Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🌎 **The Americas In 1818**
A map by Franz Fried.
#Image attribution: Franz Fried, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:America_fried_1818.jpg.
🇧🇷 📸 **Rio de Janeiro**
#Image attribution: Wilfredor, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Images_from_Rio_de_Janeiro_Project_234234_01.jpg.
#Rio #RioDeJaneiro #Brazil #Brasil #SouthAmerica #Photography #Photo
🇯🇵 📸 **Night cityscape in Nagasaki - view from near the mouth of Urakami River**
#Image attribution: Eiji Kikuta (AG2016) from Sendai, Japan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Night_cityscape_in_Nagasaki_-_view_from_near_the_mouth_of_Urakami_River_(2016-04-09_by_Eiji_Kikuta_@Pixabay_1342591).jpg.
🇩🇪 📸 **Frankfurt Skyline At Night**
#Image attribution: Mathias Konrath konni, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankfurt_Skyline_at_night_(Unsplash).jpg.
🇺🇸 💵 **Value Of The US Dollar Over The Last Six Months**
The value of the US dollar as tracked by the 'US Dollar Index Futures' has fallen against a basket of currencies over the last six months. Source: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/NYICDX:INDEXNYSEGIS?window=6M
#USA #US #UnitedStates #USDollar #Dollar #Economy #Economics @economics
📖 **Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Newton**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404.
#ProjectGutenberg #Read #IsaacNewton #Newton #Science #Physics #Ebook #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon @science
#Image attribution: John Vanderbank, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Sir_Isaac_Newton_(4670220).jpg.
📸 🇳🇴 **King Harald Hardrada**
#Image attribution: Lerwick Town Hall, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haraldhardrada.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haraldhardrada.jpg.
**Gold Solidus of Theodosius II, Constantinople, 425–429 AD.**
#Gold #Coin #Numismatics #History #Byzantine #Empire
#Image attribution: ANS, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_Solidus_of_Theodosius_II,_425-429.jpg.
🇬🇷 **Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind**
Hannah Ritchie & Pablo Rosado
“_The chart shows that just over a decade ago, almost half of the country’s power came from coal. This has now fallen to 6%._
_Solar and wind have replaced it; their share has tripled in the last decade; when combined, they’ve become the largest source._”
#Data #DataViz #Energy #Coal #SolarEnergy #Wind #Renewables #Greece
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 **Flirtation under difficulties**
Pughe, J. S. , Artist. Flirtation under difficulties / J.S. Pughe. Canada United States, 1904. N.Y.: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., March 2. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011645511/.
#History #Puck #Cartoon #USA #US #UnitedStates #Canada #UncleSam #Tariffs #C20th #20thCentury
🇺🇸 **The protectors of our industries**
Gillam, Bernhard, Artist. The protectors of our industries / Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lith., N.Y. United States, 1883. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, February 7. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/94507245/.
#History #Puck #Cartoon #Capitalists #Financiers #Industry #Manufacturing #USA #US #UnitedStates #C19th #19thCentury
📸 📖 🇷🇺 🇯🇵 **A photographic record of the Russo-Japanese war by James H. Hare**
“Read or download for free”
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76109.
#History #Histodon #Russia #Japan #ProjectGutenberg #Read #Book #Ebook #Books #Bookstodon #Images #Photography #Photos @histodons @bookstodon
**'Dumpster fire': Retailers urge shoppers to buy now before tariffs raise prices**
_“Let's skip the corporate-speak: This tariff situation is a complete dumpster fire, and we're all getting burned. Here's the situation: Costs are up, and unfortunately, our prices will have to follow suit,”_
🇺🇸 🚢 **Trump tariffs prompt slump in shipments to US ports**
“Number of vessels scheduled to arrive at Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third year on year_”
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/28/trump-tariffs-shipments-us-ports.
🇺🇸 💻 **Trump tariffs taking out AI data centres too**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/27/trump-tariffs-taking-out-ai-data-centres-too/.
#Data #DataCentres #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Tariffs @ai
🇺🇸 📉 **The domestic fallout from Trump’s tariffs, in 3 charts**
“_Businesses and consumers are already appearing to panic._”
🔗 https://www.vox.com/politics/409835/trump-tariffs-trade-war-consumer-confidence-manufacturing.
#Data #DataViz #Trump #Economy #Money #Politics #USPol #Economics #Business #Trade @economics
🇺🇸 **DHL will stop shipping packages over $800 to U.S. customers due to new customs rules**
_“The carrier cited the 10% tariffs implemented by the Trump administration in early April, which it says had the effect of subjecting parcels worth over $800 to increased scrutiny by U.S. customs inspectors. That has led to shipping backlogs, DHL said.”_
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371307/dhl-stops-shipping-packages-800-us-customers.
📚 **16th-Century ‘Bookwheel’ Solved the Age-Old Problem of Reading Too Many Books at One Time**
Regina Sienra
"_Centuries ago, academics had an alternative to juggling several tomes and propping them open all over a table. They used the bookwheel, a rotating device that allowed people to browse multiple books at once, allowing them to go from one text to the next without even having to stand up._"
🔗 https://mymodernmet.com/bookwheel-history/.
#Image attribution: Gaspard Grollier de Serviere, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grollier%27s_Reading_Wheel.jpg.
**Codex Vigilanus Primeros Numeros Arabigos**
“_The first Arabic/Hindu (Ghobar type) numerals in a Western manuscript, AD 976. From Codex Vigilanus._”
#Image attribution: The original uploader was Srnec at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Vigilanus_Primeros_Numeros_Arabigos.jpg.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math @science
🅰️ 📖 🖋️ **The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter”**
“This image responds to chapter 2, where Hester leaves prison to endure public humiliation on the town scaffold. The text describes women resentful of Hester's beauty, who find her punishment too lenient–figures shown here below the steps.”
Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter' | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1879). https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/406020.
#OpenAccess #PublicDomain #Image #History #Fiction #Book #Bookstodon #Literature #TheScarletLetter #NathanielHawthorne #HesterPrynne @literature @bookstodon
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.
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