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🔴 **All roads lead to (New) Rome: Byzantine astronomy and geography in a rapidly changing world**

"_This comprehensive review of Byzantine geographic achievements -- supported by a review of astronomical developments pertaining to position determination on Earth -- aims to demonstrate why and how, when Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453 and the Ottoman Empire commenced, Byzantine astronomers had become the central axis in an extensive network of Christians, Muslims and Jews._"

Richard, D.G. (2024) All roads lead to (New) Rome: Byzantine astronomy and geography in a rapidly changing world. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16285v1.

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🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Lord Mountbatten's Emotional Tribute to Winston Churchill (1965)**

length: six minutes and thirty eight seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=GKirZk6qFC

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🔴 **The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis.**

"_He reprehends the terms ‘Byzantine’ and ‘Byzantium’ as the fraudulent legacy of 19th-century scholars determined to claim the heritage of Roman antiquity for (North-) Western Europe, dispossessing its rightful heirs and smearing them, perversely, with tropes of Oriental despotism invented by the Greeks of the classical age. Save in the book’s subtitle, a commercial concession, Kaldellis restricts the offending word to historiographical contexts._"

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n15/mi

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🔴 **A Dutch Confederate: Charles Liernur Defends Slavery in America**

"_The letters of Charles Liernur, a Dutch-born Confederate, provide a unique insight into the mind of an explicit supporter of slavery in an American context. How and why a Dutchman could defend slavery is the primary question this article addresses._"

Douma, M.J. (2017) “A Dutch Confederate: Charles Liernur Defends Slavery in America”, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 132(2), pp. 27–50. doi.org/10.18352/bmgn-lchr.103

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attribution: De Ingenieur, 8 1893, nr. 13 (via Delpher.nl), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

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🔴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎥 **The Island Of St. Kilda (1908)**

length: seven minutes and thirty three seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=YXi0UhMvwU

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🔴 **Indians: Iamboulos and Diodoros on a utopian island beyond India (mid-first century BCE)**

"_Drawing on a source that claims to be a travelogue (perhaps really a fictional story or novel) by a person named Iamboulos (also transliterated Iambulus), Diodoros focusses on describing the marvels or paradoxes of the environment, animals, and peoples of this exotic landscape._"

Philip A. Harland, 'Indians: Iamboulos and Diodoros on a utopian island beyond India (mid-first century BCE),' Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World, last modified July 24, 2024, philipharland.com/Blog/?p=8577.

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🔴 🎥 **Rethinking the Gauls, the Forgotten Civilization**

"_The idea of the primitive Gauls, living in the forest until they were civilized and assimilated into the Roman Empire, is now regarded as totally obsolete. In this film, archaeologists and historians uncover Gaulish settlements to reveal the true face of the Gauls._"

length: fifty two minutes and four seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=BQl34vcrz4

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🔴 **My family and other Nazis**

"_Large parts of Austrian society still felt strong ties to national socialism, an aggressive Greater German ideology that rejected the notion of Austria as a separate country with its own history and mentality, and cultivated a deeply rooted antisemitism and anti-Slavic sentiment. My family, like many others, held on to their belief in Hitler and the Third Reich until they died._"

theguardian.com/world/article/

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🔴 **Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel**

"_Typological and radiocarbon dating indicate an Early Pottery Neolithic occupation and evidence for continuity of subsistence and economic strategies with both earlier and later Neolithic cultures. The results indicate the resilience of coastal communities in the face of significant climatic uncertainty and contribute to understanding human responses to environmental change._"

Nickelsberg R, Levy TE, Shahack-Gross R, et al. Continuity and climate change: the Neolithic coastal settlement of Habonim North, Israel. Antiquity. 2024;98(398):343-362. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.32

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🔴 **Rampant slaughter! Sexy armour! Tiger maulings! We bust the gladiator myths**

