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📅 November 25 📖
On this day in #history :

1034 – Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots, dies. His grandson, Donnchad (the historical basis of the "King Duncan" in Shakespeare's play Macbeth), son of Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.

1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, ends with the Treaty of Granada.

1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

1963 – State funeral of John F. Kennedy; after lying in state at the United States Capitol, a Requiem Mass takes place at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle and the President is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

*Events selected are not necessarily positive/happy/to-be-celebrated, but items I thought were historically interesting and/or significant to their time and I'm trying to select items from a broad range of history and not clumped too close together.

Just re-upping the trailer.

Nearly forty episodes deep. Historical dives, guest specials and movie reviews

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I’m not sure that the rise of a new #mercantilism is as good or as bad as the author here suggests, but I agree with this historical approach looking at past trends, failures, and adjustments. I hope this too shall pass. #history #economics #freetrade #tariffs bloomberg.com/news/features/20

Bloomberg · How Trump, Obama, Biden Replaced Free Markets with a New Economic OrderBy John Authers

"like a real life version of a spy thriller (art & science history edition)" — comment by Mefi member Ausamor

Kattullus has posted about the mysteries of the portrait of Francis Williams, brilliant Black Jamaican polymath and member of the Newtonian inner circle ... and the painted clues that untangled his life story. Great art sleuthing, and a fascinating tale, then and now.

metafilter.com/206371/Its-a-mi

The moon looked around 17 times as large when life formed on earth, because it was closer to earth.

Now it’s about 230,000 miles away, then it was about 14,000 miles away. It would not have halfway fit within the field of view of 7 x 50 binoculars

Any #astronomy folks want to check my rough casual math?

Any one calculated what tides were like then? Height difference?
#moon #tides #life #History