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the @… on the The Rest is History #podcast:
‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast | Podcasts | The Guardian

Wildfire along Grand Canyon’s North Rim destroys historic lodge and is spreading rapidly https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/wildfire-along-grand-canyons-north-rim-destroys-historic-lodge-and-is-sp…

Wildfire along Grand Canyon’s North Rim destroys historic lodge and is spreading rapidly
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A wildfire along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim grew rapidly over the weekend and destroyed a historic lodge and visitors center. Firefighters are working to slow down the fire that began on July 4 after a lightning strike. The fire is in a less popular area of the Grand Canyon that […]

50 years ago #OTD at 16:09 UTC #Soyuz 19 and the final #Apollo spacecraft docked in orbit in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project or Экспериментальный полёт «Союз»–«Аполлон» (the Americans and Soviets never agreed on which s/c comes first): https://www.nasa.gov/apollo-soyuz-test-project/ = various NASA materials, https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/astp.htm = many links, https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/sp-4209.pdf = a biiiig book, https://www.facebook.com/AstroDrewMorgan/posts/pfbid0wcN12LcAfRYYTmiWS71GQ47P42jukXVhd2QWA7eBzgg1wbdZAKq8LXVGTC9o7tKtl and https://www.facebook.com/ralf.heckel1/posts/pfbid02jcFp85PRy2UBUs4JVhPQcBnmddC8sQbPL3Vx26XoFMvbbsToNJmpLMDrRfce98HPl and https://www.facebook.com/groups/176051159106442/posts/24331420949809459 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/48800622850/posts/10162318303047851 = more visuals, https://www.youtube.com/live/Mu7iEyaOmDM = an online event, https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/not-that-into-peace-doves-the-apollo-soyuz-patch-nasa-rejected/ and https://www.spacerockethistory.com/2025/02/space-rocket-history-457-apollo-soyuz-test-project-soviet-concerns-with-apollo/ and http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071425a-apollo-soyuz-test-project-astp-official-flight-kit-ofk-apk.html and https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/science/apollo-soyuz-test-project-1975-anniversary.html?smid=bs-share = articles and https://scicomm.xyz/@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art/114858897568849751 = a contemporary cartoon.

An interview with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, hosts of The Rest Is History podcast, which gets 15M downloads a month and has roughly 80K paid subscribers (Sian Cain/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

symptomatiskt https://www.gp.se/kultur/kulturdebatt/utan-kontext-blir-antisemitismens-historia-ett-politiskt-verktyg.68d9fa96-afdc-4f44-b819-8f95055f6b42

Utan kontext blir antisemitismens historia ett politiskt verktyg
Det är möjligt att tala om antisemitism, pogromer och fördrivningar av judar – och samtidigt erkänna den roll sionismen och kolonialmakterna spelade i att forma den verkligheten. Att hävda motsatsen är att göra judisk historia till ett verktyg för politiska syften, skriver Edgar Mannheimer i sin slutreplik till Daniel Leviathan, Isak Nachman och Lizzie Oved Scheja.

Folk at #DH2025 might be interested in this article 'From handwriting to searchable text: using AI to make millions of historical documents accessible'

From handwriting to searchable text: using AI to make millions of historical documents accessible
In April 2025 the Swedish National Archives made 1,2 million digital images of archival documents into searchable, machine readable text — making the information in the archives more accessible than…

HistoryBankQA: Multilingual Temporal Question Answering on Historical Events
Biswadip Mandal, Anant Khandelwal, Manish Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12720 https://

HistoryBankQA: Multilingual Temporal Question Answering on Historical Events
Temporal reasoning about historical events is a critical skill for NLP tasks like event extraction, historical entity linking, temporal question answering, timeline summarization, temporal event clustering and temporal natural language inference. Yet efforts on benchmarking temporal reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) are rather limited. Existing temporal reasoning datasets are limited in scale, lack multilingual coverage and focus more on contemporary events. To address thes…

and a loaf of #sourdough #bread while we wait to see how the sourdough rye bread experiment goes