Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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Joined Nov 2022
**Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn**
"_Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/.
🇺🇸 **A Summer Reading List for America’s 250th Anniversary**
🔗 https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/a-summer-reading-list-for-americas-250th-anniversary/.
#Reading #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon #USA #US #UnitedStates #History @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Four Manuscripts That Tell the Story of America’s Founding Spirit**
🔗 https://intelligentcollector.com/four-manuscripts-that-tell-the-story-of-americas-founding-spirit/.
🇺🇸 **Painting the birth of American independence**
🔗 https://news.yale.edu/2025/06/30/painting-birth-american-independence.
📖 🎙️ **J. P. Mallory, "The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story"**
"_In The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story (Thames & Hudson, 2025) Mallory explores ancient migrations, linguistics, and archaeology, applying cutting-edge genetic research to untangle the key arguments with wit and verve._"
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-indo-europeans-rediscovered.
#Audio #Podcast #History #Archaeology #Linguistics #Book #Bookstodon @histodons @linguistics @archaeodons
🏴 **Great Bibles reunited for first time in 500 years**
**How Lexington Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan led a disastrous Civil War raid**
🔗 https://www.kentucky.com/news/know-your-kentucky/article309374245.html.
📖 **The Lost Colony of the Confederacy**
"_Eugene Harter vividly describes the lives of these last Confederates who founded their own city and were called Os Confederados. They retained much of their Southernness and lent an American flavor to Brazilian culture._"
🔗 https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781585441020/the-lost-colony-of-the-confederacy/.
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #USA #US #UnitedStates #Brazil @histodons @bookstodon
**A Confederate Raider Fired the Final Shots of the Civil War in the Arctic, Two and a Half Months After Robert E. Lee Surrendered**
#History #Histodons #Confederacy #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodons
🔭 **Astronomy**
On this day in 1675 the Royal Observatory Greenwich was founded.
**What History Tells and Teaches Us? We Ask Oxford Professor**
🔗 https://astanatimes.com/2025/06/what-history-tells-and-teaches-us-we-ask-oxford-professor/.
**A century of science history: the Museo Galileo in Florence celebrates its first 100 years with an exhibition**
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**Tristan da Cunha: Britain's Most Remote Colony & The Forgotten Garrison**
#Video length: twenty-two minutes and forty-five seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtJ_Mq_Fwq0.
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Empire #TristanDaCunha #Colony #Imperialism #Colonisation @histodons
🇺🇸 **The Slave Who Hijacked a Confederate Warship & Became the First Black Captain in the US Navy**
**Captain Cook’s missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago**
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**History: Nova Albion**
On this day in 1579 English explorer Francis Drake landed in what is modern day California claiming the territory for England.
**Coin hoard spans Roman republic to first emperor**
"_The denarii date from the late 2nd Century BC, in the last tumultuous decades of the Roman republic, to the first Roman emperors and could have been a purse loss._"
**The Month In History**
"_Momentous historical events that occurred during the month of June._"
#Video length: twenty eight minutes and seven seconds.
🗺️ **How Long Each Territory Was Part of The Roman Empire (Western and/or Eastern)**
🇬🇧 **Imperfect Memories of British Slavery**
“_British abolition in 1833 was accompanied by £20 million paid in compensation to slaveholders, many of whom subsequently “forgot” slavery ever existed._”
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/imperfect-memories-of-british-slavery/.
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Slavery @histodons
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
