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@failedLyndonLaRouchite I think my point is still valid.

@failedLyndonLaRouchite Thank you for your comment. It may be safe to assume that most people did not venture far from their places of birth; but, that does not exclude the possibility that some did travel quite far.

Swali, P., Schulting, R., Gilardet, A. et al. Yersinia pestis genomes reveal plague in Britain 4000 years ago. Nat Commun 14, 2930 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38393-w #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Archaeology #Genomics #Biology #Article #Academia #Research #Britain @archaeodons @science @academicchatter

"In 1821, Fredrik Meltzer came up with a proposal that ended up becoming the Norwegian flag.

But it wasn't him who had designed it. It was his 10-year-old son." https://sciencenorway.no/history-national-identity/the-norwegian-flag-was-designed-by-a-10-year-old/2203413 #History #Norway #Europe #Flags #C19th #Scandivania #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons

"The content of Yny lhyvyr hwnn reflects the author's interest, especially his desire, arising from his belief in the need for reform in religion, to ensure that ordinary people learnt the basic tenets of the Christian faith." https://www.library.wales/discover-learn/digital-exhibitions/printed-material/yny-lhyvyr-hwnn #Welsh #book #books #bookstodon #history #histodons #histodon #c16th @bookstodon @histodon @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/NLWales/status/1663451258781409280

I always find it amazing that in bygone epochs how much travelling human beings partook in. They did not have access to modern technology; but, nonetheless were able to traverse thousands of miles on rudimentary forms of transport. #History #Transportation

"Richard Hooker defends the religious and political settlement of Elizabethan England using rational arguments and appeals to the natural law." https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/richard-hooker #History #Philosophy #Podcast #England #English #C16th #histodons #histodon @histodons @histodon @philosophy

Source: https://twitter.com/HistPhilosophy/status/1662721235673858049

Rise of the City: How the great god Marduk built the city of Babylon https://youtu.be/Ep936ropKlc #YouTube #Archaeology #History #Assyriology #Video #archaeodons #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons @ancientneareast

"Schooten possessed an excellent knowledge of the mathematics of both his own time and earlier periods. Beside being an extraordinarily industrious and conscientious scholar, a skilful communicator, and an inspiring teacher, he was a man of rare unselfishness." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schooten/ #Maths #Mathematics #Math #History #Biography #Dutch #Netherlands #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @mathematics @academicchatter

Source: https://twitter.com/mathshistory/status/1663113708489392131

"The beads represent some of the earliest amber specimens in southwest Asia and also some of the most distant discoveries from the find areas in the Baltic region." https://phys.org/news/2023-05-bronze-age-long-distance-baltic-amber.html #History #Archaeology #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons

Source: https://twitter.com/archaeologyEAA/status/1663103643317403649

@Scotter Such is life. It appears that nothing continues in perpetuity.

@Scotter I have never been there; but, from afar it seems like a beautiful part of the world.

"The above joke was found written on two separate tablets in the ancient Sumerian city of Nippur in what is now Iraq. Excavated over a hundred years ago, it was included in a list of proverbs and advice and is thought to be around 4,000 years old." https://www.historicmysteries.com/sumerian-joke/ #History #Jokes #Comedy #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons

Source: https://twitter.com/keithfrankish/status/1662779233343610880

@Scotter I believe, if my memory serves me correctly, that there were #Welsh #language classes taking place in #Patagonia; however, depending on your location they might not be feasible to attend.

@Scotter You are welcome. 👍

The 16th and 17th centuries constituted a period of drastic change in the way humanity conceptualized and sought to understand the world. Scholars made massive leaps in fields such as mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, and, perhaps most notably, physics. Arguably, no city contributed more profoundly to that new understanding than Cambridge." https://www.humanprogress.org/centers-of-progress-pt-38-cambridge-physics/ #History #Science #Physics #Cambridge #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons

@Scotter It is all there in technicolour.

"Who was the first person to reach the north pole? According to American adventurer Frederick Cook, it was him. But now a new book will set out the evidence that the explorer’s 114-year-old claim was an instance of fake news on a global scale." https://theguardian.com/science/2023/may/28/was-the-first-man-to-reach-the-north-pole-a #History #Arctic #Explorer #book #histodon #histodons #books @bookstodon @histodon @histodons