BREWMINATE BRIEF – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:27:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg BREWMINATE BRIEF – Brewminate: We're Never Far From Where We Were https://brewminate.com 32 32 Books with Work to Do: The Manuscripts of Timbuktu https://brewminate.com/books-with-work-to-do-the-manuscripts-of-timbuktu/ Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:26:53 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=280356 Timbuktu’s manuscripts traveled between scholars and households, carrying lessons and family memories. Their pages reveal a culture of

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]]> Medieval Venice at Arm’s Length: The Uneasy Business of Quarantine https://brewminate.com/medieval-venice-at-arms-length-the-uneasy-business-of-quarantine/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 02:01:40 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=280223 Venice’s quarantine islands made travelers and cargo wait before entering the city, creating an uneasy balance between preventing

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]]> When Watch Dials Glowed: The Radium Girls’ Fight for Accountability https://brewminate.com/radium-girls-watch-dial-painters-compensation/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:09:35 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=280190 New Jersey’s radium dial painters helped prove that their work had poisoned them. Their fight for compensation exposed

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]]> When Byzantium Brought Its Icons Back in 843 CE https://brewminate.com/byzantine-iconoclasm-restoration-icons-843/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:33:32 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=280178 The restoration of icons in 843 ended Byzantium’s second period of iconoclasm, returning sacred images to official favor

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]]> Room to Learn: Rent and Power in the Medieval University https://brewminate.com/medieval-paris-university-rent-privileges/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:34:18 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279872 In medieval Paris, the price of a student’s room could become a matter for kings and popes. University

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]]> Campaign Season on the Walls of Pompeii: Who Supported the Candidates? https://brewminate.com/pompeii-election-notices/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:19:12 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279658 Painted election notices in Pompeii reveal how candidates sought support from women and tradespeople, and how much those

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]]> The Customer Who Complained about Copper Nearly 4,000 Years Ago https://brewminate.com/ea-nasir-copper-complaint-tablet/ Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:50:39 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279650 A clay tablet from ancient Ur preserves Nanni’s complaint to the merchant Ea-nasir, revealing how copper traders confronted

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]]> Molasses Mayhem: Boston’s Great Syrupy Flood of 1919 https://brewminate.com/boston-molasses-flood-1919/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:43:31 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279419 A leaking tank towered over Boston’s North End until it burst in 1919, killing 21 people. The molasses

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]]> The Phoebus Cartel and the Business of Shorter Bulb Life in the 1920s https://brewminate.com/phoebus-cartel-light-bulb-planned-obsolescence/ Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:19:54 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=279414 In 1924, leading light bulb companies formed the Phoebus cartel. Its rules and fines helped shorten bulb lifespans,

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