Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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📚 **Why is BookTok so obsessed with reading goals?**
"_Not only can many people not afford to purchase hundreds of books a year (or a Kindle to do so on) but if you are not a full-time BookTok influencer you likely spend most of your day at school or work, and therefore would not have the time in the day to read so much even if you wanted to._"
🔗 https://nouse.co.uk/articles/2025/11/28/why-is-booktok-so-obsessed-with-reading-goals.
#Reading #Books #SocialMedia #BookTok #Booktube
#Image attribution: freestocks.org from Olsztyn, Poland, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_pile_of_books_(29767858348).jpg.
📚 📻 **Books We Love: NPR staffers' favorite nonfiction books of 2025**
#Image attribution: Ch. Maderthoner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Books_03.JPG.
📖 **Why the World Keeps Making New Joans of Arc and Why that Matters**
"_The Joans of Arc phenomenon is ultimately a story about how we use the medieval past to tell modern stories about gender, heroism, race, and nationhood._"
#Nonfiction #Medieval #History #Books
#Image attribution: Paul Dubois, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeanne_d%27Arc_Paris_Paul_Dubois.jpg.
🇳🇿 **Why does New Zealand keep disappearing from world maps?**
_Cooper-Jones points out that even a New Zealand government 404 error page once displayed a world map missing the country entirely, with a cheeky message: "We’re sorry, something’s missing…"_
🔗 https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/why-does-new-zealand-keep-disappearing-from-world-maps.
#NewZealand #NZ #Maps #Cartography
#Image attribution: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. #Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(1899)_MAP_OF_NEW_ZEALAND_-_comp._by_Irvine.jpg.
📚 🇬🇧 **MPs launch inquiry amid warning of ‘generational shift’ in reading for pleasure**
"_It comes after the National Literacy Trust found earlier this year only one in three (33%) of young people aged eight to 18 say they read in their spare time._
_This has fallen from 51% in 2005 – which translates to a 36% fall – and is the lowest level seen in 20 years._"
#Literacy #Reading #Books #UK #UnitedKingdom
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**Map: Central Europe, 919-1125**
#History #Histodons #Europe #Maps #Cartopgraphy
#Image attribution: William R. Shepherd (died 1934), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Europe,_919-1125.jpg.
**Frankish Dominions (486-768)**
#History #Histodons #Europe #Maps #Cartography
#Image attribution: Alexander Keith Johnston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C._768_Frankish_Dominions_(486-768).jpg.
🧠 **Scrolling TikTok can actually cause 'brain rot' according to surprising new study**
"_The findings were hard to ignore: heavier short-form consumption was consistently associated with poorer cognitive performance, particularly when it comes to attention and inhibitory control, the skills that help us stay focused and resist distractions._"
🔗 https://www.indy100.com/news/tiktok-brain-rot-cause-study.
#News #TikTok #Videos #Shorts #BrainRot #Cognition #Psychology
#Image attribution: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1265489, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smartphone-mobile-hand-technology-internet-finger.jpg.
**Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records**
"_The library’s collection, the most complete set of Nuremberg Trials documents outside that of the United States National Archives, offers more than 750,000 pages of transcripts, briefs, and evidence exhibits from the 13 cases brought against Nazi military and political leaders from 1945 to 1949._"
#History #Histodon #NurembergTrials #Nazis #Harvard #Archives #Library #Digital #Documents
#Image attribution: English: Work of the United States Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Defendants_in_the_dock_at_the_Nuremberg_Trials.jpg.
🏴 **Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits**
"_By comparison – as our new paper shows – peasants on the estate of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire, England, were entitled to up to a year and a day of leave from working on the lord’s lands if they were sick. Meanwhile widows were granted leave upon the death of their husbands and workers enjoyed plenty of religious feast days and festivals every year._"
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Peasants #England
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🇺🇸 ⚖️ **Reintroducing Justice Robert Jackson**
"_More than seventy years after Jackson issued it, his Youngstown concurrence remains the most authoritative statement of the scope of executive power under the Constitution._"
🔗 https://blog.oup.com/2025/11/reintroducing-justice-robert-jackson/.
#History #Histodons #Legal #SCOTUS #USA #US
#Image attribution: Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Service-pnp-hec-21600-21656v_(cropped).jpg.
**‘Parasocial’ is Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2025**
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/parasocial-is-cambridge-dictionary-word-of-the-year-2025
#News #Words #Language #Linguistics
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** Pepin of Herstal after the battle of Tertry in 687**
#Image attribution: Jean-Michel Moreau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Michel_Moreau_-_Pepin_of_Herstal_after_the_battle_of_Tertry_in_687.jpg.
🏴 📖 🎙️ **The First King of England**
"_Set against the backdrop of warring powers in early medieval Europe, The First King of England sheds new light on Æthelstan’s early life, his spectacular military victories and the innovative way he governed his kingdom, his fostering of the church, the deft political alliances he forged with Europe’s royal houses, and his death and enduring legacy._"
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-podcast-the-first-king-of-england
#Audio #Podcast #Nonfiction #England #Medieval #History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon
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**Four Theses on the Hoplite Wars**
🔗 https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/11/16/four-theses-on-the-hoplite-wars/.
#Ancient #Wars #History #Histodons
#Image attribution: George E. Koronaios, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greek_hoplite_reenactor_on_the_Areopagus,_24_October_2018.jpg
**What to know about how Florida will teach McCarthyism and the Cold War**
"_McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities are painted as champions of anti-communism, rather than the more commonly accepted interpretation that they fomented one of the most repressive chapters in modern American history._"
#History #Histodons #McCarthyism #Education #Learning #Florida
#Image attribution: U.S. Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_McCarthy_studio_portrait.jpg.
🇺🇸 **The Monroe doctrine - let Sam do it / Kep.**
_Illustration shows a resolute Uncle Sam as a soldier with rifle standing on a pile of money bags labeled "Financial Interests in South & Central America"; sleeping on the ground, using the bags as pillows, are men labeled "St. Petersburg, Wall St., Lombard St., Paris Bourse, Berlin, [and] Vienna"._
Keppler, U. J. (1911) The Monroe doctrine - let Sam do it / Kep. United States, 1911. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, April 5. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2011648881/.
#Cartoon #Illustration #Commentary #History #Histodons #UncleSam #MonroeDoctrine #LatinAmerica #USA #US #Archives
**Wall street bubbles; - always the same**
"_Illustration shows a bull (stock market) blowing bubbles labeled "Inflated Values" with many unwary investors reaching for them._"
Keppler, Udo J., Artist. Wall street bubbles; - always the same / Kep. United States, 1901. N.Y.: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2010651412/.
#Cartoon #Illustration #Commentary #WallStreet #History #Archives
🇺🇸 **US corporate bankruptcies set to hit 15-year high amid credit jitters, S&P data shows**
"_Large U.S. corporate bankruptcies are on pace to hit their highest level in 15 years, S&P Global data showed on Thursday, underscoring mounting stress across corporate America at a sensitive time for public market investors._"
#USA #US #Data #Economy #Economics
#Image attribution: Billie Grace Ward from New York, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_Sign_Close-up_with_American_Flags_(50849584006).jpg.
📖 **Family names from the Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Scotch: Considered in relation to their etymology, with brief remarks on the history and languages of the peoples to whom we are indebted for their origin**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77230.
#ProjectGutenberg #History #Names #Etymology #Linguistics #Books #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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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