Fun connections.

"Stereotype" is a printer's term. Moveable type is expensive. You don't want to keep it tied up longer than needed, so you make a mould from the set type and cast a plate from that.

The "stereotype" is the mould.

A "cliché" is what the French called plate made from that mould, it's onomatopoeia from the sound of removing the plate from the mould.

"Boilerplate" is widely repeated text from the round stereotype castings of newspaper columns ready to throw on a drum press.

I do wish folks would stop using "alligator alcatraz".

It is a concentration camp.

It is not intended as a form of punishment or deterrence for criminals. It is intended as a means of removing humans the government does not like from society.

It's not a joke, it's not a meme, it's not a t-shirt.

It's a concentration camp.

The origins of #Uralic languages has always been of great interest to my #Finnish ancestors

'The data indicate that a large belt of genetically related hunter-gatherers from the Late Stone Age, spanning from modern-day western Russia to eastern Siberia, was disrupted around 4,200 years ago as new groups moved in and mixed with them, resulting in the formation of new groups with lasting demographic and linguistic features. Some of these proto-Uralic people migrated westward through the millennia as far as the Baltic Sea, possibly driven by a vast trading network for bronze tools and weapons known as the Seima-Turbino phenomenon.'

#aDNA #Siberia #Magyar #Estonia

https://cns.utexas.edu/news/research/new-dna-evidence-reveals-origins-finnish-estonian-and-hungarian-languages

#OnThisDay, 11 July 1871, Margaret E Knight wins a patent lawsuit and is awarded the patent for flat-bottomed paper bag making machines.

No reliable image, so here's a bag in use.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

・ Rua Direita, The Main Thoroughfare of Goa ・

👤 1579-1592
🏛️ National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research ・ Bengaluru, India

Within hundred years after the arrival of Da Gama, by the end of the 16th C., Goa had become a city bustling with many nationalities seeking their fortunes. John Huygen van Linschoten, a Dutch aide to the Portuguese Archbishop in Goa described (...)
#portugal #museum #history

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/rua-direita-the-main-thoroughfare-of-goa/1QGoAw37T-4X9g

First thing of the day -- newly acquired #map digitized by Osher Map Library - Walter Crane's famous 1886 Imperial Federation map!!

Online at https://oshermaps.org/map/59097.0001

#maphistory #cartography #maps #empire