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📖 **Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages**

“_In Peak Human, acclaimed historian Johan Norberg examines seven of humanity’s greatest civilizations – ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere – and asks: how do we ensure that our current golden age doesn’t end?_”

🔗 atlantic-books.co.uk/book/peak.

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🇺🇸 🇨🇦 **Flirtation under difficulties**

Pughe, J. S. , Artist. Flirtation under difficulties / J.S. Pughe. Canada United States, 1904. N.Y.: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., March 2. Photograph. loc.gov/item/2011645511/.

🇺🇸 **The protectors of our industries**

Gillam, Bernhard, Artist. The protectors of our industries / Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lith., N.Y. United States, 1883. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, February 7. Photograph. loc.gov/item/94507245/.

**Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa**

“_For the first time, we also demonstrate the persistence of North African ancestry in a Christian cemetery until the seventeenth century, in addition to evidence of slave trafficking from North Africa._”

Oteo-Garcia, G., Silva, M., Foody, M.G.B. et al. Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa. Genome Biol 26, 108 (2025). doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-035.

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🇬🇧 **The transatlantic slave trade in Greenwich**

“_Place, legacy and memory – explore the history of transatlantic slavery in London and Greenwich_”

🔗 rmg.co.uk/stories/maritime-his

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🗺️ 🧲 **Mapping Magnetism**

Abraham Parrish

“_Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator depicted magnetic mountains on what was to be the first published map of the Arctic and North Pole, which was an inset on his world map published in 1569._”

🔗 blogs.loc.gov/maps/2025/05/map.

🇮🇹 **Italian irredentism and propaganda**

“_The history of Italian unification, the emergence of the sentiment of irredentism, and how it was used by fascism during the 20th century._”

🔗 cartographerstale.com/p/italia.

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**Archaeologists Found Someone They Never Expected in an Ancient Chinese Tomb: a Blonde Man**

“_The discovery reveals an unexpected connection to the ancient Silk Road._”

🔗 popularmechanics.com/science/a.

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**From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries**

“_The results suggest that Viking Age seafaring networks along the Norwegian coast may have been more decentralised than their medieval counterparts, and may have relied on relatively outlying nodes on small islands and headlands._”

Jarrett, G. From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries. J Archaeol Method Theory 32, 42 (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-097.

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🇩🇰 **The Hoby cups: Tracing connections in Iron Age Denmark**

“_What can a pair of silver cups deposited as grave goods in Denmark reveal about links with the Roman world?_”

🔗 the-past.com/feature/the-hoby-.

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🇺🇸 **Is Trump the same as Nixon in 1968? - Luke A. Nichter**

length: forty-six minutes and thirty-four seconds.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=ruqU--AR7Q.

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**The Nazi past that parents never wanted to talk to their children about**

Almudena de Cabo

_“I learned then that he had been a member of the Nazi Party,” he says, referring to what he found in one of his father’s desk drawers. “I knew he was in Riga [Latvia]. Also that he was a judge at the Regional Court. But my father didn’t tell me what he did in Riga during World War II. That’s what they always say; that fathers didn’t talk to their children.”_

🔗 english.elpais.com/internation.

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**First Evidence of Roman Pig-Jaw Funerary Ritual Uncovered in Israel**

“_The discovery offers a rare glimpse into how Roman soldiers honored their dead through symbolic animal sacrifice and structured ceremonial acts._”

🔗 greekreporter.com/2025/05/14/r.

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**Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway**

“_According to previous accounts, Lovaas and his family were forced farm workers during the German occupation of Norway between 1940 and 1945, when Lovaas was 13–18 years old. This article shows that the Løvaas family were in fact members of the collaborationist fascist party Nasjonal Samling._”

Gjerde, Å. B. (2025). Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway. History of the Human Sciences, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/09526951251324.

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