freethoughtblogs.com - Dana Hunter

Shall we play a word-association game? I’ll say “Darwin.” And chances are, you’ll say “Origin of Species,” or “Evolution,” or “Biology.” Charles Darwin laid the foundation for modern biology. He changed our whole conception of how species come to be, why a single simple organism could be the root of a riotously-branching tree, how “from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.” Of course we associate him with biology. Rightly so. But  »

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@ptak: "had Darwin not been a geologist, the Origin of Species could never have been written by him.” http://t.co/by6bXGbP via @David_Bressan

21.02.2012 05.15.22

@rmathematicus: "had Darwin not been a geologist, the Origin of Species could never have been written by him.” http://t.co/by6bXGbP via @David_Bressan

21.02.2012 05.01.57

@David_Bressan: "had Darwin not been a geologist, the Origin of Species could never have been written by him.” http://t.co/5UWMvfkX

21.02.2012 03.34.09

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teleskopos.wordpress.com - Rebekah Higgitt

Newspapers, magazines, blogs and Twitter are awash with anniversaries. Today’s Birthdays, On this Day in History, #OTD and so on greet me every morning. I know a handful of famous people or events that share my birthday, and I am usually aware of forthcoming anniversaries for the people or institutions that I study. It cannot have escaped your attention that this year sees a Dickens anniversary and a royal jubilee. But why should it be in any way meaningful? There is, of course, a meaningful hi…  »

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@rmathematicus: New post in which @beckyfh asks if anniversaries are bad for history | On this day: the role of anniversaries http://t.co/RPdTIPrv #history

21.02.2012 03.06.52

@sharon_howard: New post asks if anniversaries are bad for history | On this day: the role of anniversaries http://t.co/WZVYE4ik #history

21.02.2012 01.55.15

@beckyfh: New post asks if anniversaries are bad for history | On this day: the role of anniversaries http://t.co/WZVYE4ik #history

21.02.2012 01.17.57

@history_punk: How do we choose what/when to remember? Great blog post by @beckyfh – On this day: The role of anniversaries http://t.co/jNLZx3KG

20.02.2012 18.00.33

@beckyfh: New post | On this day: the role of anniversaries http://t.co/WZVYE4ik #history #twitterstorians

20.02.2012 14.44.42

@mia_out: I read MT @beckyfh: New post asks if anniversaries are bad for history | On this day: the role of anniversaries http://t.co/rYIq7EZK

21.02.2012 01.43.12

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mentalfloss.com - Adrienne Crezo

We’ve scoured the Letters of Note archives once again, this time for notes from men who would hold or were holding the highest office in the land. Here are ten of our favorite letters from the presidents. (There’s a Letters of Note book in the works — learn more and preorder a copy here.) 1. “Liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.” General Eisenhower’s Order of the Day on June 5, 1944, was a call-to-arms for members of the allied forces before they would begin a two-pronged assault un…  »

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@HistoryOfAll: 10 Amazing Letters From Presidents http://t.co/Xs3uycRj

20.02.2012 20.47.53

@mental_floss: One last Presidents’ Day tweet: 10 Amazing Letters From Presidents — http://t.co/taBTEnrd

20.02.2012 19.49.17

@pourmecoffee: For Presidents’ Day, @mental_floss has collected some great letters. Love #10, the Truman flame missive: http://t.co/yZFDnGHy

20.02.2012 20.01.16

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sappingattention.blogspot.com - Ben Schmidt

I. The new USIH blogger LD Burnett has a post up expressing ambivalence about the digital humanities because it is too eager to reject books. This is a pretty common argument, I think, familiar to me in less eloquent forms from New York Times comment threads. It’s a rhetorically appealing position–to set oneself up as a defender of the book against the philistines who not only refuse to read it themselves, but want to take your books away and destroy them. I worry there’s some mystification in…  »

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@TimHitchcock: Great post by @benmschmidt on the issues of e-intellectuals http://t.co/2NMEtBX5

20.02.2012 07.23.11

@dancohen: Love the way that @benmschmidt wrestles with changes in scholarly communication & authority in this post: http://t.co/xW2cEnCP

20.02.2012 05.32.31

@jmcclurken: Wow. @benmschmidt on DH & its critiques: http://t.co/tTTvMC37 –Part I is thoughtful; Part II is great.

20.02.2012 03.10.22

@LibSkrat: Bookmark: Sapping Attention: Second epistle to the intellectual historians http://t.co/YSLR4vid

20.02.2012 06.05.36

@ncecire: Really, @benmschmidt nails it every time. http://t.co/SfEFR5Wp

20.02.2012 03.59.28

@ncecire: "It’s as if I were asked to review for a journal of theology, and handed a rough draft of First Peter." Schmidt on JDH: http://t.co/8eJbhl11

20.02.2012 03.54.48

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anterotesis.com - johnl

“On the frontispiece a picture of a monkey’s head had been pasted in the middle of a rose.” “On the front, where there should be pictures of eminent persons, there are the faces of cats and a bird has been pasted where the face of an eminent person should be.” “In a book on the life of Dame Sybil Thorndike there was a photograph of her sitting in a chair in a room, but the picture of a man’s torso had been pasted in front of her face to show her looking at the man.” Such were the dry descriptio…  »

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@russianist: Great post on a hilarious exhibition: Gorilla in the Roses: The Collages of Halliwell and Orton: http://t.co/nPMMTQKM by @anterotesis

21.02.2012 01.47.32

@anterotesis: New blog post: On Halliwell and Orton defacing #library books: http://t.co/0qohIBwO #queer #subversion

21.02.2012 01.35.23

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sappingattention.blogspot.com - Ben Schmidt

It’s Monday, so let’s run last night’s episode of Downton Abbey through the anachronism machine. I looked for Downton Abbey anachronisms for the first time last week: using the Google Ngram dataset, I can check every two-word phrase in an episode to see if it’s more common today than then. This 1) lets us find completely anachronistic phrases, which is fun; and 2) lets us see how the language has evolved, and what shows do the best job at it. [Since some people care about this–don’t worry, no …  »

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@TimHitchcock: Text-mining Downton Abbey anachronisms, costume showdown edition. (Howler of the day: "novelty value"). http://t.co/T349dnt0

21.02.2012 01.07.16

@wragge: Text-mining Downton Abbey anachronisms, costume showdown edition. (Howler of the day: "novelty value"). http://t.co/T349dnt0

20.02.2012 14.04.53

@benmschmidt: Text-mining Downton Abbey anachronisms, costume showdown edition. (Howler of the day: "novelty value"). http://t.co/T349dnt0

20.02.2012 14.01.47

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hellfiresecrets.wordpress.com - 6500jmk4

West Wycombe is a charming village in the midst of the rolling hills of Buckinghamshire.  The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce saved many of its buildings from imminent destruction in 1929, purchasing it in March of that year.  Successfully breathing new life into the village, The Times claimed in 1934 that revenue from the village had jumped.[1]  In 1933, the society turned over the property to the National Trust, which extended its holdings in the followi…  »

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@quackwriter: RT @Jason_M_Kelly New post: "West Wycombe and the Dashwoods" at Secrets of the Hellfire Club http://t.co/FK441p7q

20.02.2012 04.27.00

@Jason_M_Kelly: Thanks for the RT @CharlotteFrost1: New post: "West Wycombe and the Dashwoods" at Secrets of the Hellfire Club: http://t.co/E2YgAIfa

20.02.2012 04.19.08

@Jason_M_Kelly: Thanks for the RT @CasparCat: New post: "West Wycombe and the Dashwoods" at Secrets of the Hellfire Club http://t.co/E2YgAIfa

20.02.2012 04.18.40

@halbion: RT @Jason_M_Kelly: New post: "West Wycombe and the Dashwoods" at Secrets of the Hellfire Club http://t.co/gVb5jfBZ

20.02.2012 03.37.15

@Jason_M_Kelly: New post: "West Wycombe and the Dashwoods" at Secrets of the Hellfire Club: The Monks of Medmenmham Revealed http://t.co/E2YgAIfa

20.02.2012 03.34.34

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mcheathem.wordpress.com

Timothy Messer-Kruse’s wrote an excellent Chronicle column on Wikipedia last week. (Word to the wise: The comments section has devolved into nonsense at times, so read at your own peril.)It r…

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@jmadelman: Another cautionary tale – quite the divide in standards! RT @markcheathem: The "Truth" of Wikipedia http://t.co/DUINaHWP

20.02.2012 04.47.29

@markcheathem: The "Truth" of Wikipedia http://t.co/36yMNmR1

20.02.2012 04.33.44

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ihrprojects.wordpress.com - Matt Phillpott

