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Facts and artifacts from world history by George Dillard. Longer writing at https://worldhistory.medium.com or https://worldhistory.substack.com

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The modern supplement industry advertises relentlessly and makes impossible promises of health benefits, but it’s simply following a long tradition.

Let’s go on a tour of patent medicines, their history, and the often bonkers advertising that promoted them.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/patently-ridiculous

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Even in ancient Rome, people hated being ruled by timekeeping devices. Plautus wrote:

Confound him... Who in this place set up a sundial

To cut and hack my days so wretchedly!

Take a look at the devices that have chopped up our lives for millennia:

@histodons
https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/to-cut-and-hack-my-days

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How did horses become war machines — and find themselves amidst the machinery of modern war? This week, a look at the experience of the horses that were shipped around the world and made to fight in our most terrible conflicts.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/nobody-asked-the-horses-part-2

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Nobody asked the horses whether they’d like to participate in our wars, but they had to do so anyway. This week, we look at the early history of the horses who found themselves at the center of human violence.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/nobody-asked-the-horses?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Erastus Salisbury Field was an American folk art painter in the late 19th century.

He painted this delightfully off-kilter depiction of the Garden of Eden (my newsletter subject this week!), but his most famous work was the very complicated “Historical Monument of the American Republic.”
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naked people on a plain with tall trees and some animals. Mountains in the background.

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The Bible doesn’t say much about what the Garden of Eden looked like, which has allowed artists to impose their own ideas on it over the centuries. This week, we take a look at the artistic evolution of paradise.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/the-garden-of-our-dreams?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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What do Yankee Doodle, guys in Rembrandt paintings, and fancy ladies of the late 1800s have in common? Feathers on their hats, of course. This week, we explore the fashion for feathered hats — and the environmental destruction that resulted.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/plumage-and-plunder?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 devastated one of America’s most dynamic and flawed cities. This week, a look at what San Francisco was like before, during, and after the quake.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/san-francisco-1906?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Next Monday, many of us in the United States will get to experience something that’s captivated people for thousands of years — a solar eclipse. In this week’s newsletter, I look at how people have imagined and depicted eclipses for more than three millennia.

@histodons

https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/imagining-eclipses?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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It’s the skinniest bit of the Americas, which has always defined its potential to outsiders. Come take a look at the photos and cartoons that tell the complex, fascinating history of Panama and its Canal.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/isthmus-be-the-place?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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The Romans and Greeks used “barbarians” as a convenient foil, a way to define themselves. So how did they depict foreigners in their art, and what can that tell us about the Romans, the Greeks, and the so-called barbarians?

@histodons
https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/who-were-the-barbarians?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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For most of human history, nobody thought jumping from a great height, with only a bit of fabric to keep you from hurtling to your death, was a good idea.

But then the parachute emerged as a safety device and a thrill-seeker's tool... let’s look at its history.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/to-resist-a-fall-the-strange-history?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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This week, an excursion into the rough-and-tumble history of boxing. Come explore the bloody heyday of Greek and Roman boxing, the disappearance of the sport in the Middle Ages, and its revival in early-modern England.

@histodons
https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/the-fighter-still-remains?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Re-animating the dead. Suspending an “electric boy” from the ceiling. And finding extremely unconventional uses for electric eels. This week, a tour through the weird history of humanity’s experiments with electricity.
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https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/shocking-just-shocking?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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A year in the life of Paris, a century after the storming of the Bastille. A time of technological innovation, political turbulence, and cultural ferment. Let’s explore the City of Light in 1889.

@histodons
https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/paris-1889?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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American propaganda during World War II covered a dizzying array of subjects — from venereal disease to forest fires — in a wild array of styles. This week, let's take a look at some of the lesser-known American wartime posters.
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https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/wwii-propaganda-from-tempting-vixens

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Much of what we know about the Parthian Empire comes from their Roman rivals. But the artifacts they left behind speak for themselves — Parthia was a place where ancient cultures collided, creating something remarkable and new.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/an-ancient-crossroad-of-cultures?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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@histodons The Jesuits were instrumental in translating and dispersing the philosophy of Confucius in Europe. By the late 1600s, their translated versions of Confucius’ works were widely available. Soon after, Voltaire would read Confucius and declare that his philosophy was a more humane and tolerant worldview than Christianity.

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A little thread this week on how the Romans mapped their empire.

You can read the whole thing here:

https://worldhistory.medium.com/how-did-the-romans-map-their-empire-87d3ea7e78d4?sk=bae66ac5684cb81de09345df6ff7499f

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@histodons So what sources remain that show us how the Romans may have mapped out their world?

Instead of maps , Romans would have used itineraria, lists of the places a traveler might encounter along a certain road. Many itineraria are catalogs of the milestones that the Roman government placed on its road network.
One of the more famous itineraries is found on a set of cups that were excavated in Vicarello; they describe the route from Cadiz, Spain to Rome.

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This week, a look at the history of medieval Christianity -- in China.

https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/the-church-of-the-east?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

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Hi, everybody.

A new for a new instance that is more aligned with my interests. I'm a history educator in the United States, and I like to post about artifacts and events in that interest me.

In addition to history, I also write about topics like , the , and at worldhistory.medium.com.

For reading my introduction, I will reward you with this 19th century image of dogs doing tricks.

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For pretty much all of human history, rulers have worn fancy little hats. This week, a look into the long history of the crown, featuring some of the most stunning examples of royal headwear from around the world.

@histodons

https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/fancy-hats-for-fancy-people?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

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Was Nero the ultimate decadent Roman emperor — incestuous, gluttonous, and cruel? Or was he misunderstood? Do we even know what he looked like? This week, let’s take a look at the boy emperor:

https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/will-the-real-nero-please-stand-up?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

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This week, a look at the millennium when the chariot was the gold standard in military technology and a sure sign of affluence… including some beautiful examples of chariots that have survived the ravages of history.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/worldhistory/p/terror-on-two-wheels?r=7ecn0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

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