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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🎨🩸 Red figures on the Huashan #cliffs have survived two millennia of subtropical #weather.
New analysis found ancient Luoyue artists mixed human and animal blood into a #lime and #bone mortar, triggering #crystal growth that bonded the pigment to the #rock. The #blood’s origin remains unverified.
👉 zmescience.com/science/ancient…
#art #archaeology #chemistry #china #huashan #conservation #materials #science #hematite #proteomics #ancient #painting #history #experiment
Ancient Chinese Artists May Have Used Human Blood to Make Their Paintings Last 2,000 Years
Blood proteins may have helped turn red pigment into a mineral bond with stone.Mihai Andrei (ZME Science)
For Traveller, I write about Los Angeles' marvellous Union Station - "the last of the great railway stations" brimming over with architectural pizzazz.
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#USA #train #trains #rail #history #architecture #LosAngeles #LA cc @esotouric @railmaps
‘The last of America’s great railway stations’ has a touch of Hollywood
This gorgeous tribute to the railways that helped build America still delivers both style and substance.Tim Richards (SMH Traveller)
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Magnifique vase intitulé « Junon » a été réalisé vers 1900 par l'artiste français Eugène Feuillâtre (1870-1916)
By #ArtDecoAndArtNouveau
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces
I’m leading a Ballard-Magnolia history ride on Saturday, August 29 at 9:30 am starting at the Ballard Locks visitor center. 18 miles at a leisurely pace with a couple of hill climbs and interesting stories about the area, check it out!
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#seattle #pnw #history #BikeTooter
💁🏻♀️ TIL: ✍️🏛️ At Cicero’s request, his freed slave and secretary Marcus Tullius Tiro devised Tironian notes, a #shorthand system of roughly 4,000 symbols for #Latin.
Used to transcribe the orator’s speeches, it expanded to 14,000 signs before emperors suppressed it as diabolical. The symbol ⁊ survives today as the Tironian et in #Unicode, preserved by #Irish and #Gaelic #typography.
👉 openculture.com/2026/08/discov…
#cicero #history #rome #writing #language #linguistics #typing #ancientrome #science
Discover the Ancient Roman Shorthand Writing System with 4,000 Symbols Commissioned by Cicero
You can still type a symbol originally invented for Cicero nearly 21 centuries ago — at least if you configure your keyboard properly.Colin Marshall (Open Culture)
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐱⚔️ Twin sisters Rebecca and Ruth Brown make thousands of hand-sculpted clay #cat soldiers that reenact #CivilWar battles at their #Gettysburg-based Civil War Tails Diorama #Museum.
Each cat represents one real soldier in accurate scale, and the #dioramas cover moments from #FortSumter to Pickett’s Charge. What started as a childhood #hobby grew into a one-to-one, historically detailed collection.
👉 popsci.com/technology/cats-civ…
#history #sculpture #handmade #art #craft #pennsylvania #twins #play
10,033 tiny clay cats reenact the Civil War at a Gettysburg museum
Fort Sumter, ironclad ships, and more come alive at the Civil War Tails at the Homestead Diorama Museum.Laura Baisas (Popular Science)
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyi…
#theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video
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les dinosaures sont si mignons
bec-en-sabot du Nil (Balaeniceps rex), grand oiseau marécageux d'Afrique centrale au physique préhistorique
#birds #history #animals #Africa
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Philip L. Graham, former President and Publisher of the Washington Post said, “#Journalism is the first rough draft of #history.”
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyi…
#theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video
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Super spannende Rezension zu einem Buch, das erstmals die Geschichte Skandinaviens als Region am Rande des Imperiums rekonstruiert. Man erfährt die coolsten Dinge & wird schlauer was Methodologie für so prä-schreibende Kulturen angeht. Und ja: Eisbären im Kolosseum.
#history #antiquity #prehistory #scandinavia #romanempire #books #Review
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Michael Kulikowski · Polar Bears in Rome: Roman Scandinavia
Over the past two generations, the boundaries of the classical world have been stretched to the steppe frontier of China...Michael Kulikowski (London Review of Books)
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On 14 August 1857 a workman switched Reynella's flour mill back on, not realising manager John Cain was still inside inspecting it. He was "torn to pieces." Twelve years later the mill's engineer, Edward Condy, died when its boiler tore free and hurled seven tons of iron 140 yards through two fences and a gum tree. The Southern Grist Mill never recovered from a third disaster — fire finished what neglect began.