Digital History 31 May 2011 Professor Richard Rodger (Edinburgh) Space, place and the city: a simple anti-GIS approach for historians   William EDGAR- City and Castle of Edinburgh 1765   If you suggest using GIS (geographical information system) to an historian they might look back at you blankly or with a look of mild horror on their face.  For many historians GIS is viewed (not unfairly) as a complicated tool best left to others.  However, its potential usefulness in answering and revealing…  »

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@mikecosgrave: interesting for #dahphdie 2moro? RT @ihr_history: Space, place and the city: a simple anti-GIS approach for historians http://t.co/ZPzuTd3S

20.02.2012 03.56.40

@Airminded: Space, place and the city: a simple anti-GIS approach for historians http://t.co/dPHtpZHJ

20.02.2012 03.33.49

@anterotesis: Recording of great seminar from last year: Space, place & the city: a simple anti-GIS approach http://t.co/CSHIrlUx via @ihr_history #dhist

20.02.2012 02.28.20

@ihr_history: Space, place and the city: a simple anti-GIS approach for historians http://t.co/dPHtpZHJ

20.02.2012 02.25.22

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blog.mikerendell.com - GeorgianGent

Challenged to think of a female scientist in the Georgian era I struggled to get beyond Caroline Herschel, about whom I have already blogged. Checking through the inventory of female scientists is a depressingly short list, partly because educational opportunities for women were so limited, and also because the higher echelons of acadaemia were firmly barred. But it turns out that there was an exception – not in England, but in Bologna where the university can claim to be the oldest in Europe, …  »

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@rmathematicus: RT @GeorgianGent Professorially speaking she was Numero Uno: Laura Bassi, the first ever female professor (physics). http://t.co/Vgnf0qgl

20.02.2012 03.34.00

@rmathematicus: New post from @GeorgianGent: Laura Bassi, a woman who succeeded in a man’s world: physics. http://t.co/Vgnf0qgl

20.02.2012 03.21.35

@2nerdyhistgirls: RT @GeorgianGent: Laura Bassi, 18th c woman who succeeded in a man’s world: physics. http://t.co/kemEx4rJ

20.02.2012 03.00.01

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wondersandmarvels.com - PamelaToler

By Pamela Toler Image courtesy of the Walters Art Museum The Islamic world created illuminated manuscripts that rivaled anything that came out of a medieval monastery: Qu’rans, historical chronicles, stories of the prophets, the deeds of kings, lyric poetry, heroic epics, philosophy, scientific treatises, and romantic tales. Caliphs, courtiers, and wealthy merchants commissioned manuscripts from the ninth century until well into the seventeenth century, when the Islamic world reluctantly acce…  »

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@ChirurgeonsAppr: NEW at WONDERS AND MARVELS: The Art of the Book http://t.co/pp3727X3 via @history_geek

19.02.2012 11.12.17

@rmathematicus: NEW at WONDERS AND MARVELS: The Art of the Book http://t.co/pp3727X3 via @history_geek

19.02.2012 11.06.02

@history_geek: NEW: The Art of the Book http://t.co/CkoTJv7Z

19.02.2012 10.52.24

@OliLag: NEW: The Art of the Book http://t.co/CkoTJv7Z

19.02.2012 12.57.53

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npr.org

Dining was a very, very big deal in Edwardian England — and the food, it turns out, was pretty sophisticated. So why was British food derided as boring, tasteless fare for much of the 20th century? Here’s the story.

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@rebeccastauffer: Dining After ‘Downton Abbey’: Why British Food Was So Bad For So Long http://t.co/I0MJ7s7s

19.02.2012 10.23.02

@opheliacat: Via @nprnews: Dining After ‘Downton Abbey’: Why British Food Was So Bad For So Long http://t.co/uPNVKG8M

19.02.2012 08.43.18

@David0Monroe: Dining After #DowntonAbbey: Why British Food Was So Bad For So Long http://t.co/RL2iUVPY

19.02.2012 12.23.48

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blogs.scientificamerican.com

More than a year ago a wave of uprisings and insurrections in the North African countries of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya inspired a cartoon (still …

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@seelix: How Volcanoes became a Symbol for Revolution http://t.co/Hp5ptsxc by @David_Bressan

19.02.2012 09.12.38

@David_Bressan: Remember, Remember on #SciAmBlogs : How Volcanoes became a Symbol for Revolution http://t.co/zuwZM7qb

19.02.2012 07.59.16

@BoraZ: How Volcanoes became a Symbol for Revolution http://t.co/Fl7AladI by @David_Bressan at #SciAmBlogs

19.02.2012 09.00.59

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teleskopos.wordpress.com

Punch, or the London Charivari is a wonderful source for history of science. It is impossible to think of a popular magazine today including jokes that span politics, science, the arts, classical r…

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@ptak: Think we have skewered the fish, but not yet the Victorian mathematician http://t.co/wpcm7Rfj cc @peterrowlett @rmathematicus @ptak

19.02.2012 06.03.47

@rmathematicus: Think we have skewered the fish, but not yet the Victorian mathematician http://t.co/kHtA3szv says @beckyfh

19.02.2012 02.52.46

@beckyfh: Think we have skewered the fish, but not yet the Victorian mathematician http://t.co/wpcm7Rfj cc @peterrowlett @rmathematicus @ptak

19.02.2012 02.44.10

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retronaut.co - Chris

… All images by John Thomson; copyright Bishopsgate Institute via Spitalfields Life Thank you to Spitalfields Life

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@LadyLittleton: A long-gone world RT @Amanda_Vickery: Intravenous injection of history. Some mind-blowing images from 1876 http://t.co/CvfD4jjy

19.02.2012 06.36.17

@Amanda_Vickery: Intravenous injection of history. Some mind-blowing images from 1876 http://t.co/sEsqv7DL

19.02.2012 06.32.28

@theretronaut: New Time Capsule: Street Life in London, 1876 – http://t.co/R29soZx1

19.02.2012 04.01.50

@iamamro: Street Life in London 1876 [Photos] http://t.co/9tyDJOjs

19.02.2012 05.44.54

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telegraph.co.uk - Christopher Howse

At the bicentenary of that Victorian whirlwind, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, there’s real cause for celebration, says Christopher Howse.

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@HistorianLaura: RT @LondonHistorian: Pugin: the man who made the Steam Age medieval – http://t.co/OVYVoFoC via @Telegraph

19.02.2012 02.53.52

@2nerdyhistgirls: RT @LondonHistorian: Pugin: the man who made the Steam Age medieval – http://t.co/OVYVoFoC via @Telegraph

19.02.2012 02.52.11

@LondonHistorian: Pugin: the man who made the Steam Age medieval – Telegraph http://t.co/hD0BiVOU via @Telegraph

19.02.2012 00.36.46

@dustshoveller: Pugin: the man who made the Steam Age medieval – Telegraph http://t.co/hD0BiVOU via @Telegraph

19.02.2012 01.41.01

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lauralinehan.wordpress.com - Laura Linehan

When ever I think of Mary “Bloody” Tudor, I think of the opening line to that Philip Larkin poem This Be The Verse:                               They f*ck you up, your mum and dad.                               They may not mean to, but they do.                               They fill you with the faults they had                            And add some extra, just for you.     By why I hear you cry, well I feel that Queen Mary I, Tudor and heir of Henry VIII, was the Queen she was, due in part…  »

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@LadyLittleton: Good Morning all! I know all my followers are cool and out on a saturday night so here is my blog post http://t.co/ooKTY6gU

19.02.2012 00.51.26

@HistorianLaura: Good Morning all! I know all my followers are cool and out on a saturday night so here is my blog post http://t.co/ooKTY6gU

19.02.2012 00.45.39

@HistorianLaura: There’s Something About “Bloody” Mary Tudor; Should She Be So Vilified? http://t.co/dIrad3PF

18.02.2012 15.00.27

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skullsinthestars.com - skullsinthestars

I posted this on Google+ earlier, but it seemed worthwhile to expand it into a blog post. Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827) is, in my opinion, one of the underappreciated giants in optical physics.  Though Thomas Young’s double slit experiment was the first one to demonstrate the wave nature of light, it was the later efforts of Fresnel that put the wave properties of light on firm theoretical footing and really popularized the idea. The famous and important part of Fresnel’s life involves the …  »

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@beckyfh: RT @drskyskull: New post: Augustin-Jean Fresnel’s early years: http://t.co/qEt8Uy79 #histsci

