Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Geometric Haircuts**
"_A Knightsbridge hair stylist uses Geometry to design haircuts of the future (1956)._"
#Video length: forty three seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/9SR963yYjOY
#Geometry #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Fashion #HairStyles #C20th #20thCentury #History #UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #London #Knightsbridge
🔴 🎥 **Why we say “OK”**
"_Young intellectuals in Boston came up with several of these abbreviations, including “KC” for “knuff ced,” “OW” for “oll wright,” and KY for “know yuse.” But thanks to its appearance in Martin Van Buren’s 1840 presidential re-election campaign as the incumbents new nickname, Old Kinderhook, OK outlived its abbreviated comrades._"
#Video length: five minutes and twenty one seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/1UnIDL-eHOs
#History #Word #Words #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
🔴 ⁉️ 🎥 **Where does punctuation come from?!**
"_In this episode I trace the punctuation we use every day as far back as I can._"
#Video length: eighteen minutes and fifty five seconds.
🔴 **Detectorists’ finds rewrite history by unearthing the real story of money**
"_A study of ancient coins has shifted the focus of Europe’s economic history from the Greeks and Romans to the Arabs_"
#Opinion #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archeology #Money #Economics #EconHist #Europe #Arabs @histodon @histodons @econhist
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **The Story of British Pathé – Around the World**
"_A fascinating introduction to the history of the pioneering newsreel company British Pathé, which documented almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain and around the world in the 20th century._"
#Video length: fifty nine minutes and sixteen seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/eOqy744ViSc
#Documentary #History #Histodon #Histodons #BritishPathé #News #Archives #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Britain #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 🗺️ 🇳🇴 🎥 **See Historical Maps in Oslo**
"_Anders Kvernberg (National Library of Oslo, nb.no) shows us some of the amazing historical maps housed at the National Library's Maps Center._"
#Video length: twenty three minutes and twenty nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/jmnMrOPoNrI
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Map #Maps #Cartography #Archives #Library #Oslo #Norway #Scandinavia #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich**
"_Evans devotes an incisive chapter to each of the rogues’ gallery of Göring, Goebbels, Himmler, von Ribbentrop and to notorious antisemites such as Ley, Streicher and Heydrich. It is however even more interesting to read about lesser figures who portrayed themselves after 1945 as honourable, principled and patriotic and far from being deranged and perverted._"
🔗 https://colinshindler.co.uk/hitlers-people/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Nazi #Germany #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇪🇸 **Archaeologists unearth ‘hidden empire’ after discovering long-lost Roman city**
"_Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered a trove of ancient Roman settlements that could point to the existence of a “hidden empire” previously unknown to historians._"
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology-roman-city-spain-cadiz-b2596838.html
#News #History #Histodon #Histodons #Roman #Empire #Imperium #Spain #Europe #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 **Mystery behind 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets predicting doom solved**
"_The text is the oldest archaeological record of lunar eclipse omens and shows how ancient astrologers made predictions about disasters threatening the Mesopotamian civilisation by analysing celestial phenomena._"
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #HIstory #Histodon #Histodons #Mesopotamia #Asia @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Who's the Greatest Actor in Movie History? A Statistical Analysis**
"_We'll deconstruct various facets of movie celebrity before pinpointing a handful of consensus selections. Will this exercise produce something authoritative? Who knows (and who knows what it means to be an authority)? Will we better understand different expressions of cinematic greatness while discussing some wonderful movies? Absolutely._"
🔗 https://www.statsignificant.com/p/whos-the-greatest-actor-in-movie
#Data #Statistics #Analysis #History #Movies #Cinema #Actors
🔴 📰 🎥 **Paleography and the Book Lecture “Where Did Newspaper Typeface Come From?”**
"_UChicago visiting scholar David Ganz discussed how influential scripts such as Caroline minuscule and Italian Humanistic served as models for typefaces like Times New Roman._"
#Video length: one hour and twenty one minutes.
