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🗞️ 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **250 Years Ago: News of the Battles of Lexington and Concord**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodon @histodons
🇬🇧 **Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals**
“_Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons took advantage of famine and societal breakdown caused by an extreme period of drought to inflict crushing blows on weakened Roman defences in 367 CE. While Rome eventually restored order, some historians argue that the province never fully recovered._”
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Romans #RomanEmpire #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom #Drought @histodon @histodons
**Austrian Graffiti Discovered in a Holy Site: Researchers Decipher Medieval Inscriptions in the Room of the Last Supper in Jerusalem**
#History #Medieval #Medievodons #Graffiti #Jerusalem @medievodons
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 **Bismarck’s Britain**
“_The German chancellor Otto von Bismarck saw himself as a puppet-master, engineering British politics from afar in his feud with Gladstone._”
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/bismarcks-britain.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #UK #UnitedKingdom #Europe #Bismarck #Gladstone #Politics @histodon @histodons
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **‘The British are coming’ and the outbreak of hostilities during the American Revolutionary War**
“_During the summer of 1776, they defined their objective as total separation and declared independence. Yet declaring independence was very different to actually achieving it. King George III’s government, under Prime Minister Frederick, Lord North regarded their actions as no more than insurrection and remained determined to crush them._”
#History #Histodon #HIstodons #C18th #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodon @histodons
**The Last Nazi Election - August 1945!**
Mark Felton Productions
“_Incredibly, over three months after Hitler's death, one place was still ruled by Nazis, and indeed in August 1945 an election returned the Nazi Party to power!_”
#Video length: twelve minutes and sixteen seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spnO0olgUbE
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Nazis #Election @histodon @histodons
🅰️ 📖 🖋️ **The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter”**
“This image responds to chapter 2, where Hester leaves prison to endure public humiliation on the town scaffold. The text describes women resentful of Hester's beauty, who find her punishment too lenient–figures shown here below the steps.”
Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter' | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1879). https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/406020.
#OpenAccess #PublicDomain #Image #History #Fiction #Book #Bookstodon #Literature #TheScarletLetter #NathanielHawthorne #HesterPrynne @literature @bookstodon
🇺🇸 📖 **The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850**
“_Isenberg takes readers to the contested borders of Spanish Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Minnesota at critical moments in the early to mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that the architects of American expansion faced significant challenges from the diverse groups of people inhabiting each region._”
🔗 https://uncpress.org/book/9781469685052/the-age-of-the-borderlands/.
#Nonfiction #History #ManifestDestiny #USA #UnitedStates #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 **The American King-Crane Commission Plan To Divide The Ottoman Empire After World War 1**
🔴 🏴 **Bank Of England Charter Sealing 1694**
#History #England #Economics #Finance
#Image attribution: Lady Jane Lindsay, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bank_of_England_Charter_sealing_1694.jpg.
🔴 🎙️ **Written in Mathematics: Descartes’ Physics**
“_For Descartes body is purely geometrical. So how does he understand features we can perceive, like color, and causation between bodies?_”
🔴 **Portrait of a Nazi Bigamist**
Livia Gershon
“_Heinrich Himmler’s pronatalist policies included support for children of SS officers’ extramarital relationships. He claimed that Germanic tradition included the possibility of men taking a second wife—and he did so himself, having children with his secretary as well as his official wife._”
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/portrait-of-a-nazi-bigamist/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Nazi #Germany #Marriage @histodon @histodons
🔴 **What is Fascism?**
Cambridge Festival
“_This lecture takes fascism seriously. It looks closely at the core myths at the heart of fascist ideology, offering probing explanations for its emergence, resurgence and its continuing appeal._”
#Video length: fifty-nine minutes and fifty-eight seconds.
🔴 🇺🇸 **The Founding Fathers v. The Climate Change Skeptics**
“_When claims from Europe accused British America of being inferior on account of its colder weather, Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Founding Fathers responded with patriotic zeal that their settlement was actually causing the climate to warm._”
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-founding-fathers-v-the-climate-change-skeptics/.
#History #Climate #ClimateChange #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Weather @histodon @histodons
🔴 **This Month in Movietone History**
British Movietone
“_Momentous historical events that occurred during the month of April._”
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm61r4L8dZA
#Video #History #April #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Adam Smith on Slavery**
Jack Russell Weinstein
“_Smith offered an economic argument against slavery because he did not believe that monarchy (or freedom from it), wealth, or religion can be trusted to convince people to free their slaves._”
🔗 https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/adam-smith-on-slavery.
🔴 **Savage Wit Through the Ages: 20 of the Best Insults in History**
“_In this collection of 20 legendary quotes, we spotlight the zingers that went beyond humor and became unforgettable moments of public triumph._”
🔗 https://historycollection.com/savage-wit-through-the-ages-20-of-the-best-insults-in-history/.
🔴 🗺️ **Every Bridge and Meadow: The Austro-Hungarian Empire in 19th Century Maps**
“_The new digital collection comprises all editions of all sheets of the Spezialkarte der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie, a detailed topographic survey of the country at a 1:75,000 scale, held in the Geography and Map Division for a grand total of 6,346 digital images._”
#Map #Maps #Cartography #AustroHungarian #Empire #History #C19th #19thCentury
🔴 **Joint Sovereigns**
On 11th April 1689 William III and Mary II were crowned joint sovereigns over England, Scotland, and Ireland.
#History #OnThisDay #OTD #England #Scotland #Ireland
#Image attribution: R White, engraver, died 1703, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William%26MaryEngraving1703.jpg.
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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