19.02.2012 00.12.50

@drskyskull: New post: Augustin-Jean Fresnel’s early years: http://t.co/IwS8fmaM

18.02.2012 19.48.47

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brainpickings.org - Rachel Sussman

What a charred ancient tree can teach us about impermanence, deep time, and our place in the universe. The tree had been on fire for over a week before anyone noticed. The Senator, one of the oldest Cypress trees in the world, was killed when a smoldering ignition from an errant lightning strike slowly transformed it into a towering chimney and fuel source in one. Or maybe it didn’t happen like that at all. Perhaps it was an errant cigarette, or a sinister match strategically placed in its holl…  »

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@ptak: If you missed it ☞ What the mysterious death of a 3,500-year-old tree can teach us about impermanence and deep time http://t.co/32ztyUFb

17.02.2012 20.48.55

@edsu: What happens when one of Earth’s oldest living organisms dies? Fantastic read http://t.co/2pGaadf0

17.02.2012 18.08.54

@brainpicker: If you missed it ☞ What the mysterious death of a 3,500-year-old tree can teach us about impermanence and deep time http://t.co/32ztyUFb

17.02.2012 18.00.39

@brainpicker: What happens when one of Earth’s oldest living organisms dies? Fantastic read http://t.co/32ztyUFb

17.02.2012 13.15.07

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chapatimystery.com - patwari

[Part 6 of 6 -- A short version of this series was published at DAWN - Books & Authors] That three million perished in the 1971 conflict is widely stated around the world. Salil Tripathi points out that “Killing three million people over 267 days amounts to nearly 11,000 deaths a day. That would make it one of the most lethal conflicts of all time.” Is that so? Numerous scholars have concluded that the figure of three million is exaggerated and incorrect. Sarmila Bose contends that “it is possi…  »

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@sepoy: And my series for @ChapatiMystery comes to an end. Thx for reading. Towards 1971 VI: Conclusion: Unexceptional Violence http://t.co/T1RR32jk

17.02.2012 18.20.37

@historianess: @salmaan_H: And my series comes to an end. Thx for reading. Towards 1971 VI: Conclusion: Unexceptional Violence http://t.co/aQGU1HuU

17.02.2012 18.20.30

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thonyc.wordpress.com - thonyc

The last month has delivered up a bumper crop of history of science posts throughout the Internet and they are present here with no system and no order. This is the history of science Grand Bazaar. Just let your mouse cursor wander down the screen and click on a link and see which histsci morsel fate delivers for your delectation. The BBC rediscovers Darwin’s lost fossils Deborah Blum at Berfois offers us Dorothy L Sayers’ historical use of the Marsh test in her detective novels. Jeff Suzuki se…  »

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@EarlyModernXPhi: RT @rmathematicus: Giants’ Shoulders #44: The Grand Bazaar Edition is up at The Renaissance Mathematicus http://t.co/tVVbGqRO

17.02.2012 13.55.19

@historycarnival: Giants’ Shoulders #44: The Grand Bazaar Edition is up at The Renaissance Mathematicus http://t.co/398u1jiw <== Read and enjoy.

17.02.2012 13.46.13

@beckyfh: Giants’ Shoulders #histsci blog carnival, The Grand Bazaar Edition is up at The Renaissance Mathematicus http://t.co/Tl7yAi7W @rmathematicus

17.02.2012 13.40.11

@sharon_howard: Giants’ Shoulders #44: The Grand Bazaar Edition is up at The Renaissance Mathematicus http://t.co/398u1jiw <== Read and enjoy.

17.02.2012 13.34.21

@rmathematicus: Giants’ Shoulders #44: The Grand Bazaar Edition is up at The Renaissance Mathematicus http://t.co/398u1jiw <== Read and enjoy.

17.02.2012 13.15.10

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bibliodyssey.blogspot.com - peacay

‘Series Imaginum Augustae Domus Boicae, ad Genuina Ectypa Aliaque Monum Fide Digna delin. et Aaeri Incidit, Monachium’ 1773 by Joseph Anton Zimmerman, is online at the Bavarian State Library in Munich – ‘Miniaturansicht’ for thumbnail pages. The book is (fairly obviously) a genealogical portrait record of Bavarian nobility (or royal lineage) from about the 10th century onwards. Bavarian history being the convoluted assembly of ruling houses that it is, I’m not altogether sure what ‘Domus Boica…  »

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@MagBaroque: Series Imaginum 1773 http://t.co/9PbB7Pc5

17.02.2012 12.19.25

@2nerdyhistgirls: RT @BibliOdyssey: Series Imaginum http://t.co/r8V0gHgZ (beautiful & eccentric engravings of Bavarian nobility portraits)

17.02.2012 08.50.01

@BibliOdyssey: BLOG POST: Series Imaginum http://t.co/Hxuli6OK (beautiful & eccentric engravings of Bavarian nobility portraits)

17.02.2012 07.47.01

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bbc.co.uk

Music could have had a big influence on the design of Stonehenge, according to an American researcher reporting at an annual science meeting in Canada.

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@Crafthole: I have always known that Stonehenge is Hawkwind’s first ever sound stage: http://t.co/XhIpsbXq

17.02.2012 04.37.15

@HistoryExtra: BBC News – Stonehenge design was ‘inspired by sounds’ http://t.co/aja002Xd

17.02.2012 02.08.22

@HistoryNeedsYou: Fascinating article about the acoustics of Stonehenge http://t.co/gKGHNrLE

17.02.2012 05.40.43

@mocost: Ancient monuments designed with acoustics in mind? http://t.co/WxwelQPV Stonehenge design was ‘inspired by sounds’ http://t.co/licicqhv

17.02.2012 05.29.54

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pastinthepresent.com - Paul Lockhart

I imagine that this will be a recurring theme for a while – I had thought that one single post would address it sufficiently…until the discussion about reenacting and living history blossomed (well, maybe that’s a tad hyperbolic … but it did get some discussion). The notion of what I like to call “history as everyman discipline” came up, and I think it merits some discussion. Plus I’d like to hear what you think, in particular about a very elementary (and deceptively simple) question: What, pre…  »

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@dhayton: “What makes someone a historian?” A thoughtful blog post http://t.co/a5Y4z8Af RT @beckyfh @IHRHistoryLab <=Is answer different for #histsci?

17.02.2012 04.06.58

@rmathematicus: Love this says @beckyfh: "What makes someone a historian?" A thoughtful blog entry: http://t.co/YeSpi7hx #twitterstorians via @IHRHistoryLab

17.02.2012 03.44.45

@UEA_History: RT "@sixteenthCgirl: What’s a historian? Essential reading on the subject from @paul_lockhart77 via @usesofhistory http://t.co/1bh2lkR2"

17.02.2012 02.16.53

@sixteenthCgirl: What’s a historian? Essential reading on the subject from @paul_lockhart77 via @usesofhistory http://t.co/XGAurulr

17.02.2012 02.03.44

@sarahemilyduff: This is really good – History: The Everyman Discipline? http://t.co/3D0Znu2P via @beckyfh and @IHRHistoryLab #twitterstorians

17.02.2012 01.25.13

@hckGGREN: Love this: "What makes someone a historian?" A thoughtful blog entry: http://t.co/G2sbJgO7 #twitterstorians via @IHRHistoryLab

17.02.2012 01.23.31

@beckyfh: Love this: "What makes someone a historian?" A thoughtful blog entry: http://t.co/G2sbJgO7 #twitterstorians via @IHRHistoryLab

17.02.2012 01.14.28

@usesofhistory: The media don’t seem to know what a ‘real’ historian is says @paul_lockhart77 http://t.co/RanApDWU Really worth a read HST3000 students.

17.02.2012 00.28.31

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bbc.co.uk

Armed robbers have stolen dozens of artefacts from a museum in Ancient Olympia in Greece – the birthplace of the Olympics, Greek officials say.

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@dhayton: RT @beckyfh @Sharonheal: http://t.co/8v4Fys8w Greek crisis hits museums – armed robbers in the galleries.<=Why do museums always suffer so?

17.02.2012 04.08.20

@eleanorcastile: [protected tweet]

17.02.2012 04.06.13

@History_Hub: Robbery at Ancient Olympia museum | BBC News http://t.co/QVJ6dONU

17.02.2012 04.00.21

@41un: My guess is pieces were stolen to order from Olympia, you wouldn’t put them on the open market. http://t.co/0ruwQCFB

17.02.2012 03.05.35

@Jason_M_Kelly: RT @DanHull: Robbery at Olympia museum: http://t.co/6VxyRZcL #archaeology

17.02.2012 01.59.41

@HistoryExtra: BBC News – Robbery at Ancient Olympia museum http://t.co/txaQMMGW

17.02.2012 01.33.34

@beckyfh: http://t.co/c3VM2sgM Greek crisis hits museums – armed robbers in the galleries.

