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In the Early Middle Ages, the ancestor of French borrowed many words from Old Frankish, a Germanic language spoken by the elite of the Frankish Empire.
When this elite adopted the Romance language, it got their name: 'françois', now 'français': French.
Here are some of the borrowings:
"The meaning of probability; Kolmogorov’s axioms; Random variables; Introduction to stochastic processes; Markov chains; Poisson process; Wiener process. Important distributions; These notes contain further pointers to the literature.." https://www.lem.sssup.it/phd/documents/probpisanew.pdf #Maths #Probability #Economics #PDF @economics
Source: https://twitter.com/FriedrichHayek/status/1672662927084748801
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I am a #writer and help other writers write in all formats; #Memoir, #CreativeNon-Fiction, #Screenplays, #HistoricalFiction, #Comedy. Currently working on #HistoricalFiction set during the #AmericanRevolution.
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#OTD 24 June 843 Vikings sack Nantes. Learn how Charles the Bald fought the Vikings in our episode on his reign https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/59-charlemagne-junior/
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#OTD 24 June 1604 Samuel de Champlain becomes the first European to discover the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present-day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
'Peter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)' by Scholarly Communication https://megaphone.link/NSR2033542291 #books #podcast #bookstodon @bookstodon
Kelsey E Witt and others, The Impact of Modern Admixture on Archaic Human Ancestry in Human Populations, Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 5, May 2023, evad066, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad066 #OpenAccess #OA #Science #Biology #ResearchPapers #Article @science
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Today in 1497, John Cabot lands on the Atlantic Coast of North America, claiming it for England.
He arrives with one ship called Matthew of Bristol, with 18-20 men on board.
The location of the landing is disputed & may have been in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia or Maine.
#canada #history #novascotia #newfoundland #exploration #histodon #histodons
"Scholars have assumed that peace was broadly welcomed, especially among the English mercantile community. Yet many merchants had made vast fortunes from the war, through privateering or opening trade routes with Spain’s imperial territories."
Source: Alexandra Gajda, War, peace and commerce and the Treaty of London (1604), Historical Research, 2023;, htad011, https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htad011 #History #England #Spain #C17th #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #histodon #histodons @histodon @histodons
Listening to "Thirty years of proof: celebrating Andrew Wiles on the anniversary of Fermat's Last Theorem" at https://livingproof.buzzsprout.com/1992011/13087386 #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Podcast
"They walk us through just how banking and finance was done in the days before computers, telephones and even the telegraph." https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/this-is-how-finance-and-banking-worked-before-comp #books #bookstodon #podcast #history #histodon #histodons #economics #finance #C18th @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @economics
Source: https://twitter.com/PrincetonUPress/status/1671954205756588033
"One of the biggest certainties with an El Niño is that global temperature will ratchet up, as they always do during El Niño years, because the ocean releases exceptional amounts of heat into the atmosphere." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/el-nino-may-break-a-record-and-reshape-weather-around-the-globe/ #Climate #Science #ElNiño @science
Source: https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1671943252398800912
"When Thomas Jefferson ran for president, his opponents attacked him as an atheist. But was this true? What did Jefferson believe?" https://youtu.be/CXKc7MMB1uQ #video #history #histodon #histodons #USA #religion #christianity #bible @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/andrewmarkhenry/status/1671934702662434831
"this book is an invaluable companion to students and lecturers alike in exploring women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, medicine and culture." https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/211143 #OpenAccess #OA #history #histodon #histodons #science #bookstodon #books #book #maths #technology #medicine #culture @bookstodon @histodon @histodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/UCLpress/status/1671503733564358656
"Diogenes engaged in shocking behavior to demonstrate the contradictions, small-mindedness, and sheer absurdity of prevailing social conventions." https://bigthink.com/thinking/dangerous-ideas-diogenes-cynic/ #Books #History #Philosophy #bookstodon #histodon #histodons @bookstodon @histodon @histodons
Source: https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1663956921051643904
"The highly unusual find, thought to be the first time a literary quotation has been discovered on a Roman amphora.." https://theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/21/virgil-quote-found-on-fragment-of-roman-jar-unearthed-in-spain #Archaeology #Roman #Latin #Spain @archaeodons
Sousa da Mota, B., Rubinacci, S., Cruz Dávalos, D.I. et al. Imputation of ancient human genomes. Nat Commun 14, 3660 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39202-0 #OpenAccess #OA #Biology #Genetics #Archaeology #Population #Haplotypes #Science @archaeodons @science
Source: https://twitter.com/MU_Peter/status/1671533825560592388
"He predicted that AI would soon be better at the “aggregation of information” than human journalists and said that only publishers who created “the best original content” – such as investigative journalism and original commentary – would survive." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/20/german-tabloid-bild-to-replace-range-of-editorial-jobs-with-ai #AI #Germany
"It’s the pinnacle of 400 years of science and gives the correct answer to hundreds of thousands of experiments." https://youtu.be/Unl1jXFnzgo #Video #Science #Physics @science
Source: https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1670863540423360520
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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