or auditory #agnosia so that listening to thick accents is like watching with subtitles that autocorrect.

An audio-only Welsh accent said "Cally Cook" but I heard the word "Kirk". Then it hit me that #CaptainKirk and #CaptainCook are both famous captains … COULD THEY BE the same name on purpose?

Guess what: James Cook, James Kirk.

Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.socialNorobiik@noc.social
2024-04-24

Three-decade campaign by the #Gweagal community of #LaPerouse sees repatriation of four spears to #Kamay. #Australia

Spears taken by #CaptainCook at #BotanyBay returned to traditional owners after more than 250 years | Indigenous Australians
theguardian.com/australia-news

The Gweagal spears will be housed on country in a new visitor centre at Kurnell, Kamay. Photograph: Jenny Magee/AP
2024-02-14

Today in Labor History February 14, 1779: Indigenous Hawaiians killed Captain James Cook near Kealakekua, on the Big Island of Hawaii after Cook attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii.. The site is near the modern town of Captain Cook.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IndigenousHistory #IndigenousRights #hawaii #CaptainCook #NativeHawaiians #colonialism #genocide

Painting, Death of Captain Cook by eyewitness John Webber. Shows Cook and his men, in blue uniforms, fighting back with gunfire, as Indigenous Hawaiians attack with knives and staffs. By John Webber - http://tpo.tepapa.govt.nz ; o quadro se encontra na galeria William Dixson em Sydney., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11602231
2024-02-13

Happy #CaptainCook day.

2024-01-26

Today in Labor History January 26, 1808: Soldiers took over New South Wales, Australia, during the Rum Rebellion. It was Australia’s only military coup. At the time, NSW was a British penal colony. William Bligh was governor of the territory. This was the same William Bligh who was an officer under Captain Cook when he attempted to kidnap the King of Hawai’i. He was also the same William Bligh who was overthrown in the Mutiny on the Bounty, in 1789. It is questionable why the British thought he’d do better in charge of a bunch of prisoners and unruly soldiers, than he did with a bunch of sailors. Perhaps they were just desperate. One of Bligh’s commissions was to reign in the Rum Corps, which held a monopoly on the illegal rum trade in Australia. They also controlled the sale of other commodities. Bligh started to enforce penalties for the illegal sale and importation of liquor. He also tried to provide relief to farmers, suffering from recent flooding and price-gouging by the Rum Corps, by providing provisions from the colony’s stores. The monopolists didn’t like his looting of the stores, from which they were profiting handsomely, nor his enforcement of the liquor laws. So, they arrested him and deported him to Hobart, Van Diemen’s Land. The military remained in control of NSW until 1810.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #hawaii #captaincook #williambligh #mutiny #bounty #australia #prison #colonialism #rum #rebellion #novel #film #tasmania #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon

Satirical cartoon of The arrest of Governor Bligh, 1808, artist unknown, watercolour drawing, attached to the left hand wall in the image is a sheet with text, "O what can the matter be." Shows 3 soldiers in red uniforms, with black, cylindrical hats, dragging a cowering Bligh out from under a mattress where he was hiding. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Safe 4/5. By Unknown author - State Library of New South Wales, Safe 4/5, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17959234
2023-11-23

New evidence emerges identifying the shipwreck Endeavour/Lord Sandwich⚓

In 2022, we shared the news of our discovery of the shipwreck Endeavour/Lord Sandwich at the RI 2394 site in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island. Now there is even more compelling evidence.

sea.museum/explore/maritime-ar. #Endeavour #CaptainCook #Shipwreck

@seamuseum_

Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2023-10-27

Two of NASA's Space Shuttles were named after James Cook's ships, the Endeavour and the Discovery. Discovery carried a medallion in honour of Cook on its final voyage in 2011.

10 things you might not know about Captain James Cook:

topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/

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