#Histodons! Any reading recommendations for the American War of Independence? Since beach season doesn't seem to be coming, my current holiday plan is to just jump into a sea of books instead.
This week I talk to Kaytlin Bailey, host of The Oldest Profession Podcast, about the American Plan, under which tens of thousands of women were detained based on their perceived ability to spread VD, all in the name of protecting American soldiers.
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Is this signature written by hand directly onto the book, or is it a printed version of a handwritten signature? I want it to be the former, but my colleague thinks it's the latter.
It's of Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature
@prabirkc@histodons thank you for your reply. Somebody on here replied to say they found a copy at New York public library, so I have contacted them to see if they can send me a photograph to compare the signature. It certainly looks different to the signatures that you found...It was published in 1938 and is a memorial address to Jagadish Chandra
@janinefunke@mspink@histodons Auch da wirst du diverses zu Jahresendritualen finden, das aber dann auch gerne mal mit einem kritischen Blick gelesen werden muss. Denn natürlich ist das in der Frühzeit auch eine arg koloniale Wissenschaft und etwas fies gesagt gibt es mittlerweile halt praktisch keine unkontaktierten "Völker" mehr, die man erforschen könnte. Aber höchstwahrscheinlich kommst du auf die Weise gut weiter
TIL: Anlässlich des Besuch König Wilhelms I. in #Schleswig wurde im Herbst 1868 auf der Möweninsel in der Schlei eine hölzerne Burg errichtet.
Auf der Möweninsel stand einst die Juriansborg (oder Jürgensburg), die erste Residenz der Herzöge zu Schleswig und quasi-Vorgänger #Gottorf|s. Heute liegt sie unter eine Schicht von etwa 50cm Möwenkot begraben.
One of my #DH students wants to do a project on word separation in #Sanskrit manuscripts. The project is very interesting, but unfortunately I have no experience with any Indian languages/scripts. Can anyone recommend
a) a database of transcribed (not transliterated) Sanskrit texts;
There is a paper story to this painting from 1672 waiting to be told. Meet Jan Berckheyde's "A Notary in His Office" highlighted in 5 steps - a thread for friends of #paperhistory and #mediahistory of #EarlyModernEurope, and for #histodons in general. Expect a view into the inky paper states of Europe, a paper age dealing also with waste papers, fresh paper sheets waiting to be used, a high paper demand, and some document bags literally full of used papers. Let's roll @histodons
@histodons Wherever paper was used, waste paper could also be found. Here, in detail no. 5 paper leftovers, waste papers, are lying on the floor next to a used quill. The presence of fresh unused papers, written upon "used" papers, and waste papers, in one scene remind #histodons of the material life of hand-made paper in early modern Europe: it was produced, it was used, and it was recycled - often to fresh 'new' paper. #EarlyModernEurope was a paper age with #recycling rhythms.
Hashtags were fundamental to how I used Twitter. They helped not only with discoverability but also classification, organization, and community building. #Threads offers none of this. #Bluesky tries to make up for the lack of tags with feeds, but these don't help with topics that emerge on the fly. Only Mastodon offers #hashtags, but for them to work, more people need to enable the option #Mastodon now has to make one's posts visible to search from across the fediverse. @histodons#histodons
@gunchleoc@hno@markstoneman@histodons I think the way they worked though this and came up with a solution that works for the majority of people is really commendable.
#100JahreRadio Wie viele Empfangsgeräte gab es 1923? Ich habe Zahlen zwischen wenigen 100 und 10.000 - was ist eine gesicherte bzw. wie begründete Zahl @histodons
@CGdoppelpunkt@histodons@istuetzle IIRC wurden sets zum Selberbauen verkauft. Die Arbeiter-Radio-Bewegung bestand zu Anfang vor allem aus Bastlern, die sich gegenseitig halfen, Geräte selber zu bauen, die sich Arbeiter natürlich zunächst nicht leisten konnten
Palestinians and Jews have been maligning, menacing and murdering each other since the 19th century, writes a documentary filmmaker who grew up in Israel.
For many Jewish Israelis, October 7’s attack was unexpected in the “unimaginable brutality and destruction. Few pictured Hamas wreaking ISIS-style havoc on 20 towns, raping women and murdering children.”
@TheConversationUS@histodons
It’s more like 911 than ISIS because both Bush and Netanyahu had advance warning of an impending massive terror attack and choose to ignore the warnings.
Why did they choose to ignore the warnings and why are both Bush’s (and trump) not in jail?
Because the foolish voters allow it, woefully thinking the fascist warmongers won’t come for them one day…despite the thousands of American families already inexcusably harmed by the failed warmonger response to 911.