#localHistory #history #southAustralia #australianHistory #mill
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦖🪨 Anderson Taylor, 11, opened the Cambridge #NaturalHistory Museum in #Cambridge, Illinois, at age 9 and now holds the #GuinnessWorldRecord as the youngest male #museum curator.
His collection began when he found a #fossil in his driveway around age 3 and grew through local finds and a trip to #Scotland. The #museum holds roughly 1,000 items, including #Illinois state fossil the Tully #monster, and draws hundreds of visitors to the town of about 2,000.
👉 smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…
#paleontology #nature #history #dinosaurs #science
An 11-Year-Old Boy in a Small Midwestern Town Just Became the Guinness World Record Holder for Being the Youngest Museum Curator
Four years after Anderson Taylor began collecting specimens, he opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum in Cambridge, Illinois, offering school tours and attracting visitors from across the regionJess Daninhirsch (Smithsonian Magazine)
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robots / IA : les promesses du futur
MH-1, main robotique articulée développée au début des années 1960 par Heinrich Ernst au MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
tags : progrès, rétrofuturisme, #tech #history #ai #robots
alt : un bras mécanique pourvoit aux besoins essentiels de la femme : lui allumer une cigarette et la maquiller
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Did you know that there's an #Italian woman that may embellish #history a tiny bit to preserve an #ancient #art?
Chiara Vigo is a #craft woman who works with byssus - the beard hairs of a #mediterranean clam.
The resulting fiber is spun into a thin but warm golden #fabric.
The clam used is Pinna nobilis & unfortunately, its harvest is now illegal. Vigo claims to be the last person able to work with the fillament, & that she swore a "xuramento da auga" (water oath) to do so without profit.
Vigo says she harvest Pinna nobilis without harming the clam - a claim disputed by the curator of the Muschelseide ("clam silk", in Eng. ususally sea silk) Museum in Basel, Switzerland.
Curator Maeder has found at least 2 more women in #Sardinia who work with donated sea silk.
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🌡️🌋 #Yellowstone spans roughly 24 km (15 mi) of #boardwalks around its scalding #hydrothermal features, all built by hand.
Park geologists use thermal #cameras to map the hottest zones and route around them, while botanists flag rare #plants and archaeologists check for buried #artifacts before any path is laid. The process keeps millions of visitors safe without disturbing the area’s fragile #ecosystem or #history.
👉 popsci.com/environment/yellows…
#geyser #nationalpark #engineering #science #geology #conservation #nature #architecture #wildlife #outdoors
How Yellowstone builds boardwalks beside piping hot thermal pools
Thermal cameras and a lot of planning.Andrew Paul (Popular Science)
175 years ago, July 28, 1851: first photograph of a #TotalSolarEclipse by Johann Berkowski in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad). The anniversary fits well with media ramping up to Aug 12, 2026 #SolarEclipse2026 in Europe. Even today, the human eye sees greater dynamic range of the solar corona than cameras during totality. #Photography of eclipses continues to improve - eyewitnesses know what cameras are missing. smithsonianmag.com/science-nat… #TDIH #history #eclipse🌞🌑 #astronomy #space #science
A Little-Known Photographer Captured the First Clear Image of a Total Solar Eclipse 175 Years Ago. Today, These Celestial Events Still Reveal the Mysteries of the Sun
Ever since that first daguerreotype on a light-sensitive metal plate, eclipse observations have continued to unveil the star's corona and bring people together to experience the solar system's majestyKayla Randall (Smithsonian Magazine)
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🏗️🌾 In #Colombia’s #LaMojana #wetlands, an ancient network of #canals and raised fields the size of #GrandCanyon National Park now appears built by local family cooperatives, not a ruling chiefdom.
Archaeologists calculated crews could have built a canal-ridge system in under two months. The findings suggest these ancient methods could guide modern #water management today.
👉 popsci.com/environment/ancient…
#archaeology #engineering #indigenous #sustainability #history #farming #science #anthropology #climate
Ancient South American families built massive waterways by themselves
As few as 800 volunteers could finish a project—all without centralized government.Andrew Paul (Popular Science)
"The #Holocaust takes up a lot of space within #Jewish #film and #television, #historical or otherwise, for good reason. It was an immense tragedy on a global scale, one of the darkest hours of human #history. The stories of those who survived are undeniably compelling. And, in adapting some of these stories for the screen, they are important tools for Holocaust education and fighting #antisemitism (provided that they are done thoughtfully).
And yet, if you’re Jewish, it can be exhausting to constantly engage with this specific trauma. Sometimes you might want to learn more about different periods of history through media which reflect lesser told Jewish stories, even if some of those are traumatic, too.
