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#trump #1980

This is Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov, the Soviet ethnographer who deciphered the Mayan writing system, 1980. - Source.

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Yuri credited his cat, Asya, with helping him crack the Mayan code (he noticed her teaching kittens to hunt, and got the idea that glyphs weren't letters but syllables). He listed her on his academic papers and was livid when publishers took her name off. When publishers asked for a photograph, he'd send this one so that the cat was front and center. He did not like it when they cropped her out, either.

Fittingly, his efforts were well received by the Mexican government and he received one of their highest honors and a statue in the Yucatan (home of the Mayan Civiliation)- a statue which depicts him holding his cat.

#cats #ethnography #science #writing #soviet #ciphers #systems #maya #mayan #1980 #portrait #portraits #selfie #selfies

Determining the most popular song each month was done with MediaTraffic, which averages the charts from many different countries. I went with what was number one 95% of the time but I wanted to make sure this video also had a true evolution of music feel so I didn't always do that. Songs do not repeat and if a song was number one for multiple months it won't always be the second most popular song to replace it as it can really be anything that was very popular at the time. I did this, again, to have that evolution of music feel to it.

Because the dates are different everywhere, this video probably isn't accurate to your country specifically.

Due to the length of this video, it's only available in 720p and there will be no Spotify playlist.

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Thumbnail: youtube.com/@madonna

#songs #evolution #popular #80s #90s #2000s #music #2010s