fictionable , to bookstodon group
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Jenny Erpenbeck opens 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.

https://www.fictionable.world/stories/sloughing-off-one-skin-jenny-erpenbeck-translated-by-michael-hofmann

@bookstodon

richardlea ,
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@fictionable @bookstodon And four of the five in this issue came via open submissions:

https://www.fictionable.world/submit.html

We're on the lookout for perspectives that are currently under-represented on bookshelves in the UK and in the US, and material first written in languages other than English.

bibliolater , to History
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Francisco de Almeida - Part 1 - Age of Discovery

“He and his only son venture forth on the 7th Portuguese Armada to establish the worlds first trade empire. However the challenges that await them will test them to their core.”

length: 26 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IP3ejxyep0

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intlmonitor , to World News
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U.S. President, Joe Biden, announced this Friday that he has authorized a new military aid package worth USD 400 million to bolster Ukraine’s defense.

Read more here 👇

https://intlmonitor.com/americas/u-s-pledges-400-million-in-military-aid-to-ukraine/

bibliolater , to Asia
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🇺🇸 🌎 Mapped: U.S. Immigrants by Region

"From this graphic, we can see that Asia and Latin America emerge as the primary sources of immigration, collectively accounting for 81% of America’s 46.2 million immigrants."

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-u-s-immigrants-by-region/

@demography

bibliolater , to History
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"This paper studies the constitutive role of cartography apropos law, territory, and social order, in a specific historical context, by examining the crucial political role played by the British East India Company's cartographic practices and maps in aspiring and imagining the transplantation and establishment of English sovereignty in the Indian subcontinent."

Suresh, S. (2024) ‘The Cartojuridism of the British East India Company’, Law and History Review, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248024000051.

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CultureDesk , to Random stuff
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Thousands of demonstrators, including climate activist @gretathunberg have gathered in the Swedish city of Malmö to protest against Israel's participation in Eurovision. Thunberg told the BBC there was a "moral obligation to act" and speak out against Israel's military operation in Gaza. "It's not true that the Eurovision is not political, it has always been political, and it will always be," said another protestor, Matilda Varatta, who told Reuters that she would like to see Israel disqualified as Russia was in 2022. Tonight sees the song contest's second semi-final, in which Israel's Eden Golan is performing. The final will take place on Saturday May 11.

https://flip.it/f3SjoA

faab64 , to Sweden. Lagom.

Israeli performance was jeered with booo and free shouts from the public I'm , last night.

They shouldn't be allowed to participate if it wasn't for disgusting double standard of the organizers and pressure from Swedish and German government.

vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQpxxso/

@palestine @israel

knowprose ,
@knowprose@mastodon.social avatar

Wait. isn't just

Man, what's in a name, right?

bibliolater , to History
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"The ultimate goal, I suggest, was a translatio imperii; the establishment of an imperial monarchy in the west that could rival the Habsburg empire, and which in time, perhaps, might even come to imitate the universal glory of the Roman imperium. Not the American Atlantic seaboard, but rather the continent of Europe, with its arms, its learning, and its treasure, was the goal of Bacon’s early imperial vision."

Serjeantson, R. (2024) ‘Francis Bacon, colonisation, and the limits of Atlanticism’, History of European Ideas, pp. 1–14. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2024.2338341.

@histodon @histodons @earlymodern

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bibliolater , to History
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"As we can discern from Plutarch and Appian, beyond the socio-economic impacts, the ancient historians equated the displacement of the family-run smallholdings with the slave-dependent Latifundia with a concurrent moral decline that degraded the Roman Republic."

Gale, Alexander. "How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/slavery-ancient-rome-plebeian-farmers-poverty/ (accessed May 7, 2024).

@histodon @histodons

faab64 , to Non Political Twitter

arrested a Jewish man holding a banner "Jews Against " and confiscated his banner.

Isn't that ? Preventing the free speech of a Jewish citizen on broad daylight like this?

Video on : vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQy6hC7/vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQy6hC7/


@palestine @israel

timkmak , to Random stuff
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Here’s what we are reading today:

will launch a counteroffensive in 2025 to retake territory, US National Security adviser said.

This statement is the clearest indication of what the believes the war in Ukraine could look like if remained president.

https://www.ft.com/content/6fd11006-01db-4548-96d6-76343f38aea8

timkmak OP ,
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is planning acts of sabotage across European Intelligence agencies say, the FT reports.

