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🔴 🇺🇸 **Taking the Pledge**
A history of the American pledge of allegiance.
🔗 https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/2059171786
#History #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons
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**Why governments are 'addicted' to debt. FT Film**
“_This film examines what some are calling the biggest issue in global finance today, the role of the 'bond vigilantes', and whether government borrowing could spiral out of control._”
#Video length: twenty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1jhoU9Mp_U
#FT #FinancialTimes #Film #Markets #Debt #Borrowing #Bonds #Trading #Investment #Finance #BondVigilantes #BondMarket #Economics @economics @finance
🔴 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 **Sure Friends Betrayed**
“_Canada & Mexico Wanted to Anchor US “Friendshoring” Efforts. Instead, Trump's Tariffs Risk Throwing Them Into Recessions_”
🔗 https://www.apricitas.io/p/sure-friends-betrayed
#Economics #Canada #Mexico #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Trade #Tariffs #Recession @economics
🔴 **Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus**
“_An array of new provenance studies demonstrates the complexity of the Bronze Age metal trade and, taking a maritime perspective, provides the opportunity to reveal how strategically positioned actors such as Nuragic Sardinia managed to dominate sea-borne routes, and gained a prominent and independent international position._”
Sabatini, S. and Lo Schiavo, F. (2020) ‘Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus’, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 35(13), pp. 1501–1518. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10426914.2020.1758329.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Archaeology #LateBronzeAge #Metals #Copper #Tin #Lead #Mining #Trade #Nuragic #Sardinia #Cyprus @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 **'We use them every day': In some parts of the US, the clack of typewriter keys can still be heard**
“_Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US._”
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250321-the-people-who-still-use-typewriters.
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The map was published in 1869, when Minard was 88 years old. This was long after the actually military campaign – he was drawing a historic map.
Minard's map was produced alongside a similar chart describing Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps in 218 BC.
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The map shows six different types of data on a single two-dimensional plot: number of troops, temperature, latitude and longitude, distance traveled, direction of travel, and location at specific dates.
Tufte had a great rundown of Minard’s likely sources on his website. Alas, it seems to have vanished! But the Wayback Machine has cached copies.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200304024502/https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/minard
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French civil engineer Charles Joseph Minard was born #OTD in 1781. He was known for his contributions to information graphics, including his famous map of the losses suffered by Napoleon during the 1812 Russian campaign.
Writing about Minard's map, Edward Tufte said “It may well be the best statistical graphic ever drawn.”
Image: Charles Minard / Public domain
🔴 📖 **Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome**
“_Hart delves into the cultural and political impacts of Rome's interactions with Transdanubian peoples, emphasizing the Sarmatians of the Hungarian Plain, whose long encounter with the Roman Empire, he argues, created a problematic template for later dealings with Goths and Huns based on misapplied ethnographic and ecological tropes._”
🔗 https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11453670.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Read #Nonfiction #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Europe #Romans #Academia #UniversityPress @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
🔴 📚 🇺🇸 **American Studies Reading list 2025**
🔗 https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/03/26/american-studies-reading-list/
#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #ReadingList #Book #Books #Bookstodon #UniversityPress #Academia @bookstodon
🔴 **Qaryat al-Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl**
“_Despite his name being recorded in various texts and inscriptions on numerous objects that confirm his role as the city's patron god, scant information exists regarding his attributes or sphere of influence. Nonetheless, clues on some of his characteristics can be gleaned from coins bearing his likeness._”
de Lara, J. (2024). Qaryat al-Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 35, 136–154. https://doi.org/10.1111/aae.12249.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Arabia #Mythology #Academia #Academic @archaeodons
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23andMe Bankruptcy Leaves Troves of Genetic Data at Risk
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/23andme-bankruptcy-leaves-troves-of-genetic-data-at-risk/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Scientific American @scientific-american-SciAm
🔴 🇺🇸 **Violent, dark, and dirty: What Americans think about the Middle Ages**
“_Americans are likely to have favorable views of castles and chivalry, but not the Crusades or the Inquisition_”
🔗 https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/51889-violent-dark-dirty-americans-middle-ages
#Data #DataViz #Poll #History #MiddleAges #DarkAges #Medieval #Medievodons @medievodons
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@rainercade Thank you for the information. Can others set up the bridge, or does it have to be the account holder?
🔴 📖 **“You have such a February face”: Shakespeare’s Most Savage Insults, Explained**
🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/culture/culture-society/shakespeare-insults/.
🔴 **Question ❓**
Is it possible to follow Bluesky accounts on Mastodon and vice versa even when the accounts have not set up a bridge?
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