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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🇩🇪 🎥 **Why an AfD Politician Is Accused of 'Whitewashing' Nazi Crimes ¦ Germany's Enemy Within ¦ FRONTLINE**
"_Björn Höcke, of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, is on the brink of a potential state election victory. He has criticized how Germany remembers the Holocaust and been fined for using a Nazi slogan._"
#Video length: four minutes and fifty seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvgCMPPfkg
#AfD #Germany #Europe #Nazi #Politics #History #PBS #Frontline
🔴 🎥 **Which Experts should we trust?**
"_Socrates sought to test the expertise of everyone around him: the bombastic know-it-alls, the bashful youths, the confident generals, those (including the enslaved) with unsuspected mathematical competence, the workaday artisans. Aristotle later explored the ways in which expert claims can be made credible to popular judgement._"
#Video length: one minute.
🔴 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🎥 **Did A German General 'Save' Paris? The True Story of the 1944 Liberation**
"_What is the true story of the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Did a German general really save the city from destruction that was ordered by Hitler? In this video, we try and separate truth from historical fiction._"
#Video length: fifteen minutes and thirty two seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poqVkVK9C7Y
#WW2 #WWII #Paris #France #Germany #Europe #History #Histodon #HIstodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇳🇴 🎥 **"Norway" 1950 Scandinavia People & Industry Travelogue Film Oslo, Bergen**
"_Dudley Pictures Corporation presents, “This World of Ours: Norway” (1950) which is a black-and-white made for television short travelog film about the country of Norway. Captured by cinematographer Edwin E. Olsen, the film features footage of Norway’s rugged beauty from the fjords to valleys as well as scenes from the bustling cities of Oslo and Bergen._"
#Video length: nine minutes and three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiTs4h5DTso
#Europe #Scandinavia #Nordic #Norway #Oslo #Bergen #Travel #Travelogue #Travelog #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **The Full History Of How The Vikings Dominated Europe ¦ The Last Journey Of The Vikings ¦ Timeline**
"_Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name to Normandy along the way - before their Norman descendants seized the English throne at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. But what do we really know about them? By combining expert analysis with compelling drama, 'The Last Journey of the Vikings' tells a new and often surprising story about this complex people._"
#Video length: three hours and thirteen minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr3I-f7npAA
#Viking #Vikings #Europe #Scandinavia #History #Histodon #Histodons #Timeline #Documentary @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **"The Book" 1950's Bookmaking, Printing And Publishing. Educational Film**
"_The film portrays an author, who narrates the film, explaining the research of writing a book, and the process and responsibilities of publishing a book._"
#Video length: seventeen minutes and forty one seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdHDOrgZiBE
#History #Film #Writing #Publishing #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Education @bookstodon
🔴 🎥 **Norse Skaldic Poetry: How-To**
"_Looking at the characteristics of the most difficult and prestigious meter (poetry style) of the Old Norse skálds, dróttkvætt, and how it can be replicated in a modern language._"
#Video length: twenty four minuteds and eight seconds.
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Lord Mountbatten's Emotional Tribute to Winston Churchill (1965)**
#Video length: six minutes and thirty eight seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKirZk6qFCU
#GB #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #WinstonChurchill #Churchill #Mountbatten #History #Histodon #Histodons #Television #TV #Archive @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 **Why The US South Is Insanely Religious**
#Video length: twenty one minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knHhPDfT9Jw
#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Religion #Christianity @religion @christianity
🔴 🏴 🎥 **The Island Of St. Kilda (1908)**
#Video length: seven minutes and thirty three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXi0UhMvwUw
#StKilda #Scotland #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **The billion dollar business of gambling addiction**
"_The sports betting sector generates huge revenues and profits by exploiting some of the weakest members of society. With impunity. Around 37 million Euros worth of bets are placed every day in Europe. The market has grown 40-fold over the past 20 years._"
#Video length: forty two minutes and twenty five seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyeWEhIIzY
#Documentary #Gambling #Betting #Addiction #Business #Profits
🔴 🇳🇴 🎥 **See Norse Manuscripts in Oslo**
"_Dr. Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir and Dr. Ole-Albert Rønning Nordby talk about the impressive collection of unique Old Norse manuscripts on display at the National Library of Norway (nb.no), focused on Magnus the Lawmender's Landslova, now through mid-September 2024._"
#Video length: forty six minutes and fifty five seconds.
🔴 🎥 **Rethinking the Gauls, the Forgotten Civilization**
"_The idea of the primitive Gauls, living in the forest until they were civilized and assimilated into the Roman Empire, is now regarded as totally obsolete. In this film, archaeologists and historians uncover Gaulish settlements to reveal the true face of the Gauls._"
#Video length: fifty two minutes and four seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQl34vcrz40
#History #Archaeology #HIstodon #Histodons #Archaeodons #Documentary #Gaul #Europe @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 🎥 **There Is No Escaping Shakespeare. The New York Times**
#Video length: three minutes and fifty one seconds.
🔴 🇮🇸 🎥 **How Similar Are Old Norse and Icelandic? A Reading with Dr. Jesse Byock**
"_In this clip our guest Dr. Jesse Byock of U.C.L.A. and the University of Iceland reads a passage from the Saga of the Greenlanders to highlight the similarities between Old Norse, the language of the Vikings, and modern Icelandic._"
#Video length: two minutes and eleven seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD_OU_HXIWw
#Iceland #Icelandic #OldNorse #Language #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
🔴 🎥 **1935 Population Levels**
#Video length: thirty eight seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyFbGG78VCI
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Population #Demography #Demographics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **Vikings didn't have tattoos**
"_The only medieval source to claim that Vikings had tattoos comes from the furthest edge of their culture's world, and the lack of any Old Norse word or description of tattoos makes it unlikely they were a common decoration._"
#Video length: eleven minutes and thirty eight seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU-W9fDqS-M
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Viking #Vikings @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **This tiny solar-powered flyer weighs less than a paper plane**
"_...researchers have developed CoulombFly, a solar-powered MAV propelled by a new extremely efficient electro-static motor and powered by incredibly light solar panels._"
#Video length: three minutes and three seconds.
🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia In Colour Episode 3: Populate or Perish**
"_The government adopts the slogan "populate or perish" after World War II and immigration changes the face of Australia. This influx of labor and the diversification of the economy delivers increasing prosperity._"
#Video length: forty seven minutes and thirty eight seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2hNF91Og5Y
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Documentary #Australia #Immigration #Migration #Migrants #Immigrants @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 🇦🇺 **Australia In Colour Episode 2: Shifting Allegiances**
"_Sport and comedy offer some relief from the hunger and hopelessness of the Great Depression - at least until the war breaks out. Australia sends troops to Europe to fight beside Britain but when Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, the nation turns to America for protection and pulls troops out of the Middle East._"
#Video length: forty seven minutes and forty five seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aytnob10oT4
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Documentary #Australia #GreatDepression #WWII #WW2 @histodon @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