17.02.2012 01.27.22

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telegraph.co.uk - Tom Whitehead

Newly released files show MI5 looked into whether actor was a Frenchman.

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@archives4london: from @uknatarchives MI5 files: Was Chaplin really a Frenchman and called Thornstein? http://t.co/OLyQEYG8

17.02.2012 03.47.18

@sharon_howard: RT @peter_watts: MI5 files raise question of whether Charlie Chaplin was really born in London. http://t.co/e5iIyel6

17.02.2012 01.08.50

@openplaques: MI5 files raise question of whether Charlie Chaplin was really born in London. http://t.co/btMe3HZZ

17.02.2012 00.19.11

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bbc.co.uk

Newly released files show that an investigation by MI5 failed to determine where the silent film star, Charlie Chaplin, was born.

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@eleanorcastile: [protected tweet]

17.02.2012 04.01.44

@HistoryExtra: BBC News – MI5 drew a blank on finding Charlie Chaplin birthplace http://t.co/EAMTu2XZ

17.02.2012 02.08.33

@Projectbook: MI5 failed to find Charlie Chaplin’s birth certificate http://t.co/SLglCBjg #familyhistory

17.02.2012 01.01.33

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bbc.co.uk

London Fashion Week kicks off today and usually causes controversy, but style has been scandalising for centuries.

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@HistoryExtra: BBC News – Fashion: History’s shocking styles http://t.co/BpxQ7EZE

17.02.2012 00.03.48

@EHChalus: CJ Fox wore red high heels & blue hair powder on return fr Gr Tour > MT @AbrushwithItaly: History’s shocking fashions http://t.co/d8YZvUQq

16.02.2012 22.18.18

@HistoryNeedsYou: @historyneedsyou On the BBC today: historical fashion shockers http://t.co/IeyQKlzf & how Nazi fake £5 notes hit the £ http://t.co/K6zCGS4a

17.02.2012 00.36.16

@manx_maid: CJ Fox wore red high heels & blue hair powder on return fr Gr Tour > MT @AbrushwithItaly: History’s shocking fashions http://t.co/d8YZvUQq

16.02.2012 23.49.07

@nickblackbourn: BBC News – Fashion: History’s shocking styles http://t.co/M5aKCopw

16.02.2012 20.17.05

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bbc.co.uk

Nazi counterfeiting "destroyed" confidence in British bank notes in Europe by the end of World War II, according to MI5.

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@TurnipRail: BBC News – Nazi forged bank notes hit sterling confidence, MI5 files show http://t.co/YLSZ8fES

17.02.2012 00.26.22

@HistoryExtra: BBC News – Nazi forged bank notes hit sterling confidence, MI5 files show http://t.co/YLSZ8fES

17.02.2012 00.03.06

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blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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@HistoryToday: Staff at the National Archives have launched a new blog: http://t.co/M8SqTO5d @UKNatArchives

15.02.2012 02.18.02

@UEA_History: RT @HFLOxford: Staff @UkNatArchives are now blogging about their work, discoveries and records at http://t.co/cJdNWWTO. Fascinating reading!

15.02.2012 01.29.31

@TheHistoryWoman: Staff @UkNatArchives are now blogging about their work, discoveries and records at http://t.co/yJLvRwvM. Fascinating reading!

15.02.2012 01.15.49

@EHChalus: RT @HFLOxford: Staff @UkNatArchives are now blogging about their work, discoveries and records at http://t.co/8fiLQRbs. Fascinating reading!

15.02.2012 01.05.46

@Archivalia_kg: The National Archives blog | Anything and everything archives-related. http://t.co/FUUcmqKq

14.02.2012 12.03.05

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executedtoday.com - Headsman

In the small hours this date* in 1907, Venezuelan Gen. Antonio Paredes was summarily shot for an abortive rising against dictator Cipriano Castro. The Andean military governor Castro had overthrown the previous kleptocracy in the Restoration Revolution of 1899. Castro’s state was racked by internal conflicts as Castro’s body was by collapsing organ systems. Both factors helped encourage malcontents towards designs upon his job. Paredes was one of the regime’s chief opponents, an admired officer  »

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@ChirurgeonsAppr: 15 February 1907: Gen. Antonio Paredes, Venezuelan rebel http://t.co/b1mWJ8IR #history #tdih

15.02.2012 03.24.40

@executedtoday: 15 February 1907: Gen. Antonio Paredes, Venezuelan rebel http://t.co/b1mWJ8IR #history #tdih

15.02.2012 03.23.54

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historytoday.com

Anybody who enters into even a casual discussion with a US citizen about their country’s constitution will be struck by the ease with which they reference names, dates and significant events in the cr

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@fleming77: RT @HistoryToday: historical debate over the UK has been led those who wish for the Union’s end. public deserve better: http://t.co/sVXrg6xf

15.02.2012 02.58.06

@HistoryToday: The historical debate over the UK has been led those who wish for the Union’s end. The public deserve better: http://t.co/vr7l57QR

15.02.2012 02.40.15

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guardian.co.uk - Alex Preston

A new wave of writers are modelling their state-of-the-nation novels on the model pioneered by a great Victorian With all the current noise about Dickens, it would be easy to miss the fact that another Victorian is casting his shadow over today’s literary landscape. Anthony Trollope’s The Way We Live Now remains the supreme example of the state of the nation novel, a sprawling tour de force with a huge cast of characters and a labyrinthine plot. The shifting viewpoints, keen engagement with con…  »

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@HistorianLaura: Trollope triumphs in the year of Dickens http://t.co/6DQfc3kf

15.02.2012 02.19.11

@HistorianLaura: "@victoriansecret: Trollope triumphs in the year of Dickens http://t.co/lmk1vnDw" @clairemaxim1

15.02.2012 02.19.01

@History_Hub: The way we live now? Follow the money trail back to Anthony Trollope… | Observer http://t.co/yFLeuD4D

15.02.2012 02.12.02

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thesocraticdilemma.blogspot.com - M. H. Beals

In my Atlantic World module, we spend several weeks discussing various migration types, including exploration, sojourning, and settlement. Although writing lectures for these topics was simple enough, constructing seminars proved far more difficult. Should my students work through case studies or discuss the groupings more broadly? The former meant privileging one sort of sojourner over another, and the latter ran the risk of gross oversimplification. My solution? A Choose-their-own-Adventure g…  »

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@TurnipRail: RT @mhbeals:What job should a 14 yr old boy from St.Malo have in 1690?Exploring historical occupations http://t.co/BY1o3G9B #twitterstorians

15.02.2012 03.18.13

@mhbeals: What job should a 14 year old boy from St. Malo have in 1690? Exploring historical occupations http://t.co/4ZxbHXW7 #twitterstorians

15.02.2012 03.17.36

@mhbeals: Choosing their own Adventures: Exploring Historical Occupations in History Seminars http://t.co/4ZxbHXW7 #historysotl #twitterstorians

15.02.2012 00.30.01

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bjws.blogspot.com - Barbara

. Galehaut Arranged Lancelot and Guinevere’ First Kiss Manuscript illustration, c 1400 Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris   Author’s note: Lancelot has a fetching leg… And so, the story goes…Guinevere wanted to meet the knight, who saved her husband King Arthur’s kingdom. She persuaded Galehaut to arrange a meeting between her & the unknown Black Knight. Galehaut left them alone, so that they could talk; & he joined a group of ladies that Guinevere had brought along. One of the ladies was t…  »

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@MagBaroque: Lancelot & Guinevere’ 1st kiss – c 1400 manuscript illustration http://t.co/qYSWwMzO

14.02.2012 23.15.20

@2nerdyhistgirls: Lancelot & Guinevere’ first kiss – c 1400 manuscript illustration – http://t.co/zSgobkSB

14.02.2012 11.38.32

@History_Art: Lancelot & Guinevere’ first kiss – c 1400 manuscript illustration – http://t.co/zSgobkSB

14.02.2012 11.36.41

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chronicle.com

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@jondresner: US labor historian tries to rectify errors on Wikipedia and loses http://t.co/L5hdw44E

14.02.2012 22.43.05

@rchops: US labor historian tries to rectify errors on Wikipedia and loses http://t.co/L5hdw44E

14.02.2012 22.23.15

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researchsupportservices.net - jrutner

