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The Harrowing Story Of The Jamestown Massacre, When Hundreds Of Colonists Were Killed By Native Americans
By Genevieve Carlton
The Jamestown Massacre took place in March 1622 and was led by Powhatan Native Americans who hoped to prevent the English colonists from settling permanently in Virginia.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/jamestown-massacre
Books about Jamestown at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Jamestown%2C+Virginia
"The hope that the internet would obey rules existed at one end of a spectrum; at the other end was the more widely held enthusiasm for the idea that the internet would be a place without rules."
Hi mastodon, I've started learning about the Napoleonic Wars. In general, which side should I root for?
#Napoleon #NapoleonicWars #History
Options: (choose one)
The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing.
Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla)
@unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history
Rated The Rape of Recy Taylor 8/10
150 Years of American Telecommunications gives you the history you need to make sense of the biggest broadband debates happening today—from who gets connected and who pays, to how technology and policy shape the networks we depend on.
If you want to understand the future of broadband, start with the past.
https://broadbandbreakfast.com/course/
#technology #telecom150 #course #learn #learning #teach #teachers #teaching #education #school #history #american
This week's #NewBooks at the library: Several new books bought at bargain prices:
- The Nile Basin: Quaternary #Geology, #Geomorphology and Prehistoric Environments by Martin Williams, published by Cambridge University Press.
- A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of #Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War by Keith Fisher, published by Allen Lane.
- The Great Paradox of #Science: Why Its Conclusions Can Be Relied Upon Even Though They Cannot Be Proven by Mano Singham, published by Oxford University Press.
#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #EarthSciences #FossilFuels #Energy #History #Philosophy @bookstodon
"By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London" by Adrian Tinniswood. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2004.
Book description: Adrian Tinniswood's magnificent account of the Great Fire of London explores the history of a cataclysm and its consequences. A dynamic recounting of the horror that gripped London in 1666 after a small baker's fire erupted and spread, destroying 13,200 homes, 93 churches, St. Paul's Cathedral, and every administrative building in the capital. The book also details the massive effort of cleanup and the rebuilding of London.
This was an extraordinary read. I highly recommend this book.
"The #FirstResponders - The black men from Pittsburgh who made up #America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make #history and save lives—starting with their own."
by Kevin Hazzard
https://magazine.atavist.com/2019/the-first-responders-paramedics-pittsburgh-civil-rights-ems
#longform #writing #atavistmagazine #amreading #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackHistory #BlackExcellence #AmericanHistory #EMS #paramedics
This Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up Out of the Blue. Who Was the Whimsical World War II Soldier Who Wrote Them?
Nobody knows who dropped Speedy Weber’s correspondence at a USO office in 2022. Researchers have finally tracked down two living relatives who remember him
Vecinos is a new video account about Latin American history (the videos are in English by the way). You can follow the account at:
➡️ @vecinos_latin_american_history_vids
(Don't worry if it looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.)
You can also follow their non-video account at @VecinosHistory
#FeaturedPeerTube #History #LatinAmerica #LatinAmericanHistory #PeerTube
A time-warp to my room around late 1992, where I show how exhilarating it was to be a game developer. 😆
#TeamHoi #PixelArt #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #commodore #amiga #computing #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #designer #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon #hoi #MoonChild
What three female figures in the Bayeux tapestry reveal about medieval women
by Natasha R. Hodgson
The women of the Bayeux tapestry tell a story as compelling and important as the main depiction of the battle.
