Nobody Cares about History

[Beebo Brink]

Adventures in being a part-time history geek: I sometimes catch myself when watching or reading history saying "Oh, 500 years! That's not too far back, early modern age."

I'm a part-time archaeology geek, so for me it's "Oh, 5,000 years! ago That's not too far back, middle Holocene."

Only I don't blink afterwards....

 

[Isabeau]

Thread on history of candy. Really interesting

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Thread on history of candy. Really interesting

Man I loved those strawberry bon-bons.....

 

[Free]

 

[Beebo Brink]

Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic

What was one of the world's greatest undiscovered shipwrecks is identified on the Antarctic seafloor.

www.bbc.com

 

[Free]

Yet one more reason to look up to this guy.

President Lincoln and His Cats

President Lincoln stands out not only for his Presidency, but for his love of all animals, perhaps first and foremost, his cats.

conservationcubclub.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Verifying Device

Evernote link

Treasures of Timbuktu - Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

artsandculture.google.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Free]

When did the police start being called "pigs?" Because I'm thinking as early as it's been reported, it's probably far earlier than that.

 

[Lexxi]

When did the police start being called "pigs?" Because I'm thinking as early as it's been reported, it's probably far earlier than that.

At least since 1811. According to OED.

The OED cites an 1811 reference to a “pig” as a Bow Street Runner — the early police force, named after the location of their headquarters

Or, at least, that's one one article says the Oxford English Dictionary says. I don't have access myself. Why are the police called cops, pigs, or the fuzz?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

English Heritage brings to life Corbridge Roman town’s lost Edwardian navvies

Exhibition identifies 11 of the forgotten labourers who uncovered Corbridge Roman town on Hadrian’s Wall

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

 

[Essence Lumin]

When did the police start being called "pigs?" Because I'm thinking as early as it's been reported, it's probably far earlier than that.

This has some more info to add to Lexxis's post.

A Brief History of the Word Pig as Slang for Police — NOISE

The word “pig” has become synonymous with “police” in some circles. Its use in reference to police is highly polarized with most police and their supporters calling the term derogatory and disrespectful. Until recently though, the term hasn’t had much local application in public.

www.noiseomaha.com

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[Innula Zenovka]

Cruck cottage

The little market town of Wirksworth in Derbyshire has a wealth of unusual and old buildings but perhaps one of its most striking now cons...

thehistoryanorak.blogspot.com

 

[danielravennest]

Cruck cottage

The little market town of Wirksworth in Derbyshire has a wealth of unusual and old buildings but perhaps one of its most striking now cons...

thehistoryanorak.blogspot.com

The way those leaning posts were made was finding a curved trunk, or a trunk and large branch, and just splitting it lengthwise to form matching halves. In an era where metal was scarce, this could be done with minimal tools. I have split logs myself to make lighter pieces for woodworking. The medieval carpenter would make a bunch of wedges (wood) and a heavy sledgehammer (thick branch with handle shaved down for hand grip). An ax would start a split, and the sledge drives the ax deeper. Then you drive a series of wedges along the crack to extend it, hammering each wedge progressively until it splits all the way.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Nobody cares about Doggerland

 

[Veritable Quandry]

On a smaller scale, the Columbia River basin appears to have been scoured by massive floods about every 50-60 years at the end of the last ice age 13-15,000 years ago. General estimates put humans in North America between 15-20,000 years ago (evidence is growing for more waves going back to 30,000 years or more). The lack of archeological sites in Oregon and Washington more than about 8-10,000 years ago probably has to do with this prolonged and repeated flooding of the river systems where longer term camps and shelters would have been (tribes on the Columbia River spent the most time near the river to harvest and process fish and trade along the water routes).

The floods were caused by melting glaciers which formed a lake behind the glacier that extended to near Missoula, Montana. As water pressure increased, the glacial dam failed, scouring the interior valleys clean. Estimates of the water flow indicate a lake about half the volume of Lake Michigan. After each flood, the glacier would reform and water would build up again. Rinse and repeat.

Early people in the Pacific Northwest would have witnessed a similar flood every 1-2 generations for thousands of years.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I'm not sure if it scares me, or makes me fairly comfortable with where I live, but....according to floodmaps, it would take a sea level rise of over 30m before my house would be underwater [though Pensacola itself would be gone]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Beebo Brink]

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If I had a Bucket list, Skara Brae would be on it. I've been fascinated by that place for years.

 

[danielravennest]

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No. 10 Scara Brae is like the doghouse. Some things never change: