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🇺🇸 **Lest We Forget / Davenport**
_"Lest we forget" is the refrain in Rudyard Kipling's poem, Recessional, published in 1897 at the height of the British empire. In the poem, Kipling warns against the perils of pride and the impermanence of power. The United States emerged from the Spanish American war in 1899 as a quasi-imperial power. The cartoonist may be cautioning the nation to remember its humble beginnings._
Davenport, H. (ca. 1899) Lest we forget / Davenport. Pennsylvania United States, ca. 1899. [1893 i.e] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003675317/.
#History #Histodons #UncleSam #C19th #19thCentury #USA #US #UnitedStates #Cartoon #RudyardKipling #Poetry @histodons
**What did the Vikings really think about pregnant women?**
"_Archaeologist Marianne Hem Eriksen has been searching for traces of pregnant women in the Viking Age. The fact that she found almost none tells its own story._"
#History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Women @archaeodons
📖 🇺🇸 **After Failing Math Twice, a Young Benjamin Franklin Turned to This Popular 17th-Century Textbook**
_By age 16, “being on some occasion made ashamed of my ignorance in figures, which I had twice failed in learning when at school,” Franklin continued, “I took Cocker’s book of arithmetic and went through the whole by myself with great ease.”_
#History #Histodons #BenFranklin #Books #Bookstodon #Maths #Mathematics @histodons @bookstodon
🖥️ 🇺🇸 **White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers**
"_In one, an AI-generated John Adams says “facts do not care about our feelings,” a phrase commonly attributed to conservative commentator and PragerU contributor Ben Shapiro._"
🔗 https://www.404media.co/white-house-partners-with-prageru-to-make-ai-slopified-founding-fathers/.
#PagerU #History #Histodons #FoundingFathers #AI #AISlop #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @histodons
📚 🐲 **Dragons in the Astronomicum Caesareum**
"_In 1540, humanist polymath, mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, professor, and printer, Peter Apian (1495-1552) published one of the most lavishly illustrated scientific books ever printed. Dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his brother, Ferdinand I, the Astronomicum Caesareum (Imperial Astronomy) contains 21 volvelles and 58 hand-colored woodcuts that involve some of the most spectacular computational dragons in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division._"
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2025/07/18/dragons-in-the-astronomicum-caesareum/.
#Dragons #History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🌎 **The Population of the Americas in 1492 is Disputed**
_Needless to say, this is a brutally emotional and partisan topic, because to ask “how many people lived in the Americas in 1492?” is to ask “how great an atrocity was the European settlement of the Americas?”_
🔗 https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/07/20/the-population-of-the-americas-in-1492-is-disputed/.
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 **War Plan Red: The Forgotten U.S. Plot to Battle Britain**
"_The existence of War Plan Red highlights the intense atmosphere of suspicion and military planning that defined the early 20th century, a time when even America’s closest allies were viewed as potential rivals._"
🔗 https://historycollection.com/war-plan-red-the-forgotten-u-s-plot-to-battle-britain/.
#History #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #UK #UnitedKingdom @histodons
📖 **Galileo’s Lost Star: Rare Book Breaks $1.5M at Auction**
"_Galileo’s rare first book on the 1604 supernova sold for $1.5 million at Christie’s, a stellar result for the scientist who changed how we see the heavens._"
🔗 https://www.antiquetrader.com/galileos-lost-star-rare-book-breaks-1-5m-at-auction.
#History #Science #HistSci #Book #Bookstodon @science@a.gup.pe @bookstodon
📖 **Concentration Camps: A Global History**
"_In popular perception, concentration camps are synonymous with genocide—racial extermination. Yet the great majority of them were not sites of genocide. Nor were they a Nazi invention. This book shows they were a global and transnational phenomenon, emerging on the colonial periphery of Britain, Spain, the USA, and Germany around 1900._"
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780192520906.001.0001.
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Imperialism #Colonialism #ConcentrationCamps @histodons @bookstodon
📖 **Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land**
🔗 https://lachief.substack.com/p/book-review-melting-point-family.
#History #Histodons #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @histodon @bookstodons
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **From East India Company labourer to gentleman - the life of Benjamin Constable**
#History #Histodon #UK #UnitedKingdom #India #EastIndiaCompany @histodons
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **From East India Company labourer to gentleman - the life of Benjamin Constable **
#History #Histodon #UK #UnitedKingdom #India #EastIndiaCompany @histodons
**Algorithm On Fleek: How TikTok is Transforming the English Language**
"_Adam Aleksic Explores the Evolution of Popular Vernacular, From the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era_"
🔗 https://lithub.com/algorithm-on-fleek-how-tiktok-is-transforming-the-english-language/.
🗺️ 📚 **The History Of Cartography In Portable Document Format**
Volumes I, II, III, IV and VI:
https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html.
#History #Histodons #Maps #Cartography #Read #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #PDF @histodons @bookstodon
🎙️ **Spelling Says a Lot (Part 1)**
"_In this episode, we examine how English spelling reformers described the pronunciation of English in the early 1600s, and we also explore how Modern English spellings reflect the phonetic history of words._"
🔗 https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2025/07/15/episode-184-spelling-says-a-lot-part-1/.
**Everything Has a Price: The Commercial Gaze and the Origins of Corporate Empire**
"_As travel narratives from the early days of the English East India Company—1601 to 1611—show, the mature form of the British Empire took shape via a commercial gaze that increasingly rendered the world as inventory. By the end of this period, such narratives focused obsessively on the dry heights of markets, merchandise, and profit—even when the journeys themselves had been harrowing._"
🗺️ 📻 **The history of mapping takes 50 years to tell**
A radio interview with @mhedney on the Larry Meiller Show discussing the history of cartography.
https://www.wpr.org/shows/larry-meiller-show/ais-mixed-success-and-the-history-of-cartography.
**Flag: American Party, 1844-1860**
#History #Flag #KnowNothingParty #AmericanParty #USPol #Politics #Nationalism #Nativism #Populism
#Image attribution: American Party (1844-1860), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digital_Reproduction_of_the_Know-Nothing_Party_Flag.jpg.
**The Ancient Machine That Measured Time With Water**
"_In the 3rd century BCE, in the city of Alexandria, a brilliant Greek inventor named Ctesibius created a water-powered timekeeping device, so precise it remained unmatched for the next 1,800 years, until the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656._"
#Video length: ten minutes and seventeen seconds.
🇺🇸 **Franklin D. Roosevelt And A Fourth Term**
"_On this day in 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt announced he would run for a fourth term as President of the United States._"
#Video length: two minutes and twenty-nine seconds.
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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