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#BooksThatInfluencedYou
#Aztec by #GaryJennings
(5/5)
Day 16:
...ends with a surprise ending in 1531.
Highly recommended and fun to read.
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#Aztec by #GaryJennings
(4/n)
Day 16:
...what was then Lake #Texcoco in the Valley of #Mexico.
They spoke (and many still spek) #Nahuatl.
This first book provides an understanding of the roots of modern-day #Mexico.
Seen chronologically, the book starts in 1466, when the fictious Mexícan narrator is born. The book...
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#Aztec by #GaryJennings
(3/n)
Day 16:
...in 2012 (#AztecRevenge.)
Now, the first thing to know is that there were no #aztecs. This people who, according to legend, migrated to the swamps what later on became #Tenochtitlán, nowadays the historic Center of #MexicoCity, were called the #Mexica. Back then, it was an island in...
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#Aztec by #GaryJennings
(2/n)
Day 16:
...Even though it is historical fiction, he works with a lot of love for historical detail. Alas, #GaryJennimgs died in 1999, and so he could only complete the first two of a total of 6 of this #AztecSeries, the other's were written much later than the first one (1980), the last...
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Day 16:
@mina
So, Mina, bird of a feather, thanks for the inspiration gor today, or rather moving it forward in the pipeline. 😏
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There was a time when I used to read all about #Mesoamerica's early history that I could get my hands on. One of the books was #Aztec by #GaryJennings.
Even...
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Ok, somehow, I goofed up Day 15 and put it outside this record-bound megathread. ICYMI, here it is again:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112664763147341064
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Day 14
Karl A. Frank: Als der Sonnenadler stürzte
Der Kampf um die Schätze der Azteken
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The Sun Eagle's Fall
The fight for the Aztecs' Gold
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#DerMeisterUndMargarita
#TheMasterAndMargarita
(3/3)
...from the 20th century I've ever seen. A feast for the eyes. 🤩
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#DerMeisterUndMargarita
#TheMasterAndMargarita
(2/3)
...and every page has such wonderful illustrations. I guess pre-AI these would not have been financially viable in the West.
I wonder if this edition also exists in English, Spanish, or German?
This is one of the visually most beautiful books...
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Day two right after
and again no surprise for anyone who has seen my intro
Alexander the Great
No historical person has ever impressed and fascinated me more
This great passion started in my early twenties
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Let me start finally with Day one....
I've been very impressed with everything you've posted so far.... Thank you
Don't expect as great stuff as you guys have had
I'll never get there.... That's what it means to know yourself and your limits 😂
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It is through the interaction with others that we achieve to transcend the bubble that limits our personal growth.
I found this extravagant copy of "#TheMasterAndMargarita" by Soviet writer #MikhailBulgakov at a friend's house. I can't read it, but each...
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Day 17
Book, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle
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#BooksThatInfluencedYou
Another book out of my history of reading Fantasy. This one had some influence through the moral framework it put forward, but it is also one of the series in which by the end it became apparent that the author is some kind of rightwing libertarian like Michael Crichton turned out to be.
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Day 15:
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...is a dramatized version, like the outstanding 1938 radio drama, #TheWarOfTheWorlds by #OrsonWelles, based on the #SciFi classic by #HGWells, which led to a mass panic of people, because the realization was so authentic.*
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The War of the Worldshttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama)
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#BooksThatInfluencedYou
Day 15:
(4/n)
...on humanity will be “extremely bad (e.g., human extinction)👈” is 5%. This is the same as it was in 2016 (though #Zhang et al 2022 found 2% in a similar but non-identical question).
Many respondents were substantially more concerned: 👉48% of respondents gave at least 10% chance of an extremely bad outcome." 1)
Now,..
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Day 15:
(3/n)
...In the summer of 2022, a big international survey was conducted:
"We contacted approximately 4271 researchers who published at the conferences NeurIPS or ICML in 2021. "
It found, among other things:
"The median respondent believes the probability that the 👉long-run effect of advanced #AI...
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#BooksThatInfluencedYou
Day 15:
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...misogyny, #SciFi grandmasters like #IsaacAsimov (#CompleteRobot) and #PhilipKDick have long been writing about this theme.
Maybe you'll like this excellent #audiobook mini-series of his #SciFi classic, too:
*Curious Matter Anthology: Philip K. Dick's #SecondVariety - Part 1 *
It still gives me the goosebumps.
Why does..
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Day 15:
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Despite the fact that many #AI critics now point out that the imminent threats of #ArtificialIntelligence are quite large and that an #ExtinctionLevelEvent chiefly diverts attention from these negative outcomes, such as job losses, racism, and...
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#20Tage20Bücher
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Curious Matter Anthology / Sonnet
Curious Matter Anthology is a multi-award winning fiction podcast that adapts stories from the world’s best Sci-fi, and Horror writers into fully immersiv...i.sonnet.fm
@mina #20Books20Days - The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #books #BookWyrm @mina
Tag 8
Niklas #Luhmann "#Ökologisch|e #Kommunikation" 1986 und aktueller als je zuvor, leider!
@mina #20Books20Days - The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #books #BookWyrm
Tag 10 (Halbzeit ;)
Khaled #Hosseini "#Drachenläufer" ein emotionaler Wirbelsturm, der meine eigene Wahrnehmung nachhaltig und positiv änderte.
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Day 14:
Book,Rudi Palla, Die Welt der verschwundenen Berufe
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„Das Leben ist zu kurz für diesen Scheiß “
Schluss mit Selbstoptimierung! Weniger macht glücklicher
Der neuer Anti-Ratgeber von der Autorin des Bestsellers "Mach's wie die Möwe, scheiß drauf!". Für alle, die ihr Leben verbessern wollen - ohne viel Aufwand, Motivation und Disziplin. Ganz nach dem Motto: Faul lebt es sich einfach zufriedener.
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Ich hatte mal einen akademischen Streit mit Manfred Spitzer während einer Podiumsdiskussion. Er meinte, mein Gehirn hätte sich immer schon entschieden, bevor mein Verstand etwas äußert, daher sei "freier Wille" immer präformiert. Darauf stand ich auf, holte eine Münze aus der Tasche und sagte:"Ich werfe und ich entscheide, wenn Kopf erscheint, Ihrer Ansicht zu folgen, wenn Zahl erscheint nicht."
@mina #20Books20Days - The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #books #BookWyrm
Tag 11
Alice #Schwarzer "Der kleine Unterschied und seine großen Folgen" ein klarer und schonungsloser Gesellschaftsspiegel, lange vor Alices kritischer, persönlicher Wandlung
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Day 15:
Das Hardermannli und die weisse Frau, die 22 schönsten Stadtlegenden der Schweiz
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Today, I'm going to post this book that I read to my kids so many, many times.
Something I read from the bookshelf in my childhood home, as a young adolescent. Ill advised, but sixty plus years later, I still will refer to it in conversation.
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Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John N. Gray
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/223467-straw-dogs-thoughts-on-humans-and-other-animals
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Straw Dogs Quotes by John Gray
106 quotes from Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals: ‘Most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of its destiny. Th...www.goodreads.com
And I would like to feature a 2nd -- quite different -- book for today, if I may.
Dino Buzzati: Il deserto dei Tartari
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tartar_Steppe
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Day 12
Global 2000
Commissioned in 1977 by Jimmy Carter, published in 1980
A true eye-opener for me.
Should have been mandatory in every secondary school curriculum since then.
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