Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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📸 📚 🏴 **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**
🌎 **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
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