Invitation – Journée d’étude / Workshop 21 November 2024 – 9:00 am – 3:00 pm EST Université de Montréal – Département d’histoire niche-canada.org/2024/10/04/i...#HGIS#cdnhist#dhist#cartography
Cette journée a pour objectif d’initier les participants aux techniques et aux potentiels méthodologiques des SIGH, avec des présentations et un atelier interactif.
ICYMI: "In total, the Journal contains over 4,000 qualitative weather reports over a 10-year span." - Nadia Fekih, @iowcmcgill.bsky.socialniche-canada.org/2024/09/12/d...#envhist#climhist#wxhistory#dhist
The Journal provides primary data that suggest how the first Dutch settlers contended with the enviro-climatic conditions of the early Cape Colony.
Today on our site we have "Digitizing and Visualizing Climate in Early Cape Colony" by Nadia Fekih, @iowcmcgill.bsky.socialniche-canada.org/2024/09/12/d...#envhist#wxhistory#climhist#dhist
The Journal provides primary data that suggest how the first Dutch settlers contended with the enviro-climatic conditions of the early Cape Colony.
Events – Artificial | Natural: AI & Environmental History October 7 and 8th - London, Ontario - Western University Join Alan MacEachern, Marnie Hughes-Warrington, @joguldi.bsky.social@dagomardegroot.bsky.socialniche-canada.org/2024/09/10/e...#envhist#AI#dhist
7-8 October 2024 - London, Ontario - Western University is hosting two events designed to introduce students and scholars to the use of AI in environmental history research.
P.S. when I was still a young DHist/DHer my fanfic trends fascinated self was obsessed with @elijahmeeks.bsky.socialdhs.stanford.edu/social-media-literacy/tvtropes-pt-1-the-weird-geometry-of-the-internet What do you mean DH can be the analysis of Internet Culture as well?!
Ben Woodward shows how geomorphology can use historical documents, bridging the humanities-science gap, in "Peering over the Precipice: Using Archival Records to Extend our Knowledge of Historical Bluff Retreat on Lake Huron." niche-canada.org/2024/08/27/h...#envhist#dhist#science#GIS
As water levels in Lake Huron rise and fall, the coastal bluffs along the southeastern shoreline experience retreat from erosion. The historical record can provide significant insights into geomorphol...
over on Language Hat (great blog if you're unfamiliar) where I first saw this article discussed, the commentariat has produced this: languagehat.com/cilantro-cor...
![CULANTRO, alteración popular del lat. coriandrum, tomado del gr. κορίανδρον íd. 1.ª doc.: qulântro, h. 1100 (Asín, Glos., 89); culantro, 1385, López de Ayala (Caça de las Aves, p. 256).
La l se debe a disimilación. Por otra parte la terminación -ndro, rara en el léxico latino, se altera con frecuencia; comp. port. coentro ‘culantro’, y en otro sentido RHODODENDRON > ojaranzo; gall. coandro (Sarm. CaG. 94r); port. tolontro, variante de tolondro TURUNDUM. En nuestro caso puede haber influído mastantro, variante de mentastro, mastranzo. Se lee también qulántro en el códice mozárabe parisiense de Dioscórides (1219), el diminutivo quliantrûlo en Abenbuclárix (Simonet), culantro en APal. (77b), en Nebr., etc. Otras variantes son el cultismo coriandro y ciertas formas con ce- o ci-, que no están bien explicadas: celiandro [Lope, DHist.], cilantro [1680], comp. b. lat. ciliandrum en el Glos. del Escorial, cat. celiandre [1249; > judeoprovenzal çaliandra, judeofr. eliandre: FEW II, 1184a]: qui](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:a77y72k3y3jssyuk5hnff7a6/bafkreia6bk5ewc7hrryil6wwcthb56hdvo5jvztrtygc644ooudij6q4ae@jpeg)
Check out this visualization of "British Fir Timber Imports 1861-1906" compiled by @jimclifford.bsky.socialniche-canada.org/2018/10/01/b...#envhist#brithist#dhist
Explore a visualization of British fir timber imports from 1861-1906.
TIL: Buddhist divides into two syllables as Bud-dhist.
The IHR digital history seminar might be over for 23-34 but you can still access all the recorded presentations via our Youtube channel 👇 www.youtube.com/@ihrdigitalh...#dhist#digitalhistory
