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<strong>In Need of a New Myth</strong>

"_Where do national myths originate? They do not emerge by happenstance. Rather their creation and spread are an exercise of power. Influential historical actors, from antebellum slaveholders to the moguls of Hollywood and those Slotkin calls the ‘political classes’, have attempted to develop and disseminate broadly acceptable myths to serve their own interests._"

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n13/er

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<strong>Episode 300 – The 10 Greatest Byzantine Emperors</strong>

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<strong>Royal Society exhibition revives 18th-century debate about shape of the Earth</strong>

"_Some members of the French Academy of Sciences interpreted measurements taken in Paris by scientists including Jacques Cassini as supporting the idea that the Earth was elongated at the poles, resembling a lemon or a melon._

_By contrast, Isaac Newton had proposed that the centrifugal force caused by the Earth’s rotation would result in the planet being flattened at its poles, thus having a similar shape to an orange._"

theguardian.com/science/articl

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<strong>5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About</strong>

"_Gerardus Mercator is perhaps well-known for all the wrong reasons. His last name evokes the infamous Mercator projection, which depicts the world in a distorted way. The projection has been criticized for putting Europe at the center of the world and favoring the northern hemisphere by making countries there appear bigger than they are in reality._"

Perpuli, Francisco. "5 Famous Cartographers You Need to Know About" TheCollector.com, thecollector.com/famous-cartog (accessed Jun 24, 2024).

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<strong>The Ghosts of Max Weber in the Economic History of Preindustrial Europe</strong>

"_References to Weber in the literature on preindustrial Europe published by economists during the last fifty years show that the more economists have rehabilitated culture as an autonomous force of economic change, the more they have heralded Weber as a precursor of their endeavors. The casting of Weber in such terms, moreover, has gone hand in hand with a decline, rather than an increase, in conversations between economists, sociologists, historians, and other humanists and social scientists interested in the role of culture in the formation of modern economic life._"

Trivellato, Francesca. "The Ghosts of Max Weber in the Economic History of Preindustrial Europe." Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics 4, no. 2 (2023): 332-376. doi.org/10.1353/cap.2023.a9176.

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<strong>Secondary Schools: Iberian Scholasticism</strong>

_The “School of Salamanca,” founded by Francisco Vitoria, and the commentators of Coimbra are at the center of a movement sometimes called the “Second Scholastic.”_

historyofphilosophy.net/iberia

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<strong>Long-lost Assyrian military camp devastated by 'the angel of the Lord' finally found, scientist claims</strong>

"_At the British Museum in London, there is a relief depicting the siege of Lachish, and it shows the Assyrian camp. Stephen Compton, an independent scholar who specializes in Near Eastern Archaeology, compared this relief to photos from the early to mid-20th century which show Lachish. He identified a site north of Lachish with an oval shaped structure with walls that he thinks may have been the Assyrians' camp._"

livescience.com/archaeology/lo

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<strong>How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number</strong>

"_Useful mathematical concepts, like the number line, can linger for millennia before they are rigorously defined._"

quantamagazine.org/how-the-squ

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<strong>Okinawa - 1945 | Movietone Moment</strong>

"_On this day in 1945, US troops took the island of Okinawa. Here is a British Movietone report showing the Allies invading the island._"

length: two minutes and thirty seven seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=ldbaHIK7OM

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<strong>Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?</strong>

"_One of the issues that scientists are seeking to resolve is the question of whether or not Neanderthals interbred with Homo sapiens in Britain, as they did in other parts of the world. For good measure, they also want to know if the two species lived alongside each other or whether they replaced each other in successive waves._"

theguardian.com/science/articl

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<strong>Discovery of ancient Greek shepherd’s graffiti rewrites Athens history</strong>

"_Now, researchers have found graffiti drawn by a shepherd named“Mikon” who lived in the 6th century BC, which depicts a temple on the Acropolis predating the Parthenon._

