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How a brawl in 18th-century Constantinople changed what we know about the Vikings

"Ibn Fadlan’s first-hand account of the Rus and their funerary rituals has secured his reputation as an important source for the study of ritual and belief across the Viking world. Nowhere else do we encounter eyewitness insight into this kind of Viking funerary ritual."

theconversation.com/how-a-braw

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Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster review – no place like home

"Quoting Michel Barnier, the EU chief negotiator, she sees the vote to leave Europe as a direct expression of Britain’s “nostalgia for the past”, alerting us to the way that Barnier’s tautologous phrasing suggests a doubling down – Britons really, really want to live in a once-upon-a-time land when foreigners knew their place."

theguardian.com/books/2024/apr

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Who Was Buried in the Royal Tombs of Ur?

"One of the mysteries surrounding the Royal Cemetery of Ur is the identity of the occupants of the tombs, the sequence of their reigns, and their relationships with each other. Dr. Miano provides an overview of the issues involved."

youtu.be/ZrjZAWCr_XY

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The silent record

"The historian’s avowed mission is to reduce the layers and broker the optimal relationship with the distant recorded past. But ultimately, history becomes an asymptote, a line approaching but never quite touching the past."

biblonia.com/2024/04/10/the-si

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"The Sumerians innovated with the world’s first written language, cuneiform, on clay tablets, facilitating record-keeping for food supplies and trade. This advancement, alongside their development of a numerical system, laid foundational aspects of modern society."

Uggerud, Kristoffer. "How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/mesopotamia-c (accessed April 9, 2024). @histodon @histodons

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🇺🇸 History Of Automobiles Ford Motor Co. Documentary "The American Road" Henry Ford Model T MD40540 youtu.be/m4Xt_hF0_20

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"Rereading the sources surveyed by Green and Fancy, we have found no evidence in the various texts that would tie the various epidemics/pandemics in Iraq, Syria, and Egypt to plague, supposedly brought unintentionally by the advancing Mongol army that besieged Baghdad in early 1258."

Brack, J., Biran, M. and Amitai, R. (2024) ‘Plague and the Mongol conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A reevaluation of the sources’, Medical History, pp. 1–19. doi: doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2023.38. @histodon @histodons

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The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change

"Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals"

theguardian.com/science/2024/a

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"The modus operandi of men like Hawkins was to sail to Guinea, acquire a cargo of enslaved people, by force and/or barter, and ship them to the Spanish Caribbean and Mexico.91 Here, Hawkins would claim inclement weather had forced him to the area (a tactic used by many illicit traders), offer platitudes to local officials and sometimes promise to help clear out foreign pirates from the area.92 In return, he asked the Spanish to purchase his enslaved people. If that failed, he became aggressive, after which the local elites, often under-manned and in relatively lightly defended settlements, would agree to purchase his human cargo."

Gary Paul Baker, Craig Lambert, ‘William Fowler’, Sir William Garrard, Sir John Hawkins and the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade, The English Historical Review, 2024;, cead213, doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead213 @histodon @histodons @earlymodern

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🇺🇸 "Local and state laws quickly targeted Chinese immigrants, often forcing them to pay fees and abandon their traditional methods of doing things. Government employment, and even the use of public schools, was banned for the Chinese. Courts typically excluded testimony from Chinese immigrants, meaning any legal disputes between Chinese and white residents would almost automatically be decided in favor of the white party."

Rust, Owen. "The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/chinese-exclu (accessed April 3, 2024). @histodon @histodons

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"A news report in 1965 looked at 'programmed learning machines' which aimed to utilise technology and assist individual learning." youtu.be/he3SJVUqE_o

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"What is the most boring history book you have read, and why? Excruciating tedium can have intellectual value, says George Garnett." historytoday.com/archive/makin @histodon @histodons @bookstodon

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🇬🇧 "(1 Oct 1931) Famous economic expert predicts great future for Britain as result of gold standard suspension." youtu.be/0PYSFqCSsGU @economics @econhist

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"The article asks whether people on the right of the ideological spectrum appraise the past, present, and future differently from people on the left. The data show that this is so in the case of the past: In all countries examined, right- compared to left-wing supporters evaluated the past as being more positive. In the United States and Poland, and possibly also in the United Kingdom (although in the latter country the results of the regression analysis are not confirmed by the Pearson correlation), an effect emerges also when considering the good-prospect future scenario: This was evaluated more positively on the left."

Rigoli, F. (2024). Ideology shapes evaluation of history within the general population. Political Psychology, 00, 1–23. doi.org/10.1111/pops.12971 @psychology

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"Was Taxila the site of the world's oldest university?" youtu.be/rcTh4u7ZD0w

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"It is about the Land according to the redefined Judaism that emerged in the centuries following the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE. This Judaism replaced the temple cult with Torah study - a study that pertained in part to that very temple cult, that became a portable homeland, and that reconfigured the Land."

Cordoni, C. (01 Mar. 2024). Reconfiguring the Land of Israel, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill doi.org/10.1163/9789004696761 [Accessed 02 April 2024]. @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (78)

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"Prominent atheists insist that the Roman emperor Constantine never really converted to Christianity, pretended to adopt the faith as a political ploy and created the Bible at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. And all these claims are total garbage." youtu.be/3HBv_X6k35g @histodon @histodons @religion

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"Making use of the most up-to-date photographic equipment at the time, Lohmeyer’s project was a meticulously planned PR campaign. Its goal? A celebration of colonialism and empire." youtu.be/rpZztZkscFA @histodon @histodons

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"The establishment of banana republics reveals much about imperialism and the history of the Western Hemisphere. Here are 7 facts you may not know."

Stoyack, Aaron. (2024, March 31). 7 Facts About Banana Republics & Their Role in History and Politics. Retrieved from thecollector.com/banana-republ @histodon @histodons

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"While it is difficult to assess the level of both political and economic stress in Provincia Judaea, the unrest there, evident by the vast influx of legions and supplementary troops into it during these years, may account for some amount of any additional stress. If, as I have suggested, the locals were responsible for providing supplies and places of rest for their oppressors, it would have harmed the locals’ livelihood. These actions seemed to have laid the groundwork for the revolt, so when Hadrian announced his decision to found Aelia Capitolina over Jerusalem, tensions had reached a breaking point."

Burnstein, B. H. (2017). The causes of the Bar Kokhba revolt : a critical reassessment and new comparisons (T). University of British Columbia. Retrieved from open.library.ubc.ca/collection @histodon @histodons

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