Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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**Algorithm On Fleek: How TikTok is Transforming the English Language**
"_Adam Aleksic Explores the Evolution of Popular Vernacular, From the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era_"
🔗 https://lithub.com/algorithm-on-fleek-how-tiktok-is-transforming-the-english-language/.
🗺️ 📚 **The History Of Cartography In Portable Document Format**
Volumes I, II, III, IV and VI:
https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html.
#History #Histodons #Maps #Cartography #Read #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #PDF @histodons @bookstodon
🎙️ **Spelling Says a Lot (Part 1)**
"_In this episode, we examine how English spelling reformers described the pronunciation of English in the early 1600s, and we also explore how Modern English spellings reflect the phonetic history of words._"
🔗 https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2025/07/15/episode-184-spelling-says-a-lot-part-1/.
**Everything Has a Price: The Commercial Gaze and the Origins of Corporate Empire**
"_As travel narratives from the early days of the English East India Company—1601 to 1611—show, the mature form of the British Empire took shape via a commercial gaze that increasingly rendered the world as inventory. By the end of this period, such narratives focused obsessively on the dry heights of markets, merchandise, and profit—even when the journeys themselves had been harrowing._"
🗺️ 📻 **The history of mapping takes 50 years to tell**
A radio interview with @mhedney on the Larry Meiller Show discussing the history of cartography.
https://www.wpr.org/shows/larry-meiller-show/ais-mixed-success-and-the-history-of-cartography.
**Flag: American Party, 1844-1860**
#History #Flag #KnowNothingParty #AmericanParty #USPol #Politics #Nationalism #Nativism #Populism
#Image attribution: American Party (1844-1860), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digital_Reproduction_of_the_Know-Nothing_Party_Flag.jpg.
**The Ancient Machine That Measured Time With Water**
"_In the 3rd century BCE, in the city of Alexandria, a brilliant Greek inventor named Ctesibius created a water-powered timekeeping device, so precise it remained unmatched for the next 1,800 years, until the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656._"
#Video length: ten minutes and seventeen seconds.
🇺🇸 **Franklin D. Roosevelt And A Fourth Term**
"_On this day in 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt announced he would run for a fourth term as President of the United States._"
#Video length: two minutes and twenty-nine seconds.
**15 Wealthy & Wicked Slave Owners You Never Learned About**
🔗 https://historycollection.com/15-wealthy-wicked-slave-owners-you-never-learned-about/.
🇧🇷 🇵🇹 **The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal**
"_In this paper, we show that the discovery of massive quantities of gold in Brazil over the eighteenth century played a key role in the long-run development of Portugal. The country suffered from an economic and political resource curse. A counterfactual based on synthetic control methods suggests that by 1800 Portugal’s GDP per capita was 40 percent lower than it would have been without its endowment of Brazilian gold._"
Kedrosky, D. and Palma, N. (2025) ‘The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal’, The Journal of Economic History, pp. 1–37. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050725100764.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Economics #History #Histodons #Gold #Brazil #Portugal #Academia @histodons
🌎 **The Americas In 1818**
A map by Franz Fried.
#Image attribution: Franz Fried, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:America_fried_1818.jpg.
🇬🇧 **Coins worth Roman soldier's monthly wage found**
_"Coins in both hoards range from the AD60s to AD180s, including for emperors such as Trajan, his cousin Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius."_
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q88yjd97lo.
#History #Histodons #RomanEmpire #Coins #Numismatics @histodons
📖 **Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow.**
"_Namely, that even as journalists might claim a sense of professional detachment, something like objectivity can be weaponized and used to defend racial and regional identities, and by extension, any element of power differentials or the status quo._"
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
**Author of William the Conqueror’s ‘Medieval Big Data’ project revealed**
🔗 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07-02-author-william-conqueror-s-medieval-big-data-project-revealed.
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons @histodons @medievodons
**Who were the Galatians? How did they get where they were?**
"_Only much later did I learn that the Galatians were a type of Gauls, i.e., Celts, who had migrated from what is now France to what is now Türkiye._"
**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
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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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