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🔴 📖 **“The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present” by Allen James Fromherz**

"_Fromherz focuses on two main characteristics that have framed and formed the Gulf as a region: first, it was open to commerce, people and ideas and, second, that it mostly managed to wriggle out of the grip of larger empires. Both were very much functions of geography._"

🔗 **asianreviewofbooks.com/content**

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🔴 🇺🇸 **How the South Became Republican**

"_Over the course of the 1952 campaign Eisenhower made three swings through the South, visiting every state except Mississippi. He cajoled audiences and slammed politics in the capital. At times, he courted controversy. When ‘Dixie’, a pro-Confederate song and relic of the Civil War, was played during a visit to South Carolina, Eisenhower commented: ‘I always stand up when they play that song’, drawing cheers from the crowd._"

🔗 **historytoday.com/archive/histo**

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🔴 **Her gift launched four centuries of Harvard financial aid**

"_As a woman, Anne Radcliffe wouldn’t have been able to attend the University when she donated its first scholarship in 1643_"

🔗 **news.harvard.edu/gazette/story**

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🔴 🎙️ **Episode 308 – The Fall of Anatolia**

"_The arrival of the Mongols in Anatolia would eventually lead to the expulsion of the Romans. Mongol dominance of the plateau sent waves of tribes into Byzantine territory. It was a crisis which the Emperor Andronikos was not equal to._"

🔗 **thehistoryofbyzantium.com/2024**

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🔴 🎙️ **Podcast with Rachel Kousser, author of “Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great”**

"_But what drove Alexander to keep marching? What was the kind of empire Alexander wanted to build? And why did he eventually turn back at the Indus River, his soldiers begging for him to return home?_"

🔗 asianreviewofbooks.com/content

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🔴 **What's the farthest place the Vikings reached?**

"_Lesser-known is the Vikings' southward expansion, around the northern coast of Francia (now France), the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and, finally, along the north coast of Africa in the early 11th century. However, because of the challenging arid conditions and lack of waterways, they never attempted to cross the Sahara and expand further into Africa._"

🔗 livescience.com/archaeology/vi

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🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ **History professor examines Nelson Rockefeller’s career as a lens for Republican Party’s rightward shift**

_“When Ronald Reagan left office, people like Newt Gingrich were more antagonistic and had a more ideological approach to conservatism. They kept pushing the party further and further to the right. What we see now in the Republican party is part of this long tradition during the 20th century,” Barrett said. “It will continue down this path as long as enough voters find this version of conservatism attractive.”_

🔗 news.illinois.edu/view/6367/19

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🔴 **Phoenician Trade Associations in Ancient Greece**

"_Such associations were a Phoenician invention of the 4th century BCE that emerged in migrant communities in Athens to represent their interests and provide them a social and physical space for maintaining religious and other cultural ties to their home state._"

🔗 asor.org/anetoday/2024/08/phoe

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🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Geometric Haircuts**

"_A Knightsbridge hair stylist uses Geometry to design haircuts of the future (1956)._"

length: forty three seconds.

🔗 youtu.be/9SR963yYjOY

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🔴 🎥 **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._"

length: five minutes and twenty one seconds.

🔗 youtu.be/1UnIDL-eHOs

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🔴 ⁉️ 🎥 **Where does punctuation come from?!**

"_In this episode I trace the punctuation we use every day as far back as I can._"

length: eighteen minutes and fifty five seconds.

🔗 youtu.be/k9Re5otW-v0

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🔴 **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_"

🔗 theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **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._"

length: fifty nine minutes and sixteen seconds.

🔗 youtu.be/eOqy744ViSc

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🔴 🗺️ 🇳🇴 🎥 **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._"

length: twenty three minutes and twenty nine seconds.

🔗 youtu.be/jmnMrOPoNrI

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🔴 📖 **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._"

🔗 colinshindler.co.uk/hitlers-pe

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🔴 🇪🇸 **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._"

🔗 independent.co.uk/news/science

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🔴 **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._"

🔗 independent.co.uk/news/science

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🔴 **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._"

🔗 statsignificant.com/p/whos-the

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🔴 📰 🎥 **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._"

length: one hour and twenty one minutes.

🔗 youtu.be/hnTKDv0vdz0

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🔴 **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: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.75.

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