During the great age of witch trials, 80,000 people were tried for witchcraft, half of them were executed, often burned alive.
Few people know, however, is that the trials reflected “non-price competition between the Catholic and Protestant churches for religious market share”.
As competing Catholic and Protestant churches vied to win over or retain their followers, they needed to make an impact – and witch trials were the battleground they chose.
Lead is known to be greatly toxic to human health. Either acute or chronic exposure are related to many neurological symptoms and disorders, as cramps, hyperesthesia, and nervous paralysis.
But here, @brianklaas investigates and reports the effects that long-term exposure to lead might have on human cognitive development and behaviour and how it demographically relates to a surge in violent crime.
A well-researched and fascinating piece.
"Imagine increasing the supply of zero-carbon electricity through solar farms and wind turbines that are part-owned by local people or local councils."
"Project Collette is a £3bn proposal for a windfarm off the Cumbrian coast to be part-owned by the local community – instigated by the Green Finance Community Hub in collaboration with the engineering firm Arup and community energy specialists Energy4All – and with the potential to power nearby industry."
Voters want climate action but don’t trust politicians to do it. Could projects like a Whitehaven windfarm be the answer?, says Rebecca Willis, a professor in energy and climate governance at Lancaster University
"Venus of the Rags" by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto depicted the Roman goddess of love behind a mass of tattered cloths - a contrast between classical beauty and contemporary waste.
But some were not so pleased by the appearance of the towering Venus and her mountain of trash in their city...
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There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
"It's me in this picture. I'm a Ukrainian writer. I have portraits of great Ukrainian poets on my bag. I look like I should be taking pictures of books, art, and my little son. But I document Russia's war crimes and listen to the sound of shelling, not poems. Why?"
Victoria Amelina: Ukrainian writer dies after Kramatorsk strike - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66083275
2. Le avventure di Pinocchio" was first published as a book in 1883, illustrated by Enrico Mazzanti.
I bring Mazzanti's and Chiostri's illustrations because they are the closest approaches to Collodi's original idea of Pinocchio.
Carlo Chiostri illustrated a 1902 edition.
1. C’era una volta...“Un re!” diranno subito i miei piccoli lettori. No, ragazzi, avete sbagliato. C’era una volta un pezzo di legno.
Centuries ago there lived... “A king!” my little readers will say. No, children, you're mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.
Pinocchio and the wobbling king.
Carlo Collodi opened his masterpiece "Le avventure di Pinocchio" with an enigma, and guess what – one hundred and forty years later it has not been solved.
It had not...
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https://khaosland.com/2023/02/18/pinocchio-il-burattino-caduto-the-fallen-puppet/
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