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New guest post by @evohopp, who, years ago, did a great twitter thread on my 2012 book, now scaled up into an Unsafe Science essay. Link in reply.
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Wow. Just discovered this. Excellent long thread tweet-summarizing my 2012 book. Does a damn good job, too.
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We showcased primary sources related to the Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) at @theUL for Prof Dan Knorr's paper on Globalization in 19th-Century China at @CamHistory. Recently, unique prints were discovered for a digitization project. The rare books are part of the Wade Collection
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Does science get censored? Yes. Who does it? Scientists. My new paper in PNAS (spearheaded by Cory Clark, w 38 coauthors). pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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What a remarkable contrast between an articulate, careful, precise and well informed interviewee and a groupthink-mongering, waffling interviewer.
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Ouch, nice dig by the US ambassador to Japan:
"One cannot help but wonder how different the global health landscape would be and how many lives would have been saved if China had engaged in even a fraction of the due diligence, openness and international cooperation that Japan has in managing Fukushima." asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Japa…
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Village trees also played a political role in the 1900s. The govt wanted to 'prepare for constitutionalism' by building new-style schools, which often required cutting down trees and led to many conflicts. See Xu Yao 徐躍, 新式学校の設立と郷村の慣習・民俗をめぐる文化摩擦, 2010
Wilson E. Manly, American Methodist missionary to China, in the village of 'Dsai Jia Tsang' (Sichuan). 'The big trees are the centers of village life in W. China... Mr. & Mrs. Manly & one of our school teachers on the bridge.' USC: tinyurl.com/2yrsfzuc
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Many would have just seen this extraordinary relic of the past at the #coronation - The Gospel Book of St Augustine who was sent by Pope Gregory the Great in the 6th century to bring Christianity to England and become the first Archbishop of Canterbury.
Truly incredible!
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In 1858, the fifth year of 安政, the Edo shogunate signed unequal treaties with 🇬🇧🇫🇷 🇳🇱🇷🇺after signing the 🇺🇸-🇯🇵 Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States, collectively referred to as the "安政條約" And the beginning.
Main Street of the treaty port of Yokohama, Japan, opened by the US Treaty of Amity & Commerce (1858).
From Frank Brinkley’s 'Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese' (c. 1897-8). MIT: tinyurl.com/r3taxnkx
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I believe humans will in the end inevitably find ourselves back to nuclear. Whether it's in 50 years or 500. The more powerful technology, and the society that wields it, will inevitably win.
I just don't understand why so many ppl don't want it to be us.
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Dinner of the China Association, London (7th Aug, 1896). Centre left, in the light robe, is Li Hongzhang 李鴻章, & far right on the 3rd table from the camera - looking over his shoulder in spectacles - is Gustav Detring: German-British Customs man who served under Li in Tianjin.
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Charles Lightoller was Titanic’s second officer. At the time, he lived on Station Road in Netley.
He survived Titanic and was twice decorated for gallantry (Royal Navy) in WW1.
In 1940, he rescued 120-130 men from Dunkirk in his yacht. Sadly, two of his sons were killed in WW2.
ALT Studio portrait of Charles Lightoller.
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'London from Greenwich Hill' || 1869-1870 || Henry Dawson
(Yale Center for British Art)
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You can’t beat a then and now.
Riflemen from A Company, 2nd Royal Ulster Rifles pausing just off Sword Beach at La Brèche-d’Hermanville on D-Day.
📸: IWM B 5039.
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Colorized group photo of injured Papal Zouaves and other Papal Army soldiers after their victory over the Garibaldian revolutionaries, at the battle of Mentana on Nov 3, 1867🇻🇦
They're surrounding a bust of Bl. Pope Pius IX and displaying their campaign medal, the Mentana Cross.
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This is delightful… look at all those hats!
People having fun at a cricket match in Manchester, England (1901). Overarm bowling had been legal since the 1860s... but note the angle of the bowlers' arms!
Restored footage from the YouTube channel 'Nineteenth century videos. Back to life': tinyurl.com/34wjsfcn
