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📜 🇰🇿 **Kazakh Manuscript on Khans’ Genealogy Added to UNESCO Memory of World Register**
_“The ‘Khandar Shezhiresi’, a scroll over three meters long, traces the genealogy of the rulers of the Kazakh steppes. It not only highlights their deep historical roots but also offers insights into their connections with other peoples and civilizations from the sixth to the 19th centuries,”_
**10 charts prove that clean energy is winning — even in the Trump era**
“_Climate progress is actually good business._”
🔗 https://www.vox.com/climate/377072/data-energy-trends-renewables-transition-escape-velocity.
#Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Energy #Politics #Renewables #Solar #Business #Data #DataViz @climatechange
📖 **“Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” by Laura Spinney**
Peter Gordon
“_The “Proto” in the title Laura Spinney’s new book is a reference to “Proto-Indo-European” (PIE), the language from which modern tongues as diverse as Hindi, Greek, English, Russian and Armenian derive; this was perhaps deemed not quite fascinating enough, so the book was given a subtitle presumably more in tune with the contemporary zeitgeist._”
🔗 https://asianreviewofbooks.com/proto-how-one-ancient-language-went-global-by-laura-spinney/.
#BookReview #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #Ancient #Languages #Linguistics @bookstodon @linguistics
🇵🇾 📜 **Stolen 16th-century manuscript returned to Paraguayan authorities**
"_The 13-page item detailing laws governing indigenous life under Spanish colonial rule and linked to the 1603 abolition of the encomienda system was valued at US$ 20,000. It had been stolen from Paraguay's National Archives and put up for auction in New York in 2013._"
Good afternoon.
**Nazareth, Galilee and Jerusalem: ITN Explores the Holy Land (1958)**
ITN Archive
“_On 1 May 1958, ITN’s Michael Barely took viewers on a trip around the Holy Land. He reported from several sites of Biblical significance including including Nazareth, Ashkelon and the Sea of Galilee. He ended his report in Jerusalem where he watched tourists navigate the border of the divided city (in 1958, West Jerusalem was under Israeli control while East Jerusalem was annexed by Jordan)._”
#Video length: sixteen minutes and fifty-three seconds.
🇺🇸 **Dr. Boucher: Trump Is Not the Cause, but a Symptom**
“_Dr. Boucher warns that even without Trump, populist forces will endure, backed by media ecosystems, think tanks, and loyalist networks._”
🔗 https://www.populismstudies.org/dr-boucher-trump-is-not-the-cause-but-a-symptom/.
#Trump #Populism #Immigration #SociaMedia #FakeNews #Nativism #PoliticalScience #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates @politicalscience
We have reached such a level of malfeasance and mendacious dishonesty that the lies do not even have to make sense any more, as long as they confirm to our own personal biases they are accepted as truth.
🇯🇴 **Pharaonic inscription of Ramses III discovered in southern Jordan**
“_A hieroglyphic inscription bearing the royal cartouche of Pharaoh Ramses III (1186–1155 BC) has been discovered in the Wadi Rum Reserve in southern Jordan, marking what officials described as a significant archaeological breakthrough._”
🔗 https://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/pharaonic-inscription-ramses-iii-discovered-southern-jordan
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Jordan #Pharaoh #WadiRum @archaeodons
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Scientists claim to have discovered 'new colour' no one has seen before
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyq0n3em41o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-BBCNews
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In the (free to read) newsletter, a look at births and bears. The key graph on the first point is below. https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=6803ac6d6ef25d630e15fb7b&utm_campaign=wp_bump&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&linknum=5&linktot=63
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A New Biography of Hitler Separates the Man From the Myths (Gift Article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/books/review/hitler-ascent-volker-ullrich.html?rsrc=flt&unlocked_article_code=1.A08.tJM1.fa5kCvgjetK0&smid=url-share
🇩🇪 **Thirty Years’ War camp unearthed in Germany reveals daily life and mysteries**
🔗 https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/thirty-years-war-camp-unearthed-in-germany/
#News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Bravaria #Germany #Europe @archaeodons
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🇺🇸 📈 **Could Trump’s tariffs give a green light for corporate profiteering?**
_“My suspicion is, in an environment where there is a broad expectation of higher inflation in the US, where consumers are generally expecting it, companies will feel more able to go for the price increase option.”_
#Analysis #Trump #Tariffs #Inflation #Economics #Corporations #PriceGouging #Greedflation @economics
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"Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all." -- Pierre-Simon Laplace
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The forgotten Indian explorer who uncovered an ancient civilisation
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k4v4xvpxlo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World @world-BBCNews
**Codex Vigilanus Primeros Numeros Arabigos**
“_The first Arabic/Hindu (Ghobar type) numerals in a Western manuscript, AD 976. From Codex Vigilanus._”
#Image attribution: The original uploader was Srnec at English Wikipedia., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Vigilanus_Primeros_Numeros_Arabigos.jpg.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math @science
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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