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Simone Weil/ Etty Hillesum. George MacDonald [Society]. ITFC: Tractor Boy
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The Battle of Trafalgar took place #OnThisDay in AD 1805, resulting in a British victory over the combined French and Spanish fleet and ending Napoleon's planned invasion of England. In preparation for the invasion, many army camps were built along France's northern coast 1/2
🏺 #Archaeology
🏺 #Archaeology
October 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The Battle of Trafalgar took place #OnThisDay in AD 1805, resulting in a British victory over the combined French and Spanish fleet and ending Napoleon's planned invasion of England. In preparation for the invasion, many army camps were built along France's northern coast 1/2
🏺 #Archaeology
🏺 #Archaeology
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🕯️ St Osyth, 1582: hunger, grief and suspicion. Ursula Kemp, a midwife and folk healer, was accused after a neighbourly rift. Accusations snowballed, her young son was pressured to testify, and she was condemned.
Witches of Essex continues tonight at 9pm on Sky History. Keep an eye out for us!
Witches of Essex continues tonight at 9pm on Sky History. Keep an eye out for us!
October 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🕯️ St Osyth, 1582: hunger, grief and suspicion. Ursula Kemp, a midwife and folk healer, was accused after a neighbourly rift. Accusations snowballed, her young son was pressured to testify, and she was condemned.
Witches of Essex continues tonight at 9pm on Sky History. Keep an eye out for us!
Witches of Essex continues tonight at 9pm on Sky History. Keep an eye out for us!
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The @CBCradio.bluesky.social Show and Podcast "Ideas" aired an episode on October 20 on Simone Weil featuring Scott Ritner and Kate Lawson of @WeilSociety.bluesky.social
Listen here:
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Listen here:
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October 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The @CBCradio.bluesky.social Show and Podcast "Ideas" aired an episode on October 20 on Simone Weil featuring Scott Ritner and Kate Lawson of @WeilSociety.bluesky.social
Listen here:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Listen here:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.
August 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
MP claims Surrey Care home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.
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A label or tag from Roman Chester (Deva) belonging to Julius Candid of the Twentieth Legion. The label was attached to baggage whilst in transit. Now part of the collections at the Grosvenor Museum in Chester. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #Chester
June 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A label or tag from Roman Chester (Deva) belonging to Julius Candid of the Twentieth Legion. The label was attached to baggage whilst in transit. Now part of the collections at the Grosvenor Museum in Chester. 📸 My own. #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #Chester
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Photographed in colour 115 years ago, I have cleaned-up this gorgeous autochrome plate by Julien Gérardin, photographed in France in 1910. It is original colour, not colourised.
May 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Photographed in colour 115 years ago, I have cleaned-up this gorgeous autochrome plate by Julien Gérardin, photographed in France in 1910. It is original colour, not colourised.
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OPINION: Fatma was no ordinary photojournalist. She was part of the conscience of Gaza. Through her work, she gave the world access to the unbearable, but she also captured life in its quiet, beautiful resistance.
religionnews.com/2025/04/25/a...
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A loud death: Remembering Gaza photojournalist Fatma Hassona
(RNS) — Through her work, she reminded us that Palestinians are not just victims, but survivors, scholars, parents, poets and, yes, journalists.
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April 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
OPINION: Fatma was no ordinary photojournalist. She was part of the conscience of Gaza. Through her work, she gave the world access to the unbearable, but she also captured life in its quiet, beautiful resistance.
religionnews.com/2025/04/25/a...
religionnews.com/2025/04/25/a...
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"One great help to the understanding of things is to brood over them as a hen broods over her eggs: words are thought-eggs, and their chickens are truths; and in order to brood I sometimes learn by heart."
George MacDonald
George MacDonald
April 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"One great help to the understanding of things is to brood over them as a hen broods over her eggs: words are thought-eggs, and their chickens are truths; and in order to brood I sometimes learn by heart."
George MacDonald
George MacDonald
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Sometimes the most unassuming artefacts are utterly incredible!
This piece of wood for example, is a spear point worked from yew wood about 420,000 years ago! 🤯
Known as the Clacton Spear it is the oldest known preserved wooden spear in the world!
Natural History Museum, London 📷 me
#Archaeology
This piece of wood for example, is a spear point worked from yew wood about 420,000 years ago! 🤯
Known as the Clacton Spear it is the oldest known preserved wooden spear in the world!
Natural History Museum, London 📷 me
#Archaeology
April 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Sometimes the most unassuming artefacts are utterly incredible!
This piece of wood for example, is a spear point worked from yew wood about 420,000 years ago! 🤯
Known as the Clacton Spear it is the oldest known preserved wooden spear in the world!
Natural History Museum, London 📷 me
#Archaeology
This piece of wood for example, is a spear point worked from yew wood about 420,000 years ago! 🤯
Known as the Clacton Spear it is the oldest known preserved wooden spear in the world!
Natural History Museum, London 📷 me
#Archaeology
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The Best Photos Taken by the Blue Ghost Moon Lander
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The Best Photos Taken by the Blue Ghost Moon Lander
It captured some beauties.
petapixel.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The Best Photos Taken by the Blue Ghost Moon Lander
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petapixel.com/2025/03/26/t...
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“When the victory was won, he made the announcement himself”
Suetonius on Emperor Nero’s absurd participation in the Olympic Games.
Suetonius on Emperor Nero’s absurd participation in the Olympic Games.
