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jamiechambers.bsky.social
If you need a break from *gestures vaguely at everything* you might enjoy learning how Indiana Jones learned Nazi-shooting skills directly from Teddy Roosevelt. Ponder why Old Indy was attending a Celebrity Tennis Shoe Auction in the first place! It can only mean one thing ...
January 28, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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rgpoulussen.bsky.social
Big, and not so big. #WW2 #HISTORY
January 28, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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callissclan.bsky.social
Beautiful girl #Abla
January 28, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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owenexiehurcum.bsky.social
Writing up my Excavation Report for the recent community excavation in Sackville Gardens has given me the chance to handle our finds again, so I thought I'd share a few of my favourite contemporary (1970-present) finds from the site...

📸 Is a 1979 Smiths Crips Salt and Vinager Wrapper.

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January 27, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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rogueclassicist.bsky.social
Remains of a war elephant and catapult ammunition from the Second Punic War found in Córdoba, a unique discovery in Europe
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Remains of a war elephant and catapult ammunition from the Second Punic War found in Córdoba, a unique discovery in Europe
An international team of archaeologists and paleontologists has announced the discovery of physical evidence unique in Europe: an elephant bone dated to the Second Punic War (218–201 BC). The find, a ...
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January 28, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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merchantshallyork.org
Good morning from everyone at the Hall including Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson's mouse.

She's doing very well she says and thanks you for asking.
We are looking at a close up of a small wooden carved mouse on an oak chair. It is climbing up the scroll of the top of a chair and has a long straight tail and finely carved whiskers.
January 28, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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the vivid colours of Godart's Numberwing 'Catagramma pygas' from Misiones, #Argentina are amazing observed by trekman

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January 28, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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amnh.org
It's time for Trilobite Tuesday! This 4-in- (10.2-cm-) long trilobite from Nevada’s Poleta Formation is a member of the genus Elliptocephala. Several distinct species of this half-billion-year-old genus can be found within similarly-aged strata from Nevada to British Columbia.
A photo of a fossilized trilobite. It is dark in color with an oblong, multi-segmented body.
January 27, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
#TextileTuesday:
Bedcover
Gujarat, India (for British market), 18th c.
Cotton, embroidered with silk
L 100 x W 122 in. (254 x 309.9 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art 68.61 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
"During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Gujarat, in western India, supplied embroideries of the highest quality to the Mughal court; these textiles became valued commodities in Europe as soon as sea trade with that region was established. The Portuguese were the first Europeans to enter this market, but most surviving Gujarati embroideries relate to trade with England, which increased in the early seventeenth century. Over the course of the seventeenth century, as the Gujarati embroiderers adjusted their output for the English market, they adopted the common motif of pink flowers detailed in yellow that bloom from dark green vines with light green or yellow veins. In the background are spotted leopards, striped deer, squirrels, birds, and other chain-stitched beasts filled with bands of color or details in contrasting hues. These elements are understood to have been culled from a variety of sources including English embroideries, examples of which must have been sent to India as models (see e.g. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, nos. 53.2202 and 53.172). But as English embroidery was itself responding to the influx of Asian textiles, incorporating and adapting many foreign motifs, the result was a mix of European, Indian, and Chinese imagery that then fed back to its original sources in a totally transformed state. This piece, consisting of several panels that have been joined and then quilted to form a bed-size coverlet, includes the motifs found on seventeenth-century coverlets but must have been made in the early eighteenth century, when an overall pattern of rinceaux enclosing flowers became more common. However, Gujarati production is remarkable for its variety; at the same time, embroiderers were also producing patterns related to French bizarre silks and palampore designs (see e.g. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 57.168)."
January 27, 2026 at 10:55 PM
literarychick2.bsky.social
Not now, gelatinous horde of red stinging jellyfish ...
January 28, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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gretellemaitre.bsky.social
A little glimpse of Perpendicular for you, from St Mary’s church, Bury St Edmunds. Look how neatly it lines up with with its partner window. Nice and simple: giving an impression of order, lightness of touch and understated beauty.
January 28, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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dockyardtalk.bsky.social
This weird hobby, now I'm looking for a set of period pennant flags.

