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🔴 🎥 **The Full History Of How The Vikings Dominated Europe ¦ The Last Journey Of The Vikings ¦ Timeline**

"_Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name to Normandy along the way - before their Norman descendants seized the English throne at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. But what do we really know about them? By combining expert analysis with compelling drama, 'The Last Journey of the Vikings' tells a new and often surprising story about this complex people._"

length: three hours and thirteen minutes.

youtube.com/watch?v=Gr3I-f7npA

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🔴 **A Dutch Confederate: Charles Liernur Defends Slavery in America**

"_The letters of Charles Liernur, a Dutch-born Confederate, provide a unique insight into the mind of an explicit supporter of slavery in an American context. How and why a Dutchman could defend slavery is the primary question this article addresses._"

Douma, M.J. (2017) “A Dutch Confederate: Charles Liernur Defends Slavery in America”, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 132(2), pp. 27–50. doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.103

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🔴 **Climate change does not affect all areas of the globe uniformly**

"_In 2023, the global average temperature anomaly was 0.6°C above the 1991–2020 average. However, these anomalies vary by region. In countries such as Syria and Turkey, the average annual surface air temperature in 2023 was around 1.2°C above the 1991–2020 average, compared to approximately 0.3°C in Australia._"

ourworldindata.org/data-insigh

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🔴 🇺🇸 **Capitalization in the constitution?**

"_It appears to me most of the nouns, if not all, are capitalized. For example, in the preamble, I only find "defence" is not capitalized, all the other nouns are capitalized._"

languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

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🔴 📖 **Is there a particular book that you periodically re-read and discover that each time you learn new ideas from it?**

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**Peak global population and other key findings from the 2024 UN World Population Prospects**

"_Although the global population is expected to increase for many more decades, the population growth rate is slowing rapidly._

_This is driven by a dramatic reduction in fertility rates, which measure the average number of children per woman. The global fertility rate has more than halved since the 1960s, from over 5 children per woman to 2.3._"

Hannah Ritchie and Lucas Rodés-Guirao (2024) - “Peak global population and other key findings from the 2024 UN World Population Prospects” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'ourworldindata.org/un-populati' [Online Resource]

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**Independence Day Reading List 2024**

"_Our Independence Day Reading List highlights the important role of Indigenous Peoples in the evolution of modern America, forgotten stories from America’s past, and revelatory biographies of the country’s founders._"

yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/07/04/

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<strong>The United States has, by far, the highest death rate from opioids</strong>

"_In 2021, the United States had, by far, the highest death rate from opioids, with 15.4 deaths per 100,000 people each year. Second behind it was Canada, with 6.9 deaths per 100,000. Several European countries and Russia counted between 3 and 4 deaths per 100,000._"

ourworldindata.org/data-insigh

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<strong>In Need of a New Myth</strong>

"_Where do national myths originate? They do not emerge by happenstance. Rather their creation and spread are an exercise of power. Influential historical actors, from antebellum slaveholders to the moguls of Hollywood and those Slotkin calls the ‘political classes’, have attempted to develop and disseminate broadly acceptable myths to serve their own interests._"

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n13/er

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<strong>Episode 300 – The 10 Greatest Byzantine Emperors</strong>

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Not a happy time for some of us....

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<strong>The Ghosts of Max Weber in the Economic History of Preindustrial Europe</strong>

"_References to Weber in the literature on preindustrial Europe published by economists during the last fifty years show that the more economists have rehabilitated culture as an autonomous force of economic change, the more they have heralded Weber as a precursor of their endeavors. The casting of Weber in such terms, moreover, has gone hand in hand with a decline, rather than an increase, in conversations between economists, sociologists, historians, and other humanists and social scientists interested in the role of culture in the formation of modern economic life._"

Trivellato, Francesca. "The Ghosts of Max Weber in the Economic History of Preindustrial Europe." Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics 4, no. 2 (2023): 332-376. doi.org/10.1353/cap.2023.a9176.

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<strong>How much of national income goes to the richest 1%?</strong>

"_You might expect these numbers to be strongly correlated to a country's level of economic development. But this isn't always the case. In the United States, for example, 1% of its population takes home 21% of national income. This is relatively high globally._"

ourworldindata.org/data-insigh

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<strong>Secondary Schools: Iberian Scholasticism</strong>

_The “School of Salamanca,” founded by Francisco Vitoria, and the commentators of Coimbra are at the center of a movement sometimes called the “Second Scholastic.”_

historyofphilosophy.net/iberia

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🇸🇪 <strong>Episode 312: Christina of Sweden, Minerva of the North</strong>

"_In this week’s episode, get to know Christina of Sweden, the keenly intelligent and fiercely independent queen of Sweden, who is remembered today for her passion of learning and knowledge._"

halfarsedhistory.net/2024/06/1

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<strong>The potential of lacustrine sedimentary ancient DNA for revealing human postglacial recolonization patterns in northern Sweden – a review</strong>

"_The questions of who the first postglacial peoples, or pioneers, were and where they came from therefore remain unanswered. Previous palaeogenomic analyses from remains from adjacent regions have suggested that two main routes into Sweden could have been taken by the pioneers, one from the SW through modern-day Denmark and Norway, and one from the east via Finland. However, no direct genetic evidence from the pioneers of northern Sweden exists._"

Johnson, E., Regnéll, C., Heintzman, P.D. and Linderholm, A. (2024), The potential of lacustrine sedimentary ancient DNA for revealing human postglacial recolonization patterns in northern Sweden – a review. Boreas. doi.org/10.1111/bor.12660

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<strong>Episode 297 – The Rise and Rise of Nicaea</strong>

"_With the Bulgarians and Turks hobbled by the Mongols the field is clear for Nicaea. John Vatatzes annexes a huge swathe of European territory and is widely recognised as the true Roman Emperor._"

shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-

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"<strong>Galileo: Decisive Innovator (Cambridge Science Biographies)</strong>

by Michael Sharratt"

What non-fiction book are you currently reading?

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<strong>‘He had a sarcastic turn of phrase’: discovery of 1509 book sheds new light on ‘father of utilitarianism’</strong>

"_Last month, UCL academics unveiled the most significant rediscovered books left to the university in Bentham’s will, including the translation of Brandt’s Ship of Fools and a maths textbook explaining Euclid’s propositions. Their contents, together with the philosopher’s own notes, indicate how some of his radical ­theories were first sparked._"

theguardian.com/world/article/

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<strong>The Shocking Origin of the Word “Electric”</strong>

"_Gilbert employed the Latin electricus to describe the observation that when you rub amber against some substances like wool or a cat’s fur, it sticks to the amber. We now that this clinging—and the zaps that appear between the amber and the substance rubbed against it—is due to static, but at the time, Gilbert supposed amber to be magnetic._"

uselessetymology.com/2024/05/3

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