"_One example of an inaccuracy that has simply become established “history” is the very word Colosseum. In ancient Rome, it referred not to the stadium but to the enormous statue of Nero next to it. The Romans called the statue the Colossus and the stadium the Amphitheatrum Flavium. When the statue was destroyed, explains Mariotti, the nickname for the statue moved to the amphitheatre. This has now become a cultural norm, he adds, and going with it simply saves time._"

theguardian.com/film/article/2

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🔴 🎥 **1935 Population Levels**

length: thirty eight seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=fyFbGG78VC

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🔴 **The Earliest Photo of the Man Who Discovered the First Dead Sea Scrolls?**

"_This 1953 photo shoot covers both the excavations at Qumran and the early work of sorting the fragments. I was surprised to see a photo of the “two shepherds” who are said to have been the first to find scrolls standing outside the entrance to Cave 1Q._"

brentnongbri.com/2024/07/19/th

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🔴 🎥 **Vikings didn't have tattoos**

"_The only medieval source to claim that Vikings had tattoos comes from the furthest edge of their culture's world, and the lack of any Old Norse word or description of tattoos makes it unlikely they were a common decoration._"

length: eleven minutes and thirty eight seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=hU-W9fDqS-

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🔴 🇺🇸 **Musket balls from first major battle of revolutionary war found near Boston**

"_The latest evidence of that firefight is five musket balls dug up last year near the North Bridge site in the Minute Man national historical park in Concord. Early analysis of the balls – gray with sizes ranging from a pea to a marble – indicates colonial militia members fired them at British forces on 19 April 1775._"

theguardian.com/us-news/articl

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🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia In Colour Episode 3: Populate or Perish**

"_The government adopts the slogan "populate or perish" after World War II and immigration changes the face of Australia. This influx of labor and the diversification of the economy delivers increasing prosperity._"

length: forty seven minutes and thirty eight seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=d2hNF91Og5

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🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia In Colour Episode 2: Shifting Allegiances**

"_Sport and comedy offer some relief from the hunger and hopelessness of the Great Depression - at least until the war breaks out. Australia sends troops to Europe to fight beside Britain but when Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the nation turns to America for protection and pulls troops out of the Middle East._"

length: forty seven minutes and forty five seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=aytnob10oT

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🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia in Colour Episode 1: Outpost of the Empire**

"_Modern Australia was born on January 1, 1901, when six British colonies united. Agriculture and mining transformed the country. "Australia in Colour" is the history of Australia told through a unique collection of cinematic moments brought to life for the first time in color._"

length: forty nine minutes and fifty one seconds.

youtube.com/watch?v=aWLHMh8ov9

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🔴 📖 **Medicine in an Age of Revolution**

"_This work is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain emanated from puritanism. It seeks to reaffirm the crucial role of the period of the civil wars and their aftermath in providing the most congenial context for a re-evaluation of traditional attitudes to medicine._"

Elmer, Peter, Medicine in an Age of Revolution (Oxford, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 28 Sept. 2023), doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198853, accessed 9 July 2024.

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🔴 **Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace**

"_Instead of one world community, the European overseas powers had created what the French philosopher and economist the Marquis de Mirabeau described in 1758 as “a new and monstrous system” that vainly attempted to combine three distinct types of political association (or, as he called them, esprits): domination, commerce, and settlement. The inevitable conflict that had arisen between these had thrown all the European powers into crisis. In Mirabeau’s view, the only way forward was to abandon both settlement and conquest especially conquest in favor of commerce._"

Anthony Pagden; Imperialism, liberalism & the quest for perpetual peace. Daedalus 2005; 134 (2): 46–57. doi: doi.org/10.1162/00115260538873

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🔴 **Rethinking the early Viking Age in the West**

"_Drawing on recent research that stresses the heterogeneity of Viking war-bands—and their early involvement in Francia and England—it proposes a ‘southern route’ through which Viking influence flowed towards the North Atlantic._"

Griffiths, D. (2019) ‘Rethinking the early Viking Age in the West’, Antiquity, 93(368), pp. 468–477. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.199.

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