@Goettinderjagd @phillip stimmt. Die kenn ich auch noch. War das ne reine DDR-Tradition?

600 years before Europeans arrived, Great Lakes farmers transformed the land . . . to grow large crops of corn, beans, and squash

https://www.science.org/content/article/600-years-europeans-arrived-great-lakes-farmers-transformed-land

A model in many ways: asks new questions, collaboration between scientists & indigenous nations, application of new tech

1557 illustration of a woman pregnant with 11 foetuses, supporting the weight with a large girdle. According to the accompanying story, this is her second pregnancy; her first was of nine.

From Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon by Conrad Lycosthenes.

Hot off the digital press: the fourth of six short stories by Thomas Richards.

'Anna of Llynn' tells the sad tale of two young lovers' happiness spoilt by a third jealous heart.

This story comes with a content warning about descriptions and portrayals of mental illness.

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/anna-of-llynn/

#Wales #WelshWritingInEnglish #RomanticFiction #ShortStory #Literature #CW #DigitalEdition #OpenAccess

The story of Alexander the Great's descent beneath the waves in a "bathysphere" — whether scouting enemy defences, receiving philosophical insight, or escaping death with his pet dog, cat, and cock — has been subject of many medieval illustrations: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/alexander-bathysphere

Hot off the digital press: the fourth of six short stories by Thomas Richards.

'Anna of Llynn' tells the sad tale of two young lovers' happiness spoilt by a third jealous heart.

This story comes with a content warning about descriptions and portrayals of mental illness.

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/anna-of-llynn/

#Wales #WelshWritingInEnglish #RomanticFiction #ShortStory #Literature #CW #DigitalEdition #OpenAccess

🥳 Announcing Splinter, your #fediverse tool for creating #Mastodon threads.

Splinter is a simple, self-explanatory app. It's a fun, non-profit, open-source side project.

I use Splinter all the time myself now; There must be others who need it. Please share to help them find it!

https://splinter.hastily.cc/ (1/2)

"When a Historian Saw This Haunting Photograph of a Nameless Native Girl, She Decided She Had to Identify Her
In 1868, Sophie Mousseau was photographed at Fort Laramie alongside six white Army officers. But her identity—and her life story—remained unknown for more than a century"

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-a-historian-saw-this-haunting-photograph-of-a-nameless-native-girl-she-decided-she-had-to-identify-her-180986496/

I don’t know why the AP story doesn’t link to the actual comic book, which you can read legally here:
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=66823
It’s amazing how well this comic holds up after almost 70 years. No wonder activists still read it for inspiration. And Sy Barry’s art is gorgeous without being distracting.
https://apnews.com/article/martin-luther-king-comic-book-beb9a3501b4364a64a050ba6016db09f?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

#ProQuest + #GoogleScholar = scam? Exhibit #123:

- Researcher publishes article in journal, using #CC BY.
- ProQuest republishes article, with author, title, date, DOI, licence. Also, with terrible layout, but without images.
- Their DOI doesn't link anywhere. You need to type "https:/doi.org/", add the DOI, paste URL, to find the actual publication. Grey zone of CC BY requirements?
- GS indexes the publication and provides the ProQuest link instead of the proper URL.

Aaargh.

The third story in the series of 'Wanderings in Wales' is now up on my website. Frankly, 'The Spectre of Pont Vathu' is my personal favourite from the whole set. It's a thoroughly creepy story that knows exactly when and where to stop.

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/the-spectre-of-pont-vathu-2/

#Wales #Literature #RomanticFiction #Gothic #Ghosts #WelshWritingInEnglish #ShortStory

I was happy to help Filippo out and annotate the beautiful still of his image (non-annotated version sent to @apod as I really think it is worthy).

You could do so much science communication from this one image:

- galaxies (plural!)
- aurora
- stellar evolution
- nearest system

This is such a beautiful image!

Stunning work from Filippo Rivetti!

#Astrodon

Bydd Ann Parry Owen (un o Olygyddion Hŷn GPC) yn trafod ei gwaith yn trawsgrifio geiriadur Thomas Wiliems (1604-7) ar raglen Dei Tomos ar Radio Cymru nos yfory am 18:00 (ceir recordiad yma: https://bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002czhb )

Bydd Ann yn siarad eto am ei gwaith ar eiriadur Tomos Wiliems nos Iau yn y Drwm yn y Llyfrgell Genedlaethol (ac ar lein): https://uwtsd.ac.uk/cy/newyddion/yr-athro-ann-parry-owen-i-gyflwyno-darlith-odonnell-2025

The third story in the series of 'Wanderings in Wales' is now up on my website. Frankly, 'The Spectre of Pont Vathu' is my personal favourite from the whole set. It's a thoroughly creepy story that knows exactly when and where to stop.

https://bydbach.hcommons.org/the-spectre-of-pont-vathu-2/

#Wales #Literature #RomanticFiction #Gothic #Ghosts #WelshWritingInEnglish #ShortStory

So, I was watching this video by a historian I like on YouTube, and the video was about how high the infant mortality rate was in Medieval times, and I commented that a lot of women died young in childbirth as well. Seems pretty innocuous, and demonstrably true, right?

Apparently, I angered the men of the internet who raged that MEN ALSO DIED!

I had no idea so many men died in childbirth!

Earth without water, by Thomas Burnet, ca. 1700⠀
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Note California depicted as an island. See more maps depicting California adrift from the mainland here — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-showing-california-as-an-island

if you have a library of 10,000 precious books containing thousands of years of human knowledge, and that library burns down, it's a tragedy. and it's the **exact same effect** if, instead of burning them, you mix those 10,000 books into a sea of 1,000,000,000 books that look exactly like them but contain fabricated content with no traceable record of who created them or why.

@wikidata @Jason wanna add SNARC?

Apropos of several things floating across my TL, I just want to say as somebody who teaches college:

Yes, absolutely, politically conservative students on campus end up feeling uncomfortable in their views, constantly challenged. 100%.

So do leftists.

So do centrists.

So do students who attempt to be apolitical.

Nobody gets to hang out on campus feeling comfortable and cushy in their worldview. That is…you know…kind of the point of the place.

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@DrDawnW You are too kind. Thank you so much! I'm currently adding one of his story collections to my website. Maybe one day, I can get them and some of his travel writing bundled up and publish them in a single volume with some added commentary.