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.
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.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **1957: BRITISH SUNDAYS - Should We Have More FREEDOM?**
"_Christopher Chataway reports on the British Sunday, when theatres, shops and restaurants are closed and most sporting events are prohibited._
#Video length: eight minutes and fourteen seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/n62zZATx9Ts**
#History #Sunday #Europe #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #British #Freedom #C20th #20thCentury
🔴 **The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea**
"_What’s more, historians such as Oscar and Mary Handlin, Edmund Morgan and Edward Rugemer have largely confirmed Du Bois’s suspicion that while xenophobia appears to be fairly universal among human groupings, the invention of a white racial identity was motivated from the start by a need to justify the enslavement of Africans._"
🔗 **https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea**
🟡 **<font color="yellow">What Americans think about the Roman Empire</font>**
"_The longevity of the Roman Empire, its conversion to Christianity, its political structure, its pagan religion, and its military conquests are each viewed positively by more Americans than view them negatively, among the population who knows at least something about the Roman Empire. And Americans overwhelmingly say Roman slaveholding was a mostly negative aspect of the Roman Empire._"
🔗 **https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/50546-what-americans-think-about-the-roman-empire**
🟡 **<font color="yellow">Lord Kelvin: how the 19th century scientist combined research and innovation to change the world</font>**
"_Thomson’s lifelong talent for inventing ingenious scientific instruments secured him 70 patents, enabled dozens of scientific breakthroughs and made him a highly successful entrepreneur._"
🔴 🎥 **Hitler's American Ranch?**
#Video length: eight minutes and eighteen seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/T_qulE5iXi4**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Hitler #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **Sigrun's Wrath And The Discovery Of Iceland ¦ Viking Women**
"_The Vikings changed Europe forever, yet half of them have almost completely disappeared from collective memory: the women. Quite unjustly so, as they played an important role in the world of the Vikings and performed extraordinary deeds: Viking women commanded ships and settled colonies._"
#Video length: fifty two minutes and one second.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/h4D89QcTLGo**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Documentary #Vikings #Women #Iceland #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 **How to Rescue the Reputation of the Nasty Normans**
"_There’s a long tradition of casting the Normans as the bad guys of British history – powerful and impressive, maybe, but not sympathetic. Most of us like to identify with the underdog, and in British history that usually means the non-Norman._"
🔗 **https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/how-rescue-reputation-nasty-normans**
#Britian #British #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 📚 🎥 **Hugh of Fouilloy and William of Conches’ De Natura Avium**
"_Are you interested in old books? Written and compiled in the late 12th century, this luxury manuscript compiles several texts about the natural world, including from natural philosopher and medieval scientist William of Conches._"
#Video length: seven minutes and thirty one seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/7dmVcDXM7vk**
#History #OldBook #OldBooks #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🔬 🎥 **The Revolutionary Compound Microscope**
"_Get a close-up look at a French gilt-bronze compound microscope, a technological wonder of the18th century, with conservator Arlen Heginbotham._"
#Video length: five minutes and six seconds.
🔴 🎙️ **Episode 324: The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest**
"_In this week’s episode, hear the tale of the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest, and understand why it such a monumentally important event in human history._"
🔗 **https://halfarsedhistory.net/2024/09/08/episode-324-the-battle-of-the-teutoburg-forest/**
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodon #Histodons #Rome #Imperium @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond**
"_This volume marks the first edited collection to be dedicated to the study of Josephus, Yosippon, and their reception histories. Consisting of critical inquiries into one or both of these texts and their afterlives, the essays in this volume pave the way for future research on the Josephan tradition in Greek, Latin, Hebrew and beyond._"
Bay, C., Avioz, M., and van Henten, J. W. (eds) (06 Jun. 2024). From Josephus to Yosippon and Beyond, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004693296 [Accessed 06 September 2024]
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon (90)
🔴 **Romans’ siege wall in Masada may have been built in a fortnight, study finds**
"_The researchers estimate that the siege wall could have been completed by the 6,000-8,000 soldiers in less than two weeks, leaving them free to concentrate on building a ramp that ultimately breached the fortress._"
🔗 **https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/04/romans-siege-wall-masada-archaeology-israel**
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Israel #Levant #MiddleEast #Asia #Roman #Imperium #History #Histodon #Histodons @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **François de Foix de Candalle: Euclidean authorship in the sixteenth century**
"_Despite Foix’s stated intention to ‘restore’ the text he – ironically – enjoyed an unusual success as a Euclidean author: few other writers, if any, in his or the succeeding century inserted into Euclid’s Elements new material of such bulk and longevity._"
Wardhaugh, B. (2024) ‘François de Foix de Candalle: Euclidean authorship in the sixteenth century’, British Journal for the History of Mathematics, pp. 1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/26375451.2024.2384819.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #C16th #16thCentury #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Geometry #Euclid #HistSci #Academia #Academic #Academics
🔴 📖 **John Eldevik on Reading Prester John**
"_Much of the interest in Prester John appears to have been driven by apocalyptic theology and ideas about the Crusades, the culmination of history, and Christianity’s conflict with Islam. As for where this thing originated, one of the things I do is show how it’s really a composite text that was woven together out of several pre-existing traditions about this priest-king John, the emperor Manuel, and Christian lands in Asia._"
🔗 **https://www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2024/09/02/john-eldevik-on-reading-prester-john/**
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Medieval #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🏴 🇮🇷 **Amazing’ Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland, analysis finds**
"_It is a star object of the Galloway Hoard, the richest collection of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland, buried in AD900 and unearthed in a field in Scotland. Now a lidded silver vessel has been identified as being of west Asian origin, transported halfway around the world more than 1,000 years ago._"
#News #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Scotland #Iran @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?**
"_Ultimately, a lack of conviction in the Confederate cause, unwilling compatriots, and fear of battle influenced his decision to withdraw from the military._"
Stoyack, Aaron. "Was Mark Twain Really a Confederate?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/mark-twain-civil-war-confederate/ (accessed August 30, 2024).
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Confederacy #MarkTwain @histodon @histodons
🔴 **The curious origins of four English expressions – including will-o’-the-wisp and against the grain**
"_The origins of English expressions are often obscure and require deep linguistic and documentary research to be explained. Being phrases, not single words, their intrinsic meanings can be reconstructed by studying old texts and their earliest use._"
#Linguistics #History #English #Langauge #Etymology #Idioms @linguistics
🔴 📖 **“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._"
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **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._"
🔗 **https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/how-south-became-republican**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Republicans #GOP #Eisenhower #TheSouth @histodon @histodons
🔴 **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_"
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Harvard #Education @histodon @histodons
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.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
