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The pricing of scholarly books is so frustrating. *Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic: Analysis, Interpretation, Re-creation* (yum). $120 for the ebook from Boydell & Brewer $26.24 for the Kindle edition from Amazon.com.
#textile #viking #northAtlantic
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Found it! How I love map nerdery.
(Noted in passing - spell check thought “nerdery” should be replaced with “herders”. Sheesh.)
That’s awesome.The hunt is up …
Of course you do …! yes, it’s always shocking to look up a “residential” location and find a curry place and a Starbucks. I really wanted to see what black brick looked like, so I took a virtual stroll and imagined the trees much shorter.
I’m quite enjoying @madrobins.bsky.social ‘s The Doxies Penalty, but I keep getting distracted looking up all the neighborhoods of London on Google Maps street view so I can picture everything properly. Hans Place!!
@williamdcohan.bsky.social apologies; I should have tagged you on this thread. I didn’t realize you were here.
Which volcano are we talking about here? Do I get to guess?
And I like Cohan's writing; I’m an early subscriber to #Puck.
But do I really want to spend my time in retirement rehashing my ancient history with GE?
I admit to a fascination with train wrecks, 5/5
Still, my years under GE earned me that rarest of things, a (modest) defined benefit pension. I do not regard this lightly. 4/
… whether we were a GE person or not. I was most emphatically not a GE person. 3/
For those who don’t know me IRL, I worked for NBCUniversal through the GE years (thus the morbid fascination.). I attended one of their storied executive training programs in Crotonville, where one of the speakers said the most important thing we could learn in the class was … 2/
I am thinking of reading William D. Cohan's Power Failure, a history of #GeneralElectric. I am torn between a morbid fascination and a serious case of “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” A 🧵.
These are so much fun!
Honk if you find yourself rewriting sentences to avoid using the plural of "virus".
#EnglishGrammar
Who-hoo!
Building of the scientific Collection, part of the Egyptian Agricultural Museum. Text says: Wikimedians from Egypt set out on a journey to document their country's agricultural history.
What began as a one-day field trip to the newly-reopened Egyptian Agricultural Museum turned into a harvest of knowledge documenting ancient farming tools, ceramics, and more.
Learn how Egypt Wikimedians are documenting history and culture ➡️ w.wiki/Fm3X
I love this illustration! 🖤
The British Art Journal is back!
Online only instead of hard copy
britishartjournal.co.uk
Subscribe it’s free!!! – to receive notifications
Just click ‘Subscribe now’ at the top of the home page
Our last printed edition was Volume XXIV in 2023
And so here, in 2025, is Volume XXV – online
Congratulations 🎉🍻
Looking forward to this one!
#Georgian #costume isn’t my core focus, but O.M.G. #18thCentury #dressHistory.
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There’s no place like home, there’s no place …
A male common grackle in a green spruce tree displaying! He is calling and fluffing all his feathers. And those feathers are vivid blue on his head, and incredible purple , blue and bronze on his wings!
I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣
The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣
#Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶
These reliably turn color in the fall in Southern California, no matter the weather, and they are everywhere.
I read it.
Perfect little period piece.
Marking so I don’t forget to read this
A long bright pink dress with long sleeves. The skirt is plain but the bodice is decorated with black accents at the waist and in a corsage centre front. It has buttons one the bodice and a white fichu over the shoulders
The House of Worth was renowned for its fancy dress commissions, catering to those spectacular costumed c19th costumed parties. This is the 1770s for a turn of the century audience, a c1900 gown imitating an c18th lady @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Today is gloriously sunny with an expected high of 75°F (24C), and I am so happy to have all my windows open.
So are the cats, because it means they have unrestricted access to the back porch.