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🏴 **Over 6 million cancer diagnoses by 2040: charities call for bold action**
"_Our new analysis looks to the future, and projects that between now and 2040 6.3 million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed across England._"
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The Clock That Changed the World: How John Harrison’s Portable Clock Revolutionized Sea Navigation in the 18th Century
https://www.openculture.com/2022/09/the-clock-that-changed-the-world.html
Artificial intelligence may not be for the majority, unless they want to be poorer.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Wealth #Economy
🏴 📖 **The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results : Vol. 1**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76820.
#Read #Download #ProjectGutenberg #History #Histodons #England #Ebook #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
📖 **Translated Texts from Antiquity Vol. 1: Pomponius Mela’s Geography of the World**
#Ancient #History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **U.S. unemployment rate jumps to nearly 4-year high as weak job creation in August tees up Fed rate cut**
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Jobs #Unemployment #Economy #Economics @economics
🇺🇸 **Lost Cause: historical interpretation**
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lost-Cause.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #LostCause #Confederacy #History #Histodons @histodons
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On Sunday, 7 September 2025, a total lunareclipse will take place in the evening hours and can be observed for the most parts of Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Enjoy watching the sky! 🔭😍 (The next total lunar eclipse will not take place until New Year's Eve 2028/29)
🗺️ **Mapping Oceania with Hawai‘i Artist Sean Connelly**
"_Sean Connelly's Spheric Oceania offers an alternative cartography, mapping Oceania as a cosmic container of ancestral connection._"
🔗 https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/mapping-oceania-hawaii-artist-sean-connelly.
🇮🇳 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 **India, China, Europe, and the United States are on very different population paths**
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Population #Demography #India #China #Europe #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Cutty Sark’s new binnacle: charting a course for heritage crafts**
"_A navigational case shines a light on traditional skills – and prompts intriguing questions into the tea clipper’s history_"
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Fun fact: the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus the Great (539 BCE) pretty much marks the halfway point of recorded history so far. Everything since—the Persian Empire, Alexander, Romans, Middle Ages of course—is closer to us than to the first invention of writing.
**Ancient Greek civilization in the later Archaic periods**
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/place/ancient-Greece/Classical-Greek-civilization.
**Ancient Greek civilization in the later Archaic periods**
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/place/ancient-Greece/Classical-Greek-civilization.
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Red de carreteras del Imperio Romano (2020) https://mapasmilhaud.com/mapas-historicos/red-de-carreteras-del-imperio-romano-2020/
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98th: The Apache Wars offers a thoroughly researched history of the longest domestic war in US that spanned from 1859-1890s as US government and white settlers sought to remove the Apache’s from areas where gold and land was plentiful in Southwest. 1/2 #books #nonfiction
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Why solar flares are way hotter than researchers thought
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529330/solar-flares-even-hotter?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Science @science-npr
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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