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The #medieval origins of phrases such as “the apple of one’s eye” and “by hook or by crook”. https://www.medievalists.net/2023/05/ten-phrases-middle-ages/ #history #words #languages #english @histodon @histodons @medievodons

Source: https://twitter.com/Medievalists/status/1664295169850593283

"This lavishly illustrated book is the first systematic exploration of cartographic cartouches, the decorated frames that surround the title, or other text or imagery, on historic maps." https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004523838 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Map #Maps #Cartography #Book #books #histodon #histodons #bookstodon
@histodon @histodons @bookstodon

Source: https://twitter.com/MapStorms/status/1663895070720794624

"Roman conquerors tried to erase the past of this ancient Tunisian port city—but these historic sites shed light on the true glories of Carthage." https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/what-to-do-in-carthage-ruins-renovations-historic-sites #History #Rome #Carthage #Mediterranean #Travel #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/Lindsay_Powell/status/1663913791103328256

"John Stuart Mill is remembered as one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 19th century." https://www.humanprogress.org/heroes-of-progress-pt-41-john-stuart-mill/ #History #Philosophy #C19th #England #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @philosophy

Source: https://twitter.com/HumanProgress/status/1663685606289842176

"The Heege Manuscript which ‘pokes fun at everyone, high and low’ is among the earliest evidence of the life and work of a real minstrel". https://theguardian.com/books/2023/may/31/mad-and-offensive-texts-shed-light-on-the-role-played-by-minstrels-in-medieval-society #History #Manuscript #Medieval #histodon #histodons #medievodons @histodon @histodons @medievodons

"In 1821, Fredrik Meltzer came up with a proposal that ended up becoming the Norwegian flag.

But it wasn't him who had designed it. It was his 10-year-old son." https://sciencenorway.no/history-national-identity/the-norwegian-flag-was-designed-by-a-10-year-old/2203413 #History #Norway #Europe #Flags #C19th #Scandivania #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons

"The content of Yny lhyvyr hwnn reflects the author's interest, especially his desire, arising from his belief in the need for reform in religion, to ensure that ordinary people learnt the basic tenets of the Christian faith." https://www.library.wales/discover-learn/digital-exhibitions/printed-material/yny-lhyvyr-hwnn #Welsh #book #books #bookstodon #history #histodons #histodon #c16th @bookstodon @histodon @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/NLWales/status/1663451258781409280

I always find it amazing that in bygone epochs how much travelling human beings partook in. They did not have access to modern technology; but, nonetheless were able to traverse thousands of miles on rudimentary forms of transport. #History #Transportation

"Richard Hooker defends the religious and political settlement of Elizabethan England using rational arguments and appeals to the natural law." https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/richard-hooker #History #Philosophy #Podcast #England #English #C16th #histodons #histodon @histodons @histodon @philosophy

Source: https://twitter.com/HistPhilosophy/status/1662721235673858049

Rise of the City: How the great god Marduk built the city of Babylon https://youtu.be/Ep936ropKlc #YouTube #Archaeology #History #Assyriology #Video #archaeodons #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons @ancientneareast

"Schooten possessed an excellent knowledge of the mathematics of both his own time and earlier periods. Beside being an extraordinarily industrious and conscientious scholar, a skilful communicator, and an inspiring teacher, he was a man of rare unselfishness." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schooten/ #Maths #Mathematics #Math #History #Biography #Dutch #Netherlands #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @mathematics @academicchatter

Source: https://twitter.com/mathshistory/status/1663113708489392131

"The beads represent some of the earliest amber specimens in southwest Asia and also some of the most distant discoveries from the find areas in the Baltic region." https://phys.org/news/2023-05-bronze-age-long-distance-baltic-amber.html #History #Archaeology #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons

Source: https://twitter.com/archaeologyEAA/status/1663103643317403649

"The above joke was found written on two separate tablets in the ancient Sumerian city of Nippur in what is now Iraq. Excavated over a hundred years ago, it was included in a list of proverbs and advice and is thought to be around 4,000 years old." https://www.historicmysteries.com/sumerian-joke/ #History #Jokes #Comedy #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/keithfrankish/status/1662779233343610880

The 16th and 17th centuries constituted a period of drastic change in the way humanity conceptualized and sought to understand the world. Scholars made massive leaps in fields such as mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, and, perhaps most notably, physics. Arguably, no city contributed more profoundly to that new understanding than Cambridge." https://www.humanprogress.org/centers-of-progress-pt-38-cambridge-physics/ #History #Science #Physics #Cambridge #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons

"Who was the first person to reach the north pole? According to American adventurer Frederick Cook, it was him. But now a new book will set out the evidence that the explorer’s 114-year-old claim was an instance of fake news on a global scale." https://theguardian.com/science/2023/may/28/was-the-first-man-to-reach-the-north-pole-a #History #Arctic #Explorer #book #histodon #histodons #books @bookstodon @histodon @histodons

"Joseph Seth Jones’s diary giving an account of the voyage of the Mimosa to Patagonia with the first settlers in 1865, and his diary for 14-21 March 1866." #History #Wales #Argentina #Patagonia #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/NLWales/status/1662715515335323648

Staffan von Arbin (2023) The Recent Find of a Cog of ca. 1240 in the Fjällbacka Archipelago, Western Sweden: A Preliminary Report, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10572414.2023.2213440 #History #Sweden #Archaeology #Nautical #OpenAccess #OA #histodons #histodon #archaeodons #Europe @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

The Cyrus Cylinder from Ancient Babylon and the Beginning of the Persian Empire https://youtu.be/5qIoEevJ6qE #YouTube #Video #History #Archaeology #histodons #histodon #archaeodons @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (2023) The two ‘strongest pillars of the empiricist wing’: the Vienna Circle, German academia and emigration in the light of correspondence between Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises (1916–1939), Annals of Science, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2023.2203049 #history #science #histodons #histodon #openaccess #oa @histodon @histodons

"....Robert Clive’s reputation as a hero had collapsed. In the late 1760s he returned to Britain, bringing with him a staggering personal fortune that he had amassed in Bengal. Regarded as one of the richest men in Europe, he conspicuously bought properties in England and Wales, and spared no expense on rebuilding and furnishing these new residences. Clive’s spending spree coincided with reports of the Bengal Famine, a catastrophe that killed about 10 million people. The source of Clive’s fortune came under scrutiny and his character was aggressively criticised by the British public." https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2023/05/robert-clive-from-hero-to-villain.html #History #EastIndiaCompany #Britain #histodon #histodons #earlymodern @histodon @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/UntoldLives/status/1661379349289771011