Ithaka S+R is pleased to release this Interim Report of the Research Support Services for Scholars History Project, summarizing our interviews with research support professionals who support the field of history. We hope to engage the community – librarians, archivists, research support professionals, historians, digital historians, and funders alike –  in discussions about the RSS4S History Project findings. Please share your thoughts and experiences with us. We welcome reactions and feedback …  »

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@uohistlib: What innovative history scholarship is happening on your campus? Join the conversation about our History Project http://t.co/683CtaIs #RSS4S

14.02.2012 10.34.27

@PrimitiveMethod: An important new report by @jenrutner on the changing research practices and digital needs of historians: http://t.co/j6Zyhw3x

14.02.2012 08.09.01

@jtheibault: An important new report by @jenrutner on the changing research practices and digital needs of historians: http://t.co/j6Zyhw3x

14.02.2012 07.49.26

@dancohen: An important new report by @jenrutner on the changing research practices and digital needs of historians: http://t.co/j6Zyhw3x

14.02.2012 06.50.00

@LibSkrat: Bookmark: History Project Interim Report: Introduction, Methodology, and Campus Research Support Models | http://t.co/mp2ndjzj

14.02.2012 09.26.47

@james3neal: MT @jenrutner: Ithaka S+R’s History Project Interim Report on Interviews with Research Support Professionals http://t.co/RDHR7DTc #RSS4S

14.02.2012 07.50.54

@jasonrhody: RT @dancohen: An important new report by @jenrutner on the changing research practices and digital needs of historians: http://t.co/sgQxkx9M

14.02.2012 07.37.01

@miriamkp: RT @dancohen: An important new report by @jenrutner on the changing research practices and digital needs of historians: http://t.co/sgQxkx9M

14.02.2012 07.20.22

@mkgold: RT @dancohen: An important new report by @jenrutner on the changing research practices & digital needs of historians: http://t.co/J4eVlHYr

14.02.2012 07.00.00

@alastairdunning: An important new report by @jenrutner on the changing research practices and digital needs of historians: http://t.co/j6Zyhw3x

14.02.2012 06.55.13

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carolineld.blogspot.com - CarolineLD

We may think of the Victorian age as a politer time, when greetings cards featured sweet children, cute kittens, lacy borders and the language of flowers. ‘Vinegar valentines’, with their crude caricatures and cruel ‘humour’, tell a different story. These cards appeared in the mid-nineteenth century and were generally cheap and poorly printed, although the mechanical example above, posted on Valentine’s Day 1859, is a little more elaborate. Its verse is typical: Although you do dress rath…  »

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@Airminded: The thankfully lost tradition of ‘vinegar Valentines’ http://t.co/EeHoEglQ

14.02.2012 06.21.06

@carolineld: The thankfully lost tradition of ‘vinegar Valentines’ http://t.co/EeHoEglQ

14.02.2012 06.00.08

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historyandpolicy.org

”Fraudulent’ disability in historical perspective’, by David M. Turner, an article from History & Policy, the independent initiative working for better public policy through an understanding of history

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@martinjohnes: Article by @DrDavidMT using history to critique the UK gov’s welfare reform policy http://t.co/WPMSwc44

14.02.2012 06.02.40

@DrAlun: My article on welfare reform and the history of disability is published today by @HistoryPolicy : http://t.co/APO7F3OR

14.02.2012 05.50.27

@DrDavidMT: My article on welfare reform and the history of disability is published today by @HistoryPolicy : http://t.co/APO7F3OR

14.02.2012 03.51.21

@TimHitchcock: As govt & Lords do battle read David Turner’s history of the debate over disability and welfare http://t.co/YcJzNL0c #wrb #spartacusreport

14.02.2012 03.45.16

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hellfiresecrets.wordpress.com - 6500jmk4

Over the last several years, I have been studying a variety of eighteenth-century gentleman’s societies.  They have ranged from the ostensibly scientific and rational – such as the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries – to the intellectual, but hedonistic – for example the Divan Club and the Society of Dilettanti – to the secret – including The Monks of Medmenham Abbey, more popularly known as the Hellfire Club. One of the things that makes the Monks of Medmenham Abbey so interesting is…  »

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@halbion: RT @Jason_M_Kelly: Blog Post: Secretism and the Cultivation of Reputation in the Eighteenth Century http://t.co/KEENZHlb #twitterstorians

14.02.2012 06.17.58

@Jason_M_Kelly: Thanks for the RT @markcheathem: Blog Post: Secretism and the Cultivation of Reputation in the Eighteenth Century http://t.co/tOeEvNP2

14.02.2012 06.02.49

@markcheathem: Blog Post: Secretism and the Cultivation of Reputation in the Eighteenth Century http://t.co/tOeEvNP2 #twitterstorians #C18

14.02.2012 05.30.27

@Jason_M_Kelly: Thanks for the RT @jmadelman: RT @Jason_M_Kelly: Secretism and the Cultivation of Reputation in the Eighteenth Century http://t.co/tOeEvNP2

14.02.2012 04.38.41

@jmadelman: RT @Jason_M_Kelly: Secretism and the Cultivation of Reputation in the Eighteenth Century http://t.co/eFUDi6na #twitterstorians #C18

14.02.2012 04.29.21

@Jason_M_Kelly: Blog Post: Secretism and the Cultivation of Reputation in the Eighteenth Century http://t.co/tOeEvNP2 #twitterstorians #C18

14.02.2012 04.28.03

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shakespearesengland.com

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@essiefox: For anyone interested, a bit of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene for Valentine’s Day http://t.co/cyf9LXYt #NicheAppeal

14.02.2012 05.12.38

@lucyinglis: For anyone interested, a bit of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene for Valentine’s Day http://t.co/cyf9LXYt #NicheAppeal

14.02.2012 05.02.08

@DaintyBallerina: For anyone interested, a bit of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene for Valentine’s Day http://t.co/cyf9LXYt #NicheAppeal

14.02.2012 05.01.26

@DaintyBallerina: Venus and Adonis in the Bowre of Bliss. Some hot Faerie Queen love for Valentine’s Day http://t.co/cyf9LXYt

13.02.2012 16.47.17

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guardian.co.uk - Corrinne Burns

Nanoscale poetry, electrifying kisses and telegraphic love waves – just some of the ways scientists reveal their romantic side A scientist is perhaps not the first person you’d go to for dating advice. That’s a stereotype, sure, but it isn’t helped by the likes of Nikola Tesla, who allegedly ran in terror from the first – and only – kiss of his life. Even the legendarily beautiful Hypatia, mathematician of ancient Alexandria and head of its great library, was distinctly uninterested in romance….  »

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@beckyfh: Nice! RT @jamesposkett: Lovely #histsci of scientists and romance, from mathematics to magnetism @guardianscience http://t.co/zU1VA6ao

14.02.2012 06.26.07

@rmathematicus: Lovely #histsci of scientists and romance, from mathematics to magnetism @guardianscience http://t.co/RhIBmDl5 via @jamesposkett

14.02.2012 03.14.30

@sarahemilyduff: On science, scientists, and love, http://t.co/YnxNtMFq via @guardiansciblog

14.02.2012 00.01.06

@sciencemuseum: #LunchtimeReading: Valentine’s Day and the shocking science of romance http://t.co/YrMf51hv

14.02.2012 04.30.28

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mentalfloss.com - Kathy Benjamin

Valentine’s Day annoys a lot of people. So here’s a reminder that some relationships that are considered the greatest love stories of all time were pretty messed up. 1. Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS 

Why we love it: Edward was king of England, and he gave it all up for a woman. He even made a famous speech where he poured his normally guarded English heart out to the whole nation, saying he couldn’t be the best king he could be without “the help and support  »

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@gregshine: And just in time for V-Day, too! RT @mental_floss: 5 Great Love Stories That Weren’t Really All That Great — http://t.co/IR3WQb5O

14.02.2012 01.09.31

@mental_floss: 5 Great Love Stories That Weren’t Really All That Great — http://t.co/JJcdSvVW

13.02.2012 22.25.44

@eetempleton: 5 Great Love Stories That Weren’t Really All That Great http://t.co/GnE0uN0G via @zite

14.02.2012 03.39.04

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ucl.ac.uk - julianne.nyhan

Beatrice Webb, co-founder of both the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Fabian movement, left a fascinating 70-year account of social upheaval and history in the diaries which have now been made freely available online to launch LSE’s digital library. UCLDH collaborated with this project since its early stages: Julianne Nyhan served on [...]

