Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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**What to know about how Florida will teach McCarthyism and the Cold War**
"_McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities are painted as champions of anti-communism, rather than the more commonly accepted interpretation that they fomented one of the most repressive chapters in modern American history._"
#History #Histodons #McCarthyism #Education #Learning #Florida
#Image attribution: U.S. Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_McCarthy_studio_portrait.jpg.
🇺🇸 **The Monroe doctrine - let Sam do it / Kep.**
_Illustration shows a resolute Uncle Sam as a soldier with rifle standing on a pile of money bags labeled "Financial Interests in South & Central America"; sleeping on the ground, using the bags as pillows, are men labeled "St. Petersburg, Wall St., Lombard St., Paris Bourse, Berlin, [and] Vienna"._
Keppler, U. J. (1911) The Monroe doctrine - let Sam do it / Kep. United States, 1911. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, April 5. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2011648881/.
#Cartoon #Illustration #Commentary #History #Histodons #UncleSam #MonroeDoctrine #LatinAmerica #USA #US #Archives
**Wall street bubbles; - always the same**
"_Illustration shows a bull (stock market) blowing bubbles labeled "Inflated Values" with many unwary investors reaching for them._"
Keppler, Udo J., Artist. Wall street bubbles; - always the same / Kep. United States, 1901. N.Y.: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2010651412/.
#Cartoon #Illustration #Commentary #WallStreet #History #Archives
🇺🇸 **US corporate bankruptcies set to hit 15-year high amid credit jitters, S&P data shows**
"_Large U.S. corporate bankruptcies are on pace to hit their highest level in 15 years, S&P Global data showed on Thursday, underscoring mounting stress across corporate America at a sensitive time for public market investors._"
#USA #US #Data #Economy #Economics
#Image attribution: Billie Grace Ward from New York, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_Sign_Close-up_with_American_Flags_(50849584006).jpg.
📖 **Family names from the Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Scotch: Considered in relation to their etymology, with brief remarks on the history and languages of the peoples to whom we are indebted for their origin**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77230.
#ProjectGutenberg #History #Names #Etymology #Linguistics #Books #Bookstodon
🧬 **Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin**
"_We have shown that the CB Sarmatians are descendants of the Sarmatians from the Ural and Kazakhstan regions, who migrated from the Carpathian foothills in present-day Romania. The descendants of the substantial CB Sarmatian population formed a significant portion of the population during the subsequent Hun era._"
Schütz, O. et al. (2025) 'Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin,' Cell, 188(15), pp. 4074-4090.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.009.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeogenetics #Science #Genetics #Migration #Academia
**Hussite Wars, illustration from the Jena codex (15th century), fol. 56a**
#Image attribution: Jenaer Kodex, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hussitenkriege.tif.
Who could have known that 'indefinite' had a definite limit measured in dollars?
#Disney #Kimmel #Media #Television
#Image source: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/DIS:NYSE?window=1M.
**Martin Luther And The Reformation**
Whilst reading a book concerned with the field of psychoanalysis, I came across a fact that I did not know. Martin Luther, the German theologian who launched the Reformation in the 16th century, suffered from chronic constipation. It is said that he received inspiration for the ideas behind the Reformation whilst in the 'sewer'.
🔗 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3944549.stm.
#History #Histodon #MartinLuther #Constipation #Lavatory
#Image attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Luther_(1483%E2%80%931546)_MET_DP159769.jpg.
**Roman Emperor: Philip**
#Image attribution: Heritage centre Rozet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M._Julius_Philippus_Arabs_Erfgoedcentrum_Rozet_300_191_d_6_a-d.jpg.
Artificial intelligence may not be for the majority, unless they want to be poorer.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Wealth #Economy
🇮🇳 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 **India, China, Europe, and the United States are on very different population paths**
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Population #Demography #India #China #Europe #USA #US #UnitedStates
🏴 📖 **The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom – a deep and nuanced analysis of a complex monarch**
"_Overall, Woodman presents Æthelstan as a European king, a scholar, with ruthless ambitions and a strong streak of piety._"
#History #Histodons #England #Nonfiction #Review #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @histodons
#Image attribution: See description, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Athelstan_(cropped).jpg.
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **On This Day In History**
On this day in 1776 the British Army led by General William Howe fought the forces of George Washington's Continental Army in the Battle of Long Island.
#History #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates
#Image attribution: Henry Bryan Hall, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gen._Sir_William_Howe.jpg.
🌍 **Common world map shows 'distorted view' of Africa. Advocates are trying to change that**
"_Cartographers say the Mercator map has been used for purposes it was not intended to serve_"
🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/end-of-mercator-map-1.7615773.
#Image attribution: Gerardus Mercator, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mercator_1569.png.
**Etymology: cotton-picking / cotton-picker**
🔗 https://wordorigins-org.ghost.io/cotton-picking-cotton-picker/.
#Etymology #Linguistics #English #Language #Words @linguistics
#Image attribution: unknown source, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cotton_pickers_and_overseer_around_1850.jpg.
**Gold is losing its lustre as a safe investment, research finds**
"_Professor David McMillan, Professor of Finance and Head of Accounting and Finance at Stirling Business School, said: “Our analysis found that gold started to lose its position as a safe haven during volatile periods. Platinum is the only precious metal to show a statistically significant safe haven role during extreme market shocks in the stable and volatile periods."_"
🔗 https://www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/08/gold-is-losing-its-lustre-as-a-safe-investment-research-finds/.
#Image attribution: istara, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold-295936.jpg.
🇩🇪 **1866 Johnson Map of Prussia, Germany**
"_This is Johnson and Ward’s 1866 map of Prussia, Germany. Prussia attained its greatest importance in the 18th and 19th centuries when it dominated northern Germany politically, economically, and in population._"
#Image attribution: Alvin Jewett Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1866_Johnson_Map_of_Prussia,_Germany_-_Geographicus_-_Prussia-johnson-1866.jpg.
#History #Histodons #Prussia #Germany #C19th #Maps #Cartography #PublicDomain @histodons
🇪🇸 🇵🇹 **1862 Johnson Map of Spain and Portugal**
#Image attribution: Johnson, A. J., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1862_Johnson_Map_of_Spain_and_Portugal_-_Geographicus_-_SpainPortugal-j-62.jpg.
🇦🇺 **1855 Colton Map Of Australia**
#Image attribution: J. H. Colton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1855_Colton_Map_of_Australia_-_Geographicus_-_Australia-colton-1855.jpg.
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