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🇰🇿 **Kazakhstan Releases Ancient Manuscript of Historic National Epic**
"_The epic stands out for its archaic expressions and unusual linguistic features not commonly found in Turkic languages, highlighting its ancient origins – an aspect emphasized by prominent turkologist Platon Melioransky._"
🔗 https://astanatimes.com/2025/10/kazakhstan-releases-ancient-manuscript-of-historic-national-epic/.
📚 **The Collected Papers Of Albert Einstein**
Volume One: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol-l/.
Volume Two: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol-2-1900-1909.
Volume Three: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einsten-volume-3-the-swiss-year-1909-1911.
Volume Six: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol.-6-the-berlin-years-writings-1914-1917.
📖 **1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation**
"_This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that “this time is different.” It’s about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late._"
🔗 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321010/1929-by-sorkin-andrew-ross/9780241479414.
#History #Histodons #Economics #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**Mapping disease: John Snow and Cholera**
"_By talking to local residents (with the help of the Reverend Henry Whitehead), Snow identified the source of the outbreak as the contaminated public water pump on Broad Street (now Broadwick Street). He did this by mapping the deaths from cholera, and noted that they were mostly people whose nearest access to water was the Broad Street pump...._"
#History #Histodons #HistSci #Science #Medicine #Cholera #Maps #Cartography
🇺🇸 **Map of the American Civil War, 1861-1865**
🔗 https://www.worldhistory.org/image/21119/map-of-the-american-civil-war-1861-1865/.
**The Getty Center’s ‘Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages’ Is a Visual Feast of Medieval Movement**
🔗 https://observer.com/2025/10/exhibition-review-getty-center-going-places-travel-in-the-middle-ages/.
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Art #Culture #Museum #Archives
🇮🇪 🏴 📖 **Book of Kells: exploring the evidence that points to Pictish origins in north-east Scotland**
"_While at present it is impossible to prove beyond doubt, Whitworth’s book highlights an important new potential provenance for the Book of Kells. However, it also serves as a timely reminder that our preoccupation with the “nationality” of the manuscript is based on a 19th-century construct, which can distract from other considerations._"
#History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #Ireland #Scotland #Picts #Manuscript
🇮🇹 🇪🇹 🎥 **Second Italo-Ethiopian War - 1935**
"_On this day in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia, marking the beginning of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War._"
#Video length: three minutes and eleven seconds.
**Franks United? The First Treaty of Meerssen (Feb 847)**
🔗 https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/franks-united-the-first-treaty-of-meerssen-feb-847/.
**Noah’s Ark and the Slave Trade**
"_After the Flood, Noah’s sons were repurposed to support a new worldview justifying racial hierarchy and slavery._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/noahs-ark-and-slave-trade.
📖 **Imagining the Ark of the Covenant, From Exodus to Indiana Jones**
🇺🇸 📖 **Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause**
"_After the war, white Catholics played decisive roles in creating and promoting the ideology of the Lost Cause, a romantic distortion that the war had been a noble Southern fight for freedom, not caused by secession to preserve slavery._"
🔗 https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Catholics-the-Civil-War-and-the-Problem-of-the-Lost-Cause.
#History #Histodons #LostCause #USA #US #UnitedStates #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know**
🎙️ **Economica with Victoria Bateman**
"_The discussion covers various themes, including the impact of women's marriage decisions on population control, the relationship between women's independence and technological advancements, and the historical marginalization of women in economic history._"
🇮🇪 📖 **What Was Behind Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal?**
_“A Modest Proposal” is “a distinctively Irish critique of a distinctively Irish process of reconquest and recolonization,”_
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/what-was-behind-jonathan-swifts-modest-proposal/.
#History #Ireland #JonathanSwift #Books #Literature #Bookstodon
**Prehistoric camel art pointed to precious water sources in the Arabian Desert**
"_Hunter-gatherers may have used the engravings to find water 12,000 years ago_"
📖 🎙️ **Landscapes of Warfare: Urartu and Assyria in the Ancient Middle East by Tiffany Earley-Spadoni**
"_Using an interdisciplinary approach that includes GIS-enabled studies and integrates archaeological, historical, and art-historical evidence, she illustrates how warfare was a generative force in structuring space and society in the ancient Middle East._"
#Audio #Podcast #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #History #Archaeology #MiiddleEast #Academia
**Hussite Wars, illustration from the Jena codex (15th century), fol. 56a**
#Image attribution: Jenaer Kodex, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hussitenkriege.tif.
🇺🇸 **Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor**
_While the events of that day are sometimes described as a battle, historical records show that the U.S. Army, which was in the midst of a campaign to repress the tribes in the area, killed an estimated 250 Native Americans, including women and children, of the Lakota Sioux tribe, while attempting to disarm Native American fighters who had already surrendered at their camp._
_“We’re making it clear that (the soldiers) deserve those medals,” Hegseth said in the video, before adding that “their place in our nation’s history is no longer up for debate.”_
#History #Histodons #WoundedKnee #Hegseth #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Oculi Mundi: the stories behind the maps**
"_The Sunderland Collection is a treasure trove of 13th-19th century terrestrial and celestial maps. But these aren’t just guides to a physical location; they are works of art, historical documents, and windows into the human imagination. Each piece tells a unique story of discovery and the enduring quest to understand the world._"
🔗 https://geographical.co.uk/culture/oculi-mundi-the-stories-behind-the-maps.
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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