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A treasure trove of some 200 Roman-era coins was discovered in northwestern Spain thanks to the apparent efforts of a hungry badger hunting for food, archaeologists have said....
The coins were likely dug up by a badger searching for food during the rare snowstornm which paralyzed Spain in January 2021 — a blizzard officials called "the most intense storm in the last 50 years."...
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Spain’s American colonies were established in the decades after Christopher Columbus’s inadvertent arrival in the Caribbean in 1492 and endured into the 19th century. From Mexico City to Lima, colonists and locals alike paid close attention to what they and everyone else wore. ‘The lowest class of Spaniards are very ambitious of distinguishing themselves from [people of mixed race], either by the colour or fashion of the clothes,’ observed two Spanish travellers in the 18th century, who went on to detail the ways in which clothing helped differentiate between ‘Spaniards’ and those they called mestizos. Many other observers echoed their comments about the importance of dress in marking out the hierarchies that shaped colonial society.
By their very nature, colonial projects require the construction of sharp distinctions between the governed and the governing. In Spanish America, these distinctions were framed within the language of race, or caste (scholars argue over what term best captures the features of these early modern societies). The territories governed by Spain were home not only to millions of Indigenous people and a much smaller number of Europeans, but also millions of Africans taken against their will to labour in the sugar plantations, mines and other enterprises that for centuries made its American empire a source of profit to the Spanish state. They and their descendants were joined by smaller numbers of merchants, traders and other folk from Asia, Europe and Africa, creating complex and multiethnic societies...
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Spain’s American colonies were established in the decades after Christopher Columbus’s inadvertent arrival in the Caribbean in 1492 and endured into the 19th century. From Mexico City to Lima, colonists and locals alike paid close attention to what they and everyone else wore. ‘The lowest class of Spaniards are very ambitious of distinguishing themselves from [people of mixed race], either by the colour or fashion of the clothes,’ observed two Spanish travellers in the 18th century, who went on to detail the ways in which clothing helped differentiate between ‘Spaniards’ and those they called mestizos. Many other observers echoed their comments about the importance of dress in marking out the hierarchies that shaped colonial society.
By their very nature, colonial projects require the construction of sharp distinctions between the governed and the governing. In Spanish America, these distinctions were framed within the language of race, or caste (scholars argue over what term best captures the features of these early modern societies). The territories governed by Spain were home not only to millions of Indigenous people and a much smaller number of Europeans, but also millions of Africans taken against their will to labour in the sugar plantations, mines and other enterprises that for centuries made its American empire a source of profit to the Spanish state. They and their descendants were joined by smaller numbers of merchants, traders and other folk from Asia, Europe and Africa, creating complex and multiethnic societies...
Spanish American sumptuary laws however were not confined to matters of wealth. Such legislation also stipulated which castes were allowed to wear what. Restrictions on the clothing permitted to specific castes were issued from the 16th century, when people of colour in Lima were for instance banned from wearing silk, jewels and other adornments, and endured to the end of the colonial era. Laws barring non-whites from carrying swords or similar accoutrements were issued repeatedly from the 1530s to the end of the 17th century. Legislation regulating the dress of non-Spanish women was also common. Black and ‘mulatta’ women in 17th-century Mexico were for example prohibited from wearing ‘any gold, silver, or pearl jewellery, nor any Castilian garments, nor silk shawls, nor gold or silver passementerie’...
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Why Spanish colonial officials feared the power of clothing | Psyche Ideas
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Lee pummels Maine and Canada.
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| Cone for Nigel. Source: nhc.noaa.gov |
It looks like Nigel will stay farther out and do us no more good than Lee.
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| Surf Chart for the Fort Pierce Inlet Area. Source: Surfguru.com. |
It also looks like Thursday/Friday will bring us some higher surf, but nothing real big. Again the direction is not great.
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"Half of the schools in the district are below average." That is a statement that Neil DeGrasse Tyson used to illustrate math ignorance. He went on to say something like, "Duh, that is what average is."
But the average does not tell you the shape of the distribution, or how many of a sample is above or below the average. The median is the point between the top and bottom half, not the average. To his credit, as an afterthought he did make a vague reference to the term "median," but I'd think if you are going to make fun of "math stupidity" you'd be a little more precise yourself. The overall video was somewhat entertaining despite that. Link: DeGrasse Tyson on How Did America Become Stupid - YouTube
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