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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

@actualnames.bsky.social Two words you might not want to hear together: "Doctor Euthanasia." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthana...

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Euthanasia Sherman Meade - Wikipedia

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Katrine Lunde ends her handball career on top as Norway beat Germany, 23-20, to win the World Women's Handball Championship. Last year, at age 44, she was MVP of the Women's Olympic competition.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/07/2025

One of the things about historical research is you encounter the fact that children used to die at heart-breaking rates. The cemeteries are full of tombs with zero to eleven year life spans. The correspondence mentions child death on a regular basis. Children died often.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

#WhereBigfootTookMe His home planet Kashyyyk. (Wait, that was Chewbacca, not Bigfoot.)

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

@danacorn.bsky.social I saw some imaginative redesigns of Scotland's flag and couldn't help thinking of you. One image shows the Welsh flag with a red dragon, probably related to Llewellyn. Next to it, a re-imagined Scottish flag with a . . . UNICORN! brilliantmaps.com/what-if-the-...

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What If the Scottish Flag Looked Like... - Brilliant Maps

The picture above while not a map is too good to pass up. It looks at what Scotland's flag might look like in the style of other country's flag designs. As a Canadian I like the Canadian design, altho...

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

#ProposalDosAndDonts Do make sure that all proper forms are filled out in triplicate. Don't be surprised when the government rejects your grant proposal anyway.

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke] A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

My choice for 1854's person of the year remains John Snow. While anesthesia was first used by several others, Snow was the first to create a table of standard and safe dosages. Also, Snow's analysis of London's 1854 cholera epidemic marks the start of modern epidemiology. (1/2)

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

1354's person of the year is Ibn Battuta. That year, he ended his 29 years of traveling to settle down in his home country of Morocco, and started work on the Rihla (Travels). He traveled a greater distance than anybody else before 1500, and his Rihla provides descriptions of the 14th-century world.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

1855's person of the year remains Henry Bessemer, who that year patented the Bessemer process, which was the first technology that could cheaply make steel on an industrial scale, providing a stronger metal than the types of iron then available.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

1355's person of the year is England's Edward, the Black Prince, who carried out the grande chevauchée, sacking and devastating much of southwestern France in the Hundred Years' War. (The following year, in another chevauchée ending in the Battle of Poitiers, he would capture France's King John II.)

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

My pick for 1856's person of the year remains Gustave Flaubert, whose novel "Madame Bovary" first appeared in serial form in the "Revue de Paris" that year. The work is regarded as the peak of the literary realist movement in France.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

1356's person of the year is Holy Roman Emperor IV, who, in his role of King of Bohemia, launched the country's cultural golden age. With the assistance of the Imperial Diet of Metz, he issued the Golden Bull of 1356, which served as the Empire's de facto constitution until its end in 1806.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

1929's person of the year is Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, who signed the Lateran Treaty that year. It established the Vatican as an independent state and made Roman Catholicism the official religion of Italy - the latter part being part of Mussolini's fascist program.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

My choice for 1857's Person of the Year remains Florence Nightingale, pioneer in nursing and sanitary healthcare. While not on the Royal Commission on the Health of the Army, established that year, because she was a woman, she wrote its official report, partly based on her Crimean War experience.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

1357's person of the year is Gajah Mada, the prime minister of Majapahit, who led that kingdom's conquest of most of modern-day Indonesia. His massacre of Sunda's royal family that year may have turned it into a vassal state of Majapahit, and created a still-existing Sundanese-Javanese distrust.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

1858's person of the year is Benito Juarez, who became President of Mexico that year, and was leader of the Liberal Party during the Reform War. After defeating the Conservatives, he would later preserve Mexican independence against French invaders trying to establish a new empire.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

1358's person of the year is Charles, Dauphin of France (who would become King Charles V in 1364). That year, as regent of France following the capture of King John II in 1356, he put down the Jacquerie, a peasant uprising, and would later restore French territory taken in the Hundred Years War.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

1859's person of the year remains Charles Darwin, who published his "On the Origin of Species" that year, explaining the principle of evolution by natural selection, and providing a mechanism for how evolution worked.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

1359's person of the year is Sikandar Shah, sultan of Bengal. That year, he fought the forces of Delhi sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq to a standstill until the monsoon season, forcing the latter to recognize the Bengal Sultanate as an independent state.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I had Abraham Lincoln as 1860's person of the year, for his election as president of the US, and the resulting secession of South Carolina before the end of the year. The secession of more states in 1861 would start the American Civil War. (1/2)

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

1360's person of the year is Nicholas Oresme, who completed "De moneta" that year. In it, he argued against the debasement of currency, claimed that money belonged to the people instead of the monarch, and provided a basis for future monetary theory.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

1362's person of the year is Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, who turned his nation into a European power. That year, he defeated the Kipchak Khanate at the Battle of Sini Vodi, breaking its power in present-day Ukraine.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The original PersonEachYear account on Twitter would have Throwback Thursdays, jumping to a year several centuries earlier than the next year back in the progression of time. Since my first posts were for the 1860s, I decided to go forward in time from the most recent year on Thursdays.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

1928's person of the year is Alexander Fleming, who that year discovered the Penicillium mold secreted something that killed certain types of bacteria. He isolated the substance and named it penicillin, creating the world's first antibiotic.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

My selection for 1861's person of the year remains Giuseppe Garibaldi, the primary military leader in the defeat of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Its conquest by the Kingdom of Sardinia led to the official establishment of the Kingdom of Italy that year.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

1361's person of the year is Nicholas Faber, who finished building the organ at Halberstadt Cathedral that year. By some accounts, it is the earliest permanently installed organ (earlier ones being temporary). The organ had the first known chromatic keyboard, which is also used by today's pianos.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I selected James Clerk Maxwell as person of the year for 1862, for completing his publication of "On Physical Lines of Force," containing the first version of his equations which unified electricity and magnetism into a single whole. I am not changing this selection.

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My original person of the year choice for 1863 was Édouard Manet, whose Le déjeuner sur l'herbe was the center of attraction at the Salon des Refusés. That exhibition, held for artists rejected by the official Salon, started a shift in taste from "academic" art to freer forms. (1/2)

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

1363's person of the year is Guy de Chauliac. In that year, he completed the "Chirugia Magna," or Great Surgery, which would remain Western Europe's standard reference work on the subject for the next two decades. It was also the first Western surgical guide to contain a chapter on anatomy. (1/2)

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gaudiustheclod.bsky.social @gaudiustheclod.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I have decided to resume my Person of the Year nominations here, starting tomorrow. I will also be revisiting my previous selections. The next calendar year scheduled is 1363, and I started my selections in 1863, so as I go back in time, each day will have selections 500 years apart. (1/n)

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