If that’s you, you’re in the right place. Read on for eight #TV shows, both based on true stories and fictionalized, that center #Jews throughout various periods of history other than the Holocaust."
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8 Jewish Period TV Shows That Aren't About the Holocaust – Kveller
Quick, think about a historical piece of Jewish media! Did “Schindler’s List” come to mind? What about “Life is Beautiful”? Perhaps “We Were the Lucky Ones,” “A Small Light,” “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” “Transatlantic,” or “All the Light We Cannot …Evelyn Frick (Kveller)
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In the National Library today for a special viewing of the Australian Women in Science Enquiry Network (1984-2016) collection.
There are some hilarious (and still relevant!) comics, articles, and games in their journal.
I just about died when I found this one 🤣🥲
#scicomm #WomeninScience #history #WomensHistory #Australia #AustralianHistory
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Day 223
#365project
A small peek inside St Cynhaearn's Church.
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#antiquelighting #oillamp #wroughtiron #victorian #rustic #church #oldchurch #abandoned #abandonedplaces #urbex #antique #vintage #gothic #gothicvibes #moody #history #historicchurches #pews #photography #Fotografie #amateurphotography
St Cynhaearn's, Ynyscynhaearn, Gwynedd
At the end of an ancient causeway, you'll find St Cynhaearn's. A church that was built on an island in the now-drained lake of Llyn YstumllynFriends of Friendless Churches
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐋🎵 In 1984-85, thousands of belugas trapped in #Arctic pack #ice off #Russia’s #Chukchi Peninsula faced starvation.
The #icebreaker Moskva crushed an escape channel, playing #classical #music to coax the herd forward. Roughly 2,000 survived and about 1,000 died, though the music’s role stayed unverified.
👉 zmescience.com/feature-post/hi…
#beluga #whales #marine #rescue #animals #behavior #ocean #conservation #engineering #history #sovietunion #ussr #wildlife #marinebiology #biology #science
Operation Beluga -- or how a Soviet ice breaker played music to thousands of ice-trapped whales to save them from starving
Sometimes, you just need an icebreaker and some classical music to make your day better.Alexandru Micu (ZME Science)
#history #science #health #technology
A study is warning of the dangers posed by the growing trade in mummified remains. An examination of a sample of mummified remains on sale through various places showed that they had serious biodeterioration and so posed a health risk. Dorman fungal spores can become airborne when disturbed and it is thought this led to the rise of the 'mummy's curse' when 10 of 12 scientists died after tomb in Poland was opened in the 1970s. theguardian.com/science/2026/a…
A study is warning of the dangers posed by the growing trade in mummified remains. An examination of a sample of mummified remains on sale through various places showed that they had serious biodeterioration and so posed a health risk. Dorman fungal spores can become airborne when disturbed and it is thought this led to the rise of the 'mummy's curse' when 10 of 12 scientists died after tomb in Poland was opened in the 1970s. theguardian.com/science/2026/a…
‘Real mummy’s curse’: health warning over growing trade in mummified human remains
Academic paper says often illicit trade exposes enthusiasts – and postal workers handling items – to serious risksDaniel Boffey (the Guardian)
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Pecos Church Ruins, New Mexico. Centuries of history remain in these adobe walls, shaped by the people who lived here and the landscape that surrounded them.
One of those places where the past doesn’t feel quite so far away.
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#buyintoart #history #newmexico #adobe #historic #art #wallart #photography #mastoart #fineart #artcollector #photo
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🥚✏️ Engraved #ostrich eggshells dating to over 60,000 years ago, from sites including #Diepkloof and #Apollo11, were systematically analyzed.
Over 80% of 112 fragments showed consistent spatial rules, with repeated right angles and parallel lines. The researchers argue this rule-based organization points to planned abstract thought and early symbolic systems.
👉 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026…
#archaeology #ancient #art #paleolithic #southafrica #namibia #geometry #anthropology #humans #evolution #science #history
60,000-year-old ostrich eggshell engravings reveal a surprisingly sophisticated human mind
More than 60,000 years ago, humans in southern Africa were engraving ostrich eggshells with intricate geometric patterns that appear far more organized than previously realized.ScienceDaily
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐕🧬 Archaeologist Peter Mitchell’s new #book draws on #archaeology, #genetics, and #ethnography to argue that #dogs and #humans evolved together as partners over roughly 15,000 years.
Dogs developed specialized traits matching each region’s #climate and needs, from #Arctic sled dogs built for hauling to agile #tropical hunting dogs, resulting in a varied set of co-evolutionary paths across the globe.
