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@linksalads.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 2:17 PM

đź”— Gandhi's Wheels:

🕊️ Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869. 📺 Baird's TV breakthrough came exactly 56 years later.

What connects them? Three wheels, Indian independence and an Oscar-winning film!

www.linksalads.com/2026/10/02/g...

#LinkSalads #Linkology #Gandhi #otd

A wide, richly detailed historical illustration in warm sepia, saffron and green tones, celebrating Mahatma Gandhi and Indian independence. On the left, a large vintage wooden television with a rounded screen, control knobs and speaker grille displays a black-and-white portrait of Gandhi. He is bald, wearing his distinctive round spectacles and simple white clothing. Around the television, an enthusiastic crowd of Indian men, women and children celebrates independence. People smile, clap, raise their arms and wave Indian tricolour flags. Orange, white and green bunting hangs above the gathering. In the background, historic Indian architecture resembling Delhi's Red Fort rises beneath a warm, hazy sky. The 24-spoked Ashoka Chakra is visible on the national flags. The image symbolically connects Gandhi's birth on 2 October 1869 with John Logie Baird's television breakthrough on 2 October 1925. The accompanying article, Gandhi's Wheels, explores three wheels: Gandhi's charkha, Baird's rotating television scanning disc and the Ashoka Chakra on India's national flag. This is an imaginative historical illustration, not a representation of an actual television broadcast from 1947.
@linksalads.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 5:53 PM

Invading Martians to Middle-earth to Misery đź“š

21 Sept:

👽 1866 — H. G. Wells born
🧙 1937 — The Hobbit published
👑 1947 — Stephen King born

Three literary worlds, one date — which ironically is also International Day of Peace. 🕊️

#LinkSalads #Books #Films

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Martians to Middle-earth to Misery 📚👽 There’s quite a literary collection attached to 21 September. 👽 1866 — H. G. Wells was born. His The War of the Worlds gave us the Martian fighting machines striding across England and helped establish him as one of the fathers of modern science fiction. 🧙 1937 — The Hobbit was published in Britain, introducing readers to Bilbo Baggins and the world of Middle-earth. 👑 1947 — exactly ten years later, Stephen King was born. From Carrie and The Shining to Misery, It and The Shawshank Redemption, he became one of the defining writers of modern horror and suspense. So on one date we can travel from Wells’s Martians → Tolkien’s Middle-earth → King’s Misery. And there’s one more rather wonderful collision: 21 September is the International Day of Peace. 🕊️ Hence our peaceful Stephen King sits outside a hobbit hole, typing away with his International Day of Peace mug, while H. G. Wells’s Martian tripods advance ominously across the countryside behind him. Three literary landmarks. Three very different imaginary worlds. One date. #LinkSalads #OnThisDay #HGWells #TheHobbit #StephenKing #Literature #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #MiddleEarth