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Episode 294 - The Rise and Fall of Epirus

"Theodoros Doukas the leader of the Roman state of Epirus leads his people to ever greater heights in the 1220s. He captures Thessalonica and drives towards Constantinople itself. Doukas declares himself Emperor but does he have the resources necessary to reach the Hagia Sophia?"

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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today

"The Romans developed Roman Medicine by leaning on the knowledge of the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Etruscans, and others. Many of their medical practices are still in use today."

Bakic, Marijana. "5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/ancient-roman (accessed May 13, 2024).

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Vowels and consonants by design

"Some alphabets have been developed intentionally and purposefully to be exactly what the earliest alphabets became: efficient psychotechnologies for enhanced learning, communication and community building."

biblonia.com/p/vowels-and-cons

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Thomas Willis (1621-1675) : Neurologist, Chemist, Physician

"Willis is not only credited to be the founder of neurology, but he is also seen as the father of comparative neuroanatomy, as his work, in particular Cerebri anatome and De anima brutorum, compare the human brain with that of other species in ‘search for specific human abilities in cognitive functions’ (Molnár, p. 334)."

stjohnscollegelibraryoxford.or

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Band of Brothers: the Jesuits

"Ignatius of Loyola’s movement begins modestly, but winds up having a global impact on education and philosophy."

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🇺🇸 "Land Of Cotton - King Cotton's Slaves" 1936 Southern Tenant Sharecroppers Documentary XD49484

"This particular episode of the series takes an in depth look at the struggles of Black and white tenant sharecroppers and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in Arkansas during the New Deal Years."

length: 8 minutes 25 seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=j_o38AGSx6

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The History of Ions: Unveiling the Electric Charge

"Around 1830, Faraday posited the existence of charged particles within molecules that migrate between electrodes during electrolysis—an idea ahead of its time."

historyofsciences.blogspot.com

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Francisco de Almeida - Part 1 - Age of Discovery

"He and his only son venture forth on the 7th Portuguese Armada to establish the worlds first trade empire. However the challenges that await them will test them to their core."

length: 26 minutes.

youtube.com/watch?v=9IP3ejxyep

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The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism

"...thanks to Alexander the Great, Hellenistic and Buddhist cultures came into contact in the 4th century BCE, creating a cultural synthesis known as Greco-Buddhism."

length: 19 minutes 10 seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=aA0wB3d7Mg

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Episode 176: All the World’s a Playhouse

"In this episode, we look at how distant cultures were contributing to the growth of English and how Shakespeare’s acting company built a world-famous theater in the late 1500s."

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"Byzantine diagrams are originated by Byzantine scholars in the early modern period to use as tools for teaching and studying Aristotelian logic. This paper presents pioneering work on employing Byzantine diagrams for checking syllogistic validity through reduction."

Bhattacharjee, R. (2024) ‘Direct Reduction of Syllogisms with Byzantine Diagrams’, History and Philosophy of Logic, pp. 1–22. doi: doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2024..

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"This paper studies the constitutive role of cartography apropos law, territory, and social order, in a specific historical context, by examining the crucial political role played by the British East India Company's cartographic practices and maps in aspiring and imagining the transplantation and establishment of English sovereignty in the Indian subcontinent."

Suresh, S. (2024) ‘The Cartojuridism of the British East India Company’, Law and History Review, pp. 1–30. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S0738248024000.

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"Examining the global movements of enslaved persons, soldiers, convicts, and refugees across land and sea, Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions presents a deeply entangled history. The book explores the binaries of 'free' and 'unfree' mobility, analyzing the agency and resistance of those moved against their will."

Jansen, J.C. and McKenzie, K. (eds.) (2024) Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions: A Global History, c. 1750–1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Publications of the German Historical Institute). DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781009370578.

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1962: The TELEVISION SET You Can WEAR | Tonight | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

"The Electrocula - a 30 ounce portable television set that can be worn on the head. They system projects a television picture onto an adjustable monocle in front of the viewer's eye, enabling them to watch television while doing other things."

length: 2 minutes 24 seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=hXBO5JuecP

"The ultimate goal, I suggest, was a translatio imperii; the establishment of an imperial monarchy in the west that could rival the Habsburg empire, and which in time, perhaps, might even come to imitate the universal glory of the Roman imperium. Not the American Atlantic seaboard, but rather the continent of Europe, with its arms, its learning, and its treasure, was the goal of Bacon’s early imperial vision."

Serjeantson, R. (2024) ‘Francis Bacon, colonisation, and the limits of Atlanticism’, History of European Ideas, pp. 1–14. doi: doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024..

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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West – review

"In As Gods Among Men, Guido Alfani examines the history of the rich in the West from the Middle Ages to modern times, including paths to wealth, societal perceptions and their resilience against shocks."

blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofboo


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"As we can discern from Plutarch and Appian, beyond the socio-economic impacts, the ancient historians equated the displacement of the family-run smallholdings with the slave-dependent Latifundia with a concurrent moral decline that degraded the Roman Republic."

Gale, Alexander. "How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/slavery-ancie (accessed May 7, 2024).

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A New Audience for the World’s First Author

"Around year 2000 BCE, the Sumerian language, in which the poems are written, died out as a native language, becoming instead a language of scholarship and religious rituals, much like Latin in Europe and Sanskrit in India. And so, it had to be taught in schools, and the copying of Sumerian poems—including those attributed to Enheduana—was a key part of the school curriculum in ancient Babylonian cities like Nippur and Ur."

yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/05/06/

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