These are likely to be violent and include covert bombing, arson and damage to infrastructure. There were recent sabotage acts in UK, Czechia, Sweden and Estonia.

https://www.ft.com/content/c88509f9-c9bd-46f4-8a5c-9b2bdd3c3dd3

Hypx , to Hydrogen
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NewsDesk , to World News
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Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off a three-country visit to Europe on Sunday as much of the continent is divided over Beijing’s growing power and its intensified rivalry with the U.S. Xi’s first stop is in France, followed by Hungary and Serbia. AP reports: https://flip.it/OQ3xT0

EU_Commission , to Random stuff
@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu avatar

Which flag best symbolises Europe's unity?

Many ideas were submitted to the Council of Europe in the 1950s, but the 🇪🇺 EU flag was unanimously adopted on 8 December 1955.

Seven decades on, the flag embodies the values of unity, solidarity, diversity and harmony and is the most recognisable symbol of our European identity.

Ahead of , get to know it ⬇️

The European flag positioned centrally within the visual, half-colored. Text overlay reads '1 flag 1 direction.' All stars are upright, have five points, and are equally spaced like the hour positions on a clock face.
Visual displaying various proposals for the EU flag design.
A circle of stars with text in the middle stating '85% of EU citizens think the flag is a good symbol for the EU.

alnotz ,
@alnotz@toot.gnous.eu avatar

@EU_Commission
Quelle est la description littérale vexillologique ?
« Douze étoiles d’or en cercle sur font d’azur ? »

xynthia , to France French
@xynthia@mastodon.tedomum.net avatar

Espionnage des journalistes : la France fait bloc aux côtés de six États européens

@france

https://disclose.ngo/fr/article/espionnage-des-journalistes-la-france-fait-bloc-aux-cotes-de-six-etats-europeens

En matière d'espionnage, la France a tenté d'inscrire dans le Media Freedom Act européen une exception permettant d'autoriser la surveillance électronique des journalistes, au nom de la « sécurité nationale ».

Une opération documentée par @disclose.

bibliolater , to science group
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Video of sun’s surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss

"Scientists say the observations of the sun’s complex surface dynamics could help resolve the question of why the sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface – a longstanding paradox in solar physics."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/03/video-of-suns-surface-captures-solar-rain-eruptions-and-coronal-moss

@science @astronomy

bibliolater , to science group
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Video of sun’s surface shows solar rain, eruptions and coronal moss

"Scientists say the observations of the sun’s complex surface dynamics could help resolve the question of why the sun’s atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface – a longstanding paradox in solar physics."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/may/03/video-of-suns-surface-captures-solar-rain-eruptions-and-coronal-moss

@science @astronomy

bibliolater , to Non Political Twitter
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🇬🇧 🇪🇺 "Our results show that individuals who lacked wealth are less likely to support leaving the EU, explaining why so many Brexit voters were wealthy, in terms of their property wealth."

Green, J. and Pahontu, R.L. (2024) ‘Mind the Gap: Why Wealthy Voters Support Brexit’, British Journal of Political Science, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123423000728.

@politicalscience

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bibliolater , to Non Political Twitter
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🇬🇧 🇪🇺 "Our results show that individuals who lacked wealth are less likely to support leaving the EU, explaining why so many Brexit voters were wealthy, in terms of their property wealth."

Green, J. and Pahontu, R.L. (2024) ‘Mind the Gap: Why Wealthy Voters Support Brexit’, British Journal of Political Science, pp. 1–21. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123423000728.

@politicalscience

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CultureDesk , (edited ) to Art
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Euronews's David Mouriquand has had it with "immersive exhibitions" — magnified replicas of paintings projected onto gallery walls. He says of the Van Gogh show he saw, "[It] made me want to forcibly shove fistfuls of sunflowers down my throat to make the experience end quicker," and describing the Klimt exhibition in Warsaw as "atrocious." Here's his no-holds-barred essay (read: rant) on the subject. What do you think of immersive exhibitions? Explain why in the comments.

https://flip.it/3ngMgW

@artstodon

For more stories like this, follow @euronews's Culture Magazine, @culture-euronews.

Hypx , to Hydrogen
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byteseu , to Random stuff
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Pro-Palestinian protests: New York police storm occupied Columbia University building https://www.byteseu.com/71751/

Hypx , to Hydrogen
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Hypx , to Hydrogen
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bibliolater , to Random stuff
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🧵 : this the first in a series of that will eventually be stitched together into a related to 📚 and 📘. (1)

bibliolater OP ,
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"Examining the global movements of enslaved persons, soldiers, convicts, and refugees across land and sea, Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions presents a deeply entangled history. The book explores the binaries of 'free' and 'unfree' mobility, analyzing the agency and resistance of those moved against their will."

Jansen, J.C. and McKenzie, K. (eds.) (2024) Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions: A Global History, c. 1750–1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Publications of the German Historical Institute). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009370578.

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