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🇦🇺 **European cartographers' inaccurate maps of Australia have plenty to teach us**
🔗 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-06/european-cartography-maps-australia-terra-australis/105589656.
Resnick, Irven Michael. 2025. "Mongols, Apocalyptic Messianism, and Later Medieval Christian Fears of Mass Conversion to Judaism" Histories 5, no. 3: 36. https://doi.org/10.3390/histories5030036.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Culture #Religion #Medieval #Academia
🏴 **Viking North: Tracing Scandinavian influences in early medieval England**
🔗 https://the-past.com/feature/viking-north-tracing-scandinavian-influences-in-early-medieval-england/.
#History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Medieval #England @archaeodons
**Map: Anatolia, 1097**
#Image attribution: MapMaster, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anatolia_1097.svg.
#History #Histodons #AsiaMinor #Anatolia #Medieval #MiddleAges
🇺🇸 **Confederate general statue toppled in 2020 to be reinstalled in D.C.**
**European Overseas Colonies By Colonizer**
_Bastian Becker (2023); Gapminder - Population v7 (2022) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Number of colonies” [dataset]. Bastian Becker, “Colonial Dates Dataset (COLDAT) 3.0”; Gapminder, “Population v7” [original data]._
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/european-overseas-colonies-by-colonizer.
#Data #DataViz #History #Histodons #Europe #Colonialism #Imperialism @histodons
🇺🇸 **Black Friday and Gilded Age Robber Barons: Examining the 1869 Gold Crisis through Political Cartoons**
"_Black Friday involved two robber barons, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, who worked with Abel Corbin, a brother-in-law of President Ulysses S. Grant, to drive up the price of gold. Their scheme resulted in a dramatic price crash on September 24, 1869, which shuttered many brokerage firms and led to the value of gold and stocks falling by $100 million._"
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2025/08/black-friday-political-cartoons/.
**Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English**
"_This thesis examines the way in which Germanic dialects, which were brought to Britain by settlers in the post-Roman period and which ultimately evolved into Old English, came to predominate in the southern and eastern parts of the island over a stretch of roughly two centuries spanning the fifth to the seventh._"
🔗 https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/15187?v=pdf.
#OpenAccess #OA #Thesis #OldEnglish #Language #Migration #Britain #Germanic #AngloSaxons #Linguistics #History @linguistics
**How the riches of its graduates tied Edinburgh University to slavery**
"_Alumni such as Robert Halliday Gunning helped the university raise the equivalent of tens of millions of pounds_"
**"The Holy City" 1951 Jerusalem Travelogue Omar Mosque House Of Caiaphas Gethsemane**
#Video length: ten minutes and nine seconds.
📖 🎙️ **Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)**
"_The Perfect Fascist pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage―brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records―to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall._"
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Fascism #Italy #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **1964: "Throw It Away" Culture in the USA. BBC Archive**
"_It's no longer a fight to survive in a world in which there's too little, but a fight to survive in a world in which there is too much. We can now make more of practically everything than we can ever possibly hope to use. And to prosper, we must become a race of massive consumers wasting to live._"
#Video length: forty-nine minutes and forty-nine seconds
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGlybglr28.
#Documentary #History #USA #US #UnitedStates #Culture #Consumerism #Consumption
🐴 📖 **A Veterinary Text Between Mongols, Mamluks And Armenians**
"_This text, elaborately entitled The Matching Pearls Concerning the Knowledge of Precedents (al-Durr al-muṭābiq fī ʻilm al-sawābiq) in Or. 9823 and Formulary of equine medical science (Aqrābādhīn fī ʻilm ṭibb al-khayl) in Or. 3133, is a manual on the characteristics of horses and the treatment of equine diseases and injuries, in 182 or 183 short chapters._"
🔗 https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2025/07/veterinary-text.html.
🇮🇳 **A Colonial Hangover Or A Linguistic Leg-Up? India Grapples With The Enduring Appeal Of English**
_“Those who speak English will soon feel ashamed,” Home Minister Amit Shah said last month, igniting a heated debate about national identity and social mobility in the polyglot nation of 1.4 billion._
🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/25/india/india-bjp-english-language-tensions-intl-hnk-dst.
#History #Colonialism #English #Language #Society #Identity #Culture #India #Asia
📖 **The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes**
_The Anglo-Saxons were the finest race in the world, he declared, and ‘the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.’_
🔗 https://literaryreview.co.uk/diamonds-bust.
#History #Histodons #Biography #CecilRhodes #Colonialism #Imperialism #Nonfiction #BookReview #Review #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Who Won the Battle of Baton Rouge?**
📖 **The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires: Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries**
Noda, J. (07 Apr. 2016). The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004314474 [Accessed 23 July 2025] .
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
📖 **The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires: Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries**
Noda, J. (07 Apr. 2016). The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004314474 [Accessed 23 July 2025] .
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🧬 **Genetic history of Scythia**
"_Using high-quality genomic data generated from 131 ancient individuals from Great Scythia and neighboring regions of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, we established the genetic structure of the Scythians, revealing their diverse origin with major European Bronze Age ancestral components, and genetic traces of migration and invasions._"
Tatiana V. Andreeva et al., Genetic history of Scythia. Sci. Adv.11, eads8179 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads8179.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #History #Genetics #DNA #Scythians #BronzeAge #IronAge #Academia #Academics @science
🎙️ 📖 **Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)**
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
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