🕰️✊ We think of #clocks as neutral tools for staying on schedule, but for centuries, they were viewed as instruments of control.
#history #technology #tech #sociology #time #innovation #culture #education
I stumbled across maps from 1577 online, incl Cheshire, where I'm from. I went down an Elizabethan rabbit hole & bought a book about her advisor Cecil. Then, on Saturday, I went into a local charity shop, and there was map on the wall (in Bern!) And, reading more, I learned it was owned by Cecil! Kismet.
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John Carlos Baez
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The Band of Holes, on Monte Sierpe (Serpent Mountain), Peru. There are around 5,200 aligned holes or pits, stretching for about 1.5 kilometres and thought to date back to around 1400. Some feel the pits - at the intersection of two Inca trade routes - may have been used to measure out goods for accounting and tax purposes. Others have suggested that the holes were graves or defensive fortifications or that they had a religious significance. #archaeology #history #mythology #folklore #architecture
The Band of Holes, on Monte Sierpe (Serpent Mountain), Peru. There are around 5,200 aligned holes or pits, stretching for about 1.5 kilometres and thought to date back to around 1400. Some feel the pits - at the intersection of two Inca trade routes - may have been used to measure out goods for accounting and tax purposes. Others have suggested that the holes were graves or defensive fortifications or that they had a religious significance. #archaeology #history #mythology #folklore #architecture
Baldur Bjarnason
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I can't resist posting this photo, as my grandfather was always very proud of capturing this moment. I believe this is the Syrtlingur eruption in 1965. #Iceland #photography #filmphotography #slide #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #vintage #history #eruption #sea #ocean
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John Bull
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Excited to confirm my new Podcast is out! Search for "The Untitled History Podcast" on your app of choice (or follow this link)
Two episodes up already, including Drachinifel and I giving the complete history of ship's cats. What's not to love? #history #cats
https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-untitled-history-podcast
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I can't resist posting this photo, as my grandfather was always very proud of capturing this moment. I believe this is the Syrtlingur eruption in 1965. #Iceland #photography #filmphotography #slide #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #vintage #history #eruption #sea #ocean
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The Shocking History Of Aqua Tofana, The 17th-Century ‘Blemish Serum’ That Killed Hundreds Of Unwanted Husbands
By Kaleena Fraga
"In the 1600s, many Italian housewives had no hope of escaping bad marriages. So hundreds of them turned to poison to kill their husbands — and collect their inheritance."
Excited to confirm my new Podcast is out! Search for "The Untitled History Podcast" on your app of choice (or follow this link)
Two episodes up already, including Drachinifel and I giving the complete history of ship's cats. What's not to love? #history #cats
https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/the-untitled-history-podcast
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Baldur Bjarnason
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Here we have Flateyri in the 1950s. #Iceland #photography #filmphotography #slide #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #vintage #history #boat #mountain
Here we have Flateyri in the 1950s. #Iceland #photography #filmphotography #slide #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #vintage #history #boat #mountain
A bench end carved with a mermaid in the church of the coastal village of Zennor, Cornwall. A legend claims that a mysterious woman would sometimes attend church services, singing in a captivating, otherworldly voice. There seemed something of a spark between her and a handsome young chorister, and their voices would intertwine beautifully. After one service, the two walked to a nearby cove, disappeared beneath the waves, and were never seen again. The villagers realised the woman was a mermaid and had the bench she sat on carved with her image as a warning to men to beware of these dangerous creatures. Images of mermaids were quite common in medieval churches. Usually portrayed clutching mirrors and combs, they admonished worshippers about the temptations of vanity. At Zennor, the legend may have been invented to explain the carving after its meaning had been forgotten. #folklore #mythology #churches #medieval #gothic #history #architecture #weird #Cornwall
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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Baldur Bjarnason
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Dirt roads and vintage cars. It truly is Reykjavik in the 1950s. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #vintage #history #fire #classiccars #cars
Baldur Bjarnason
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On July 7th, 1957, the carpentry workshop and furniture store Víðir caught fire. My grandfather, who was on his way to visit his brother, managed to take some photos. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #vintage #history #fire #classiccars
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@warandpeas that hurt... 😉 On another note, strange how many men are concerned about the people that come after they have died, and how they are viewed by the newcomers. These (mostly) men move heaven and earth to build a #fantasy built on #lies. How inconsiderate of them, as if historians weren't already burdened enough trying to uncover the past, and distinguish reality from fiction to present #history as close as possible to be a #fact and not complete #fiction, as we too often find.
I don’t understand why so many sites have an “x minutes to read” datum in their article headers. Everyone reads at different rates, and every plugin for it makes different assumptions; the result is pure noise. I’ve seen “45 minute reads” that take me like three minutes to read carefully in full, and I’ve seen a two hundred page comic book be marked as 5 seconds to read because it counts images as zero seconds.
The 2026 equivalent of the page view counter GIFs we had in the late 1990s?
Remember <BLINK> ?! 😉
On July 7th, 1957, the carpentry workshop and furniture store Víðir caught fire. My grandfather, who was on his way to visit his brother, managed to take some photos. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #vintage #history #fire #classiccars
Dirt roads and vintage cars. It truly is Reykjavik in the 1950s. #Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #filmphotography #slide #streetphotography #vintage #history #fire #classiccars #cars