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From hapless parody to knight crusader – how far-right nationalism hijacked the real Don Quixote https://theconversation.com/from-hapless-parody-to-knight-crusader-how-far-right-nationalism-hijacked-the-real-don-quixote-196032 #Literature #Spain
‘Incredible’ Roman bathers’ gems lost 2,000 years ago found near Hadrian’s Wall https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/28/roman-bathers-gems-carved-stones-archaeologists-hadrians-wall #Archaeology #Roman #Britain
"The Horned Helmets Falsely Attributed to Vikings Are Actually Nearly 3,000 Years Old". https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/iconic-viking-horned-helmets-actually-3000-years-old-180979339 #Vikings #Ancient #Archaeology #Denmark #Europe #History #Histodons
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"Bernard Lamy was a French mathematician who wrote on geometry and mechanics." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lamy/ #History #Maths #Math #Mathematics #France
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The Phonetic Hieroglyphic Alphabet
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n03/james-davidson/at-the-british-museum #Ancient #Culture
‘Armada’ Review: The Fate of the Spanish Fleet
https://www.wsj.com/articles/armada-book-review-the-fate-of-philips-mighty-fleet-11674844489 #History #Book #Books #BookReview #Histodons #England #Spain #Europe
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#Biography: Thomas Willis, F. R. S. (1621-1675) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.1960.0008 #History #histsci #Science #Histodons
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Scientist of the day: Robert Burton https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/robert-burton #History #Science #Histodons
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Tears and Contrition in Early Modern Iberian Inquisitorial Trials (1560–1610): A Preliminary Study https://brill.com/view/journals/ehcs/aop/article-10.1163-2208522x-02010182/article-10.1163-2208522x-02010182.xml #History #EarlyModern #Iberia #Histodons
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‘Remarkable’: Eastbourne shipwreck identified as 17th-century Dutch warship https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/27/remarkable-eastbourne-shipwreck-identified-as-17th-century-dutch-warship #Archaeology #Netherlands #Europe #History #C17th #17thcentury #Histodons
Wittgenstein on Religious Belief https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/wittgenstein-on-religious-belief/B8B23B374F9CC83BE8C8FC5E6E78DF97 #Philosophy
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Native Americans—and their #genes—traveled back to #Siberia, new #genomes reveal https://science.org/content/article/native-americans-and-their-genes-traveled-back-siberia-new-genomes-reveal #Science #Archaeology
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Encore: What makes that song swing? At last, physicists unravel a jazz mystery https://www.npr.org/2023/01/23/1150844947/encore-what-makes-that-song-swing-at-last-physicists-unravel-a-jazz-mystery #Science #Physics #Music
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#AI and the future of work: 5 experts on what #ChatGPT, DALL-E and other #AI tools mean for artists and knowledge workers https://theconversation.com/ai-and-the-future-of-work-5-experts-on-what-chatgpt-dall-e-and-other-ai-tools-mean-for-artists-and-knowledge-workers-196783
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Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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