Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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📖 **Alexander the Great in Jerusalem**
"_But did Alexander the Great visit Jerusalem, or didn’t he? That is the single most frequently asked question when people hear the title of my new book, Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth & History._"
📖 **Was ‘Aeneid’ critiquing or glorifying empire?**
_Virgil doesn’t, by any means, invent Aeneas, but he gives Aeneas, who was a relatively minor figure in Homer’s “Iliad,” new primacy at the center of his epic. During Virgil’s time, Augustus emerged, after the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C., as the first emperor of Rome, and it was as this new regime was being consolidated in the 20s B.C. that Virgil wrote “The Aeneid.”_
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/was-aeneid-critiquing-or-glorifying-empire/.
📚 **BOOK REVIEW: A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis that Spurred the American Revolution by Andrew Lawler**
🌎 **What if Christopher Columbus had never reached the Americas?**
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/what-if-christopher-columbus-had-never-reached-the-americas.
📖 🎙️ 🏴 🇺🇸 **Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War By Aaron Sheehan-Dean**
"_As Dr. Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, nineteenth-century Americans were especially conversant with narratives of the English Civil Wars of the 1600s. Northerners and Southerners alike drew from histories of the English past to make sense of their own conflict, interpreting the events of the past in drastically different ways._"
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/fighting-with-the-past.
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #England #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Is Jack Sparrow based on a 16th Century Kent pirate?**
"_A former fish gutter from Kent may have been the inspiration for Captain Jack Sparrow, the character made famous by Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean films._"
**Marie Antoinette portrait really sister, study finds**
"_A famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, new research has found._"
🎥 **The Month Of October In History**
"_In 1929, New York Stock Exchange Slump_
_In 1946, Nuremberg - The Verdicts
In 1962, President John F Kennedy Speech - Sound_
_In 1962, Crisis Over Cuba
In 1967, Vietnam Protest_"
🇦🇺 **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**
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