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🐴 📖 **A Veterinary Text Between Mongols, Mamluks And Armenians**
"_This text, elaborately entitled The Matching Pearls Concerning the Knowledge of Precedents (al-Durr al-muṭābiq fī ʻilm al-sawābiq) in Or. 9823 and Formulary of equine medical science (Aqrābādhīn fī ʻilm ṭibb al-khayl) in Or. 3133, is a manual on the characteristics of horses and the treatment of equine diseases and injuries, in 182 or 183 short chapters._"
🔗 https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2025/07/veterinary-text.html.
🇮🇳 **A Colonial Hangover Or A Linguistic Leg-Up? India Grapples With The Enduring Appeal Of English**
_“Those who speak English will soon feel ashamed,” Home Minister Amit Shah said last month, igniting a heated debate about national identity and social mobility in the polyglot nation of 1.4 billion._
🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/25/india/india-bjp-english-language-tensions-intl-hnk-dst.
#History #Colonialism #English #Language #Society #Identity #Culture #India #Asia
📖 **The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes**
_The Anglo-Saxons were the finest race in the world, he declared, and ‘the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.’_
🔗 https://literaryreview.co.uk/diamonds-bust.
#History #Histodons #Biography #CecilRhodes #Colonialism #Imperialism #Nonfiction #BookReview #Review #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Who Won the Battle of Baton Rouge?**
📖 **The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires: Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries**
Noda, J. (07 Apr. 2016). The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004314474 [Accessed 23 July 2025] .
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
📖 **The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires: Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries**
Noda, J. (07 Apr. 2016). The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004314474 [Accessed 23 July 2025] .
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🧬 **Genetic history of Scythia**
"_Using high-quality genomic data generated from 131 ancient individuals from Great Scythia and neighboring regions of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, we established the genetic structure of the Scythians, revealing their diverse origin with major European Bronze Age ancestral components, and genetic traces of migration and invasions._"
Tatiana V. Andreeva et al., Genetic history of Scythia. Sci. Adv.11, eads8179 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads8179.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #History #Genetics #DNA #Scythians #BronzeAge #IronAge #Academia #Academics @science
🎙️ 📖 **Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)**
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Lest We Forget / Davenport**
_"Lest we forget" is the refrain in Rudyard Kipling's poem, Recessional, published in 1897 at the height of the British empire. In the poem, Kipling warns against the perils of pride and the impermanence of power. The United States emerged from the Spanish American war in 1899 as a quasi-imperial power. The cartoonist may be cautioning the nation to remember its humble beginnings._
Davenport, H. (ca. 1899) Lest we forget / Davenport. Pennsylvania United States, ca. 1899. [1893 i.e] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003675317/.
#History #Histodons #UncleSam #C19th #19thCentury #USA #US #UnitedStates #Cartoon #RudyardKipling #Poetry @histodons
**What did the Vikings really think about pregnant women?**
"_Archaeologist Marianne Hem Eriksen has been searching for traces of pregnant women in the Viking Age. The fact that she found almost none tells its own story._"
#History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Women @archaeodons
📖 🇺🇸 **After Failing Math Twice, a Young Benjamin Franklin Turned to This Popular 17th-Century Textbook**
_By age 16, “being on some occasion made ashamed of my ignorance in figures, which I had twice failed in learning when at school,” Franklin continued, “I took Cocker’s book of arithmetic and went through the whole by myself with great ease.”_
#History #Histodons #BenFranklin #Books #Bookstodon #Maths #Mathematics @histodons @bookstodon
🖥️ 🇺🇸 **White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers**
"_In one, an AI-generated John Adams says “facts do not care about our feelings,” a phrase commonly attributed to conservative commentator and PragerU contributor Ben Shapiro._"
🔗 https://www.404media.co/white-house-partners-with-prageru-to-make-ai-slopified-founding-fathers/.
#PagerU #History #Histodons #FoundingFathers #AI #AISlop #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @histodons
📚 🐲 **Dragons in the Astronomicum Caesareum**
"_In 1540, humanist polymath, mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, professor, and printer, Peter Apian (1495-1552) published one of the most lavishly illustrated scientific books ever printed. Dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his brother, Ferdinand I, the Astronomicum Caesareum (Imperial Astronomy) contains 21 volvelles and 58 hand-colored woodcuts that involve some of the most spectacular computational dragons in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division._"
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2025/07/18/dragons-in-the-astronomicum-caesareum/.
#Dragons #History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🌎 **The Population of the Americas in 1492 is Disputed**
_Needless to say, this is a brutally emotional and partisan topic, because to ask “how many people lived in the Americas in 1492?” is to ask “how great an atrocity was the European settlement of the Americas?”_
🔗 https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/07/20/the-population-of-the-americas-in-1492-is-disputed/.
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 **War Plan Red: The Forgotten U.S. Plot to Battle Britain**
"_The existence of War Plan Red highlights the intense atmosphere of suspicion and military planning that defined the early 20th century, a time when even America’s closest allies were viewed as potential rivals._"
🔗 https://historycollection.com/war-plan-red-the-forgotten-u-s-plot-to-battle-britain/.
#History #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #UK #UnitedKingdom @histodons
📖 **Galileo’s Lost Star: Rare Book Breaks $1.5M at Auction**
"_Galileo’s rare first book on the 1604 supernova sold for $1.5 million at Christie’s, a stellar result for the scientist who changed how we see the heavens._"
🔗 https://www.antiquetrader.com/galileos-lost-star-rare-book-breaks-1-5m-at-auction.
#History #Science #HistSci #Book #Bookstodon @science@a.gup.pe @bookstodon
📖 **Concentration Camps: A Global History**
"_In popular perception, concentration camps are synonymous with genocide—racial extermination. Yet the great majority of them were not sites of genocide. Nor were they a Nazi invention. This book shows they were a global and transnational phenomenon, emerging on the colonial periphery of Britain, Spain, the USA, and Germany around 1900._"
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/9780192520906.001.0001.
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Imperialism #Colonialism #ConcentrationCamps @histodons @bookstodon
📖 **Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land**
🔗 https://lachief.substack.com/p/book-review-melting-point-family.
#History #Histodons #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @histodon @bookstodons
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **From East India Company labourer to gentleman - the life of Benjamin Constable**
#History #Histodon #UK #UnitedKingdom #India #EastIndiaCompany @histodons
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **From East India Company labourer to gentleman - the life of Benjamin Constable **
#History #Histodon #UK #UnitedKingdom #India #EastIndiaCompany @histodons
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