Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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**“Ideas about Vikings today can often not be verified scientifically”**
_“They are based essentially on reports written by Christian scholars in the High Middle Ages well over a century later, since, besides brief runic inscriptions, no written texts from the original period have been preserved”_
🔗 https://www.uni-muenster.de/Religion-und-Politik/en/aktuelles/2025/PM_Scheel_Wikinger.shtml.
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **How Britain lost America**
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/how-britain-lost-america.
**Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world**
**The cartographers who found the shape of Ireland**
"_A breakthrough came in 1792, when Daniel Beaufort, a Church of Ireland clergyman and scientist, produced the most geometrically accurate map of Ireland to date._"
🔗 https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/1101/1535882-the-cartographers-who-found-the-shape-of-ireland/.
#History #Histodons #Culture #Maps #Cartography #Ireland #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
🇺🇸 **The Cornerstone of Robert E. Lee’s Army: Confederate Slaves at Gettysburg**
"_Notice that Fremantle was never confused about the legal status of these men. He never classified them as soldiers nor does he ever mention anyone else in the army who did so. What he does do is capture why the Confederacy never approved the recruiting of Black men as soldiers until defeat was staring them in the face._"
🔗 https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-cornerstone-of-robert-e-lees-fa3.
📖 **Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages by Jacques Sesiano**
🔗 https://www.epflpress.org/produit/1423/9782889155125/mathematical-recreations-in-the-middle-ages.
#History #Histodon #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Medieval #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
🇺🇸 📖 🎥 **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
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