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Today in 1862, over 300 Indigenous people around Victoria were forcibly removed by police over fears of smallpox. They are sent to northern Vancouver Island where they spread the disease.
By the end of the year, it was estimated 50% of the islands Indigenous population were dead.
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Today in 1806, Philemon Wright, his son and three other men leave Wright's Town with 700 logs & 6,000 barrel staves on a large raft on the Ottawa River.
After 35 days they reach Montreal, beginning the era of the timber trade for the Ottawa area.
"We are currently in the midst of a radical reinvention of English. Not perhaps since the 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries has the English language shifted faster..." https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/2023/04/20/radical-reinvention-english-language #English #Language #Linguistics @linguistics
Source: https://twitter.com/tonythorne007/status/1667816084945137665
"..our studies show that the perception of moral decline is pervasive, perdurable, unfounded and easily produced. This illusion has implications for research on the misallocation of scarce resources, the underuse of social support and social influence." https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06137-x #OpenAccess #OA #Psychology #Research #Academia @psychology
Source: https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1667536573791973378
"Abu'l-Wafa is best known for the first use of the tan function and compiling tables of sines and tangents at 15' intervals. This work was done as part of an investigation into the orbit of the Moon, written down in Theories of the Moon." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Abul-Wafa/ #History #Maths #Science @science
Source: https://twitter.com/StA_Maths_Stats/status/1667473952032030720
"A new study published in Lancet estimates that over 100 million people in India are living with all forms of diabetes. The survey commissioned by the health ministry also found that 136 million people could be living with pre-diabetes." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0ft8kyd #Science #India
Source: https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice/status/1667495390243848193
@Edelruth This is such good advice: "Senior tip: don't wait until you retire to travel, do it while you are young, and are fit, and are willing to work in exotic places."
"..Naoíse Mac Sweeney examines why the West won’t die and, in the process, dismantles ahistorical concepts like the “clash of civilizations” and the notion of a linear progression from Greek and Roman ideals to those of our present day.." https://theamericanscholar.org/why-the-west-wont-die/ #History #Podcast #histodon #histodons #bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/TheAmScho/status/1667535840355004416
"On average, El Niño years are warmer globally than La Niña years – El Niño’s opposite. Globally, a strong El Niño can boost temperatures by about 0.7 degrees Fahrenheit (0.4 Celsius). But in North America, there is a lot of local variation." https://theconversation.com/el-nino-is-back-thats-good-news-or-bad-news-depending-on-where-you-live-205974 #Science #Weather #Climate #ElNino
Source: https://twitter.com/ConversationUS/status/1667172371646537733
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[Blog Archive]
A Short Biography of John Bachman (1790-1874)
2010. Dictionary of Early American Philosophers.
Clergyman, educator, naturalist, friend of Audubon, and enslaver...[Bachman and Audubon] united over their shared love of Natural History... collecting specimen...and disputing their divergent manners, as the ascetic Bachman often admonished Audubon for his love of “gog and wine and snuff.”
#HistSTm #Slavery #Audubon #EnvHist #EnvironmentalStudies #SouthCarolina
https://until-darwin.blogspot.com/2011/07/short-biography-of-john-bachman-1790.html
Simões, L.G., Günther, T., Martínez-Sánchez, R.M. et al. Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant. Nature (2023). https://rdcu.be/decJv #OpenAccess #OA #Biology #History #Archaeology #Science #Anthropology #Genetics #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
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@independentpen @bibliolater @histodon @histodons @anthropology best overview remains C Delano Smith in vol 1 of “The History of Cartography” - free at https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V1/Volume1.html. The Bedolini petroglyph mentioned in the article is a Bronze Age original. It’s v hard to identify a map w/out context!
@mhedney Thank you Professor for your insightful comments. Playing devil's advocate, could not C15th Venice be considered 'medieval' at a very far stretch?
"In September and October of 2018, three maps went viral on social media and the web. All of them had the same perspective, featured oceans as the main focus, and presented the oceans as one body of water." https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/756bcae18d304a1eac140f19f4d5cb3d #Map #Cartography
Source: https://twitter.com/Sean_C_Cote/status/1660445278720217090
"Those ancient humans who might have scratched directions in the sand or carved lines on wood were the first to practice the art of symbolic representation in the form of a map." https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/oldest-maps-world #History #Anthropology #Map #Cartography #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @anthropology
Source: https://twitter.com/laphamsquart/status/1666465537533313024
"Cambridge University Library Research Institute supports a portfolio of collections-based research projects". https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/research-institute/projects #Academia #Education #Research #Library
Source: https://twitter.com/crewsproject/status/1666734620077961219
Kimmo Katajala (2023) Inventing the Grand Duchy of Finland in the 1580s: early modern state formation or medieval patterns of expressing the power, Scandinavian Journal of History, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2023.2200805 #OpenAccess #OA #History #EarlyModern #Article #Scandinavia #Europe #Medieval #Finland #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Sara L. Uckelman (2023) John Eliot's Logick Primer: A Bilingual English-Massachusett Logic Textbook, History and Philosophy of Logic, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2023.2207244 #History #Philosophy #Logic #OpenAccess #OA #Article #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons @philosophy
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An interesting long read on Kate Raworth, the post-growth economist who coined the term doughnut economics.
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