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"Nelle belle sere dell'autunno passato una grande stella rossa fu veduta per più mesi brillare sull'orizzonte meridionale del cielo; era il pianeta Marte..."
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli died #OTD in 1910. Schiaparelli worked on binary stars, discovered the large main-belt asteroid 69 Hesperia (29 April 1861) , and demonstrated that the meteor showers were associated with comets. via @Wikipedia
Books about or by Schiaparelli at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2523
@freemo @trinsec Thanks for the quick reply. I think the problem arises from non-English written toots using hashtags that I follow.
There is a setting in the preferences "Filter languages
When checked, only toots in selected languages will be displayed in public timelines". I do not think this working. I have clicked on just English as @trinsec suggested but I get quiet a few non-English toots.
@Nas Old habits die hard.
@SteveClough Heavy in terms of boredom.
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Today is publication day in the US for my book, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, in which I examine society's entry into the age of print for lessons as we leave it. Bloomsbury just gave me 25% off discount codes: TGPJJ23US (US) or TGPJJ23UK (worldwide).
https://gutenbergparenthesis.com/
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How do we know *rīks was not the native Germanic word?
Proto-Indo-European *ē became *ē in Proto-Germanic (a long vowel close to the one in British 'there'), not ī (as in 'fleet').
Thus, *h₃rḗǵs should've become *rēks.
What would the descendants of *rēks have been?
Proto-Germanic *ē became *ā (as in 'father') in Proto-North (*rāks) and Proto-West Germanic (*rāk); subsequently:
- Icelandic *rákur
- Swedish *råk
- German *Raach
- Dutch *raak
- English *reak
- West Frisian *riek
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'Rich' stems from a Celtic word meaning "king".
This word, *rīxs, a cousin of Latin 'rēx', was first borrowed into Germanic.
Next, an adjective meaning "powerful; wealthy" was derived from it. It was this word that eventually became 'rich'.
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@tishkova I see no problem in giving heartfelt constructive criticism if one is writing a review; however, trolling with the aim of causing offence is another matter.
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I love the gothic Fractur typeface used here* for German terms (nowadays merely italicized).
(*Foreword [1873] to Hegel's Logic [in Ency. 1817], 1975 OUP.)
@tishkova I am not reading an encyclopaedia, but it sure does not feel far from a very repetitive, boring and long lexicon.
I don't want to name the book as the author has obviously spent a great deal of time and effort to produce it. Does he really need some person on the internet rubbishing his hard work?
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Could the Greenland Ice Sheet collapse in the next 15 years? A new study says more than a fifth of the world's potentially catastrophic tipping points could occur as soon as 2038. Here’s more from Live Science.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/catastrophic-climate-doom-loops-could-start-in-just-15-years-new-study-warns
#ClimateChange #ClimateScience #Science
@tishkova I've reached page 940 and still struggling. I suppose I passed the 50 page mark a while back. The only silver lining in the cloud at this point is that there is just another 400 pages to go.
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Since we’ve got more arrivals from the birdsite, this directory of directories may be helpful. The spreadsheet dedicated to #histodons , which we started back in November, has now exceeded 1,000 entries, with info on interests, time period speciality, and Mastodon handle. https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
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The Rarest Sounds Across All Human Languages: Learn What They Are, and How to Say Them
https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/the-rarest-sounds-across-all-human-languages.html
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence." – Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832)
#quote #mathematics #math #maths
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I spent waaay too much time on this 🙈:
A curated list of Mastodon accounts to follow if you're interested in #cartography, #maps, #geoviz'ualisation, visual aspects of #GIS and #geography etc.
Maybe a good way to get your feed going if you are #newhere…
https://cartolab.at/cartography-on-mastodon/
Let me know if you want to be included/removed or feel misrepresented. #gischat
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