Historians explain the Renaissance obsession of only wearing one pearl earring

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/historians-explain-the-renaissance-obsession-of-only-wearing-one-pearl-earring/

#Historian #RutgerBergman confronts #billionaires

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/_I_HHBSKDVs

#BillionairesSUCK #Greed #Class

‘Which moment would I most like to go back to? The Resurrection. Whatever happened, there has been no more consequential moment for Western civilisation.’

🎯 #Historian Christopher de Hamel answers some quickfire questions

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/interview/spot-christopher-de-hamel

Who does a signature so intricate and unusual? (Ahem, complete opposite of you-know-who with his black Sharpie marker). I searched for information about a Portuguese historian working around 1454 as being “the first racist”. Or rather, a historian tasked with making his patron look altruistic and just by justifying the slave trade from an African colony.

It’s hard to make the claim for “first racist” when his finished journal was hidden for centuries and only found as 2 copies (one abridged) in the mid 1800’s. But this name has emerged as a racist and looking at the Wikipedia entry here is his signature. Worth zooming in to see the details. I don’t know how he derived this signature from some version he used of Gomes Eanes de Zurara. #Zurara #Historian #Portuguese #Signature