History – Page 8 – Modern Traditional

Page 8 of 25

« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 … 25 Next »

Why are flood myths in so many ancient stories? – Big Think

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher February 16, 2023 February 25, 2023Culture, History, Myths and Legends

Flood myths, a painting of animals of varying kinds, cueing up to enter an ark that is floating in the distance.

Why are flood myths so common in stories from ancient cultures around the world? by

Tim Brinkhof (bigthink.com)

Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?

Especially common in world mythologies are stories about world-ending floods and the chosen individuals that managed to survive them, like the biblical Noah and Utnapishtim, the ark builder in the Epic of Gilgamesh, a text thought to be even older than the Abrahamic religions. In Aztec mythology, a man named Tata and his wife Nena…

Response To Metatron’s ‘Were The Ancient Egyptians Black? The Truth” – Exposing The Bias

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher February 16, 2023 February 16, 2023Africa, Africa, Archaeology, Culture, History, Video

Response To Metatron’s ‘Were The Ancient Egyptians Black? The Truth from YouTube43 minutes 10 seconds

Metatron made a video on the Ancient Egyptians’ Race. So I deemed it important to respond to some of the misinformation he spread and the lack of proper rese…

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I95eOF-Mkwk&ab_channel=KueliMika[/embed] Metatron made a video on the Ancient Egyptians’ Race. So I deemed it important to respond to some of the misinformation he spread and the lack of proper research in of his video. Webmatron’s Comment: Metatron seems to be answering a lot of “white” supremacist dogwhistles lately. Ever since he moved to the U.S.…

Searching For The Perfect Pizza

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher February 14, 2023 February 14, 2023Food, History, Italian, Recipes, United States, Video

Searching For The Perfect Pizza (YouTube)

What if you traveled back in time and wanted to absolutely blow peoples mind with you favorite food, pizza. You wouldn’t be able to make it exactly how you do today, you would have to find ingredients they had then and adapt them to make the perfect pie!

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHb4cAgiVjA&ab_channel=Townsends[/embed]

Leonardo noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein | Ars Technica

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher February 13, 2023 February 13, 2023History, Italy, Science and Medicine, Video

Leonardo noted link between gravity and acceleration centuries before Einstein by Jennifer Ouellette (Ars Technica)

Caltech engineers even re-created his experiment with a modern apparatus.

Caltech engineer Mory Gharib was poring over the digitized notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci one day, looking for sketches of flow visualization to share with his graduate students for inspiration. That’s when he noticed several small sketches of triangles, whose geometry seemed to be determined by grains of sand poured out from a jar. Further…

Whanganui River Māori offer support in Colorado River crisis talks | RNZ News

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher February 9, 2023 February 9, 2023Colonial Damage, Culture, Earth Defenders, History, Indigenous Maizeland, Maori, Nature, New Zealand, News, Social and Political Issues, United States

Te Pou Tupua, the human face and voice of the Whanganui River, Turama Hawira Photo: LDR / Supplied

Whanganui River Māori offer support in Colorado River crisis talks by RNZ News (RNZ)

A delegation of Whanganui River Māori is travelling to the United States to support North American Indigenous leaders and tribes of the under-threat Colorado River.

A delegation of Whanganui River Māori is travelling to the United States to support North American Indigenous leaders and tribes of the under threat Colorado River. The delegation to crisis talks in Arizona is representing Te Awa Tupua, the Whanganui River. It includes the two people appointed by the river tribes as Te Pou Tupua,…

An Untold Past: Chinese in the Caribbean

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher February 8, 2023 February 8, 2023Britain, China, Colonial Damage, Culture, History, Jamaica, Livestreams, Racism, Social and Political Issues, Trinidad and Tobago, Video

An Untold Past: Chinese in the Caribbean from YouTube1 hour 33 minutes 17 seconds

Join FCAM 1st Vice President Paula Madison along with four scholars as we take a look into the history of the Chinese diaspora in the region.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOLlXj0wwjg&ab_channel=ChineseAmericanMuseum[/embed] Each will share their knowledge about the many facets of Chinese Caribbean culture and what makes their immigration history so compelling. ⁣⁣This program was recorded on February 2, 2021Topics include the formation of intermixed families, syncretism, and art. Together, the fascinating complexities of Caribbean culture make for a unique Chinese diaspora. ⁣⁣“An Untold Past”…

CrimethInc. : Punk—Dangerous Utopia : Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher February 7, 2023 May 25, 2023Art, Books, Culture, Friends and Follows, History, Music, Social and Political Issues

Punk—Dangerous Utopia (crimethinc.com)

Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism
How did punk emerge out of the countercultures of the 1960s that it claimed to reject? Why did it play such a central role in the resurgence of anarchism around the world at the end of the 20th century? How did it prefigure the participatory media of the digital age? And what can its legacy teach us today?

Let’s imagine the ideal cultural vehicle for anarchism.It has to be defiant, obviously. It should accommodate both gleeful irony and stark courage. But let’s make it affirmative, too, even if we have to go the long way round through suffering and catharsis to get there. We don’t want the kind of nihilism that makes it…

Cryptic lost Canaanite language decoded on ‘Rosetta Stone’-like tablets | Live Science

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher February 6, 2023 February 6, 2023Archaeology, Asia, History, Iraq, Languages, News

Cryptic lost Canaanite language decoded on ‘Rosetta Stone’-like tablets (Live Science)

Two ancient clay tablets discovered in Iraq and covered from top to bottom in cuneiform writing contain details of a “lost” Canaanite language that has remarkable similarities with ancient Hebrew.The tablets, thought to be nearly 4,000 years old, record phrases in the almost unknown language of the Amorite people, who were originally from Canaan —…

Black History Month at The Wright | The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher February 5, 2023 February 5, 2023Culture, Detroit, Events and Happenings, History, Michigan, Museums, Social and Political Issues, Travel, United States, United States

Wright Museum Black History Month 2023 (thewright.org)

Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans, in recognition of their central role in U.S. history.

This observance event grew out of “Negro History Week,” established by historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans in 1926.Across the nation and around the world, Black History Month serves as a reminder of the resilience of generations of African Americans of all backgrounds who have fought for freedom and justice. The Wright…

Indigenous People Have Been Here Forever. Why Won’t Archeologists Believe It? | The Tyee

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher February 4, 2023 February 4, 2023Archaeology, History, Maizeland

Indigenous People Have Been Here Forever. Why Won’t Archeologists Believe It? | The Tyee (The Tyee)

An Indigenous archeologist on how her discipline has shaped the view of the ground beneath our feet.

Well into The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere, Paulette Steeves wearily observes: “Disagreements between archeologists over the peopling of the Americas have been so fierce that the field has been described as a battleground and an archeological badlands.” A battlefield might be a strange place to find Steeves: she is a Tier II Canada…