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@clhw1: RT @UCLDISStudents: Students from the MA/MSc DH helped user test Webb diaries http://t.co/eDSGp3mB

14.02.2012 03.33.29

@AnneWelsh: LSE’s Webbs on the Web project http://t.co/i9JxRA8B

14.02.2012 03.38.33

@melissaterras: LSE’s Webbs on the Web project http://t.co/i9JxRA8B

14.02.2012 03.32.00

@AnneWelsh: New blog post: LSE’s Webbs on the Web project http://t.co/NUtT0Qdw #UCLDH

14.02.2012 03.30.47

@UCLDH: New blog post: LSE’s Webbs on the Web project http://t.co/NUtT0Qdw #UCLDH

14.02.2012 03.27.52

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retronaut.co - Chris

… All images from Page of Bats Thank you to Page of Bats

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@2nerdyhistgirls: Not exactly romantic! RT @theretronaut: Vintage Valentine WTF – http://t.co/RLCDjwn0

14.02.2012 03.55.01

@victoriaosborne: Wow. WTF is right… O_O RT @theretronaut: New Time Capsule: Vintage Valentine WTF – http://t.co/VwNGLCGZ

14.02.2012 01.08.52

@kellyhignett: Some fine examples of creepy vintage valentines from @theretronaut: http://t.co/IafKaTv9 #valentines #history

14.02.2012 01.08.25

@theretronaut: New Time Capsule: Vintage Valentine WTF – http://t.co/d2uypFKG

14.02.2012 01.01.08

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historytoday.com

Screenshot from Eons Timeline Timeline Eons promises nothing if not the whole world. The app presents the entire history of the universe, from the Big Bang to our present 21st-century travails, scaled down into a graphical representation on your phone or tablet’s relatively compact screen.

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@Ajprescott: All of recorded history, from the Big Bang to the present day, in one ambitious, if flawed, mobile app: http://t.co/sODf1YDa

14.02.2012 03.17.13

@HistoryToday: All of recorded history, from the Big Bang to the present day, in one ambitious, if flawed, mobile app: http://t.co/sODf1YDa

14.02.2012 02.23.45

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bbc.co.uk

On his first visit to America in 1842, English novelist Charles Dickens was greeted like a modern rock star. But the trip soon turned sour, as Simon Watts reports.

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@kalsnats: Dickens on Americans: "He began to find them overbearing, boastful, vulgar… insensitive and above all acquisitive." http://t.co/UsaJ0CVy

14.02.2012 03.20.30

@eleanorcastile: [protected tweet]

14.02.2012 01.12.44

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earlymodernnewsnetworks.wordpress.com - joadraymond

On 14 February 1646 — towards the end of the civil war — the London weekly newspaper The True Informer published the following editorial: Episcopacy being abolished,* I see no reason why this day in which this book is extant, should be honoured in the commemoration of Bishop Valentine, or by what anomalous power of the Church of Rome, he should be made the Patron of copulation; there is no doubt but he was a Bishop, & I am afraid a very wanton one, for otherwise why should that lusty heat which…  »

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@SFD85: An anti-prelatical anti-valentine: Joad Raymond blogs about Valentine’s Day in the news in 1646. http://t.co/LPnsqsAK

14.02.2012 03.48.06

@EMNewsNetworks: An anti-prelatical anti-valentine: Joad Raymond blogs about Valentine’s Day in the news in 1646. http://t.co/LPnsqsAK

14.02.2012 00.59.48

@mhbeals: St Valentine, Patron of copulation http://t.co/pczvN4If #twitterstorians

14.02.2012 00.44.18

@EMNewsNetworks: St Valentine’s Day blog post: attitudes to St Valentines Day in 1646: http://t.co/6WFuvYvI

14.02.2012 00.40.51

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observationandinspection.wordpress.com

Over at Darren Reid’s blog, Mark Cheathem has some interesting things to say about the concept of the ‘Age of Jackson’. In particular, he notes that his students in Tennessee look at the 1820s and …

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@markcheathem: @chris_wtu Would be interested in your thoughts on the ongoing discussion about this blog post by @kenneth_owen: http://t.co/bp6JyfJW

13.02.2012 20.42.59

@jmadelman: Responded to @kenneth_owen‘s post, and added a question for @markcheathem: http://t.co/ZL85dFIw

13.02.2012 20.28.26

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mhbeals.blogspot.com - M. H. Beals

The late Georgian press (1783-1837) had a strange relationship with New South Wales. In sharp contrast to descriptions of British North America, descriptions of the southern settlement tended to concentrate on the exotic rather than the mundane, the fantastic rather than the practical. Whereas news of Montreal might illuminate readers on prevailing market prices or seasonal weather trends–vital information to those considering emigration–discussions of New South Wales were focused primarily …  »

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@sharon_howard: RT @mhbeals Women? In Australia? Do tell: Explanation and Enticement in Colonial New South Wales http://t.co/E7LWSYBq #history #immigration

13.02.2012 23.19.12

@mhbeals: Of course there are women in Australia: Dispelling rumours and enticing immigrants http://t.co/TMdHT2pT #twitterstorians

13.02.2012 22.00.03

@mhbeals: Women? In Australia? Do tell: Explanation and Enticement in Colonial New South Wales http://t.co/TMdHT2pT #history #he #immigration

13.02.2012 19.30.01

@mhbeals: Of course there are women in Australia: Dispelling rumours and enticing immigrants http://t.co/TMdHT2pT #history #Australia

13.02.2012 17.00.01

@mhbeals: Women? In Australia? Do tell: Explanation and Enticement in Colonial New South Wales http://t.co/TMdHT2pT #twitterstorians

13.02.2012 15.21.00

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chronicle.com

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@jtheibault: RT @RBTatAHA: Fascinating data from Chron on placements of 2010 history PhDs from top-rated programs: http://t.co/uXiDsnRM (+) (gated)

13.02.2012 10.41.24

@Raherrmann: Out of top 20 history pgms in US, UT has highest percentage of TT placements (but oddly, no stats on postdocs) http://t.co/6XERYPVZ

13.02.2012 10.22.22

@briancroxall: RT @RBTatAHA: Fascinating data from Chron on placements of 2010 history PhDs from top-rated programs: http://t.co/lehUhZty (+)

13.02.2012 20.20.32

@RBTatAHA: Fascinating data from Chron on placements of 2010 history PhDs from top-rated programs: http://t.co/5MjM2bmP (+)

13.02.2012 09.59.47

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sappingattention.blogspot.com - Ben Schmidt

Digital humanists like to talk about what insights about the past big data can bring. So in that spirit, let me talk about Downton Abbey for a minute. The show’s popularity has led many nitpickers to draft up lists of mistakes. Language Loggers Mark Liberman and Ben Zimmer have looked at some idioms that don’t belong for Language Log, NPR and the Boston Globe.) In the best British tradition, the Daily Mail even managed to cast the errors as a sort of scandal. But all of these have relied, so far  »

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@wragge: A scientific assessment of linguistic anachronisms in Downton Abbey, by @benmschmidt: http://t.co/wWq709Tp

13.02.2012 12.49.54

@dancohen: A scientific assessment of linguistic anachronisms in Downton Abbey, by @benmschmidt: http://t.co/wWq709Tp

13.02.2012 11.01.23

@ryancordell: Cool stuff here RT @benmschmidt: New blog post, in which I go hunting for Downton Abbey anachronisms using Ngram data: http://t.co/yQW46SZR

13.02.2012 12.32.46

@samplereality: Smashingly brilliant. RT @dancohen Scientific assessment of linguistic anachronisms in Downton Abbey, by @benmschmidt: http://t.co/bqwckrLm

13.02.2012 11.07.05

@benmschmidt: New blog post, in which I go hunting for Downton Abbey anachronisms using Ngram data: http://t.co/ZlTOeVWe

13.02.2012 10.56.13

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theatlantic.com - Megan Garber

In England in the late 19th century, death was a highly ritualized affair. Wives were expected to wear special dresses — black, conservative, often accessorized with "weeping veils" — for up to four years following the death of their husbands; if you’d lost a sister or brother, six months of mourning garb was the norm. "Full mourning" (lasting for a year and a day after the death), "second mourning" (the nine months after that), and "half mourning" (the three-six months after that) weren’t su…  »

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@tcarmody: Here’s an incredibly thoughtful tech blog post with a great grasp of history & data, but NO, MORE SV STARTUP NEWS PLZ http://t.co/CLWZOY82

13.02.2012 10.33.03

@mthomps: Mourning in America: @megangarber on Whitney Houston and grief on Twitter http://t.co/hTmQubwo

13.02.2012 13.14.45

@mathewi: here’s @megangarber on the speed of grief and Whitney. I wonder if this is only a ‘weak ties’ phenomenon http://t.co/rFC4v3ym

13.02.2012 10.53.51

@alexismadrigal: Mourning in America: @megangarber on Whitney Houston and grief on Twitter http://t.co/hTmQubwo

13.02.2012 09.23.29

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wondersandmarvels.com - BethDunn

By Beth Dunn Lovers have been carving their initials into tree trunks and fenceposts since time immemorial. It seems like if you’re in love, you’re a fool if you don’t carry a pocket knife at all times, just so that you can proclaim your passion to the world. Maybe this is why the biggest bed in Christendom is simply riddled with graffiti. I mean, maybe folks just like carving their names in stuff. But I bet there’s more to it than that. The Great Bed of Ware has been a tourist attraction for a…  »

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@2nerdyhistgirls: RT @bethdunn: The Secret History of the Great Bed of Ware – http://t.co/YLYnwjic

13.02.2012 09.05.01

@MZiegler3: The Secret History of The Great Bed of Ware http://t.co/Mz1w1uuW. Another @bethdunn original!