👉 phys.org/news/2026-08-dogs-evo…
#evolution #science #history #anthropology #animals #pets #wildlife #biology #culture
How dogs evolved differently across the globe to match human traits
We call them "man's best friend," and the evidence supports it. Dogs have been found buried alongside humans in graves dating back 14,000 years.Taylor & Francis (Phys.org)
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyi…
#theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video
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After the Germans adopted the Stahlhelm (on the left in the picture) during the First World War, the British must have recognized how much more protection to the wearer it offered than the Brodie Helmet.
I wonder why they did not copy the German design. Was the cost of production a factor?
#History #MilitaryHistory #Helmet #Headwear #Stahlhelm #BrodieHelmet #FirstWorldWar #WW1 #GreatWar
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🔍🏛️ A #study from the University of #Exeter shows that as early as the 1830s, a #London #realestate firm called Brooks and Hedger used cosmoramas to sell high-end estates.
A #cosmorama was a gallery of #paintings viewed through a magnifying lens, giving the illusion of depth and depth of field. Artists hand-painted bird’s-eye views of each listing, offering buyers an early “virtual tour” more than a century before the #internet.
👉 popsci.com/technology/19th-cen…
#history #1800s #19thcentury #tech #technology #innovation #culture #victorianera #art #science #zillow
19th century real estate agents used ‘peepshow’ technology to sell glitzy mansion
Cosmoramas were an 1840s version of Zillow—but with paintings.Mack DeGeurin (Popular Science)
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💁🏻♀️ NEW: 🎨🖼️ Artist Jas Knight paints in front of Diego Velázquez's 1650 #portrait Juan de Pareja through The Metropolitan Museum of #Art's Copyist Program. The long-running program lets artists study #masterworks up close to learn traditional #painting techniques.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/the-mets-copyi…
#theMet #17thcentury #arthistory #history #museums #calm #instruments #jazz #music #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #piano #reproduction #theMetropolitanMuseumOfArt #tksst #video
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🍞🕰️ At the #Neolithic settlement of #Çatalhöyük in #Turkey, researchers found a spongy residue near an ancient oven, ringed by wheat, barley, and pea seeds.
#Microscopy revealed air bubbles and starch grains, pointing to uncooked fermented dough. Dated to about 8,600 years ago, it predates earlier fermented #bread evidence from #Egypt by thousands of years.
👉 zmescience.com/science/archaeo…
#archaeology #fermentation #ancient #food #science #history #turkiye #food #sourdough #farming #baking #cooking
Archaeologists find surprisingly well-preserved 8,600-year-old bread in Turkey
An unfinished Neolithic loaf may be the oldest fermented bread ever identified.Tibi Puiu (ZME Science)
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🛩️☀️ In 1973, astronomer Pierre Léna turned a #Concorde prototype into a flying observatory with four ceiling portholes, chasing the #Moon’s shadow across #Africa. Racing at Mach 2.2, he and fellow scientists watched totality for 74 minutes straight, studying the #solar corona from the #stratosphere.
👉 arstechnica.com/science/2026/0…
#solareclipse #astronomy #supersonic #corona #science #history #space #france #sahara #eclipse
The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow
Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun's corona.Ars Contributors (Ars Technica)
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Please help me get QUEER ORIGINS 'out there' by recommending it to your favourite libraries!
Academics and students can usually submit a request to their uni libraries. Public libraries all have a way for members to suggest a title. Thank you! 💜🌈📚🦋
#book #books #library #libraries #lovelibraries #GLAM #librarian #history #queerhistory #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #science #nature #histsci #PrideInSTEM
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🧊🦠 Ötzi the Iceman, frozen for more than 5,000 years after his death, turns out to be carrying more than the #history books expected. Thanks to the #mummy’s cool, damp storage, he's a living community of tiny organisms, many of which are #microbes that lived on him from the very beginning of his long journey through the #ice.
👉 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026…
#science #archaeology #otzi #biology #ancient #dna #glacier #nature
Scientists find unexpected life on Ötzi the Iceman’s 5,300-year-old body
More than 5,000 years after his death, Ötzi the Iceman is still hosting a remarkable mix of ancient and modern microorganisms.ScienceDaily
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Archaeologists Keep Finding Women Where Men Were Supposed To Be
Even when historical records already suggested they’d be thereKatie Jagielnicka (The Noösphere)
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🏛️📐 Egyptologist Laurel Bestock breaks down five major archaeological findings behind the #construction of the #GreatPyramid of #Giza.
