Mastodawn

The unexpected path to historical research: While covering Spanish Camp for a local newspaper in 1997, I learned about Dorothy Day's connection to Tottenville.

While researching Tottenville, I discovered Benjamin Franklin Joline's 1950 self-published history beginning in 1668. Suddenly the street names I knew became real historical figures!

https://www.amazon.com/Century-Tottenville-History-Comes-Alive/dp/B08WK2LD44

#HistoricalResearch #ResearchJourney #LocalHistory #CatholicHistory #DorothyDay #DiscoveringHistory #TottenvilleHistory

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Angie Mangino Apr 7

📚 Have you discovered 17th Century Tottenville History Comes Alive? My book explores this small Staten Island community within the context of NY and US history.

This isn't academic dry text, but a living history that connects street names to the families who built the community. #LocalHistory #NewYorkHistory #StatenIsland #TottenvilleHistory #HistoricalResearch #IndiePublishing

Get your copy: https://www.amazon.com/Century-Tottenville-History-Comes-Alive/dp/B08WK2LD44

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Hacker News Mar 31

Orphan tsunami of 1700–Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in America (2015)

https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/pp1707

#HackerNews #OrphanTsunami1700 #JapaneseEarthquake #HistoricalResearch #NaturalDisasters #USGS

The orphan tsunami of 1700—Japanese clues to a parent earthquake in North America

A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted that no parent earthquake had been felt; they were wondering what had set off the waves. They had no way knowing that the tsunami had been spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its parent earthquake until the middle 1990s, through an extraordinary series of discoveries in both North America and Japan. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700, now in its second edition, tells this scientific detective story through its North American and Japanese clues. The discoveries underpin many of today’s precautions against earthquakes and tsunamis in the Cascadia region of northwestern North America. The Japanese tsunami of March 2011 called attention to those hazards as a mirror image of the transpacific waves of January 1700....

Holle Meding Mar 20

🚀 Don't miss this! Lunchbreak @NFDI4Memory Incubator Funds – 25.03.2025, Prof. Dr. Werner Scheltjens will present the project "Building and Providing a Benchmark Dataset of Historical Tables (1750-1990)." 🏛📊

The goal? Creating a representative dataset of historical tables to develop AI-based solutions for text and data recognition. 🔍

📅 When? Tuesday, 25.03.2025, 12:30-13:30 CET (online)

More info: https://4memory.de/2025/03/19/lunchbreak-4memory-incubator-funds-25-03-2025/

#DigitalHistory #AI #DataScience #HistoricalResearch #NFDI4Memory

Lunchbreak @ 4Memory Incubator Funds – 25.03.2025 | 4Memory/Nationale Forschungsdaten Infrastruktur (NFDI)

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Steve Dustcircle 🌹Mar 16

5 Messed Up #Bible Details -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-8BgASPom4

#exvangelical #deconstruction #ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #HistoricalControversy #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #SUNDAYSCHOOL

5 Messed Up Bible Details - #exvangelical #deconstruction

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Pellicierbooks Jan 30

📜 Our latest newsletter, Greek Manuscripts in Renaissance Venice: The Library of Guillaume Pellicier and Its Contribution to Europe’s Intellectual Heritage, is out now!
This update comes a little later than the newsletter’s release in October 2024, but it’s worth the wait! Explore our latest research on Pellicier’s Greek library and its impact on European intellectual history.
@medievodons
#GreekManuscripts #RenaissanceVenice #HistoricalResearch #GuillaumePellicier #IntellectualHeritage

Medievalists.net Dec 17

Hidden Secrets of the Voynich Manuscript Revealed Through Cutting-Edge Scans https://www.medievalists.net/2024/09/hidden-secrets-of-the-voynich-manuscript-revealed-through-cutting-edge-scans/ #VoynichManuscript #HistoryBuff #HistoricalResearch

Hidden Secrets of the Voynich Manuscript Revealed Through Cutting-Edge Scans - Medievalists.net

Cutting-edge technology has just uncovered hidden secrets within one of the world's most mysterious medieval texts. Multispectral imaging has revealed previously invisible details in the Voynich manuscript, offering new clues about this undeciphered enigma that has baffled scholars for centuries.

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Marsden Nov 2

"When one of Greg’s students ... decided to make himself a replica of the armor that Alexander the Great is shown wearing on the famous “Alexander Mosaic” from Pompeii, none of us realized that the next six years of our lives would be dominated by the quest to understand and evaluate that armor."

#Linen #linothorax #AncientGreeks #PeriodArmour #HistoricalResearch #History

https://jhupress.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/unraveling-the-linothorax-mystery-or-how-linen-armor-came-to-dominate-our-lives/

Unraveling the linothorax mystery, or how linen armor came to dominate our lives

Guest post by Alicia Aldrete As the wife, research assistant, and sometimes coauthor of an ancient historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, I had expected to spend many hours…

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