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Guinea Registered Letter Group 40c + 5c to Paris Registered 27 AUG 04 Rare

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November 10, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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Simba and I visited the Witch of Pungo statue in Virginia Beach, VA! 🧙‍♀️ In 1706, Grace Sherwood was accused of witchcraft…

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Witch of Pungo Statue - Virginia Beach's Terrifying 1706 Witch Trial & Grace Sherwood
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November 11, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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It has been called one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in history. The person who made it had to hire a local to show him the way.

#Petra #Jordan #TravelHistory #Bedouin #ColonialHistory #Archaeology #bluesky #Flipboard
Petra Was Not Lost. The Local Bedouin Knew Exactly Where It Was. The West Simply Had Not Asked.
In 1812, a Swiss explorer announced to the world that he had discovered the ancient city of Petra, lost for centuries in the Jordanian desert. He had found it by asking a local Bedouin guide to take him there. The guide knew the way. He always had.
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November 4, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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econopass.com · Simon De Lafronde

It has been called one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in history. The person who made it had to hire a local to show him the way.

#petra #jordan #travelhistory #bedouin #colonialhistory #archaeology #amazing
Petra Was Not Lost. The Local Bedouin Knew Exactly Where It Was. The West Simply Had Not Asked.
econopass.com · Simon De Lafronde In 1812, a Swiss explorer announced to the world that he had discovered the ancient city of Petra, lost for centuries in the Jordanian desert. He had found it by asking a local Bedouin guide to take him there. The guide knew the way. He always had.
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November 4, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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The accusations followed property lines with a precision that had nothing to do with the devil. Someone got the land.

#SalemWitchTrials #Salem1692 #ColonialHistory #PropertyRights #GilesCorey #HistoryMyths #TheForgottenTruth #Bluesky #Flipboard
The Salem Witch Trials Were Not About Witchcraft. They Were About Land. Every Accused Person Owned Property Someone Else Wanted.
Nineteen people were hanged in Salem in 1692. The accepted explanation has always been religious panic. The land records tell a different story. The accused clustered in a pattern that had nothing to do with the devil and everything to do with who owned what.
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November 2, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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👇 Read the full story on The Bard's Desk:

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This Day in History — The Stamp Act Takes Effect
The Stamp Act took effect on November 1, 1765, but with nearly every stamp distributor already forced to resign, Britain's new tax could barely be enforced.
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November 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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econopass.com · Marco Bellinari

The accusations followed property lines with a precision that had nothing to do with the devil. Someone got the land.

#salemwitchtrials #salem1692 #colonialhistory #propertyrights #gilescorey #historymyths #theforgottentruth #culture
The Salem Witch Trials Were Not About Witchcraft. They Were About Land. Every Accused Person Owned Property Someone Else Wanted.
econopass.com · Marco Bellinari Nineteen people were hanged in Salem in 1692. The accepted explanation has always been religious panic. The land records tell a different story. The accused clustered in a pattern that had nothing to do with the devil and everything to do with who owned what.
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November 2, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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Indra Sengupta, Kim König and Thomas Kaal: GHIL 50: Indra Senguta (Senior Fellow and Head of India Research Programme)
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October 30, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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📢 #Joboffer „Doctoral Research Associate Dutch Colonialism“ @uni-muenster.de

📅 Deadline 30.11.2026

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Job: Doctoral Research Associate Dutch Colonialism | FID Benelux
Dutch colonies in the Greater Caribbean in the early modern period, ideally in Dutch Brazil (16th–18th centuries)…
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October 29, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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What became of the sailors and fishermen who, before 1830, had populated the coasts of the Ottoman Regency of Algiers?
#ColonialHistory #Algeria #MaritimeEducation
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October 27, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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The Dutch killed fifteen thousand people for a spice you barely use. Here is what nutmeg actually cost.

