🗺️ Calling all #history buffs and tech enthusiasts! 🌍 You're invited to the public launch of the most anticipated feature of #OldMapsOnline at the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford on May 15. Join us in-person or via Zoom!
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The plant has a long cultural history. As the name suggests, garlic mustard has a garlicky flavor and is one of the oldest spices used in Europe. Traces were found in pottery of the Ertebølle and Funnelneck-Beaker cultures in northeastern Germany and Denmark, dating to 4100–3750 BCE. Historically, it was used as an antiseptic and to treat asthma and other respiratory ailments.
"Bährs Vorschlag, Konfessionalität in ihrer Mehrdimensionalität zu verstehen, provoziert offene Fragen und sorgt damit für lohnenden Diskussionsstoff."
Francisca Loetz zu Matthias Bähr, Konfessionelle Mehrdimensionalität in der Frühen Neuzeit. Irland um 1600
In memory of David Paul Greenfield, English keyboardist, singer and songwriter for the punk rock band The Stranglers. David Greenfield passed away 4 years ago today as a result of Covid-19
44 years ago today
Fight Back was the second 7-inch EP by hardcore punk group Discharge, produced by Mike Stone and released on May 3, 1980 through Clay Records
Featured story: The “magic dust” of adding funny drawings to words has been an important part of the Texas Observer since our founding. Cartoons touch people, and reach their subconscious in a unique way that text alone cannot ... https://www.texasobserver.org/70-years-of-skewering/
656 years ago today, in 1368, the Icelander Thorsteinn Eyjolfsson was captured by soldiers from Lübeck somewhere in Norway.
Never heard of him? Ok:
Thorsteinn was one of the most powerful men in Iceland at the time. Iceland was ruled from Norway, and Thorsteinn was several times "hirðstjóri", the Norwegian king's top guy in Iceland.
Now Norway was at war with loads of German cities and territories. Thorsteinn happened to be in Norway when the war broke out.
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Why societies grow more fragile and vulnerable to collapse as time passes
4.25.24 by Luke Kemp and BBC colleagues,Features correspondent
"...The ageing trend was there even when we excluded dynasties.
...Our findings are supported by promising studies on "critical slowing down". Before a complex system undergoes a large-scale shift in structure, or a "tipping point", it often begins to recover more slowly from disturbances. The ageing human body is similar: injuries can take a longer toll when you're older...
The next steps will be to investigate what fosters societal longevity, and what causes growing vulnerability. States could be losing resilience over time due to variety of factors. Growing inequality, extractive institutions, and conflict between elites could heighten social friction over time. Environmental degradation could undermine the ecosystems that polities depend on..."
Part 2 of my #AtoZChallenge2024 reflection. I love the personal connection you find with #coins & the community. I wrote most of the posts in the weeks prior to the #AtoZChallenge. This was fortuitous as my mother passed away early in April. But those connections made it a joy to re-read each post & share it. Today's #coin is from day "D", #Denmark, & a park open when my ancesters lived there: https://coinofnote.com/25-ore-token-denmark-dyrehavsbakken/