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Petra van Cronenburg

🧵1/5 When did it start? What made people what they are? Sometimes, a #song in the #radio can tell you more than any political essay.
I like to listen to #Bluegrass on WDVX radio, and they just played I Ain't Got No Home by The Country Gentlemen. youtube.com/watch?v=hvzubwnOHp My attention was aroused by a contradiction: such a contemporary text accompanying a historical recording?
I searched the lyrics traditionalmusic.co.uk/guthrie - famous protest singer

YouTubeAin't Got No HomeBy Country Gentlemen - Topic
#histodon#USA#countryMusic
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DoomsdaysCW

More from 1177BC...

"There are only a few instances in history of such globalized world systems; the one in place during the Late Bronze age and the one in place today are two of the most obvious examples, and the parallels -- comparisons might be a better world -- between them are sometimes intriguing.

"To give just one illustration, Carol Bell, a British academician, has observed that 'the strategic importance of tin in the LBA [Late Bronze Age] ... was probably not far different from that of crude oil today. At that time, tin is thought to have been available in quantity only from specific mines in the Badakhshan region of Afghanistan and had to be brought overland all the way to sites in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and north Syria, from where it was distrbuted to points father north, south, or west, including onward across the sea to the Agean. Bell contianues, 'The availability of enough tin to produce ... weapons grade bronze must have exercised the minds of the Great King in Hattusa and the Pharaoh in Thebes the same way that supplying gasoline to the American SUV driver a reasonable cost preoccupies an American president today!"
- Eric Cline, "1177BC, The Year Civilization Collapsed," Preface to the revised edition, page xvii.

#ClimateChange#Collapse#Change
Wittgenstein's Monster

Tired of Rome taking up all the oxygen in classical discourse?

May I suggest Etruria — a sophisticated, enigmatic pre-Roman civilization whose art, religion, and urban planning heavily influenced the empire that overshadowed it.

The language? Still largely undeciphered. The vibe? Immaculate.

Credit to The Histories on YouTube — one of the most thoughtful and engaging voices in history content right now.

📽️ youtu.be/6EzAsyTdGWo?si=4siOgQ

YouTubeWho were the Etruscans?By The Histories
#ObscureCivilizations#LostLanguages#Histodon
Helen Pugh

Doris Hatt was born at 30 Milsom Street, Bath and raised in the city. She studied at Bath High School and later the Bath School of Art. Doris became a talented artist, known for using bright colours and depicting energy in her work.

There's a chapter on Doris and Margery in Unsung Women in Somerset and they feature in On This Day in Somerset.

#Clevedon #Bath #histodon #art #Somerset

#qotd Have you ever read a book that features an artist (or several)?

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PapyrusBrigade

(🧵1 /13) The fascinating history of pellagra.

Pellagra symptoms include a skin rash, mouth sores, diarrhea, dementia, and ultimately death. It spread throughout Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, typically in poor regions where corn was the staple, and in institutions (prisons, orphanages, and asylums). 

This thread compares the relative ease of eliminating pellagra in France in the 19th century, versus the uphill battle faced by epidemiologists in the US in the 20th century.

#Pellagra#Epidemiology#Histodon
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Universität Innsbruck

⏳ Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung in Tirol

Vor 150 Jahren wurde der erste "Arbeiter-Verein" in #Innsbruck gegründet. Der Bericht im ORF (unter Mitarbeit des Historikers Peter Goller der Universität Innsbruck) zeigt auf, unter welchen Bedingungen vor allem Frauen und Kinder in #Tirol damals arbeiten mussten.

tirol.orf.at/stories/3317396

ORF.at · Erster Arbeiterverein: 1875 – als die Arbeiter sich organisiertenBy ORF.at
#geschichte#histodons#histodon
PapyrusBrigade

The Palestinization of Guatemala:

In Chris Hedges recent interview with Jennifer Harbury, she referred to the "Palestinization of Guatemala", with respect to Israel's military aid to further the Guatemalan genocide of (mostly) Maya Indigenous peoples in the 1980s, after the US was forced to stop overt funding.

The article below expands on this. A quote:

Much of Israel’s military aid is part of an assistance mesh that includes agricultural aid. A NACLA report by investigative journalist George Black summarized from Guatemala: “There is an interlocking mosaic of assistance programs — weapons to help the Guatemalan Army crush the opposition and lay waste to the countryside, security and intelligence advice to control the local population, and agrarian development models to construct on the ashes of the highlands.”

jacobin.com/2024/04/israel-gua

jacobin.comHow Israel Facilitated the Guatemalan GenocideGaza isn’t the only place where Israel has sponsored mass killing. During the 1980s, Israel intervened in Guatemala as a proxy for the United States, providing arms and training to the military governments that slaughtered thousands of indigenous Maya.
#Colonialism#Israel#Guatemala
Dr Surekha Davies

Latest issue of my free newsletter:
Three things learned about work, rest & play in the early months of my book launch (and life in DC in the BeforeTimes);
interview recordings and events;
and my review of Brandy Schillace's
THE DEAD COME TO STAY.

#histodon #writing #WritingCommunity

buttondown.com/surekhadavies/a

Strange and Wondrous: Notes from a Science Historian · Three things I learned about work, rest, and play during a book launchBy Strange and Wondrous: Notes from a Science Historian
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Petra van Cronenburg

🧵 4/4 The Wild Pigment project has good guidelines for #reciprocal #foraging: wildpigmentproject.org/recipro

Artist Gary Simpson worked with soil samples from the whole world to track down the #history of places: hyperallergic.com/487683/artis

Human comes from humus: a collection of earth art: somethingcurated.com/2024/11/1 from the 1970s until today

And photos of my ocre goddesses inspired by the Cucuteni Trypillia Culture: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni

#places#earth#soil
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