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Medieval manuscript fragments, 16c printing, the Catholicon (Mainz "1460" but printed in 1470 w/ movable type), French book artist Joseph Hémard, 1930s calypso, fossils (Texas ammonites and echinoids) https://independent.academia.edu/FarleyKatz

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HOW TO GET YOUR OWN DAY THAT NO ONE ELSE HAS ... In college a friend told me that moving the clock forward one hour was easy to adjust to. So, he planned to move his clock forward one hour each day. In less than a month, he would have his own day that no one else in the world has. #DaylightSavings

08.03.2026 16:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great name for a team - the Limestone Firedots.

08.03.2026 14:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Down and Out in Verona, 1720 (Draft Mar. 13, 2025) The Proclama Contro Pittochi (Proclamation against the Paupers), Verona 1720, is a little known decree against paupers and beggars, imposing harsh rules and ruthless punishment. It orders all foreign ...

Here's how beggars were treated in Verona in 1720, the Proclama Contro Pittochi (Proclamation against the Paupers). www.academia.edu/127736115/Do...

08.03.2026 14:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Very modern looking. Here's some explanation how these might have been used. artsandculture.google.com/asset/latche...

07.03.2026 14:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes.

06.03.2026 21:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As I get older, I misread things more and more, often with amusing results. I read this as INEVITABILE EATVM. Something to do with poisoning, perhaps?

06.03.2026 20:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

QTF?

06.03.2026 03:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can you tell me what the dimensions are of the WORLDS BEST BACON strip? Thanks!

27.02.2026 16:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Mobilization alert! @miblogestublog.bsky.social

20.02.2026 15:21 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I used to work in this wonderful building every day for five years. Makes me sick to see this.

20.02.2026 04:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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No room for fourth bust on suffragette statue? There's a 7-and-a-half ton, white marble statue displayed prominently in the rotunda of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.

More background. www.desertsun.com/story/news/n...

17.02.2026 05:49 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The artist, Adelaide Johnson. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaid...

17.02.2026 05:48 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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17.02.2026 05:41 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

This rubricator did fine on y-words
bsky.app/profile/farl...

16.02.2026 15:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Q. How is a Cerethium snail like RFK, Jr.?

12.02.2026 04:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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One More Nail in the the Nailheads’ Coffin Paul Needham's theory that tiny dots and spots (on the order of 1/2 mm) in Catholicon Press books (1469-1470) were made by micro-nail heads used to reattach stereotyped strips to wooden bases is u...

I have responded to the claim that tiny dots in Catholicon Press books (1469-70) were made by the heads of micro-nails used to reattach stereotyped strips to wooden bases. The same dots appear in 17c English books, which no one has ever claimed were stereotyped.
www.academia.edu/164452077/On...

08.02.2026 01:48 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Mango the bull terrier deals with Sunday.

08.02.2026 19:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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One More Nail in the the Nailheads’ Coffin Paul Needham's theory that tiny dots and spots (on the order of 1/2 mm) in Catholicon Press books (1469-1470) were made by micro-nail heads used to reattach stereotyped strips to wooden bases is u...

I have responded to the claim that tiny dots in Catholicon Press books (1469-70) were made by the heads of micro-nails used to reattach stereotyped strips to wooden bases. The same dots appear in 17c English books, which no one has ever claimed were stereotyped.
www.academia.edu/164452077/On...

08.02.2026 01:48 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

bsky.app/profile/farl...

04.02.2026 15:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Texas Cretaceous ammonites. Quarter for scale.

04.02.2026 15:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But why is there a period after TEXT?

04.02.2026 14:39 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Fred Biery is an honorable, decent man and a fine judge. He is doing more than his share of fighting to preserve freedom and rule of law. Thanks!

31.01.2026 22:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."

Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

31.01.2026 20:38 👍 11195 🔁 4077 💬 311 📌 331
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Zoo the cat (my son's)

30.01.2026 15:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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If the voice thing doesn't work, here are some nice Coptic curses with reference to the old testament and a bonus demon. 9-11th century. Berlin Altes Museum

29.01.2026 18:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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True. "Pliny the Elder wrote on the ostrich’s mythical ability to eat iron and glass, which earned the bird a reputation as an iron-eater, and symbolized strength through resistance and hardship." See blogs.ucl.ac.uk/researchers-.... Also penelope.uchicago.edu/pseudodoxia/...

28.01.2026 21:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Medieval myth that ostriches can eat iron, including iron horseshoes.

28.01.2026 20:53 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Buy!? When we lived in DC, my wife called her grandmother for a recipe, which was in terms of a "handful" of flour, etc. and to use only Crisco. I made a few tortillas that might get a 3 out of 10 rating and had a half-life of about 3 minutes before they began to petrify. I'm sure you can do better.

25.01.2026 17:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Eat Art was a spin-off of his life-time project of "Snare Pictures" where he captured the remnants of meals by gluing the plates, utensils and left over food to the table top. dayoftheartist.com/2014/08/21/d...

20.01.2026 14:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ketterer Kunst, Art auctions, Book auctions Munich, Hamburg & Berlin

Reminds me of Daniel Spoerri's "Eat Art", including mashed potato ice cream. At his "Palindromic Diner ... the appearance of the dishes suggested that the guests were starting their meal with coffee, but ... the espresso turned out to be soup" www.kettererkunst.com/dict/eat-art... (1/2)

20.01.2026 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0