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🔴 🇺🇸 **Taking the Pledge**

A history of the American pledge of allegiance.

🔗 blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/205

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🔴 :youtube: **Why governments are 'addicted' to debt. FT Film**

“_This film examines what some are calling the biggest issue in global finance today, the role of the 'bond vigilantes', and whether government borrowing could spiral out of control._”

length: twenty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=n1jhoU9Mp_

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🔴 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 **Sure Friends Betrayed**

“_Canada & Mexico Wanted to Anchor US “Friendshoring” Efforts. Instead, Trump's Tariffs Risk Throwing Them Into Recessions_”

🔗 apricitas.io/p/sure-friends-be

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🔴 **Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus**

“_An array of new provenance studies demonstrates the complexity of the Bronze Age metal trade and, taking a maritime perspective, provides the opportunity to reveal how strategically positioned actors such as Nuragic Sardinia managed to dominate sea-borne routes, and gained a prominent and independent international position._”

Sabatini, S. and Lo Schiavo, F. (2020) ‘Late Bronze Age Metal Exploitation and Trade: Sardinia and Cyprus’, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, 35(13), pp. 1501–1518. doi: doi.org/10.1080/10426914.2020..

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🔴 **'We use them every day': In some parts of the US, the clack of typewriter keys can still be heard**

“_Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US._”

🔗 bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250.

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@mcnees This is a competitor rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/

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The map was published in 1869, when Minard was 88 years old. This was long after the actually military campaign – he was drawing a historic map.

Minard's map was produced alongside a similar chart describing Hannibal's Crossing of the Alps in 218 BC.

Minard’s 1869 map showing Hannibal’s Crossing of the Alps. A tan or beige line snakes along the coast from Spain to Italy, showing the path Hannibal’s forces took in 218 BC. The thickness of the line dwindles from left to right, indicating the loss of troops along the way
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The map shows six different types of data on a single two-dimensional plot: number of troops, temperature, latitude and longitude, distance traveled, direction of travel, and location at specific dates.

Tufte had a great rundown of Minard’s likely sources on his website. Alas, it seems to have vanished! But the Wayback Machine has cached copies.

web.archive.org/web/2020030402

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French civil engineer Charles Joseph Minard was born #OTD in 1781. He was known for his contributions to information graphics, including his famous map of the losses suffered by Napoleon during the 1812 Russian campaign.

Writing about Minard's map, Edward Tufte said “It may well be the best statistical graphic ever drawn.”

Image: Charles Minard / Public domain

Minard’s map famously encodes multiple streams of data describing Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 Russia campaign. A thick beige, which grows narrower from the left edge (Europe) to the right edge (Moscow) of the image, shows the number of troops making up Napoleon’s force. A black line that narrows from right to left across the page shows the same number on the return journey. A plot at the bottom shows temperature on the journey, and numerous other piece of information are inscribed on the map.
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🔴 📖 **Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome**

“_Hart delves into the cultural and political impacts of Rome's interactions with Transdanubian peoples, emphasizing the Sarmatians of the Hungarian Plain, whose long encounter with the Roman Empire, he argues, created a problematic template for later dealings with Goths and Huns based on misapplied ethnographic and ecological tropes._”

🔗 doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11453670.

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Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome

<I>Beyond the River, Under the Eye</I> of Rome presents the Danube frontier of the Roman empire as the central stage for many of the most important political and military events of Roman history, from Trajan's invasion of Dacia and the Marcomannic Wars, to the humbling of the Roman state power at the hands of the Goths and Huns. Hart delves into the cultural and political impacts of Rome's interactions with Transdanubian peoples, emphasizing the Sarmatians of the Hungarian Plain, whose long encounter with the Roman Empire, he argues, created a problematic template for later dealings with Goths and Huns based on misapplied ethnographic and ecological tropes.<I> Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome</I> explores how Roman stereotypical perceptions of specific Danubian peoples directly influenced some of the most politically significant events of Roman antiquity. <BR /><BR /> Drawing on textual, inscriptional, and archaeological evidence, Hart illustrates how Roman ethnic and ecological stereotypes were employed in the Danubian borderland to support the imperial frontier edifice fundamentally at odds with the region's natural topography. Distorted Roman perceptions of these Danubian neighbors resulted in disastrous mismanagement of border wars and migrant crises throughout the first five centuries CE. <I>Beyond the River </I>demonstrates how state-supported stereotypes, when coupled with Roman military and economic power, exerted strong influences on the social structures and evolving group identities of the peoples dwelling in the borderland.

www.fulcrum.org
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🔴 📚 🇺🇸 **American Studies Reading list 2025**

🔗 manchesteruniversitypress.co.u

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🔴 **Qaryat al-Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl**

“_Despite his name being recorded in various texts and inscriptions on numerous objects that confirm his role as the city's patron god, scant information exists regarding his attributes or sphere of influence. Nonetheless, clues on some of his characteristics can be gleaned from coins bearing his likeness._”

de Lara, J. (2024). Qaryat al-Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 35, 136–154. doi.org/10.1111/aae.12249.

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Ulrike Hahn

AI journalism experiment….

washingtonpost.com/world/2025/

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23andMe Bankruptcy Leaves Troves of Genetic Data at Risk
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🔴 🇺🇸 **Violent, dark, and dirty: What Americans think about the Middle Ages**

“_Americans are likely to have favorable views of castles and chivalry, but not the Crusades or the Inquisition_”

🔗 today.yougov.com/entertainment

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10 Medieval Insults medievalists.net/2024/12/10-me #Insults

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🔴 📖 **“You have such a February face”: Shakespeare’s Most Savage Insults, Explained**

🔗 zmescience.com/feature-post/cu.

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🔴 **Question ❓**

Is it possible to follow Bluesky accounts on Mastodon and vice versa even when the accounts have not set up a bridge?

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🔴 📖 **Reappraising a controversial figure: Ross Carroll’s Edmund Burke**

Morien Robertson

“_Burke was not just a thinker and writer, but a constantly active politician and agitator, who pushed for a variety of causes that might be called progressive, and admonished the failings of the British elite, particularly with regards to the colonial administration in India._”

🔗 oxfordpoliticalreview.com/2025.

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🔴 📖 :youtube: **How Reading Shields Your Mind from Social Media**

Robin Waldun

length: thirteen minutes and fifty-five seconds.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=QL9I7y8cAx

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