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🏴 **Great Bibles reunited for first time in 500 years**
**How Lexington Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan led a disastrous Civil War raid**
🔗 https://www.kentucky.com/news/know-your-kentucky/article309374245.html.
📖 **The Lost Colony of the Confederacy**
"_Eugene Harter vividly describes the lives of these last Confederates who founded their own city and were called Os Confederados. They retained much of their Southernness and lent an American flavor to Brazilian culture._"
🔗 https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781585441020/the-lost-colony-of-the-confederacy/.
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #USA #US #UnitedStates #Brazil @histodons @bookstodon
**A Confederate Raider Fired the Final Shots of the Civil War in the Arctic, Two and a Half Months After Robert E. Lee Surrendered**
#History #Histodons #Confederacy #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodons
🔭 **Astronomy**
On this day in 1675 the Royal Observatory Greenwich was founded.
**What History Tells and Teaches Us? We Ask Oxford Professor**
🔗 https://astanatimes.com/2025/06/what-history-tells-and-teaches-us-we-ask-oxford-professor/.
**A century of science history: the Museo Galileo in Florence celebrates its first 100 years with an exhibition**
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**Tristan da Cunha: Britain's Most Remote Colony & The Forgotten Garrison**
#Video length: twenty-two minutes and forty-five seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtJ_Mq_Fwq0.
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Empire #TristanDaCunha #Colony #Imperialism #Colonisation @histodons
🇺🇸 **The Slave Who Hijacked a Confederate Warship & Became the First Black Captain in the US Navy**
**Captain Cook’s missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago**
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**History: Nova Albion**
On this day in 1579 English explorer Francis Drake landed in what is modern day California claiming the territory for England.
**Coin hoard spans Roman republic to first emperor**
"_The denarii date from the late 2nd Century BC, in the last tumultuous decades of the Roman republic, to the first Roman emperors and could have been a purse loss._"
**The Month In History**
"_Momentous historical events that occurred during the month of June._"
#Video length: twenty eight minutes and seven seconds.
🗺️ **How Long Each Territory Was Part of The Roman Empire (Western and/or Eastern)**
🇬🇧 **Imperfect Memories of British Slavery**
“_British abolition in 1833 was accompanied by £20 million paid in compensation to slaveholders, many of whom subsequently “forgot” slavery ever existed._”
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/imperfect-memories-of-british-slavery/.
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Slavery @histodons
**7 Fun Facts About New England’s Colonial Rangers**
🔗 https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/7-fun-facts-about-new-englands-colonial-rangers/.
**Born On This Day: Sarah Rapelje**
Sarah Rapelje was born on this day in Albany on 9th June 1625. She was the first child of European descent to be born in the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
📖 **Fascism: The History of a Word**
_Exploring the writings and deeds of political leaders, activists, artists, authors, and philosophers, Federico Marcon traces the history of the term’s use (and usefulness) in relation to Mussolini’s political regime, antifascist resistance, and the quest of postwar historians to develop a definition of a “fascist minimum.”_
🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo247752701.html.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Fascism #Fascist #History #Histodons @histodons @bookstodon
📸 🇳🇴 **King Harald Hardrada**
#Image attribution: Lerwick Town Hall, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haraldhardrada.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haraldhardrada.jpg.
**Gold Solidus of Theodosius II, Constantinople, 425–429 AD.**
#Gold #Coin #Numismatics #History #Byzantine #Empire
#Image attribution: ANS, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_Solidus_of_Theodosius_II,_425-429.jpg.
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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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