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George Dillard@worldhistory.bsky.social |
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History, Climate, Education. Looking Through the Past newsletter at worldhistory.substack.com/. Other writing at worldhistory.medium.com/.
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Sarah E. Bond
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This week's Pasts Imperfect is by @javalac.bsky.social & Cole Smith. They examine Greek transport amphoras 🏺 & modeling human trafficking in antiquity. Then, Egyptian pigment analysis, ancient world journals from @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & much more! pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-impe...
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George Dillard
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Michael Bluth always used to look at Ann Veal and ask: "Her?" I have a similar reaction to Trump and his bootlickers... "Him?
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George Dillard
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A Venn diagram of pundits and Lincoln buffs might just be a single circle...
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George Dillard
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It’s good to be clean, but societies have taken all sorts of different routes to cleanliness over the years. From elaborate public baths to private bathrooms, from relaxing soaks to unpleasant exfoliation, let’s look at the long history of the bath.
🗃️ #skystorians
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David_j_roth
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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Django Wexler
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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George Dillard
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That may have broken me
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Robert Francis
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Whatever happened to the
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Sarah E. Bond
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Y’all? We have a cover! _Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire_ will be out in February 2025 with @yalepress.bsky.social. More soon but I am stoked.
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Will Burrows 🖖🍞🥀
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Just learned the Spanish version of "righty tighty, lefty loosey" translates as "the right oppresses, the left liberates" and holy shit that goes hard.
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George Dillard
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After 1639, foreigners were not allowed to enter Japan, and Japanese people were not allowed to travel abroad... sort of. The truth was complicated, centering on a weird little man-made island in Nagasaki Harbor.
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#skystorians
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the Mountain Goats
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God this is the thing. Do you know what they could spend that money on. So many things. But no. Instead you get "Ronald McDonald in a renaissance painting"
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Sardonicus
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Snake sculpture Thailand. 6th-11th century CE, Bangkok National Museum
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Randall Munroe
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Electric vs Gas xkcd.com/2948
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George Dillard
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A journey through the art and artifacts connected to Japan’s first contact with Christianity, with a bonus digression into the weird fate of Francis Xavier’s dead body — what more could you ask for on this Father’s Day?
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#skystorians
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Catherine Fletcher
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My new book, The Roads to Rome, is out today! Here's a thread with a few highlights of what's inside.
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George Dillard
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This week I wrote about the history of tea — as a drug, a commodity for trade, a ritual object, and a social lubricant. Check it out while you nurse your morning brew!
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Jeff Sharlet
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My first real post on Scenes from a Slow Civil War, my new substack, a close read of Trump's post-conviction speech in view of his mutation in his own mind from Rambo to Scarface and now into horror movies. jeffsharlet.substack.com/p/escalator-...
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George Dillard
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Eagles on poles! Three-headed eagles! Eagles eating snakes! Eagles clutching arrows! Join me on a tour of all of the ways in which countries have used eagles as national symbols.
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#skystorians
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the Mountain Goats
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seriously yall I think the banks should be nationalized and all property owned collectively and full employment guaranteed by the state, ok? but if you can't party a little because an aspirational fascist got his ass handed to him by working people today, please check your priorities
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Adam Serwer
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In fairness to Alito “if liberals are rude it’s ok to support overthrowing the government” is as concise a distillation of trump era conservatism as you’ll ever see
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George Dillard
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George Dillard
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Fair enough (the Boer War saw a lot of trench warfare too), but I suppose what I meant there was that WWI was probably the first major war in which trench warfare was the dominant mode of fighting
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George Dillard
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Of all the new technology in World War I, perhaps the most important — and dismal — was the trench. This week, a look at the realities of life and death just below ground. 🗃️
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George Dillard
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CVG?!
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Kristy Baxter
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"Two women's league roller derby skaters leap over two who have fallen" March 10 1950 World-Telegram photo by Al Aumuller Via LOC
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George Dillard
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The modern supplement industry advertises relentlessly and makes impossible promises of health benefits, but it’s simply following a long tradition.