Her breakdown covers ancient stone quarrying, mud-brick ramps, worker housing, transport logbooks, and earlier pyramid designs that led to Giza.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/an-egyptologis…
#africa #ancienthistory #archaeology #architecture #boats #buildings #culture #egypt #engineering #geology #geometry #history #jobs #limestone #math #monuments #papyrus #pyramids #stone #technology #tech #womeninstem #work #writing #tksst #video
There's something kind of magical about this, that the drought would reveal the ghosts of buildings past.
Also something slightly terrible, in that it seems the ground never forgets, and maybe we should be nicer to it.
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Hot weather reveals hidden history across the South
The hot summer reveals parch marks from centuries old structures at sites including Blenheim Palace.Ethan Gudge (BBC News)
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Guten Morgen und einen entspannten Sonntag 😀 👋
Zum #SilentSunday heute das schöne Schloss Hünnefeld im Osnabrücker Land bei Bad Essen. Als Burg wurde Hünnefeld erstmals im 12. Jahrhundert erwähnt, im 15. Jahrhundert kam das Schloss in den Besitz der Familie von dem Bussche.
#niedersachsen #schloss #castle #history #geschichte #fotografie #photography #Photographie #foto #architektur #architecture #architecturephotography #landschaft #landscape #landscapephotography #travel #travelphotography
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🏛️📐 Egyptologist Laurel Bestock breaks down five major archaeological findings behind the #construction of the #GreatPyramid of #Giza.
Her breakdown covers ancient stone quarrying, mud-brick ramps, worker housing, transport logbooks, and earlier pyramid designs that led to Giza.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/an-egyptologis…
#africa #ancienthistory #archaeology #architecture #boats #buildings #culture #egypt #engineering #geology #geometry #history #jobs #limestone #math #monuments #papyrus #pyramids #stone #technology #tech #womeninstem #work #writing #tksst #video
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usluck.com/873627/moroccan-mot… Moroccan mother carring her child, Morocco, 1908. #History #TheWayWeWere
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usluck.com/873609/a-young-girl… A young girl sitting on a rooftop overlooking the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1946[750×540]. #History #HistoryPorn
A young girl sitting on a rooftop overlooking the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1946[750x540]. - USLUCK
A young girl sitting on a rooftop overlooking the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1946.LUCK (USLUCK)
Paul Robeson sings to Scottish miners (1949)
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#unions
#paulrobeson
#history
#1949
#joehill
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#unions
#paulrobeson
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Paul Robeson sings to Scottish miners (1949)
Extract from Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11 (1949)The highlight of this 1949 issue is the visit of American actor and singer Paul Robeson to Woolmet Colliery ...BFI (YouTube)
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This morning I started listening to the In Our Time series ‘The Written World’. Episode 1 starts with the earliest written language (cuneiform in Mesopotamia), and ends with the Greek invention of the first phonetic alphabet and the explosion of alphabets across the world.
#writing #bookhistory #history
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Written World, Episode 1
How making signs on clay, wood or parchment enabled the development of human culture.BBC
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38 years ago today
Guy Picciotto falling out of a basketball hoop during a concert with his band Fugazi at Frankford YWCA, Philadelphia, August 7, 1988.
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #guypicciotto #fugazi #history #punkrockhistory #otd
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 💩🌊 Scientists at #Flinders University and #Germany’s #Karlsruhe Institute of #Technology argue fossilized feces, or #coprolites, helped fuel the #Cambrian Explosion 540 million years ago.
As early #animals evolved complex guts, their pellets carried nutrients through ancient #oceans, accelerating #ecosystem growth. The #study drew on deposits from more than 35 sites worldwide.
👉 phys.org/news/2026-08-fecal-re…
#paleontology #fossils #evolution #science #biology #nature #earth #history #research #marinebiology
How the 'fecal revolution' changed Earth's ecosystems
An international study led by Flinders University has found a fertile area of inspiration to explain an important step in evolution—and it's a whole lot of poop.Flinders University (Phys.org)
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The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/The…!
"On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist @timbl."
Happy birthday, web!
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🪲🏴☠️ Two new rove beetle species with unusually long mandibles and antennae reminded researchers of the stretchy hero Luffy from #OnePiece, so they named a whole new genus after him.
The scientists at the Natural #History #Museum of #Denmark traced these #beetles to #Yunnan, #China and northern #Laos, and place them as a missing link in their group’s family tree.
👉 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026…
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These bizarre new beetles look so stretchy scientists named them Luffy
Scientists have named a newly discovered beetle genus Luffy, inspired by the stretchy hero of the manga and anime One Piece.ScienceDaily