#NavalHistory #SignalHistory #SignalFlags
January 27, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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jamiemctrusty.bsky.social
HMS Nelson (1927), sister ship to HMS Rodney, served throughout the Second World War. She operated with the Home Fleet, in the Mediterranean, off Normandy and finally in the Far East. Nelson was badly damaged on three occasions, twice by mines and once by torpedo.
📷 IWM A 28920
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Aerial forward view of Nelson at sea. She has three prominent triple turrets forward, with her superstructure aft. Multiple anti-aircraft positions are visible.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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davebowmanphotography.com
'WEST TARBERT WRECK'
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A half-submerged fishing boat near West Tarbert, Argyll, tells a quiet story of time and the sea 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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#photography #photographersunited #eastcoastkin #monochromephotos #shipwrecks #MaritimeHistory #ScotlandCoast #SeaStories #wallart
A monochrome photograph of an old fishing boat lying half-submerged in calm water near West Tarbert, Argyll, Scotland. The boat’s wooden hull is worn and weathered, showing signs of age and long exposure to the elements. The surrounding water is still, and the scene conveys a quiet, solitary atmosphere, suggesting the slow passage of time along the rugged coastline.
January 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Lace blouse and breeches worn #onthisday in 1906 by Miss Kemp, the "champion lady rough-rider," at the "Boys from the Bush" horsemanship exhibition in Brisbane, Australia. 📷 State Library of Queensland
January 27, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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groomb.bsky.social
Irish landscape by Karen Pleass, textile artist, based in County Kerry.
January 27, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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paintingsoflondon.bsky.social
'Ashen Grove, Wimbledon Park' (from 'Ethel and Ernest', 1998) by Raymond Briggs
January 27, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
Time to post this rather incredible photo again.

The largest volcano in the Solar System, Olympus Mons, with one of the Solar System's smallest moons, Phobos, crossing it.

Photographed from Mars orbit.

Credit: Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Andrea Luck @andrealuck.bsky.social CC BY
The surface of Mars occupies most of the scene, the limb of the planet to the right (with space beyond). In the upper centre is the massive Olympus Mons. The small dark body is the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos.
January 27, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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matthewperren.bsky.social
When we used to climb there was a running joke that if you ever had to call mountain rescue they’d answer the phone with an enthusiastic “advert voice”

Welcome to Mountain Rescue!

Press 1 if you’re lying at the bottom of a gully with a broken leg

2 if you’re crag bound in subzero temperatures
January 27, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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seamussaid.bsky.social
Goddamnit who opened the fourth seal?
A striking image (if I'm allowed to brag, I did take this picture) of a pale horse standing just off of a rural Carolina highway at night
January 24, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
Yes, of course, having a tiny radio or using your mobile telephoning device to listen to the latest swing music or news bulletin broadcasts is the bee's knees but this beast still looks better than any modern tech I know.
1934 Pacific Elite Radio, made in New Zealand.
January 27, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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cookieaob.bsky.social
Another bizarre and fascinating thread from Mike.
mikeachim.bsky.social Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d
OK, I can't quite believe this.

Sometimes you read a sci-fi story & think, "well, that was fun - but *obviously* there's zero truth in it!"

In "20 Trillion Leagues Under the Sea" by Adam Roberts, a retelling of Verne's classic, there's a vast ocean *under* our seas.

Total nonsense?

Well...

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Unsplash image by Giga Khurtsilava of the surface of the sea on a calm day.
January 27, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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teeveeben.bsky.social
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
godysseypodcast.com The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 3d
The Battle of Blythe Road was the alleged battle between warlocks Aleister Crowley and W.B. Yeats, then rivals within the Golden Dawn. The two shouted spells at one another as Crowley ascended some stairs, and ended when Yeats kicked him down those stairs. #FolkloreSunday
A photo of a young Aleister Crowley, likely between his Cambridge Years and his world tour A portrait of William Butler Yeats by his father, John Butler Yeats, from 1900
January 27, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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viktorwinetrout.bsky.social
Pretty cool that The Devil can be defeated by a fiddler
January 27, 2026 at 4:05 AM