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🇺🇸 📖 🎥 **Jeffrey Rosen on The Pursuit of Liberty**
"_Jeffrey Rosen talked about his book, The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America._"
#Video length: forty-seven minutes and two seconds.
🔗 https://www.c-span.org/program/washington-journal/jeffrey-rosen-on-the-pursuit-of-liberty/668129.
#History #Histodons #Politics #USPol #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**Oldest coin ever found in Saxony: 2,200-year-old Celtic gold “Rainbow Cup” unearthed near Leipzig**
"_It is classified as a Celtic quarter stater, dated to the 3rd century BCE, and was likely minted in northern Bohemia, one of the main Celtic centers at that time._"
🔗 https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/oldest-coin-ever-found-in-saxony/.
#History #Celtic #Gold #Coin #Saxony #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Numismatics
📖 **Horrific massacre that fueled drive to end slave trade**
"_New history traces nightmare voyage, high-profile British trial over insurance claim to collect for jettisoned ‘cargo’_"
**Earliest Chinese writing possibly unearthed in Hubei**
"_The Hubei Daily reported that the forms of these characters are nearly identical to those found in oracle bone inscriptions, demonstrating that 7,000 years ago, early inhabitants of the region already possessed a relatively sophisticated concept of civilization._"
**How a Former Waffen-SS Officer Became an American War Hero Buried at Arlington National Cemetery**
"_...the man buried there was born Lauri Allan Törni in Viipuri, Finland, on May 28, 1919, fought for three nations across three decades, and remains the only known former Waffen-SS member interred at Arlington — a legendary soldier who became a U.S. Army Special Forces hero._"
**Arizona marks the spot: Locating the first European settlement in the American Southwest**
"_At Suya there is evidence for a pitched battle, consistent with documentary accounts. This marks this conflict as the first successful Native American uprising in the continental US. This distinction results from the fact that Spaniards did not return to what would become southern Arizona for 150 years, although they would probe and settle other portions of the American Southwest later in the sixteenth century._"
#History #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Arizona #America
🇦🇺 **All fail Caesar: students at eight schools taught wrong topic for final year 12 history exam**
"_Students were meant to study Julius Caesar, but the affected pupils instead learned about his nephew Augustus, according to the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority._"
🇺🇸 **A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/10/27/nx-s1-5587824/confederate-statue-albert-pike-trump.
#History #Histodons #Culture #Confederacy #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Why zero is the most important number in all of mathematics**
**The Strange History of Why North Is Always Up**
"_South-up maps are challenging traditional views of the Earth—and the political and cultural beliefs that go with them._"
**Map: Viabundus 2**
"_Viabundus 2 is an online map of long-distance routes in late medieval and early modern Europe (1350-1650)_"
🔗 https://www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstrassen/map.php.
#Medieval #EarlyModern #History #Histodons #Europe #Maps #Cartography
**On the 19th-Century Scientist Who Realized Solar Storms Influence Life on Earth**
🔗 https://lithub.com/on-the-19th-century-scientist-who-realized-solar-storms-influence-life-on-earth/.
🇬🇧 **Joseph Banks: the man who collected the world**
"_He made his name on a voyage around the world alongside Captain James Cook, before becoming a friend of King George III and one of the most influential men in Britain._"
🎥 **The $2 Million Lost Book of Archimedes**
"_A prayer book holding hidden text reveals long-buried secrets from the greatest mathematician of the ancient world._"
#Video length: forty minutes and forty-two seconds
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXNIgHov0Nk
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Archimedes #Book
🇺🇸 **The Birth of Birthright Citizenship**
"_A Chinatown cook's fight to re-enter the U.S. in 1895 went up to the Supreme Court, which upheld his claim to birthright citizenship and guaranteed it for all through the 14th Amendment._"
🔗 https://www.americanheritage.com/birth-birthright-citizenship.
📚 🏴 **Prominent Scottish mathematician's personal library sells for £800k**
"_Highlights of the sale included Stirling's own exceptionally rare first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's ANALYSIS Per Quantitatum SERIES, FLUXIONES, AC DIFFERENTIAS, which sold for £100,800, and Stirling's own copy of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, generally considered to be the most important scientific book ever published, which sold for £42,840._"
🔗 https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25568603.scottish-mathematicians-personal-library-sells-800-000/.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Books #Auction #Edinburgh #Scotland
**How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World**
"_Often romanticized and glorified as a triumphant moment in Western histories, Columbus’s travels wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, which became one of the key areas for European expansion and subsequently violent accumulation._"
**Sumerian civilization may have been jump-started by the rise and fall of tides**
"_Millennia before the first cities, early Mesopotamians probably harnessed tides to irrigate crops_"
**Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829**
_This article uses four overlapping maps to tell four overlapping stories: James Cook’s circumnavigation of the island in 1763–8; Lt David Buchan’s trek into the interior to contact the Beothuk in 1811 and 1820; William Eppes Cormack and Joseph Sylvester’s trek across the island in 1822; and finally, a series of story-maps created by Shanawdithit, who is apocryphally known as ‘the last of the Beothuk’._
Laite, J. (2025) ‘Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, pp. 1–32. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440125100479.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Maps #Cartography #Academia
**Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery**
"_To them, Egypt represented the archetype of a great hierarchical civilization. Older than Athens or Rome, Egypt conferred a special legitimacy. And just like the pharaohs, the white elites of the South saw themselves as the stewards of a prosperous society sustained by enslaved labor._"
#History #Histodons #Dixie #USA #US #UnitedStates #Racism #Slavery
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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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