Books about Bayeux tapestry (including La Tapisserie de la Reine Mathilde by A. Levé) at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/4445
Rated Britain's Greatest Codebreaker 8/10
Rewatched this as a result of having recently seen THE IMITATION GAME and deeming it severely lacking in its approach--historical and thematic--to Alan Turing's work. On technical levels this film could use some improvement in its cinematography and editing, but given that it bills itself as a made-for-tv docudrama it comes across as both insightful and competent.What I appreciated most about the film was its construction and the way it dramatized the interactions between two people--Turing (Ed Stoppard) and his therapist, Franz Greenbaum (Henry Goodman). We get a bit of backstory of both, of course, but the interaction between the two allow us to get a better sense of the inner-workings of Turing's mind before, during, and after his service at Bletchley Park.This back-and-forth is complemented by the more traditional style of sit-down interviews, which include relatives and descendants of Turing and Greenbaum. More importantly to me, though, was the way in which the film perfectly contextualizes his general thinking about the computability of life with his discoveries of and contributions to computer science, artificial intelligence, and biological mathematics.What I appreciated most about this was the way in which it positions the sciences (and universities, really) as places of interdisciplinary study. Wozniak for the most part stresses the integral nature of his contributions to computer science and machine learning, but it is left to the professors to explicate how his genius would influence later thinkers and both postulate (and shape) the theories, philosophies, and extent(s) of artificial intelligence.The film isn't solely about his mind, however, it's also about his heart. And here the film also gets it right. We learn about the loss in his youth of his childhood friend Christopher and, perhaps masterfully, the philosophical question of immortality through AI is raised while at the same time Turing's conception of a means of discerning true intelligence--his eponymous test--comes into form.At nearly the same time his love for Queen and country is tested when, following a burglary at his residence, law enforcement are called, but are more interested in his sexual proclivities than in meting out justice to the thieves. What's interesting about the recollection of this event is how it's used to color Turing. We learn from various sources about how open he was about his sexuality, even with these officers, and also that he was aware that he bore some social privileges as an academician.Charged with gross indecency and offered the choice between jail and chemical castration, the film shows us how Turing's disillusionment and anger with the world and British society began. What he didn't count on was that his mind might become just as addled and confused as his heart. The idea that the country he helped save from Nazi Germany's atrocities could visit the same upon its own citizens would eventually drove him to his death. The film captures this reality with little to no effort and it doesn't shy away from it. It can't.CODEBREAKER is a film that is as much about genius as it is about the social contexts and relationships that inform and constrain it. What this film does right is depict a man wronged by society simply because he could be wronged. It is a tale about villainy and state violence, but it's also a story about a boy who wanted to give something back to the world and vindicate the worth of an adolescent friendship. It's a glimpse into a time characterized by secrets and surveillance. Deeply human despite its flaws, it passes the test.
The law of the innocents: Ireland’s medieval precursor to the Geneva conventions
How a seventh-century monk drew up a blueprint for modern international humanitarian law.
by Chris Doyle
Books about Medieval Ireland at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/26627
10 Famous Quotes From Ancient History Everyone Should Know
Some of our most quotable sayings date back thousands of years to ancient Greece and Rome. But who said them, and what do they really mean?
https://www.thecollector.com/famous-quotes-ancient-history-everyone-should-know/
The Ancient Roman poet Virgil
Today was unboxing day for my book on Venantius Fortunatus! I'm incredibly happy, and frankly relieved, finally to see it in print. Cream Cheese here played my desk gargoyle through much of the writing.
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#Latin #Christianity #LateAntiquity #medievalists #religion #ReligiousStudies #history #histoire #Geschichte #WhiskersWednesday #MiddleAges #antike #antiquity #bookstodon
Medieval Scottish Man May Be First Confirmed Case of Death by Trebuchet
🧱 The secret ingredient holding the Great Wall of China together is sticky rice.
Ming Dynasty masons (1368-1644) mixed boiled sticky rice soup into their lime mortar. The result was a tough, flexible, water-resistant binder that has held brick sections together for around 600 years.
The chemistry: sticky rice is packed with amylopectin, a complex starch. In 2010, chemists led by Bingjian Zhang at Zhejiang University found that amylopectin acts as a template, steering calcium carbonate crystals into a dense, interlocking structure instead of large brittle chunks.
That compact microstructure is why some wall sections have shrugged off earthquakes and still keep weeds out of the seams centuries later.
Read more:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar9001944
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/100608-sticky-rice-mortar-china-science
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100530093704.htm
"Beyond Belief: The American Press And The Coming Of The Holocaust, 1933- 1945" by Deborah E. Lipstadt. My rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Published in 1993.
Book description: This complete study of American press reactions to the Holocaust sets forth in abundant detail how the press nationwide played down or even ignored reports of Jewish persecutions over a twelve-year period.
Emotionally, this is not an easy book to read, but I found it very instructive because it chronicles much of what was published in the British and United States press, during these years, and, therefore, is part of the historical record.
#nonfiction #history #TheHolocaust #Germany #WWII #books @bookstodon
"Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge" by Erica Armstrong Dunbar. My rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Published in 2017.
Book description: An eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful narrative of Ona Judge, George and Martha Washington’s runaway slave, Ona, who risked it all to escape slavery and reach freedom. When George Washington was elected president, he reluctantly left behind his beloved Mount Vernon to serve in Philadelphia, the temporary seat of the nation’s capital, after a brief stay in New York. In setting up his household he took Tobias Lear, his celebrated secretary, and nine slaves, including Ona Judge, about which little has been written. Pennsylvania law required enslaved people be set free after six months of residency in the state. Rather than comply, Washington decided to circumvent the law. Every six months he sent the slaves back down south just as the clock was about to expire, and Ona Judge wanted her freedom from this bondage. This book is her story. It is a captivating read.