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"Joseph Seth Jones’s diary giving an account of the voyage of the Mimosa to Patagonia with the first settlers in 1865, and his diary for 14-21 March 1866." @histodon @histodons

Source: twitter.com/NLWales/status/166

Staffan von Arbin (2023) The Recent Find of a Cog of ca. 1240 in the Fjällbacka Archipelago, Western Sweden: A Preliminary Report, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/10572414.2023. @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze (2023) The two ‘strongest pillars of the empiricist wing’: the Vienna Circle, German academia and emigration in the light of correspondence between Philipp Frank and Richard von Mises (1916–1939), Annals of Science, DOI: doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2023. @histodon @histodons

"After screening some 5000 papers, he estimates up to 34% of neuroscience papers published in 2020 were likely made up or plagiarized; in medicine, the figure was 24%." science.org/content/article/fa

Robert Clive: From Hero to Villain 

"....Robert Clive’s reputation as a hero had collapsed. In the late 1760s he returned to Britain, bringing with him a staggering personal fortune that he had amassed in Bengal. Regarded as one of the richest men in Europe, he conspicuously bought properties in England and Wales, and spared no expense on rebuilding and furnishing these new residences. Clive’s spending spree coincided with reports of the Bengal Famine, a catastrophe that killed about 10 million people. The source of Clive’s fortune came under scrutiny and his character was aggressively criticised by the British public." blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2023/0 @histodon @histodons

Source: twitter.com/UntoldLives/status

"In recent decades, researchers have begun peering beneath book covers using noninvasive techniques to find medieval binding fragments and read what’s written on them." nytimes.com/2023/05/23/science @bookstodon

Source: twitter.com/prof_gabriele/stat

"No one knows where the city of Akkad was located, how it rose to prominence, or how, precisely, it fell; yet once it was the seat of the Akkadian Empire which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia." worldhistory.org/akkad/ @histodons @histodon

Source: twitter.com/whencyclopedia/sta

"Stuart was a slight, small man, a social misfit and heavy drinker. Yet he would go on to become perhaps the greatest explorer of the Australian interior in history." explorerspodcast.com/john-mcdo @histodon @histodons @podcast

Source: twitter.com/explorerspod/statu

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