🇹🇼 Taiwan didn't truly recognise 🇲🇳 Mongolia until 2002 (en.wikipedia.org)
The Republic of Cospaia, situated in northern Umbria, Italy, existed independently from 1440 to 1826 (en.wikipedia.org)
Its unexpected independence resulted from a boundary error in a land sale by Pope Eugene IV to the Republic of Florence. Due to confusion over two streams named "Rio" a strip of land became terra nullius.
“A Suggestion for a Different Existence in Israel-Palestine” – Eastwards: R. Binyamin, Binationalism and Counter-Zionism (trafo.hypotheses.org)
Avi-ram Tzoreff in conversation with Georges Khalil about his new book on R. Binyamin, his take on binationalism, (counter-)zionism and how this relates to current historiographical and political debates within Israel.
CFP: “Small Islands, Proximity, and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” (repeatingislands.com)
Here is a call for papers for a special issue of In the Same Sea, a project that “advances the hypothesis that the Lesser Antilles were decisively shaped by inter-island connections that transformed separate islands into a common world of slavery and freedom.” This project, based at the University of Copenhagen, has received...
Texts in Context: Ayelet Ben-Yishai on the Historicization of Crisis - Asymptote Blog (www.asymptotejournal.com)
I know that the violence today, and the occupation of which it is part, has a history and a politics which are man-made and can thus be unmade.
4th c. B.C. painted tomb of mercenary warrior found (www.thehistoryblog.com)
A vividly painted tomb dating to the 4th century B.C. has been unearthed in an ancient necropolis in Pontecagnano, near Salerno in the Campania region of southwest Italy.
Why Egypt Went to War in 1973 (www.historytoday.com)
In 1973, Egyptian soldiers hoisted their flag over Sinai, smashing the myth of Israeli invincibility. Fifty years on, who claims the victory?
Cosmic Impact 12,800 Years Ago Forced Hunter-Gatherers In The Levant To Adopt Agricultural Practices (www.ancientpages.com)
Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth's atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra to adopt agricultural practices to boost their chances for survival.
These Curious Burials Could Challenge Historians’ Ideas About Anglo-Saxon Gender (www.ancientpages.com)
There are a significant number of Anglo-Saxon burials where the estimated anatomical sex of the skeleton does not align with the gender implied by the items they were buried with.
Rare 16th c. globe restored and on display (www.thehistoryblog.com)
A rare 16th century globe has been restored and put on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence. The terrestrial globe was made by Antwerp cartographer Cornelis De Jode in 1594. Most of his surviving oeuvre is a world atlas, the Speculum Orbis Terrae, he published in 1593.
Billy (born c. 1754) was an enslaved man from Virginia who was charged with treason during the American Revolution. (en.wikipedia.org)
He was pardoned in 1781 after a letter was written arguing that, as a slave, he was not a citizen and thus could not commit treason against a government to which he owed no allegiance.
Why Was Grette The Strong, Icelandic Poet And Warrior Afraid Of Darkness? (www.ancientpages.com)
Once, a long time ago, there was a poet and a warrior. His name was Grette the Strong (Grettir Ásmundarson, an Icelandic outlaw). His superpower was widely known even among the strongest berserkers.
Mysterious and 'beautifully carved' life-size camel carvings discovered in Saudi Arabian desert (www.livescience.com)
Life-size carvings of camels have been found in the Saudi Arabian desert, but archaeologists aren't sure who created them and when.
In 1992, following independence from the Soviet Union, an error in the new constitution of Estonia led to Torgu being left out. In response, the area's 500 inhabitants decided to form their own kingdom. (en.wikipedia.org)
Journalist and activist Kirill Teiter became its first monarch. The following year, the error was corrected and Torgu officially became part of Estonia. Nevertheless, the kingdom's flag and coat of arms can still be seen in the parish.
Minoans: Highly Advanced Bronze Age Civilization Of Europe (www.ancientpages.com)
The prosperous civilization of the Minoans represented one of the oldest cultures of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean area and the first major Aegean civilization comparable in its achievements to the older ones, such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia.
Historians race to find Great Lakes shipwrecks before quagga mussels destroy the sites (phys.org)
The Great Lakes' frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Downed planes that spent decades underwater were left so pristine they could practically fly again when archaeologists finally discovered them.
A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis (www.wired.com)
Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true.
How One Robber Baron's Gamble on Railroads Brought Down His Bank and Plunged the U.S. Into the First Great Depression (www.smithsonianmag.com)
In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the U.S. into more than five years of misery
Letter suggests Pope Pius XII knew of mass gassings of Jews and Poles in 1942 (www.theguardian.com)
Letter from church source in anti-Hitler resistance reporting 6,000 daily killings undercuts Vatican’s claims of lack of knowledge
On July 26th, 1184, a tragic incident unfolded as sixty guests in the company of the King of Germany lost their lives, and a considerable number of them tragically perished by drowning in human excrement. (en.wikipedia.org)
The Kanto Massacre: A Story of Disinformation and Denialism (unseen-japan.com)
Rumors and disinformation sparked the Kanto Massacre in the wake of the Kanto Earthquake. Today, denialism continues to dishonor the victims.
A medieval manuscript likely hides a record of an impending recurrent nova (phys.org)
Approximately every 80 years, a faint 10th magnitude star in the constellation of Corona Borealis dramatically increases its brightness. This star, T CrB, is known as a recurrent nova and last flared in 1946, peaking at magnitude 2.0, temporarily making it one of the 50 brightest stars in the night sky.
4,000-year-old arrow shaft found in melting ice (www.thehistoryblog.com)
Archeologists from Secrets of the Ice, a glacial archaeology program of Norway’s Department of Cultural Heritage, have discovered a Stone Age arrow shaft on the side of Mount Lauvhøe in Norway. The group surveyed the melting ice on Mount Lauvhøe in 2017 and found a number of Iron Age arrows, but the oldest were around 1,700...
What Are The Huge Ancient Structures Beneath The Zerzevan Castle Discovered By Radar? - Ancient Pages (www.ancientpages.com)
Archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar report detecting huge ancient structures beneath the 3,000-year-old Zerzevan Castle in Turkey. Have scientists discovered an enormous ancient underground city or something else?