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🇦🇺 **The World’s Largest Gold Nugget Was So Heavy, It Had To Be Broken To Be Weighed**
"_Just beneath the surface of the Australian outback, a chance strike in 1869 revealed a gold discovery so enormous it left a local town in disbelief._"
🔗 https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/world-largest-gold-nugget-was-so-heavy/.
🇸🇪 **Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm**
"_A preliminary analysis showed that most of the silver coins date to the 12th century. Some bear the text "KANUTUS," the Latin name for Knut, meaning they were minted during the reign of Swedish king Knut Eriksson, who ruled from 1173 to about 1195._"
#History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Numismatics #Medieval #Medievodons #MiddleAges #Sweden
**A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apart**
"_I came to understand that their marriage failed not only because of interpersonal tensions and a clash of values, but also because of some of the ways in which ideas about gender, race and Indigenous identity were rapidly changing in the U.S._"
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Biography #Books #Bookstodon #Romance #SouthDakota #Racism #Sexism #LongReads
🇺🇸 **The Return of America’s Tariff Gamble**
"_Nearly a hundred years after a protectionist policy helped plunge the world into depression, the U.S. flirts with the same economic playbook. History offers a warning._"
🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/adelinevondrehle/p/the-return-of-americas-tariff-gamble
🖥️ **Today’s AI hype has echoes of a devastating technology boom and bust 100 years ago**
#History #Histodons #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #Tech #Economy #GreatDepression
🇺🇸 **History shows war against immigrants will backfire on all Americans**
"_A newly deported migrant does not yield an employed native. Indeed, the deportation is likely to cause employers to let go of American workers too. What deportations do achieve is to reduce the labor force. The native-born workforce shrank last year. Hiring is slow largely because kicking migrants out means there are fewer workers to hire._"
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/10/war-against-immigrants-american-workforce.
#History #Histodons #Economy #Economics #Immigration #Migrants
**In Defense of Incredulity**
"_Thousands of years ago, Homer’s Odyssey commended incredulity as vital for human survival and success. Long before social media, digital algorithms, and artificial intelligence began to dominate public discourse, imperil diversity of opinion, and diminish our capacity for free, creative, independent thought, the Odyssey cultivated incredulity._"
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/10/07/in-defense-of-incredulity/.
**A fragment of Aristotle’s lost Eudemus in Tertullian’s De Anima**
**Why did Endurance sink?**
"_Endurance was not designed for compressive conditions in the Antarctic pack ice, but for easier conditions at the ice edge in the Arctic. The weakest part of its hull was the engine room area, which was not only larger than in other early Antarctic ships but also lacked beams to give strength against compression by ice._"
Tuhkuri, J. (2025) ‘Why did endurance sink?’, Polar Record, 61, p. e23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247425100090.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Endurance #Shackleton #Antarctic #Ships #Academia
**A 1920 Plan To Create The Central European Union Made-Up Of 24 “Kantons,” Each Named After A Prominent European City Within It**
**John Argentine: Cambridge physician and royal doctor**
🇰🇿 **Kazakhstan Releases Ancient Manuscript of Historic National Epic**
"_The epic stands out for its archaic expressions and unusual linguistic features not commonly found in Turkic languages, highlighting its ancient origins – an aspect emphasized by prominent turkologist Platon Melioransky._"
🔗 https://astanatimes.com/2025/10/kazakhstan-releases-ancient-manuscript-of-historic-national-epic/.
📚 **The Collected Papers Of Albert Einstein**
Volume One: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol-l/.
Volume Two: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol-2-1900-1909.
Volume Three: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einsten-volume-3-the-swiss-year-1909-1911.
Volume Six: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol.-6-the-berlin-years-writings-1914-1917.
📖 **1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation**
"_This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that “this time is different.” It’s about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late._"
🔗 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321010/1929-by-sorkin-andrew-ross/9780241479414.
#History #Histodons #Economics #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**Mapping disease: John Snow and Cholera**
"_By talking to local residents (with the help of the Reverend Henry Whitehead), Snow identified the source of the outbreak as the contaminated public water pump on Broad Street (now Broadwick Street). He did this by mapping the deaths from cholera, and noted that they were mostly people whose nearest access to water was the Broad Street pump...._"
#History #Histodons #HistSci #Science #Medicine #Cholera #Maps #Cartography
🇺🇸 **Map of the American Civil War, 1861-1865**
🔗 https://www.worldhistory.org/image/21119/map-of-the-american-civil-war-1861-1865/.
**The Getty Center’s ‘Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages’ Is a Visual Feast of Medieval Movement**
🔗 https://observer.com/2025/10/exhibition-review-getty-center-going-places-travel-in-the-middle-ages/.
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Art #Culture #Museum #Archives
🇮🇪 🏴 📖 **Book of Kells: exploring the evidence that points to Pictish origins in north-east Scotland**
"_While at present it is impossible to prove beyond doubt, Whitworth’s book highlights an important new potential provenance for the Book of Kells. However, it also serves as a timely reminder that our preoccupation with the “nationality” of the manuscript is based on a 19th-century construct, which can distract from other considerations._"
#History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #Ireland #Scotland #Picts #Manuscript
🇮🇹 🇪🇹 🎥 **Second Italo-Ethiopian War - 1935**
"_On this day in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia, marking the beginning of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War._"
#Video length: three minutes and eleven seconds.
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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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