"An Army major is celebrating one year of having earned approval to wear his hair and tribe-specific regalia items in a way that honors his Native American heritage during appropriate service ceremonies."
Nice piece by @parismarx about the importance of physical media. and the right to control, for equitable access. The cloud is by definition somebody else’s property and this has real repercussions beyond mere entertainment. Too many in #heritage#opengov and lots of other sectors think that putting something online alone makes it findable and reusable.
#DelhiRains
It is raining heavily today too, breaking a 41 year record. Just 2 days of #Monsoon#Rain has completed more than its average for #Delhi for the entire month of July!
Since I can't go outside, I might as well stay indoors and play Yo-yo.
(Lonely people must amuse themselves).
Hello Mastadon, the @mahsa_project finally have an account!
At MAHSA, we are detecting, documenting and monitoring #heritage and #archaeology in the #Indus Basin region. We are using a combination of #historic maps, #satelliteimagery, and past data to locate sites that are under threat but also those that have already been lost.
All of this data will go into free to use, open access and searchable #databases to be used by researchers internationally but especially in #SouthAsia.
Project 2025 builds on #Heritage's latest Mandate for Leadership, a series which since the Reagan administration has served as the right-wing think tank's to-do list for the next Republican president.
The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) put out described it as a "#farright playbook for American authoritarianism" and "a threat to a multiracial, diverse democracy."
Time to face the music. #climate#chaos is real and there's no avoiding what we've done to #environment. #BBC#article : Over 70% of sites face serious threats from climate change by the year 2060, and some worry that it isn't financially feasible to protect many of these places. We were shocked when ISIS destroyed ancient #heritage sites, however we're doing the same in essence, only indirectly.
"Colonial statues in post-colonial Africa: a multidimentional heritage" by Sophia Labadi (2023).
"Is history being destroyed when colonial statues are removed from public space? This paper has explained that history is often being made when they are removed. Indeed, the hidden motivations for the construction and/or upkeep of these statues can then be revealed, along with their entangled colonial or racist legacies. Besides, their removals can aid in rectifying history, exposing in some cases the Eurocentrism of public spaces, and European epistemic domination. Such removal makes space for the erection of memorials for local heroes, who might have played more significant roles than colonial or racist figures".
Paan (Betel Nut Leaf) is a popular Mouth Refreshment in entire Subcontinent, from #Pakistan, #India#Nepal to #Bangladesh
It is also popular in the Middle East, South East Asia and, as far as the Pacific!
Tomorrow, this extremely exposed terrace, at 584m (1916 feet) up, of three rooms, possibly a quarry barracks, will enter the official Welsh heritage database for the first time. It has never appeared on an OS map, including the current editions.
I was up there again to take measurements this morning. Minus 8 degrees Celsius in the wind. My poor hands - and my tape broke! 😩
I'm very pleased to share the news that an International Union for the Conservation of Nature guidelines document seven years in the making is now published.
"The world at night : preserving natural darkness for heritage conservation and night sky appreciation" is a collection of dark-sky best management practices in parks and protected areas drawn from years of experience.
Did you know that our first library catalogue is 405 years old?
In 1619, the first librarian of the University of Groningen Library, Nicolaus Mulerius, compiled a list of all books then available in our library.
Mulerius and his successors kept adding acquisitions to this Librorum Academicorum Syllabus. It's available online, including transcriptions.
Ikhlas was from #Ethiopia#Africa who came to #India in c1600 CE
Many of the immigrants who came from there rose to important positions in the courts of various courts of the #Indian Kingdoms.
As #Delhi roasts at 49.9°c (a record) Maharaja Sur Singh of #Jodhpur#Marwar#Rajasthan sits smoking a #Huqqa without his shirt on!
And, so does his attendant, fanning him in this c1760 CE #IndianMiniaturePainting from the Toby Falk collection sold by Christie's Inc on 27th October 2023 for £5040.
A great opportunity: "Moving objects, Mobilising Culture in the Context of (De)colonisation" Fellowship for scholars from formerly colonised countries: four fellowships in the Netherlands with stipend!