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<strong>A new way to discover history</strong>

"_Explore the past on an interactive map with a timeline. Search for detailed high-resolution scanned maps and see what happened in your chosen place in the past._"

oldmapsonline.org/en/project

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<strong>F. A. Hayek, Libertarianism, and the Denationalization of Money</strong>

"_Hayek found support within the American libertarian movement. Libertarians realized that Hayek's radical proposal would limit state control over the monetary system and allow for the free exchange of gold._"

McIntosh, W. (2024) ‘F. A. Hayek, Libertarianism, and the Denationalization of Money’, Modern American History, pp. 1–20. doi: doi.org/10.1017/mah.2024.19.

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<strong>Origins of medieval coinage revealed</strong>

"_The implication is that Anglo-Saxon elites had access to significant quantities of Byzantine silver, something that dramatically alters our view of how economically and politically connected they were._"

cambridge.org/core/blog/2024/0

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<strong>A United States of Europe</strong>

"_A free and unified Europe was first imagined by Italian radicals in the 19th century. Could we yet see their dream made real?_"

aeon.co/essays/could-we-recove

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<strong>Britain in Palestine 1917-1948</strong>

"_Britain in Palestine 1917-1948 investigates the contradictory promises and actions which defined British Mandatory rule in Palestine and laid the groundwork for the Nakba (the catastrophe) and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The roots of the contemporary social, political, economic, and environmental landscape of Palestine and Israel can be traced back to this period, making it essential viewing for understanding Britain’s legacy in the region and the situation on the ground today._"

length: eighteen minutes and thrity seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=hOJqLTc6Rk

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<strong>Napoleon's Nazi Funeral</strong>

"_One dark and snowy night in December 1940 in German-occupied Paris, a strange funeral took place when German soldiers carried the coffin of Emperor Napoleon II into Les Invalides. Why was a Napoleon receiving a Nazi funeral?_"

length: ten minutes and three seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=SuZcxQzPeF

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<strong>Origen of Alexandria and the History of Racism as a Theological Problem</strong>

"_Earlier scholarly accounts that portray Origen as a champion of human equality and as engaged in anti-racist efforts therefore cannot stand up to scrutiny. Origen disparages certain ethnic groups and develops arguments that connect ethnic identity and geographical location with various degrees of sinfulness. His work offers clear evidence that theories of ethnic inferiority have a long history within the Christian matrix that stretches considerably beyond the modern and medieval periods._"

Matthijs den Dulk, Origen of Alexandria and the History of Racism as a Theological Problem, The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 71, Issue 1, April 2020, Pages 164–195, doi.org/10.1093/jts/flaa025

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"_The fakes created during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century tell us another story, one of the rediscovery of the ancient Near East within the Orientalism movement. This fascination about the Orient and the past led certain individuals to create some fantastic stories and theories, such as those published by the writer Zecharia Stichin (1920–2010) who took the mythological battles of gods related in the authentic Babylonian Epic of Creation to be real astronomic phenomena._"

Michel, C. 2020. Cuneiform Fakes: A Long History from Antiquity to the Present Day. In: Michel, C. and Friedrich, M. ed. Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 25-60. doi.org/10.1515/9783110714333-

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"_The extent to which the worship of Baal and Asherah affected Israel’s understanding of Yahweh is seen in the inscriptions found at Kuntillet Ajrud. Jezebel was not fully responsible for the ongoing worship of Canaanite deities in Israel and Judah but her reign gave legitimacy to the long held tendency._"

Dolan, M. (2024) “Jezebel: A Hebrew Disaster”, Buried History: The Journal of the Australian Institute of Archaeology, 40, pp. 39–48. doi.org/10.62614/7d25h288

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<strong>The Lost Roman Legion | Possible Explanations</strong>

"_An exploration into the fate of the Legio IX Hispana and where exactly it drops out of the historical records._"

length: twenty three minutes and forty six seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=mLD6gwdcAz

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"Focusing on classical philologists and biblical scholars in nineteenth-century Germany, it examines how Hyperkritik developed from a technical philological term into a pejorative label that was widely invoked to discredit the latest trends in classical philology and, especially, biblical scholarship."

Paul, H. (2024) ‘Hypercriticism: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Vice’, Modern Intellectual History, pp. 1–25. doi: doi.org/10.1017/S1479244324000.

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Found at last: long-lost branch of the Nile that ran by the pyramids

"The highest concentration of pyramids in Egypt can be found in a stretch of desert between Giza and the village of Lisht. These sites are now several dozens of kilometres away from the Nile River. But Egyptologists have long suspected that the Nile might once have been closer to that stretch than it is today.

Satellite images and geological data now confirm that a tributary of the Nile — which researchers have named the Ahramat Branch — used to run near many of the major sites in the region several thousand years ago."

doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-014

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How to measure the Earth

"The first known calculation of the Earth’s circumference was made 2300 years ago by a man called Eratosthenes. I remember in school, how impressed I was by how accurately the Earth’s circumference was measured such long time ago. Today we’re going to take a closer look on how his calculation was made."

blog.datawrapper.de/earth-circ

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Episode 294 - The Rise and Fall of Epirus

"Theodoros Doukas the leader of the Roman state of Epirus leads his people to ever greater heights in the 1220s. He captures Thessalonica and drives towards Constantinople itself. Doukas declares himself Emperor but does he have the resources necessary to reach the Hagia Sophia?"

shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-

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5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today

"The Romans developed Roman Medicine by leaning on the knowledge of the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Etruscans, and others. Many of their medical practices are still in use today."

Bakic, Marijana. "5 Ancient Roman Medical Practices Still in Use Today" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/ancient-roman (accessed May 13, 2024).

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Vowels and consonants by design

"Some alphabets have been developed intentionally and purposefully to be exactly what the earliest alphabets became: efficient psychotechnologies for enhanced learning, communication and community building."

biblonia.com/p/vowels-and-cons

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Thomas Willis (1621-1675) : Neurologist, Chemist, Physician

"Willis is not only credited to be the founder of neurology, but he is also seen as the father of comparative neuroanatomy, as his work, in particular Cerebri anatome and De anima brutorum, compare the human brain with that of other species in ‘search for specific human abilities in cognitive functions’ (Molnár, p. 334)."

stjohnscollegelibraryoxford.or

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Band of Brothers: the Jesuits

"Ignatius of Loyola’s movement begins modestly, but winds up having a global impact on education and philosophy."

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🇺🇸 "Land Of Cotton - King Cotton's Slaves" 1936 Southern Tenant Sharecroppers Documentary XD49484

"This particular episode of the series takes an in depth look at the struggles of Black and white tenant sharecroppers and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in Arkansas during the New Deal Years."

length: 8 minutes 25 seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=j_o38AGSx6

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The History of Ions: Unveiling the Electric Charge

"Around 1830, Faraday posited the existence of charged particles within molecules that migrate between electrodes during electrolysis—an idea ahead of its time."

historyofsciences.blogspot.com

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