#NutmegHistory #BandaIslands #SpiceTrade #VOC #FoodHistory #ColonialHistory #Bluesky #Flipboard
The Spice Trade Killed More People Than Most Wars. Nutmeg Was the Reason the Dutch Massacred an Entire Island.
Nutmeg grew in only one place on earth. In 1621, the Dutch East India Company decided to own that place completely. What happened to the fifteen thousand people who already lived there is one of the most brutal stories in the history of food, and almost nobody tells it at the dinner table.
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October 27, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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How should we confront the colonial past? The Dutch Monarchy and Its Colonial History, 1600–2025 explores four centuries of monarchy, colonialism and slavery—and why historical responsibility still matters today. Check out Kleio-Historia's review of our book #Dutch #ColonialHistory #GertOostindie
October 26, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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Image: Unknown artist, Cabinet on stand (table desk), 1713-1715. Copper alloy, ebony wood, tin, brass, shell. El Museo del Prado.

#CallForPapers #CFP #ISECS2027 #ArtHistory #EighteenthCentury #MaterialCulture #ColonialHistory #Zaragoza #DecorativeArts

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October 26, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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beestrot.com · Jean Louis

The Dutch killed fifteen thousand people for a spice you barely use. Here is what nutmeg actually cost.

#nutmeghistory #bandaislands #spicetrade #voc #foodhistory #colonialhistory
The Spice Trade Killed More People Than Most Wars. Nutmeg Was the Reason the Dutch Massacred an Entire Island.
beestrot.com · Jean Louis Nutmeg grew in only one place on earth. In 1621, the Dutch East India Company decided to own that place completely. What happened to the fifteen thousand people who already lived there is one of the most brutal stories in the history of food, and almost nobody tells it at the dinner table.
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October 27, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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Evil mister Moore had to bury himself #statia #spookymonth #colonialhistory

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Statia: evil mister Moore
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October 25, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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I'm sharing the post series on Witches Through History that I made.

9. MOLL DYER

#witches #witch #WiseWoman #PowerfulWoman #strongwoman #injustice #misogyny #religioustyrrany #oppression #obedience #subservience #shestoomuch #Halloween #samhain #ColonialHistory #WitchHunt
October 21, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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The UK has a long #colonialhistory of exploitation & enslavement. It went abroad to India & the Caribbean to accomplish that. The US has exercised its power abroad— Samoa/Guam/Puerto Rico/the Philippines/Marianas/Virgin Islands. The #USgreatestcolonialatrocities, however, remain in CONUS.
October 17, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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🖼 Image: Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1736). Map of South America ... Retrieved from digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f24118...

#CallForPapers #CFP #ArtHistory #EighteenthCentury #ISECS2027 #MaterialCulture #ColonialHistory #GlobalHistory

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October 16, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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What shaped the colonial world: institutions or the pursuit of power and resources? Talha Mahmood questions the settler mortality theory and revisits the historical costs of empire. 🌍
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Settler Mortality Or Power Grab: A Critique Of The Colonial Origins Of Comparative Development
Colonial powers built institutions not to develop the colonised world, but to consolidate imperial control, extract wealth and resources, and advance their own
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October 17, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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With support from the ERC Advanced Grant Project “The Making of Monoculture: A Global History” (MaMoGH)

Deadline for submissions: 16 November 2026

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#colonialhistory #empire #imperialhistory #environmentalhistory #historyofknowledge #skystorians
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October 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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liberalism. The extensive collection of data allowed a whole socio-ecology to be recast by scarcely detectable means.

#historyofscience #globalhistory #colonialhistory #germanhistory #samoa #skystorians
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October 12, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Was colonial trade really about progress? 🇳🇬
Nigerian cotton travelled thousands of miles to Britain’s factories, creating opportunities while strengthening colonial control.
But who truly benefited?

#TruthWillRise #NigerianHistory #HiddenHistory #ColonialHistory
October 12, 2026 at 5:42 AM
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Correcting the Record: Essays on the History of American Anthropology by Herbert S. Lewis is now available in paperback!

Find out more here: bit.ly/4y8fRQ0

Review by @choicereviews.bsky.social

#Anthropology #Theory #Methodology #ColonialHistory
October 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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CC FIRST WORLD AFRICA

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Africa Had Its Own Names Before Colonial Rule. 👁 # #africa #africanhistory #colonialhistory
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October 8, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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How did Salem’s court treat invisible attacks as evidence?
In 1692, witnesses said Sarah Good’s, Sarah Osborne’s, and Tituba’s spirits pinched two girls.
AI-assisted reconstruction from documented history.
#PastBriefly #SalemWitchTrials #ColonialHistory
October 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM