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🔴 🎥 **The Life of Jochi Khan: First son of Genghis Khan**
The Jackmeister: Mongol History
🔗 (i) https://youtu.be/jvaMjlxuQNw
🔗 (ii) https://youtu.be/EkVeDsPg6lE
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #GenghisKhan #JochiKhan #Khan #Mongol #Empire @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **The New Roman Empire**
Reviewed by Peggy Kurkowski
_“ Historian Anthony Kaldellis simply awes in The New Roman Empire, a massive undertaking that captures the large, small, and quotidian events, lives, and oh-so-many intrigues of Byzantium from the age of Constantine to its fall in 1453.”_
🔗 https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the-new-roman-empire.
#NonFiction #BookReview #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium #Empire @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🇳🇱 **Archaeologists make unprecedented discovery of Roman soldier’s remains from ‘year 0’**
Vishwam Sankaran
_“Today, evidence was found of Roman habitation in the time of Emperor Augustus. A unique discovery that not only teaches us more about our past, but also shows how unique the story of Roman Heerlen is for the Netherlands,” Jordy Clemens, Heerlen’s council member for culture and heritage, said in a statement._
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman-soldier-remains-year-zero-b2663810.html.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Netherlands #RomanEmpire #Roman #Empire #Europe @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 **Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia**
_“The frequent engagement with themes relating to the supernatural and the divine in the Babylonian Talmud, when read alongside the Jewish magical evidence from Babylonia and other contemporary sources, suggests a degree of anxiety about the fact that the rabbis were grappling with the appeal of a multiplicity of deities and forces present among the inhabitants of Sasanian Babylonia and that they were actively seeking to clarify how their notions of the divine differed from those of their neighbours.”_
Herman, G. 2021. Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia. In: Kiperwasser, R. and Herman, G. ed. Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671483-006.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Babylonia #Theology #Religion @religion
🔴 🇺🇸 **The burial site of slaves owned by a former US president has finally been found**
Travis Loller
_"At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson, the seventh US president, between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865._
_Nobody knew where they were buried. But on Wednesday, the Andrew Jackson Foundation announced a discovery: They believe they have found the slave cemetery at The Hermitage, the home of America's seventh president."_
#Slavery #Slaves #AndrewJackson #Nashville #Tennessee #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇵🇹 🇬🇧 **An Unknown History Of Portugal (c 1570) In William Cecil's Library: Commissioning And Writing History During the Elizabethan Era**
_“The manuscript is in a mid-sixteenth-century hand and has personal annotations by William Cecil (1520–98), better known as Lord Burghley. It recounts the history of Portugal by reigns and belonged to Cecil’s personal library. Until now, no other extant example of a history of Portugal written in English in the sixteenth century was known.”_
Lowe, K. and Vila-Santa, N. (2024) ‘AN UNKNOWN HISTORY OF PORTUGAL (c 1570) IN WILLIAM CECIL’S LIBRARY: COMMISSIONING AND WRITING HISTORY DURING THE ELIZABETHAN ERA’, The Antiquaries Journal, pp. 1–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000167.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #C16th #16thCentury #Culture #History #UK #UnitedKingdom #Portugal #Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **Newly Discovered Massachusetts Silver Threepence from 1652 Brings $2.52 Million**
Stack's Bowers Galleries
_"Struck within weeks of the establishment of the first mint to be opened in the future United States, the New England threepence is the only example known outside of a museum."_
#Numismatics #Massachusetts #NewEngland #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Coins #History
🔴 🇯🇵 🇸🇬 🎥 **Japan - Singapore - 1941. Movietone Moment**
British Movietone
_"On this day in 1941, Japan invaded Singapore. Here is a British Movietone report of the first blitz on Singapore."_
#Video length: one minute and forty-nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/RZgCMQVTNaw
#OnThisDay #OTD #History #Histodon #Histodons #Japan #Singapore #WorldWar2 #WorldWarII #WW2 #WWII @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **Papermaking: A Rags to Riches Story**
Posted by: Patrick Hastings
_“Beginning in the 1300s, the Italians adopted and adapted techniques first developed in China and the Middle East, and their innovations spread throughout Europe, lasting for centuries as the highest standard in paper production.”_
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2024/12/05/papermaking-a-rags-to-riches-story/
🔴 **The Vikings lacked a long-term vision**
Dr Cristian Ispir
_"This short-term plundering mentality left the Vikings culturally impoverished, unable to build upon the ruins of what they destroyed. And ignorance added cultural insult to civilizational injury."_
🔗 https://www.biblonia.com/p/the-vikings-lacked-a-long-term-vision
🔴 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **British Identity Within the Indian Setting in Zoffany’s Portraits**
Rose Akcan
_"Palmer and Bakhsh’s relationship was not unique in the time of East India Company representatives taking over Indian provinces. The boundaries between enslaved people and servants were contested in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as masters struggled to differentiate between these roles."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #EastIndiaCompany #Art #Portraits #Culture #UK #UnitedKingdom #Europe #India #Asia #Identity #Colonialism @histodon @histodons
🔴 **16th-century graffiti of Tower of London prisoners decoded for first time**
Dalya Alberge
_"Dr Jamie Ingram, who is heading a major project to study graffiti in the Tower of London, described the discoveries as “exciting”. He began studying the Salt Tower on the south-eastern corner – part of the curtain wall that Henry III built in the 1230s. Its prisoners included Hew Draper, a Bristol innkeeper accused of practising sorcery and imprisoned in 1561, who carved an astrological sphere with zodiacal signs into the wall, despite having claimed that he had destroyed all his magical books. No record exists of his fate."_
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Culture #Britain @archaeodons
🔴 🇫🇷 **Fighting Calvin and Muhammad in Wall Almanacs after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes**
_Combining visual and textual analysis, this article suggests that royal image makers linked Muslims and Protestants to defend the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and manifest the French king's religious zeal and imperial ambition while distracting from the ahdname (capitulations) granted by the Ottoman sultan that precluded France from joining a Catholic alliance to fight the “Turkish menace.”_
Gillian Weiss; Fighting Calvin and Muhammad in Wall Almanacs after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. French Historical Studies 1 November 2024; 47 (4): 549–570. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-11284379.
#Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #LouisXIV #Huguenots #Protestants #Muslims #Islam #France #Europe @earlymodern @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea**
_“The work meticulously explores the inception, evolution, and profound impact of the Spanish Inquisition, an institution pivotal in shaping Spain's history and, by extension, influencing the broader civilized world.”_
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43296
#History #Medieval #Medievodons #Religion #Christianity #Catholicism #Church #Spain #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #ProjectGutenberg @bookstodon @medievodons
🔴 🎥 **Echoes of the Silk Road: Cities of Trade and Culture**
British Library
_“Watch this expert panel of historians and writers explore other historic cities along this legendary corridor. Join Bettany Hughes as she uncovers the ancient wonders of Istanbul, and travel with Colin Thubron through Uzbekistan to explore the legendary city of Samarkand.”_
#Video length: one and eighteen minutes.
🔗 https://youtu.be/wxoyhyH3AWg
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #SilkRoad #Trade #Culture @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇵🇹 🇰🇪 **Sunken ship may hold secrets of Vasco da Gama’s last voyage, archaeologists say**
Vishwam Sankaran
_"Researchers say the ship, discovered in 2013 in waters off a Kenyan coastal town, is a Portuguese vessel and may have been Da Gama’s Sao Jorge, which sank in 1524 – the year the famed explorer died in India, likely from malaria."_
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/vasco-da-gama-ship-final-voyage-b2655089.html
#History #Histodon #Histodons #VascoDaGama #Kenya #Portugal #IndianOcean #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **The cradle of British Christianity BURNED by Vikings**
#Video length: two minutes and nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/hgkac4abS1c
#Religion #Christianity #Vikings #Scotland #England #Britain #Europe #History #HIstodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #MiddleAges @histodon @histodons @medievodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **The Real History of Squanto and Mayflower-Indian Relations**
Andrew Lipman
_“Those colonists are best known today as “Pilgrims,” a name they did not call themselves. Squanto, who was also known as Tisquantum, had been their translator for twenty months when he fell ill in November 1622. It had been two years since the Mayflower arrived on American shores and one year after the so-called First Thanksgiving, a diplomatic visit that was not actually a feast of thanksgiving.”_
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/11/27/the-real-history-of-squanto-and-mayflower-indian-relations/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Funny Churchill Bloopers**
_“Behind-the-scenes of Churchill filming a 1950 election appeal.”_
#Video length: one minute and twenty-one seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/4oqVvVFUGNE
#History #Histodon #Histodons #WinstonChurchill #Churchill #Bloopers #UnitedKingdom #UK #Britain #C20th #20thCentury @histodon @histodons
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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