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not sure about this. FYI: there will be gardening, archaeology, politics, music etc .... Canada, Toronto, Nova Scotian 🎻🌿🍻🏺🏛🇨🇦☀️🤷🏼‍♀️ a repost doesn’t always = agreement
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Is Caturday baby! #Caturday
AMERICA IS UNDER ATTACK
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Lisa Bower is a museum curator and historian who specializes in material culture studies about Nova Scotian samplers, needlework and 19th century African Nova Scotian schools.

#Museum30 #specialist #novascotia
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
⚠️ Canada will pick its next Competition Commissioner soon! Sign by Nov 28 ✍️ to demand a leader who will #StopMonopolies and fix Canada’s competition crisis ⚖️. openmedia.org/Competition4... @openmedia.org #Canada #Monopolies
Canada needs a monopoly buster!
⚠️ Canada will pick its next Competition Commissioner soon! Sign by Nov 28 ✍️ to demand a leader who will #StopMonopolies and fix Canada’s competition crisis ⚖️. https://openmedia.org/Competition4Cana...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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✨The Triumph of Venus✨

This #MosaicMonday we celebrate Venus in all her 4th Century CE glory! This mosaic shows Venus travelling the sea while supported by two centaur seahorses. The lowest register shows fisherman enjoying the fruits of the sea. Packed with detail, this mosaic is a feast!
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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We googled "Simple mosaic" and are rather pleased with the result. 😍

#MosaicMonday
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Nice! But we can't help thinking the twisted border lost it's way a bit here.

#MosaicMonday
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Enniskillen Town Hall, floor detail.

🏛️

#MosaicMonday #Enniskillen #Fermanagh
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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For this #MosaicMonday, a couple of examples of elephants in the Piazzale delle Corporazioni in Ostia. One in close-up but another included in a wider view to show the context for those who aren't familiar (yet?) with the wonders of Ostia.
📷2022
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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A 'low-budget' but rather charming mosaic from Abbots Ann, Hampshire.

It would have welcomed guests to a small villa, which was the final phase of a farmstead originating in an Iron Age ‘banjo enclosure’.

C.3/4, now in the British Museum.
#MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #IronAge
#BecomingRoman
My 📸
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Sometimes human interference with the environment can have bizarre consequences. This deep-sea coral species (Desmophyllum dianthus) is found throughout the world’s oceans. Nothing unusual here – except the piece you are looking at grew around a fibre-optic telephone cable.
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A bonus post for this #MosaicMonday. Ever puzzled over why Neptune has crab claws and Oceanus has a trident in some RB mosaics? My thoughts have just been published in the latest Journal of Mosaic Research. Open access, so feel free to enjoy! 1/2

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Journal of Mosaic Research » Makale » Neptune and Oceanus in Romano-British Mosaics: A Special Case?
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November 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Have you considered topping your pies with regime crumble?
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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An excellent read 😉
Look what’s just emerged from a packing box @durotrigesdig.bsky.social 🙂
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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A tiny, glorious detail of the monumental façade of the Duomo di Orvieto, a jewel of Romanesque and Gothic architecture.
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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A real President ……….

Sixty-two years ago today, November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. He was shot while riding in an open-top car and died later at Parkland Hospital. The event, which occurred at 12:30 p.m. CST, was a moment of national tragedy.
November 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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More beautiful orchids from NW Sicily in April 2019 (those days before we'd ever heard of Covid). Ophrys bombyliflora, Ophrys tenthredinifera, Ophrys x fernandii, Orchis papilionacea. @europeanorchids.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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A late Neolithic dagger found in the pile dwelling site of the Roseninsel, Bavaria.The blade is made of flint from the Monti Lessini, upper Italy.
Dating 3500 - 2700 BC.

On display at Archäologische Staatssammlung München

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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#WorldToiletDay🚽
Isca: Near the barack buildings were communal toilets, and at one end of the complex you can see the remains of a bread oven. 

You can also see remains of the fortress walls, a gate and corner turret, cookhouses, and latrine drains.

#RomanBritain #Wales #Isca #Caerleon
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are standing up to corporate greed and Starbucks’ unfair labor practices and demanding the fair contract they deserve.

No contract? NO COFFEE!
November 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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📍 Walmer Road between Bernard and Dupont #Toronto
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM