Nobody Cares about History

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Essence Lumin]

Unfortunately, the link to the archive in the article is 404 not found. It is not like The Guardian to make mistakes like that. Or perhaps they got overloaded and taken offline.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Unfortunately, the link to the archive in the article is 404 not found. It is not like The Guardian to make mistakes like that. Or perhaps they got overloaded and taken offline.

I think it may have been a temporary glitch -- I've just clicked the link and it connected me to

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/06/old-lesbians-interviews?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1717675909

If that doesn't work, here's the Evernote Link

 

[Essence Lumin]

I think it may have been a temporary glitch -- I've just clicked the link and it connected me to

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/06/old-lesbians-interviews?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1717675909

The link in that article to the archive is broken. The link for the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project goes to http://www.olohp.org/ which is 404.

These are all stories pulled from the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project (OLOHP), a catalogue of more than 900 interviews with lesbian seniors in the US. Arden Eversmeyer, a retired Houston schoolteacher who devoted her retired years to campaigning for visibility for older lesbians, who she felt were missing from the cultural discussion, began interviewing women in 1998.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The link in that article to the archive is broken. The link for the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project goes to http://www.olohp.org/ which is 404.

I see what you mean. The link for OLOHP seems to be broken (the url returned by a Google search is broken). However, by following some of the other links returned by the Google search I found these

Herstories

The Lesbian Elders Oral Herstory Project seeks to continue the Lesbian Herstory Archives’ commitment to collecting and sharing Lesbian stories. These oral histories of Lesbian Elders offer ex…

lesbianeldersoralherstoryproject.com

Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project website, First captured August 14, 2019 | Smith College Finding Aids

findingaids.smith.edu

which seem to cover at least some of the material.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

This video is a little over an hour long, so it's a popcorn thing for sure, but you should definitely watch the whole thing. It's a roller coaster of emotions. It is both fantastic and terrible, it is both hilarious and depressing.

It's about the history of theme venues where kids get to learn about and pretend to have adult jobs, and deal with adult concerns like handling bank loans and maintaining a budget. I never got to go to one of these because honestly I don't remember one ever being opened in the Cleveland area when I was the target age, but I absolutely would have loved going to one. But also, while the fact that kids inherently love to pretend to be adults is enough of a reason all by itself to build an attraction like this, I also really hate the soulless and cynical other reasons so many of the adults quoted in the video give for why places like this are "important" and "good for kids".

 

[Free]

Study: Scribes in ancient Egypt had really poor posture as they worked

There were degenerative joint changes in the spines, shoulders, knees, hips, and ankles.

arstechnica.com

Repetitive stress injuries are a common feature of modern life, especially for office workers who spend a good chunk of their working days at a desk typing on a computer. Apparently, scribes in ancient Egypt suffered from their own distinctive repetitive stress injuries, according to a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports that provides fresh insights into how these scribes lived and worked during the third millennium BCE.

Egyptian kings, royal family members, and other elite people from this Fifth Dynasty era were buried in tombs in the acropolis at Abusir rather than at neighboring Giza, which by then had largely filled up thanks to all the activity during the Fourth Dynasty. The Czech Institute of Egyptology at Charles University in Prague has been conducting research at the site since 1960, leading to the discovery of nearly 200 tombs dating back to the Old Kingdom (between 2700 and 2180 BCE). The first human skeletons were excavated in 1976, and there are currently 221 Old Kingdom skeletons in the collection, 102 of which are male.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

Po-ta-toes.

'Potato, potato, potatoes, potato': The story behind one of Boston's most obscure monuments

It’s not hard to stumble upon historical markers and memorials in a city as rife with history as Boston. However, one particularly unique tribute to the days when the smell of baked potatoes engulfed Charlestown sits tucked away, below the sightlines of the Boston high rises and I-93 motorists...

www.boston.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Roland's Sword: Nostalgia, Tourism, Epic Poetry

A disappearing sword and some tall tales

buttondown.email

 

[Isabeau]

Roland's Sword: Nostalgia, Tourism, Epic Poetry

A disappearing sword and some tall tales

buttondown.email

As we wrote about in 2021 when a “crusader sword” was pulled from the Mediterranean, we need to pay attention to the kinds of labeling that get deployed in media coverage of medieval objects. In this case, asserting the “legendary” status of Durendal is an editorial decision, not a piece of analysis or reporting. In this case, it’s repeating right-wing propaganda that uses history to justify a particular, violent narrative of “us” against “them.” The historian’s job - the keen observer’s job - is to say “it’s more complicated than that” (because it always is) and to point out that anyone telling such an unmuddied story about the past kind is selling something.

I would say that it not only applies to the media covering medieval objects.

Good little read.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

When it comes to old surviving Mesopotamian tablets, it seems like the internet's favorite for the most part is the British Museum's UET V 81, which most people take to be the earliest surviving bad Yelp review; you probably know about it, it's the one where the letter-writer objects to a copper trader's rude service and poor quality product.

My personal favorite is a little less talked about though. It lives in the Louvre, tablet TCL 18 111, and is a letter written by a boarding-school kid named Iddin-Sin to his mother Zinu in around about 1750 or so BCE, complaining about...well, just read it.

Tell the lady Zinu: Iddin-Sin sends the following message:
May the gods Shamash, Marduk and Ilabrat keep you forever in good health for my sake.

From year to year, the clothes of the others here become better, but you let my clothes get worse from year to year. Indeed, you persisted in making my clothes poorer and more scanty. At a time when in our house wool is used up like bread, you have made me poor clothes. The son of Adad-iddinam, whose father is only an assistant of my father, has two new sets of clothes, while you fuss even about a single set of clothes for me. In spite of the fact that you bore me and his mother only adopted him, his mother loves him, while you, you do not love me!

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

When it comes to old surviving Mesopotamian tablets, it seems like the internet's favorite for the most part is the British Museum's UET V 81, which most people take to be the earliest surviving bad Yelp review; you probably know about it, it's the one where the letter-writer objects to a copper trader's rude service and poor quality product.

My personal favorite is a little less talked about though. It lives in the Louvre, tablet TCL 18 111, and is a letter written by a boarding-school kid named Iddin-Sin to his mother Zinu in around about 1750 or so BCE, complaining about...well, just read it.

Ooooh, it's like an r/raisedbynarcissists post.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Ooooh, it's like an r/raisedbynarcissists post.

I mean.... I've seen some far more serious complaints on that site than old cloths, lol.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

My own takeaway is that "But all the other kids have Nikes" really is a nag that's as old as humanity itself.

 

[Free]

What is the Akkadian equivalent to "Just Do It?"

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

My own takeaway is that "But all the other kids have Nikes" really is a nag that's as old as humanity itself.

People are people......so how could it be? ;-)

Its why I like to tell people that the Victorians invented lolcats and txtspeak.

 

[Khamon]

What is the Akkadian equivalent to "Just Do It?"

Saying it is a waste of time. An Akkadian will just do it then kill the person that should've done it in the first place. Unless it's the Mother in which case just do it then keep your mouth shut and move along.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Agent Zo: The woman who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Poland

Elżbieta Zawacka had arrived in London in 1943 with special orders from a Polish military chief.

www.bbc.com