13.02.2012 08.22.40

@history_geek: The Secret History of The Great Bed of Ware http://t.co/Mz1w1uuW. Another @bethdunn original!

13.02.2012 07.44.52

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Elizabeth Kessler spoke recently at Bryn Mawr College on how different artists have used astronomical photographs.  It raised some interesting questions about how artifacts are created and then how they are used when removed from their initial context.

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@41un: RT @dhayton Belated summary of E. Kessler’s talk on “Retaking the Universe: Appropriation and Astronomical Artifacts” http://t.co/7zj6gvJQ

13.02.2012 09.44.47

@rmathematicus: RT @dhayton Belated summary of E. Kessler’s talk on “Retaking the Universe: Appropriation and Astronomical Artifacts” http://t.co/7zj6gvJQ

13.02.2012 09.42.28

@dhayton: Belated summary of E. Kessler’s talk on “Retaking the Universe: Appropriation and Astronomical Artifacts” http://t.co/a4qheMFP #histsci

13.02.2012 09.29.46

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retronaut.co - Chris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgfhm1XOdYk “A suffragette procession in Trafalgar Square led by Sylvia Pankhurst results in a riot in Whitehall. Policemen are seen escorting Miss Pankhurst away.” - BFI Films … Thank you to BFI Films

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@2nerdyhistgirls: Video clip featuring the indomitable Mrs. Pankhurst: RT @theretronaut: Trafalgar Square Riot, 1913 – http://t.co/aeiUkBxe

13.02.2012 12.33.43

@Exploring20CLdn: New Time Capsule: Trafalgar Square Riot, 1913 – http://t.co/Py6NZHns

13.02.2012 10.02.25

@theretronaut: New Time Capsule: Trafalgar Square Riot, 1913 – http://t.co/Py6NZHns

13.02.2012 10.01.29

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@archivesnext: Re @AHAhistorians “tune the history major” effort http://t.co/DsSoYkUW will be curious to see what they say about use of archives

13.02.2012 06.51.17

@archivesnext: The AHA, with support from from Lumina Foundation, is initiating a nationwide project to “tune the history major” http://t.co/R0DH3ouc

13.02.2012 06.49.59

@jmadelman: Re previous, @AHAhistorians also has a press release on "tuning" the history degree: http://t.co/aGsxLH0q @jonathanrnash #twitterstorians

13.02.2012 06.36.27

@jmcclurken: The AHA, with support from from Lumina Foundation, is initiating a nationwide project to “tune the history major” http://t.co/R0DH3ouc

13.02.2012 06.11.58

@katrinagulliver: The AHA, with support from from Lumina Foundation, is initiating a nationwide project to “tune the history major” http://t.co/R0DH3ouc

13.02.2012 06.11.48

@AHAhistorians: The AHA, with support from from Lumina Foundation, is initiating a nationwide project to “tune the history major” http://t.co/R0DH3ouc

13.02.2012 06.10.33

@halbion: AHA: History Faculty Begin Nationwide Tuning Project: The American Historical Association (AHA) is initiating a… http://t.co/cv3Kp2ag

13.02.2012 01.03.33

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longstreet.typepad.com - John F. Ptak

JF Ptak Science Books   Post 1728 This fine cartoon appeared in the 23 September 1865 issue (page 114) of the London Punch magazine, poking a little fun at the recent meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which had just finished its 35th meeting in Birmingham.  Its attendees and contributors read like a "who’s who" of the heights of mid-19th century British sciences (across fields of geology, physics, physiology, chemistry, mathematics, statistics (and economics)):   »

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@beckyfh: RT @ptak: British Assoc Adv Sci, cartoon, Punch, 1865.Screaming Zero. #histsci http://t.co/I22On1Gy <-a who’s who of Victorian science

13.02.2012 07.27.21

@darwinsbulldog: British Assoc Adv Sci, cartoon, Punch, 1865.Screaming Zero. #histsci http://t.co/I6RHwVHs

13.02.2012 07.14.10

@ptak: British Assoc Adv Sci, cartoon, Punch, 1865.Screaming Zero. #histsci http://t.co/I6RHwVHs

13.02.2012 06.58.02

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posterityproject.blogspot.com - Gordon Belt

On Tuesday, the Clement Railroad Hotel and Museum in Dickson, Tennessee begins selling tickets to what is described as a "Public Paranormal Investigation." According to Volunteer State Paranormal Research: The Hotel Halbrook is located in historic downtown Dickson, TN. The hotel was constructed in 1913 and is one of the few remaining examples of a railroad hotel in a small Tennessee town. The Museum features exhibits and programming involving the Civil War, railroading, and local and regional  »

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@History_Doctor: Do ghost tours really belong in a #history #museum? http://t.co/Og4xhRpq

13.02.2012 06.40.51

@markcheathem: Do ghost tours really belong in a #history #museum? http://t.co/Og4xhRpq

13.02.2012 06.39.20

@gordonbelt: Do ghost tours really belong in a #history #museum? http://t.co/Og4xhRpq

13.02.2012 05.52.05

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My first thought when I saw the painting is that it must surely be a portrait of Catherine Howard, the unfortunate fifth wife of Henry VIII. It is listed in the collections of the Met Museum, New Y…

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@ladycrafthole: Today is the anniversary of Catherine Howard’s execution in 1542. Is this her portrait?… http://t.co/M4mJOEJi

13.02.2012 05.22.46

@MmeGuillotine: Today is the anniversary of Catherine Howard’s execution in 1542. Is this her portrait?… http://t.co/M4mJOEJi

13.02.2012 05.03.24

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historyoftexttechnologies.blogspot.com - ET

The OED, s.v. ‘origin’, describes this as the act or fact of beginning, or of springing from something; beginning of existence with reference to source or cause; rise or first manifestation Under this same entry, 1b., the citations include the following from 1867: J. McCosh Method Divine Govt. (ed. 9) iii. ii. 377, ‘The origin of evil, like every other beginning, shrouds itself in darkness’. Perhaps this ‘darkness’ about the origin of everything is most apt to discussions of textual genesis.See…  »

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@KarlSteel: That last from @ETreharne on origins and originality, http://t.co/ZvRohem0

13.02.2012 04.03.15

@jeffreyjcohen: That last from @ETreharne on origins and originality, http://t.co/ZvRohem0

13.02.2012 03.24.25

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blog.oup.com - Alice

Italian panel depicting Charles Darwin, created ca. 1890, on display at the Turin Museum of Human Anatomy. Source: Wikimedia Commons. By Karl S. Rosengren, Sarah K. Brem, E. Margaret Evans and Gale M. Sinatra Today is Darwin’s birthday. It’s doubtful that any scientist would deny Darwin’s importance, that his work provides the field of biology with its core structure, by providing a beautiful, powerful mechanism to explain the diversity of form and function that we see all around us in the liv…  »

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@19thcenturystuf: A bit late to the party, as yesterday was Darwin day but here’s a great piece from @OUPAcademic http://t.co/7nlsOlQQ #happybdayforyesterday

13.02.2012 01.17.38

@sirthopas: Happy Darwin Day! Let’s discuss the value of understanding evolution http://t.co/mUtrzpGs

12.02.2012 13.41.11

@andevers: Happy Darwin Day! What has Darwin done for his fellow human beings? http://t.co/mUtrzpGs

12.02.2012 12.15.45

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- A new exhibition of ancient Egyptian mummies has opened at the National Museum of Scotland. We bring you some of the fascinating objects on show

