NorthernInvader 🇨🇦
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Retired left wing 74yo Canadian, Atheist, Widower, Cooking, Politics, Nature, Birds, Cats, Dogs, photography, born 312PPM CO2
Beacvers are an essential part of a healthy ecosystem.
In the light of day, you can see evidence of their carpentry—fresh shavings of wood they’ve left behind and the carving their incisors have accomplished. Look all around and you’ll quickly realize they know how to place their cuts, so the trees drop where they want them. It’s often into the water, aiding them in the work of building dams—what they like to do more than anything else
#Shakespeare #History #academia
This is sure to be hotly debated 🤣
The earliest record of William Shakespeare’s father in Stratford-upon-Avon famously notes his fine in 1552 for making a “muckhill” on a street.
Now the long-held assumption that John Shakespeare was a 16th-century fly-tipper has been overturned as a myth. Far from being punished, he was simply paying a waste disposal toll for detritus relating to his trade as a glover and tanner of leather.
#History #aboriginal #colonialism #racism
Documentary on the legacy of residential schools in B.C. wins at Sundance Film Festival
Sugarcane follows the investigation into abuse at an Indian residential school near Williams Lake
#History #Canada #UnitedKingdom #children
A part of Canadian history few today know about
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67809153
Five years after it was discovered in a Scottish auction house in Glasgow, a long wooden box of about 80 glass negatives is now in Canada, where it is putting a spotlight on the heart-breaking history of the British Home Children.
The child migration scheme sent a group of 100,000 impoverished children from Britain to overseas colonies between 1869 and the 1940s.
Alan Lomax, like his father before him, spent his life on an odyssey of unrecorded sound, searching the world for the essence of music and lost songs of isolated cultures. He was a musical prolific anthropologist and folklorist and would go on to make more than seventeen thousand field recordings of singers and songwriters.
Had he not done this the world of music today would be very different.
How Much Booze Did Medieval People Really Drink?
Lost gravestones of freedom-seekers unearthed in St. Catharines cemetery. Keeping alive the stories of people who fled slavery in U.S. is about more than just preserving history
So few Canadians know much, if anything, about this history. #BLMCanada
#BLMCanada #NovaScotia #racism #history
Why was a Black-owned housing co-op shrouded in mystery? This descendant found out
This ghostly seaweed on a blue background comes from the first book to be illustrated entirely with photographs. While the image represented a new era in publishing, its creator, Anna Atkins, wasn’t aiming to be an innovator: She just wanted to document the algae that fascinated her.
Learn more about Atkins (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/anna-atkins-cyanotypes-the-first-book-of-photographs.html) and explore her first foray into the art form in a digitized version of the book (https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/photographs-of-british-algae-cyanotype-impressions).
via @ScientistMel over on the bird
#history the truth isn't always pleasant. History doesn't always support your beliefs. Failure to understand that is your fault not history's.
Never forget or bury the past - if you do it will only rise again and you may not have time or ability to stop it occuring anew.
#History #Spain #Fascists #Nazis
Spain’s Oft-Forgotten Nazi Ties
A new law recognizes the thousands of Spaniards killed by the Germans during World War II
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/spains-oft-forgotten-ties-to-the-nazis-180981304/
For a long time we were taught and believed that cats were first domesticate around 4,000 years ago in Egypt. Turns out a recent archaeological discovery on Cyprus shows that should be at least 9,500 years.
As an uninhabited island at that time Cyprus had no native cats. A burial of that age was discovered in 2004 showing a cat buried alongside a boy.
This was shortly after the start of agriculture so they had to have brought the cat with them
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/04/040409092827.htm
#archeology #history #Bolivia #Indigenous
Forgotten Ruins of 'Monumental' Amazonian Settlements Discovered in Bolivian Jungle
CLARE WATSON25 MAY 2022
The sprawling ruins of Amazonian settlements once home to an Indigenous agriculturalist society with a penchant for cosmology have been uncovered in the Bolivian jungle, hidden beneath seemingly impenetrable vegetation.
https://www.sciencealert.com/ruins-of-monumental-settlements-uncovered-in-bolivian-jungle
If you are still on the bird app I suggest you read this post to see just how bad Alito's references to Sir Matthew Hale are. The writer is a professor with a PhD, and my area of expertise happens to be women and gender in the early modern era (1500-1700)
#history #COSOhistory #misogyny #humanrights
https://twitter.com/Literature_Lady/status/1522202362366078979
#Archaeology is fascinating and extremely important. We need fair and accurate knowledge of our past, both recorded and unrecorded. This is a great find, a part of maritime #history..
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/hanseatic-league-ship-0016666
#history #civilizations
Always looking to learn new things in my septuagenarian dotage. The article is quite interesting
"The Sumerians were known for their innovation and their ability to design and build new items or concepts. In particular, they are known for putting a value on days, hours, and minutes by dividing day and night into 12 hours each, an hour into 60 minutes, and a minute into 60 seconds. https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-religions/nippur-0016677
NorthernInvader 🇨🇦
- https://twitter.com/TheEngrumpled"> The Original Engrumpled Curnudgeon
Retired left wing 74yo Canadian, Atheist, Widower, Cooking, Politics, Nature, Birds, Cats, Dogs, photography, born 312PPM CO2