Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Joined Nov 2022
"Brits may mind their Ps and Qs, but they’ve completely overlooked their ñs and ßs. Linguist and epigraphist Philippa Steele spells out the surprising history behind our written languages." https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/443711-why-does-the-english-alphabet-have-26-letters #English #Languages #Linguistics #Alphabet #History #Writing #histodons #histodon @histodons @linguistics @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/crewsproject/status/1662154264372707336
"L' hemisphere meridional pour voir plus distinctement les terres australes". https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3220.ct009346/?loclr=twmap #Map #Cartography #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/LOCMaps/status/1661741408816857088
"Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mvndi et fabricati figvra..., [between pages 41 and 42]". https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/db0cd870-667d-013a-bbd9-0242ac110003 #Map #Cartography #C17th #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NYPLMaps/status/1661750660088602625
"No one knows where the city of Akkad was located, how it rose to prominence, or how, precisely, it fell; yet once it was the seat of the Akkadian Empire which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia." https://www.worldhistory.org/akkad/ #Ancient #History #Mesopotamia #histodon #histodons @histodons @histodon
Source: https://twitter.com/whencyclopedia/status/1660436584536178690
"Stuart was a slight, small man, a social misfit and heavy drinker. Yet he would go on to become perhaps the greatest explorer of the Australian interior in history." https://explorerspodcast.com/john-mcdouall-stuart/ #History #Australia #Podcast #Exploration #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @podcast
Source: https://twitter.com/explorerspod/status/1660675812608155654
Desert Monoliths Reveal World’s Oldest Architectural Plans. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/science/ancient-architecture-desert-kites.html #Science #Jordan #SaudiArabia #Architecture #MiddleEast #History #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/1659983410662711298
"The most valuable discovery made so far in Şapinuwa is a collection of over three thousand pieces of clay tablets from the second millennium BCE." https://turkisharchaeonews.net/site/%C5%9Fapinuwa #History #Archaeology #AsiaMinor #Asia #Hittites #Turkey #histodons #archaeodons @histodons @archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/turarchaeonews/status/1660178262201364487
"For many thousands of years, human beings have been creating towns and cities in which to live. Here are some of the first cities we ever built." https://www.thecollector.com/first-cities-human-civilization-oldest-cities/ #Archaeology #Ancient #History #histodons #archaeodons @histodons @archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/spwells/status/1660008056976183296
"Galen was the greatest physician of his era and was also a skilled surgeon and renowned philosopher. He was responsible for numerous advances in the fields of anatomy, physiology and therapeutics and led a truly remarkable life." https://www.medicalexamprep.co.uk/claudius-galen/ #History #Medicine #Philosophy #Science #histodons @histodons @philosophy
Source: https://twitter.com/MedicalExamPrep/status/1660208813767790595
"In the two new tablets, however, the language in the left column was not the expected Sumerian but rather the never-before-seen Northwest Semitic language Amorite." https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/ancient-amorite-language-discovered/ #Cuneiform #Linguistics #Mesopotamia #History #Langauage #histodons @histodons @linguistics
Source: https://twitter.com/BibArch/status/1660073161688248320
"This ‘Northwest Passage’, the fabled northern route linking East with West, was not successfully navigated until 1906 by Roald Amundsen. Today we talk about the four centuries of exploration before then..." https://snr.org.uk/the-mariners-mirror-podcast/the-search-for-the-northwest-pasage/ #Maritime #History #Podcast #Europe #Arctic #Canada #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/NauticalHistory/status/1659423640620875777
"It is frightening to think where all this might lead. If English is in such a bad state now, what will things be like in a generation’s time? We must surely act before it is too late." https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/15/why-its-time-to-stop-worrying-about-the-decline-of-the-english-language #English #Language #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/lingdiscovery/status/1659659943866146855
"Prior to the period of the much-lauded modern “discovery” of 1 Enoch/Ethiopic Enoch, what was known of these and other Enochic writings?" https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37375274 #OpenAccess #OA #Medieval #MiddleAges #Religion #History #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/AnnetteYReed/status/1659661054232674305
The Mexican-American War ended 175 years ago: How did Mexico lose half its territory? https://english.elpais.com/usa/2023-05-19/the-mexican-american-war-ended-175-years-ago-how-did-mexico-lose-half-its-territory.html #History #Mexico #USA #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/elpaisinenglish/status/1659760852994596864
"This tablet is particularly notable as it is one of the earliest known examples of writing in Latin by a woman." https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/ancient-history/vindolanda-tablets/ #Ancient #History #Roman #Britain #Latin #Classics #Writing #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1659555954889830402
"Boscovich did important work in geometry, optics, astronomy, geodesy, and even engineering..." https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/roger-joseph-boscovich #History #Science #Maths #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/bhgross144/status/1659548442694234112
Short #history #video: the death of Chinggis Khan https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A1llQj-hM2A #histodons @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/the_jackmeister/status/1659139574436708352
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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