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@eleanorcastile: Fascinating mummies at Museum of Scotland http://t.co/qZyZB8Al

13.02.2012 02.08.46

@HistoryExtra: Fascinating mummies at Museum of Scotland http://t.co/qZyZB8Al

13.02.2012 02.03.50

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ihrprojects.wordpress.com - Matt Phillpott

British History in the Long 18th Century 22 June 2011 Bob Harris (Worcester College, Oxford) Scottish townscapes and ‘improvement’ in the age of enlightenment c. 1720-1820 Castle Street, Dundee (19th century) Did the enlightenment reach provincial Scottish towns in the Georgian period?  What, if any, influence did it have on urban improvement, development and transformation of urban landscapes, particularly in the period between 1720 and 1820?  Bob Harris tells us that there was uneven change…  »

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@beckyfh: RT @ihr_history: Scottish townscapes and ‘improvement’ in the age of enlightenment c. 1720-1820 http://t.co/dLIUNfkj <-Link to podcast

13.02.2012 02.08.03

@ihr_history: Scottish townscapes and ‘improvement’ in the age of enlightenment c. 1720-1820 http://t.co/CI0MYlcO

13.02.2012 01.44.45

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thonyc.wordpress.com - thonyc

Although I understand their motives for doing so, as a historian of science, I am very sceptical of peoples’ attempts to make an institution out of the so-called Darwin Day. In my opinion this only serves to strengthen, propagate and support the big names and big events view of the history of science, which is for me an anathema. What I see is people saying that Darwin is the be all and end all of biology. Biology as a discipline has a long and complex history stretching back way before Aristot…  »

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@beckyfh: Monday blast from the past #14 (now on Monday): A biological birthday http://t.co/zzazcKUG

13.02.2012 01.35.22

@rmathematicus: Monday blast from the past #14 (now on Monday): A biological birthday http://t.co/zzazcKUG

12.02.2012 23.30.05

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Just as social media is helping to ignite and organize the Arab Spring, printed newspapers fanned the flames of rebellion in colonial America, provided critical correspondence during the Revolutionary War.

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@Boston1775: My latest Huffington Post piece: Social Media of the American Revolutionary War – http://t.co/jq2mVP1q #RevWar #HuffPo

12.02.2012 16.44.33

@RagLinen: My latest Huffington Post piece: Social Media of the American Revolutionary War – http://t.co/jq2mVP1q #RevWar #HuffPo

12.02.2012 13.46.20

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@darwinsbulldog: #histsci Reflection: How one German Geographer Saw his Science under the Third Reich – http://t.co/Mf27gIYQ

12.02.2012 16.19.09

@beckyfh: #histsci Reflection: How one German Geographer Saw his Science under the Third Reich – http://t.co/Mf27gIYQ

12.02.2012 15.28.19

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@darwinsbulldog: New post | Preparing for the transit http://t.co/GgOJMRBS On the transit of Venus and its link to longitude #histsci #longitudeblog

12.02.2012 16.19.04

@rmathematicus: New post @beckyfh is preparing for the transit http://t.co/6LPgoqGU On the transit of Venus & its link to longitude #histsci #longitudeblog

12.02.2012 14.50.56

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brainpickings.org - Maria Popova

A chronology of one of our most inescapable metaphors, or what Macbeth has to do with Galileo. I was recently asked to select my all-time favorite books for the lovely Ideal Bookshelf project by The Paris Review’s Thessaly la Force. Despite the near-impossible task of shrinking my boundless bibliophilia to a modest list of dozen or so titles, I was eventually able to do it, and the selection included Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton — amo…  »

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@mikecosgrave: Beautiful book RT @LisFitzgerald RT @brainpicker Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline http://t.co/Hq7gwdHb

12.02.2012 12.44.21

@lubar: Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline. RT @brainpicker http://t.co/DgrYCc7y

12.02.2012 12.09.03

@Chanders: My favorite book // RT @brainpicker: Cartographies of Time – a visual history of the timeline http://t.co/Uvlii72W

12.02.2012 11.09.36

@brainpicker: Cartographies of Time – a visual history of the timeline http://t.co/5VPMQQgb

12.02.2012 11.00.29

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guardian.co.uk - Dr Karen James

The father of evolutionary theory was born on this day in 1809. Karen James dreams of toasting his birthday on a new Beagle In 1819, he might have spent the day memorising Homer at boarding school. As it was a Friday, he would have rushed home at the end of the day, eager to assist his brother in their garden shed chemistry laboratory. A few years later, the day might have been marred by the fresh memory of a lecture from his father. "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching," …  »

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@darwinsbulldog: What was Darwin up to on his birthday? A nice reconstruction based on his Beagle diaries @guardianscience http://t.co/WOcgZKVl #histsci

12.02.2012 07.33.26

@rmathematicus: RT @jamestanton What was Darwin up to on his birthday? A nice reconstruction based on Beagle diaries @guardianscience http://t.co/cU0q2GvU

12.02.2012 01.51.50

@BoraZ: My update on the @beagleproject on the occasion of Charles Darwin’s 203rd birthday | Guardian http://t.co/1kX9G7x8

12.02.2012 07.01.24

@ThetisMercurio: Happy birthday Charles Darwin! http://t.co/e36Dg5bs

12.02.2012 03.34.37

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In an autobiographic note Charles Robert Darwin (February 12, 1809 – 1882) remembered a childhood wish:

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@ericmjohnson: Darwin the Geologist: http://t.co/JFIVtShp by @David_Bressan for Darwin Day.

12.02.2012 07.55.21

@David_Bressan: February 12, 1809 on DarwinDay remember Darwin the Geologist http://t.co/sKg4jOwn #Sciamblogs

12.02.2012 06.29.33

@David_Dobbs: Darwin the Geologist: http://t.co/JFIVtShp by @David_Bressan for Darwin Day.

12.02.2012 08.04.40

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Is there such a thing as ‘really bad books’ – e.g. the author picks upon The Da Vinci Code as an example of bad history which is so powerful that many people think that this is ‘how it is’: The world is full of “bad books”; not just uninteresting, or ill-informed, or morally repugnant books, [...]

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@TurnipRail: RT @history_punk: Bad history = big dollarzz! History Prof offers 6 ways to identify ‘Bad Books’. http://t.co/kJJ2VLM0 via @GarethGorman

12.02.2012 09.17.18

@Airminded: Bad history = big dollarzz! History Prof offers 6 ways to identify ‘Bad Books’. http://t.co/6kqpbeqN via @GarethGorman

12.02.2012 09.12.55

@history_punk: Bad history = big dollarzz! History Prof offers 6 ways to identify ‘Bad Books’. http://t.co/6kqpbeqN via @GarethGorman

11.02.2012 18.10.43

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scoop.it

We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the potato was responsible for a significant portion of the increase in population and urbanization observed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. According to our most conservative estimates, the intro…  »

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@jondresner: I’ll have to read this fully RT @annbot, @ajcann: The Potato’s Contribution to Population and Urbanization | @scoopit http://t.co/XepJqn1q

12.02.2012 08.45.23

@41un: I’ll have to read this fully RT @annbot, @ajcann: The Potato’s Contribution to Population and Urbanization | @scoopit http://t.co/XepJqn1q

12.02.2012 08.40.19

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@dhayton: Historical photos showing construction of museum exhibits @AMNH, making visible the role of technicians & laborers: http://t.co/a5RayQ4s

12.02.2012 06.07.55

@fleming77: RT @history_geek: Museum Menagerie: Historical Photos of the Construction of Early Wildlife Exhibits http://t.co/A6GcbbqP //DARWIN exhibit

12.02.2012 05.00.50

@history_geek: Museum Menagerie: Historical Photos of the Construction of Early Wildlife Exhibits http://t.co/BxP6iHJi

12.02.2012 04.47.59

@melissaterras: RT @history_geek Museum Menagerie: Historical Photos of the Construction of Early Wildlife Exhibits http://t.co/QypYzs6s

12.02.2012 05.38.44

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historytoday.com

Minor discoveries of gold were made in Australia in the early days, but it was the Californian goldrush of 1849 which sharpened interest. A tough brash mountain of a man named Edward Hammond Hargraves

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@Airminded: On this day in 1851: the Australian gold rush began http://t.co/jzhFAALk

12.02.2012 02.28.35

@HistoryToday: On this day in 1851: the Australian gold rush began http://t.co/jzhFAALk

12.02.2012 01.33.40

@manx_maid: On this day in 1851: the Australian gold rush began http://t.co/jzhFAALk

12.02.2012 02.40.00

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