March 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“When the victory was won, he made the announcement himself”
Suetonius on Emperor Nero’s absurd participation in the Olympic Games.
Suetonius on Emperor Nero’s absurd participation in the Olympic Games.
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🧵I so loved Gill Hornby’s novel Godmersham Park that I wasn’t sure I wanted to watch its BBC dramatisation – Miss Austen – in case it disappointed, but I’m so glad I did. It is a work of quiet genius. Andrea Gibb has adapted it faultlessly, and the acting is unshowily exquisite. 1/3
March 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🧵I so loved Gill Hornby’s novel Godmersham Park that I wasn’t sure I wanted to watch its BBC dramatisation – Miss Austen – in case it disappointed, but I’m so glad I did. It is a work of quiet genius. Andrea Gibb has adapted it faultlessly, and the acting is unshowily exquisite. 1/3
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This is what a lunar eclipse looks like... from the surface of the Moon.
That dark circle is Earth.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander took this image last night.
That dark circle is Earth.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander took this image last night.
March 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This is what a lunar eclipse looks like... from the surface of the Moon.
That dark circle is Earth.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander took this image last night.
That dark circle is Earth.
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander took this image last night.
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One of my favourite old postcards - a map of Bronte country; at its heart is Thornton, where the story began for Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. I'm very excited about the re-opening of the Bronte Birthplace later this year!
March 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
One of my favourite old postcards - a map of Bronte country; at its heart is Thornton, where the story began for Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte. I'm very excited about the re-opening of the Bronte Birthplace later this year!
“Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.” Simone Weil, “Prewar Notebook”.
March 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“Never react to an evil in such a way as to augment it.” Simone Weil, “Prewar Notebook”.
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I'm two days in Munich, time to visit the collection of classical antiquities, where I spent so much time when I went to university here. It's like meeting old friends, like this Etruscan vessel in the shape of Charun, the demon of death, around 400 BC.
Three more museums to go 😃
🏺 AncientBluesky
Three more museums to go 😃
🏺 AncientBluesky
March 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I'm two days in Munich, time to visit the collection of classical antiquities, where I spent so much time when I went to university here. It's like meeting old friends, like this Etruscan vessel in the shape of Charun, the demon of death, around 400 BC.
Three more museums to go 😃
🏺 AncientBluesky
Three more museums to go 😃
🏺 AncientBluesky
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Artist’s painting of an acrobatic dancer, c. 1292 - 1077 BC.
Away from the constraints of formal tomb art, an ancient Egyptian artist chose to spend their free time painting this beautiful image on a limestone flake.
From the Workers Village of Deir el-Medina. Museo Egizio Turin 📷 me
#Archaeology
Away from the constraints of formal tomb art, an ancient Egyptian artist chose to spend their free time painting this beautiful image on a limestone flake.
From the Workers Village of Deir el-Medina. Museo Egizio Turin 📷 me
#Archaeology
February 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Artist’s painting of an acrobatic dancer, c. 1292 - 1077 BC.
Away from the constraints of formal tomb art, an ancient Egyptian artist chose to spend their free time painting this beautiful image on a limestone flake.
From the Workers Village of Deir el-Medina. Museo Egizio Turin 📷 me
#Archaeology
Away from the constraints of formal tomb art, an ancient Egyptian artist chose to spend their free time painting this beautiful image on a limestone flake.
From the Workers Village of Deir el-Medina. Museo Egizio Turin 📷 me
#Archaeology
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Exceptional new discovery in
#Pompeii: large frescoed banquet hall with stunning wall paintings emerged
www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
#Pompeii: large frescoed banquet hall with stunning wall paintings emerged
www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
February 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Exceptional new discovery in
#Pompeii: large frescoed banquet hall with stunning wall paintings emerged
www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
#Pompeii: large frescoed banquet hall with stunning wall paintings emerged
www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
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I'm Reupping this thread, which I foolishly didn't advertise as such!
Glad so many people have enjoyed it and will be doing more
Glad so many people have enjoyed it and will be doing more
On this day in 1942, the Nazis invaded Winnipeg in Canada.
At 6 am, the air raid sirens blasted, and local troops took up their positions around the city, but they were soon overwhelmed as the German forces stormed into town in armoured vehicles while the Luftwaffe flew overhead.
At 6 am, the air raid sirens blasted, and local troops took up their positions around the city, but they were soon overwhelmed as the German forces stormed into town in armoured vehicles while the Luftwaffe flew overhead.
February 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I'm Reupping this thread, which I foolishly didn't advertise as such!
Glad so many people have enjoyed it and will be doing more
Glad so many people have enjoyed it and will be doing more
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📰 Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii show people fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius 2000 years before the Roman disaster
#ArchaeologyNews via @artnet.bsky.social
#ArchaeologyNews via @artnet.bsky.social
Ancient Footprints of People Fleeing Vesuvius Eruption Unearthed
Archaeologists discovered Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii, showing people and animals fleeing a Vesuvius eruption some 4,000 years ago.
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February 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
📰 Bronze Age footprints near Pompeii show people fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius 2000 years before the Roman disaster
#ArchaeologyNews via @artnet.bsky.social
#ArchaeologyNews via @artnet.bsky.social
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."
— Etty Hillesum
— Etty Hillesum
February 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."
— Etty Hillesum
— Etty Hillesum
The few great things that matter in life can be said in a few words. Etty Hillesum
February 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The few great things that matter in life can be said in a few words. Etty Hillesum