Let’s go on a tour of patent medicines, their history, and the often bonkers advertising that promoted them. 🗃️
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the Mountain Goats
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Maria Bustillos, fantastic, on why Google is worthless now startpage dot com pulls data from google but is anonymous, dunno if it'll still work once google incorporates ai. duckduckgo has been better for years but maybe should have let the meeting where they named themselves run ten minutes longer
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George Dillard
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If it follows the rest of the season's pattern, it will be: Bright start for a couple of minutes, no goals Dreadful rest of the first half, spurs down 3- or 4-0 Inspired but insufficient comeback at the end that makes every Spurs fan feel better but they still lose.
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George Dillard
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Plus I spend so much of my time clicking on things. Oh my God, so much clicking.
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George Dillard
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High school teacher here. I've done some reflecting this year about how much the design of my courses is determined by the LMS design and how much the students' and parents' desire to see their grades affects the way I give feedback. In both cases, the design of the LMS is driving the car too often.
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Richard Waite
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Food-themed diss track from 1744
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George Dillard
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Even in ancient Rome, people hated being ruled by timekeeping devices. Plautus wrote:
Confound him... Who in this place set up a sundial
To cut and hack my days so wretchedly!
Take a look at the devices that have chopped up our lives for millennia:
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John R.
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Dos Sandos
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This is the only Star Wars related meme you will ever get out of me
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Robert Francis
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It's hard to overstate the impact that market hunting had on America's wildlife. One market hunter kept meticulous records of the 139,628 animals he shot from 1868-1908, including an incredible 27,378 passenger pigeons he killed in trap shooting contests.🦉🗃️
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George Dillard
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How did horses become war machines — and find themselves amidst the machinery of modern war? This week, a look at the experience of the horses that were shipped around the world and made to fight in our most terrible conflicts. 🗃️
#skystorians
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Sardonicus
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Volcanologist Arpad Kerner and assistant in the crater of the Stromboli volcano, Italy, 1933.
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Môr Leidr
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Look forward to the next instalment Meanwhile something to share Big “Guns to the Front” KEMP-WELCH, Lucy Elizabeth (1869 - 1958) National Museum & Galkeries Wales collection My copy as it’s not yet digitised. A wonderfully horse centred war painting
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Nick Brumfield
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More Ohio River trivia The Ohio's modern name comes from a Seneca word But the Iroquoian speaking Seneca are in NY & were more interlocutors in the region The Algonquian speaking Shawnee, whose homelands are along the river, called it the "Pellissippi", which mirrors the Anishinaabe "Mississippi"
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George Dillard
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Nobody asked the horses whether they’d like to participate in our wars, but they had to do so anyway. This week, we look at the early history of the horses who found themselves at the center of human violence. 🗃️
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Faine Greenwood
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these are shards of early Christian art from the church built in Rome’s Palatine Hill, and they’re highly suspicious of your shit
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David Ho
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I know what Exxon could do to reduce the amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere. 🙋🏻♂️
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George Dillard
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Erastus Salisbury Field was an American folk art painter in the late 19th century. 🗃️ He painted this delightfully off-kilter depiction of the Garden of Eden (my newsletter subject this week!), but his most famous work was the very complicated “Historical Monument of the American Republic.”
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Richard Waite
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Reports on 2023 GHG emissions and trends are starting to come out, please find attached the social media conversation you are about to have
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George Dillard
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The Bible doesn’t say much about what the Garden of Eden looked like, which has allowed artists to impose their own ideas on it over the centuries. This week, we take a look at the artistic evolution of paradise. 🗃️
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Kristy Baxter
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Strangely hungry and yet full all at once
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Witch Doctor
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Yep, you’re seeing that right. It is a hat covered in teeth.
The hat was worn by a street dentist (tooth puller) and was intended to akin to a magician’s outfit, showing the magic of dentistry.
More here: heritage.southwark.gov.uk/objects/1838...
#HistSci 🧪 🩺 🗃️
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George Dillard
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The big question: is what we're seeing the result of COVID or phones? If it's COVID it will pass through the system as kids age through school. If it's phones, we may be looking at some very long-term effects...
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George Dillard
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Hard agree from a high school teacher...
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