Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🔴 **Insulting Etymology + Savage Insults from History**
Jess Zafarris
_“Flyting, earlier simply a word for an argument, is a poetic war of words or entertaining debate in which the two contestants attempt to “out-bard” each other, so to speak. (It’s basically the predecessor to a rap battle.) The humor is often crude and escalates into rhythmic strings of insults.”_
🔗 https://uselessetymology.com/2025/01/10/insulting-etymology-savage-insults-from-history/
#History #Etymology #Linguistics #English #Language @linguistics
🔴 🇺🇸 **Border Control in Early America**
Christa Dierksheide
_“In the decades preceding the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, citizenship was conferred by states, not the federal government. Legislatures exercised enormous power over migration into and out of states in order to control—and engineer—the path to citizenship. Because these lawmakers wanted to restrict citizenship within their respective states to white property holders, they designed punitive immigration policies that either heavily restricted or prohibited Black settlement. Classifying people of color as “aliens” eliminated the possibility of Black citizenship.”_
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/01/08/border-control-in-early-america/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Border #C19th #19thCentury @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **This Month in Movietone History**
@BritishMovietone
_"Momentous historical events that occurred during the month of January"_
#Video length: seventeen minutes and twenty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24C1jlPOAFY
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Churchill #Eisenhower #Leningrad #HarryTruman #JFK @histodon @histodons
🔴 🌎 **1818 Pinkerton Map of North America. Geographicus**
_“This is an extremely unusual mapping of North America prepared for the 1818 American edition of Pinkerton's Atlas. Although the basic engraving remains identical to Pinkerton's Atlas of 1813, published in London, the coloration has been updated to reflect American sensibilities.”_
#Map #Maps #Cartography #History #C19th #19thCentury #Canada #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
#Image attribution: John Pinkerton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1818_Pinkerton_Map_of_North_America_-_Geographicus.jpg.
🔴 🎙️ **Trial and Error: Galileo and the Inquisition**
_“The philosophical issues at the heart of the notorious condemnation of Galileo and Copernican astronomy.”_
🔗 https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/galileo-inquisition
#Podcast #History #Philosophy #Galileo #Inquisition @philosophy
🔴 🎥 **The Story of the Vikings is the Story of Us. Søren Sindbæk**
Vikingology: The Art and Science of the Viking Age
_“In one of our most wide-ranging conversations yet, we discussed why hair combs were the iPhone of the Viking Age, the maritime legacy of the Nordic people, whether C.J.’s salt hypothesis holds any weight, the ethics of archaeology, and how Vikings get interpreted and misinterpreted in the modern era, plus more.”_
#Video length: one hour and thirty-eight minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmyfZ4P3G4Y
#Podcast #Vikings #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 **Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?**
_“I am arguing that it is likely that the men buried in the princely burials at Prittlewell and Sutton Hoo mound 1 served, with a group of their contemporaries, as cavalry soldiers in the Foederati recruited by Tiberius in 575 in the wars with the Sasanians on the eastern front.”_
Helen Gittos, Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?, The English Historical Review, 2025;, ceae213, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae213.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Europe #AngloSaxons #SuttonHoo #Byzantinum #Asia #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **A Very Basic Introduction To Ancient Carthage**
MoAn Inc.
#Video length: thirty-two minutes and twenty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cuoGKSo8-A
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Carthage @histodon @histodons
🔴 🗺️ **Johnson's Prussia Norway, Sweden and Denmark (1862)**
_“Includes Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Prussia. Also includes most, and in some cases all, of Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of western Russia, though they are not the direct focus of the map.”_
#History #Cartography #Map #Prussia #Norway #Sweden #Denmark #Europe
#Image attribution: Alvin Jewett Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1862_Johnson%27s_Map_of_Scandinavia,_Norway,_Sweden,_Finland_%5E_Denmark_-_Geographicus_-_Scandinavia-johnson-1862.jpg.
