Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
🇬🇧 🇫🇷 **Mitchell Map - A map of the British and French dominions in North America,...; 1757**
#Image attribution: John Mitchell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mitchell_Map-06full2.jpg,
#History #UK #UnitedKingdom #France #America #Maps #Cartography
**Map: Semitic Languages**
#Image attribution: Rafy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Semitic_languages.svg.
📚 *Has BookTok Ruined Reading Culture?
🔗 https://mancunion.com/2024/11/15/has-booktok-ruined-reading-culture/.
#BookTok #Reading #Culture #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: MarkBuckawicki, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Books_at_the_bookstore.jpg.
**Printing Illustrations**
"_Artists began adding woodcut illustrations to books within years of Western innovations in printing technology and moveable type. The Library has within its collections of incunabula (books printed before 1501) many books that combine text and images, often printed together on the same page._"
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2025/08/07/printing-illustrations/.
**Gold is flying higher — a report of gold-bar tariffs is doing the trick**
"_Triggering that jump was a Financial Times report that cited a July 31 letter from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, stating that 1-kilo and 100-ounce gold bars should be classified under a customs code that subjects them to tariffs._"
#Image attribution: Stevebidmead, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_bullion_bars.jpg.
Morning all.
#Image attribution: Wilfredor, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunrise_on_Vereda_del_Lago.jpg.
**Gold**
The price of gold carries on upwards: https://www.gold.co.uk/gold-price/5year/ounces/USD/.
**Map: Anatolia, 1097**
#Image attribution: MapMaster, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anatolia_1097.svg.
#History #Histodons #AsiaMinor #Anatolia #Medieval #MiddleAges
🇺🇸 📸 **Elk and Star Dune**
#Image attribution: Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elk_and_Star_Dune_(49097789642).jpg.
#Photo #Photography #Nature #USA #US #UnitedStates #Colorado #Elk
**European Overseas Colonies By Colonizer**
_Bastian Becker (2023); Gapminder - Population v7 (2022) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Number of colonies” [dataset]. Bastian Becker, “Colonial Dates Dataset (COLDAT) 3.0”; Gapminder, “Population v7” [original data]._
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/european-overseas-colonies-by-colonizer.
#Data #DataViz #History #Histodons #Europe #Colonialism #Imperialism @histodons
**Security Verification Link**
Looks like these chaps are back, the second such toot I have received in two days with the same link to click. They do not take no for an answer.
**Morning all.**
#Image attribution: BigWhitePelican, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_spectacular_morning_sky_in_Helsinki,_Finland,_2023_September.jpg.
🇺🇸 **Lest We Forget / Davenport**
_"Lest we forget" is the refrain in Rudyard Kipling's poem, Recessional, published in 1897 at the height of the British empire. In the poem, Kipling warns against the perils of pride and the impermanence of power. The United States emerged from the Spanish American war in 1899 as a quasi-imperial power. The cartoonist may be cautioning the nation to remember its humble beginnings._
Davenport, H. (ca. 1899) Lest we forget / Davenport. Pennsylvania United States, ca. 1899. [1893 i.e] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003675317/.
#History #Histodons #UncleSam #C19th #19thCentury #USA #US #UnitedStates #Cartoon #RudyardKipling #Poetry @histodons
🌍 💵 **Global inequality is the result of two centuries of uneven economic growth**
"_Two hundred years ago, people in all regions were similarly poor. Today, the average incomes of people in Australia, the US, or Denmark are more than 15 times higher than those in Sub-Saharan Africa._"
#Economics #Inequality #Graph #Chart #Data #DataViz @economic
🇳🇴 🚗 **One-third of cars on the road in Norway are now electric**
"_Almost every new car sold in Norway is electric. Hardly anyone buys a combustion engine car anymore._"
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/one-third-of-cars-on-the-road-in-norway-are-now-electric.
📸 📚 🏴 **Gladstones Library Central View**
#Image attribution: Michael D Beckwith, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gladstones_Library_Central_View_(187426107).jpeg.
**Flag: American Party, 1844-1860**
#History #Flag #KnowNothingParty #AmericanParty #USPol #Politics #Nationalism #Nativism #Populism
#Image attribution: American Party (1844-1860), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digital_Reproduction_of_the_Know-Nothing_Party_Flag.jpg.
🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 **Trump has set the stage for a colossal trade war - and it could spiral out of control**
🔗 https://inews.co.uk/news/trump-set-stage-colossal-trade-war-could-spiral-out-of-control-3802860.
🇫🇷 **People In France Want Fewer Children**
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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