16 posts tagged with history by clavdivs.
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fall of rome
80 years ago President Roosevelt delivered a speech: "..."Last night, when I spoke to you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far."
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s D-Day Prayer
Gm•(t)-p3-itn
Originally published in 1979, 'The Akhenaten Temple Project and Karnak Excavations' is a nice shapshot of the projects overview. "Akhenaten built the Gem-pa-Aten in the third year of his reign to celebrate his jubilee festival (the heb-sed). By year six of his reign, however, Akhenaten had moved the court and royal palace to a new city in Middle Egypt, modern Tell el-Amarna. The extent to which the Gem-pa-Aten and the other structures dedicated to the Aten at Thebes functioned during the king’s hiatus is unknown." from Digital Karnak, A nice index for the history and archeology in Karnak. (Digital Karnak previously)
"You better not throw like that in a mud ball fight kid!"
"The invention of the dunk tank clown shows just how far the line of what is considered appropriate for a society has moved over the decades."
'The Last of the Dunk Tank Clowns.'. (archiveorg) "This attraction is now virtually obsolete. Outdoor Amusement Business Association president Greg Chiecko was quoted as claiming he polled his members about dunk tank clowns and that “most say they don’t know of any that still exist today.” (medium) 'Chicago’s Riverview Park and the Racist Dunk Tank'. {CW: Racism. Clowns.}
"official helmets and t-shirts were issued"
Grace.
Rosalynn Carter, mental health activist, humanitarian and former first lady, dies at 96. Before her passing, "At the (Carter) Center, she leads a program to diminish stigma against mental illness and to promote greater access to mental health care. She also is a partner with the ex-president in projects to resolve conflict, promote human rights, improve global health, and build democracy in some 65 countries.
"claw-claw..."
"Protecting cats has been a Roman tradition since the days of the ancient Roman Republic. They were considered sacred to the goddess Diana and were kept not only as companions, but as a way to control the pest population as the city grew. Cats were granted legal protections under Roman law as early as the first century CE .
The Roman Cat. pt.1, pt. 2, pt. 3.
previously.
The Gingerbread man
John D. Clare of 'Facts and the teaching of History' posits: "EH Carr's What is History?...Carr - very correctly - argues that 'the belief in a hard core of historical facts existing objectively independent of the interpretation of the historian is a preposterous fallacy." Then it unravels into historiographical relevance of fact. Nearly 20 years later, the methodology of History/ historiography is changing.
'How AI is helping historians better understand our past'
and
'Digital doping for Historians: Can history, memory, and historical theory be rendered artificially intelligent'
"Meet Comrade Student"
Ray Gun!
Caligula, ancient tattoos and war elephants.
toldinstone is a podcast by Historian Garrett Ryan who discusses the ancient world. His latest episode is 'Trivia, Ancient and Modern' with Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame.
XD37684
BBC 4
Murphy!
"Adams called him a Shadow man"
"wondering what an 18th Century AskMe might have looked like?"
The National Archives 'Founders List'
Comment inspired Here.
double/double [more inside]
"Dance, Dance, Dance" 🕺🎟️💃
Ballroom etiquette was not complete without a Dance Card.
'Sticking to the Dance Card':
Was this the App before the Apps?
Here is an example from Tulane Universities Digital Archive.
'Thank Goodness We Don’t Have To Do That Anymore: Dance Cards' [more inside]
Zig-Zag-and Swirl.
Fantastically Wrong: The Inventor of the Airliner Also Invented This Hilariously Absurd 'Science'.
Alfred Lawson and 'Manlife' Documentary Explores Lawsonomy & Its Last Crusader
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