🇺🇸 📸 **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**
🌎 **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.
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