🔴 **High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe**
_“We reveal evidence of the southward and/or eastward expansion of individuals who probably spoke Germanic languages and who had Scandinavian-related ancestry in the first half of the first millennium ce. We note that ‘Scandinavian-related’ in this context relates to the ancient genomes available, and so it is entirely possible that these processes were driven, for example, from regions in northern-central Europe. This could be consistent with the attraction of the greater wealth, which tended to build up among Rome’s immediate neighbours and may have played a major role in vectors of migration internal to communities in Europe who lived beyond the Roman frontier52.”_
Speidel, L., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe. Nature 637, 118–126 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08275-2
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genomics #Genetics #Science #History #Medieval #Medievodons #Scandinavia #Europe #Migration #Migrants #Academia #Academics @science @medievodons @archaeodons
🔴 **491 BC - 1902 AD - A Long Time Between Drinks**
_“ In 499 BC, the Persian Achaemenid Empire tried unsuccessfully to conquer various ancient Greek city-states. Finally in 449 BC a de facto peace was concluded and the Greco-Persian Wars effectively ended. In 1902, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah of Persia and George I of Greece agreed to de jure recognition and after 2393 years established diplomatic relations. This of course ignores a long history of Greco-Persian interactions thereafter throughout Antiquity, not least the Peace of Antalcidas, the conquests of Alexander the Great and the Seleucid Empire, or even the long history of the Byzantine-Persian wars.”_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Greece #Europe #Persia #Asia #Cartoon @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Samuel D. Ehrhart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:491_BC_-_1902_AD_-_A_Long_Time_Between_Drinks.jpg.
🔴 **Restoring At-Risk Assyrian Cultural Heritage: Archaeologists Recover Remarkably Preserved Shrines from a Temple in Iraq **
_“In its third season, project excavations unearthed two new shrines within the sprawling Ninurta Temple. Inside the larger shrine, the team found a monumental stone dais (a low platform for the statue of a god or goddess worshipped in the temple (measuring about 12 ft. by 9.5 ft.) with a cuneiform inscription, presumably of King Ashurnasirpal II.”_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Assriya #Iraq #MiddleEast #Asia @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century**
Dwarkesh Patel
#Video length: one hour and twenty-eight minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sveBcfz0fHk
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Energy #Oil #FossilFuels #C20th #20thCentury @histodon @histodons
🔴 🌍 **List of territory purchased by a sovereign nation from another sovereign nation**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Wikipedia #List #Nations @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 🇮🇹 **Lives of the early Medici : As told in their correspondence by Janet Ross**
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74973
#History #Medici #Florence #Italy #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #EBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: National Gallery of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florentine_15th_Century,_Cosimo_de%27_Medici,_1389-1464,_Pater_Patriae_(obverse),_c._1465-1469,_NGA_44771.jpg.
🔴 **Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages**
_“We find a deep east-west divide of steppe ancestry in Southern Europe during the Bronze Age. Specifically, we show that the arrival of steppe ancestry in Spain, France, and Italy was mediated by Bell Beaker (BB) populations of Western Europe, likely contributing to the emergence of the Italic and Celtic languages. In contrast, Armenian and Greek populations acquired steppe ancestry directly from Yamnaya groups of Eastern Europe.”_
Yediay, F.E. et al. (2024) 'Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages,' bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332.
#Preprint #Ancient #History #IndoEuropean #Languages #Linguistics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #BronzeAge #Academia #Academics @linguistics @archaeodons @anthropology
🔴 **Water and Gruel – not Bread: Discovering the Diet of Early Neolithic Farmers in Scandinavia**
_“The results support a hypothesis that archaeobotanists and archaeologists elsewhere in Northern Europe also have proposed after discovering remains of grains cooked into porridge and gruel: that the first farmers did not live on water and bread but rather on water and gruel, alongside berries, nuts, roots, and meat.”_
🔗 https://nat.au.dk/en/about-the-faculty/news/show/artikel/stenalderbonden-var-paa-vand-og-groed
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Neolithic #Scandinavia #Europe #Diet #Porridge #Gruel @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇳🇴 **Treasure trove of jewellery, coins and ‘vulva stone’ discovered in Viking women’s graves**
Vishwam Sankaran
_“Archaeologists theorise that the vulva stone may have served as a marker to indicate the grave belonged to a woman, whose body was likely not buried in the tomb but elsewhere._
_This theory could explain why none of the women’s bones were found at the burial site, researchers suggest.”_
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Norway #Scandinavia #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **The Early Days of American English**
"How English words evolved on a foreign continent. "
🔗 https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/early-days-american-english
#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #English #Words #Langauge #Linguistics #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @linguistics
**What brought the decline of the eastern Roman Empire – and what can we learn from it?**
_"It seems the Roman Empire entered the 7th century at the peak of its power. But Roman miscalculations, and their failure against their Persian opponents, brought the entire area into a downward spiral. This left the two empires weak and allowed Islam to rise."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #RomanEmpire #Romans #Imperialism #Empire @histodon @histodons
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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