🔗 https://youtu.be/hnTKDv0vdz0
#Lecture #Paleography #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Script #History #Histodon #Histodons #Typeface #Fonts #Typography #Newspaper #TimesNewRoman @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Historical and archaeogenomic identification of high-status Englishmen at Jamestown, Virginia**
"_Genomic analyses of the skeletons identify unexpected maternal relatedness as both carried the mitochondrial haplogroup H10e. In this unusual case, aDNA prompted further historical research that led to the discovery of illegitimacy in the West family, an aspect of identity omitted, likely intentionally, from genealogical records._"
Owsley, D.W. et al. (2024) ‘Historical and archaeogenomic identification of high-status Englishmen at Jamestown, Virginia’, Antiquity, pp. 1–15. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.75.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genealogy #History #Histodon #Histodons #Jamestown #Virginia #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Applying a transaction cost perspective to decode viking Scandinavia's earliest recorded value relation: insights from the forsa ring’s runic inscription**
"_The congruence in oxen valuation observed between Northern Sweden and 10th-century England is notably significant. It suggests the existence of a profoundly interwoven European institutional architecture of monetary relations that bridged considerable geographical expanses._"
Edvinsson, R. (2024) ‘Applying a transaction cost perspective to decode viking Scandinavia’s earliest recorded value relation: insights from the forsa ring’s runic inscription’, Scandinavian Economic History Review, pp. 1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2024.2378465.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Scandinavia #Europe #Economics #History #EconHist #Vikings #IronAge #Money #Runes #Academia #Academic #Academics @economics @econhist
🔴 **What Was the First Written Language?**
"_Human beings have been speaking languages for hundreds of thousands of years, but it is only recently that written language systems have been used._"
Beyer, Greg. "What Was the First Written Language?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/what-was-the-first-written-language/ (accessed August 12, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Writing #Languages #Linguistics @histodon @histodons @linguistics
🔴 🏴 **How the English Named New England**
_Explorer John Smith named New England. He sailed to the coast of what was then called Northern Virginia from Chesapeake Bay. Smith mapped it, using his version of Indian names, but he didn’t like Northern Virginia. He didn’t like the other names people had called it either, like Norumbega, Nuskoncus, Penaquida and Canada._
_Smith hit on “New England” and wrote a book about his travels there, with a map. The book sold well. Six years later, King James granted the land in a charter in which he wrote, “The name shall be called by the name New England in America.”_
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/how-the-english-named-new-england/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #NewEngland #England #English @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
🔴 🇹🇷 **University of Michigan Archaeologists Unearth Persian Gold in Historic Turkish Site**
"_University of Michigan archaeologists have uncovered a Persian gold hoard in Turkey, providing a rare glimpse into the ancient world and the interconnectedness of early civilizations._"
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Persian #Gold #Coins #Türkiye #Turkey @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Did the Romans flood the Colosseum to stage naval battles?**
🔗 https://www.badancient.com/claims/flood-the-colosseum/
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Romans #Empire @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?**
"_After defeating the Seleucids, the Parthians built a vast empire in Iran and Mesopotamia. For over four centuries, the Parthian Empire controlled the Silk Road, becoming Rome’s greatest rival._"
Bileta, Vedran. "Rome’s Greatest Rival: What Was The Parthian Empire?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/what-was-the-parthian-empire/ (accessed August 8, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Parthians #Romans #Empire #Imperialism @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **The Enigma of the Celtic Tomb**
"_2500 Years ago, a dynasty of Celtic Princes founded the first towns in Northern Europe. They constructed harbours along rivers and traded goods with people from all over Europe. This film presents new insights into Celtic history and culture thanks to exclusive access to the Celtic Tomb in Lavau (France) and the exceptionally rich and well-preserved collection of objects found on the gravesite._"
#Video length: fifty one minutes and twenty seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOfX5pUGwh0
#Documentary #History #Histodon #Histodons #Celts #Celtic #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 🏴 🇯🇵 📖 **The real-life English sailor of the TV series “Shogun”**
"_Frederik Cryns bases his book, In the Service of the Shogun, on primary historical sources—and it’s as exciting as the fictional retelling. It’s the true story of Shogun._"
🔗 https://malwarwickonbooks.com/true-story-of-shogun/
#EarlyModern #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Europe #Japan #Asia #Shogun #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @earlymodern @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
