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[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Captain Cook loaded 7,860 pounds of sauerkraut onto the HMS Endeavour in 1768. His crew refused to eat it, so he served it exclusively to the officers and made sure they ate it visibly in front of the crew every single day until the sailors decided they wanted some too. Not one man died of scurvy on the entire three-year voyage.

Cook circumnavigated the world on his first voyage without losing a single man to scurvy and the Royal Society of London awarded him the Copley Medal on his return, one of the most prestigious scientific honours in Britain, specifically for his methods of preserving the health of his crew. The achievement was genuinely extraordinary. Scurvy had been killing sailors on long voyages for centuries, with some estimates suggesting it killed more sailors than enemy action, storms and all other causes of death combined. Cook solved it with fermented cabbage and a very specific understanding of human psychology.

A typical daily menu aboard the Endeavour consisted of breakfast with boiled wheat and sugar, a midday dinner of salted beef stew and vegetables, and an evening meal of soup with ship's biscuits so hard they had to be broken up with a marlin spike. The ship carried approximately 5,500 litres of beer, 7,300 litres of spirits, 16 tonnes of bread, 2 tonnes of salted beef and over 3 tonnes of sauerkraut.

The sailors ate approximately 5,000 calories a day to sustain the physical demands of running an 18th century sailing ship. Cook also carried portable broth made from cattle offal, forty bushels of malt, vinegar, mustard and concentrated citrus juice as additional anti-scurvy measures. He was running what was effectively the first controlled nutritional experiment in naval history across three years and 40,000 miles of ocean.

The sauerkraut psychology is the detail that stay with me in this story. Cook noticed that Dutch sailors suffered far less from scurvy than their British counterparts and observed that they carried barrels of sauerkraut. He ordered his ships to do the same but his British sailors refused the unfamiliar foreign food entirely. His solution was to serve it only to the officers while making sure they ate it visibly in front of the crew. Within weeks the sailors were demanding their share, and Cook understood that sailors suspicious of an unfamiliar food would eat it the moment they believed someone of higher status was being given something they were not.

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[World History Encyclopedia @whencyclopedia]

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[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”

—Plato

[Reise-Zikaden @Moni_Hoffmann]

🇬🇷 Peloponnes, Samikon: In Kleidi wurden Fortschritte bei der Erforschung des Poseidon-Tempels der Polis erzielt aus dem 6. Jhd. v. Chr.
Funde belegen, dass dort nicht nur ein religiöses Zentrum sondern auch ein Stadtarchiv bestand.
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[Nrken19 @nrken19]

The new reconstruction of the Mycenaean Griffin Warrior is better then old one.

[Beyond the Cosmic Veil @ClassicalAegis]

In 1950, archaeologists uncovered a broken clay tablet in Syria.

It turned out to be the first written music in human history.

The Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal

Here’s the full story, and what it sounds like: 🧵 (thread)

[Oleksii MAKEIEV 🇺🇦 @Makeiev]

Ihr könnt euch abwenden. Wir leben jedoch mitten in diesem schwarzen russischen Rauch.

Je weißer eure Fahne, desto schwarzer ist er. Je schwächer die Reaktion, desto näher ist er. Diese Dunkelheit beginnt mit verschlossenen Augen.

Ihr könnt euch abwenden. Das hilft aber nicht.

[Cinema Tweets @CinemaTweets1]

I still remember hearing people in the theater cry during this moment between Val Kilmer & Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick. I’m so incredibly thankful Cruise insisted on this scene because this moment is forever. RIP, Iceman.

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🇬🇷 Griechenland, Pelononnes: Gesichtsrekonstruktionen von sieben Personen aus Grabkreis B in #Mykene. Sie entstanden mithilfe von KI.

[Al-Dersimi @aldersimi]

Facial reconstructions of seven individuals buried in Grave Circle B at Mycenae. The faces are grouped according to their perceived similarities and the positions of the skeletons within the Grave Circle are shown.

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🇬🇷 Kreta: Neuigkeiten aus #Knossos. Der Fund eines Elfenbein-Zepters mit der längsten bekannten Linear-A-Inschrift (119 Zeichen) schafft günstige Voraussetzungen für die Entzifferung der minoischen Schrift.
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🇬🇷 Kreta: Neuigkeiten aus #Knossos. Der Fund eines Elfenbein-Zepters mit der längsten bekannten Linear-A-Inschrift (119 Zeichen) schafft günstige Voraussetzungen für die Entzifferung der minoischen Schrift.
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#ivory #scepter

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[Luxor Times @luxortimes]

Discovery of the Tomb of King Thutmose II: The Last Missing Royal Tomb of the 18th Dynasty. 1st Royal Tomb Found Since Tutankhamun’s in 1922. More info https://t.co/F19KRPVnhS #Egypt #Egyptology #Archaeology @indyfromspace @yukinegy @SilviaZago6
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[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Marianne Faithfull, the pioneering "As Tears Go By" singer who transcended "it girl" status in the 1960s for a stunning second act as a singer-songwriter, has died at age 78.

More: https://t.co/h8WO6N4OIi

[World Scholar @WorldScholar_]

If you like the Parthenon, then you'll love ancient Greek architecture.

2,500 years ago, it produced some of the greatest wonders the world has ever seen.

Here are the best ones.. 🧵

1. Temple of Concordia, Sicily, Italy (430 BC)

[Reise-Zikaden @Moni_Hoffmann]

‼️Filmtipp: Heute, Mittwoch 22.1.2025 um 20.15 auf Arte - läuft der Mystery-Thriller "Mulholland Drive" von Kultregisseur David Lynch.

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[Carlos Aguilar @Carlos_Film]

“Inside, we are ageless...and when we talk to ourselves, it's the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It's the body that is changing around that ageless center” - David Lynch. RIP

[Variety @Variety]

Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. https://t.co/T2GOao28ux