_By signing his drawing using particular alphabets, Mikon has allowed the graffiti to be dated._"

independent.co.uk/news/science

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<strong>The Robber Barons who dominated the Gilded Age</strong>

"_But the four men who rode atop the wave of the Gilded Age were Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. Their business activities during the final four decades of the nineteenth century drove America’s ascension into the most powerful industrial nation on the planet. And they shaped the rules that governed the US economy for decades to come._"

malwarwickonbooks.com/us-econo

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🇸🇪 <strong>Episode 312: Christina of Sweden, Minerva of the North</strong>

"_In this week’s episode, get to know Christina of Sweden, the keenly intelligent and fiercely independent queen of Sweden, who is remembered today for her passion of learning and knowledge._"

halfarsedhistory.net/2024/06/1

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<strong>Coin hoard from time of the Gallus Revolt unearthed in Lod</strong>

"_The Gallus Revolt was an uprising by the Jews of Roman Palaestina against the rule of Constantius Gallus (brother-in-law of Emperor Constantius II) during the Roman civil war of AD 350–353._

_The uprising was in response to the persecution of non-Christians by Constantius and the Christian clergy, who incited riots and destroyed Jewish synagogues and temples._"

heritagedaily.com/2024/06/coin

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<strong>God’s Ghostwriters by Candida Moss review – did enslaved scribes write the New Testament?</strong>

"_And if the Roman family that purchased them as a scribe had subsequently converted to Christianity, either openly or secretly as many did in the first and second centuries CE, they may well then have been drafted in to write down the words of the great Christian missionary preachers who criss-crossed the empire and came to its capital, including of course Paul._"

theguardian.com/books/article/

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<strong>The Sale of the Crosby-Schøyen Codex and its Cost Over Time</strong>

"_The highlight of the sale was the so-called Crosby-Schøyen codex, which sold for just over the high end of the estimated price range at £ 3,065,000._"

brentnongbri.com/2024/06/12/th

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<strong>Science of Naples: Making knowledge in Italy’s Pre-Eminent City, 1500–1800</strong>

"_Individual chapters demonstrate the extent to which Neapolitan scholars and academies contributed to debates within the Republic of Letters that continued until deep into the nineteenth century. They also show how studies of Neapolitan natural disasters yielded unique insights that contributed to the development of fields such as medicine and earth sciences._"

uclpress.co.uk/collections/cat

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<strong>The global village of the Silk Roads</strong>

"_The network of Silk Roads included both land and maritime routes. The Northern Route traversed through Central Asia, the Southern Route passed through what is now Iran and India. Major cities along these routes included Xi’an in China, Samarkand in Uzbekistan, and Ctesiphon, near modern-day Baghdad. The Maritime routes linked ports in China to Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Africa. This was the vastest network the world had ever seen._"

biblonia.com/p/the-global-vill

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<strong>The Tradition of Large Integers in Historical Arithmetical Textbooks</strong>

"_This tradition apparently began with the two first texts that significantly contributed to the spread of the decimal system in Europe—the Latin translations of al- Khwarizmi’s treatise on decimal arithmetic, and Leonardo’s Liber Abaci, containing examples of reading a 16-digit and a 15-digit number respectively. Throughout the centuries, the order of magnitude of these introductory numbers increased, in general up to some 30 digits, but in some cases to over 60 digits._"

Bruckler, Franka Miriam and Stilinovic, Vladimir (2024) "The Tradition of Large Integers in Historical Arithmetical Textbooks," The Mathematics Enthusiast: Vol. 21 : No. 1, Article 5. DOI: doi.org/10.54870/1551-3440.161

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<strong>How Queen Victoria’s Disabled Grandson Led Europe Into WW1 | The Crippled Kaiser</strong>

"_At the end of the 19th century, much of Europe's royalty was one big dysfunctional family. Discover how this slowly dissolving family partially led to the conflict that would consume and reshape Europe._"

length: forty six minutes and fifty three seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=xzWFeUIEuH

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