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Morangles
@morangles.bsky.social
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Bede, Gregory of Tours. Medieval Movies & links to history podcasts. Antiques friendly.
BTW avoiding MAGAs & their UK pals keeps my blood pressure down.
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@ginlindzey.bsky.social Minimus!
alisonfisk.bsky.social Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1d
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.

Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!

2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
The image shows detail from a floor mosaic of a brown mouse on a pale background facing left with its nose close to half a walnut in its shell. The mouse has a long thin tail stretched out behind. The mosaicist has used a mix of lighter and darker brown tiles for the mouse’s body to hint at fur. The walnut is created with warmer light and dark brown tiles. Slightly darker background tiles have been used beneath the mouse and walnut to create subtle shadows
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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dovewoman.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
morangles.bsky.social
Watching #BreslauMurders. Very, very good. After #ScandiNoir #NativeAmericanNoir #DarkWinds #FrenchNoir #Paris1900-1905 #AustrianNoir #ViennaBlood #PragueMysteries #CzechNoir. Now #PolandNoir Poland as nowadays Breslau renamed Wroclaw after WW2 is in Poland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHjH...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
It's time for #Caturday and a timeline cleanse!

A terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp.

From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD.

On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.

Have a lovely #weekend!

📷 me

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Fragment of a yellowish-brown clay figurine depicting a cat playing a harp. The cat is upright, with detailed facial features and textured fur, holding the harp to its side. The surface shows signs of wear and age, and the piece is displayed on a clear stand.
November 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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helengittos.bsky.social
The Amos Review will be visiting @ekhuft.bsky.social next week; the invitation to families to attend two listening sessions next Tuesday was posted on the Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership Facebook page 2 days ago... where very few will see it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
East Kent parents asked to speak to maternity investigation
Helen Gittos who lost her baby Harriett says engagement may be
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
This 👇
walkietalkieguides.bsky.social Walkie Talkie @walkietalkieguides.bsky.social · 5d
Wow. Money going to individual finders instead of institutional support means museums get objects but lose capacity to care for them. The whole system needs rethinking. What's the point of acquiring treasure if you can't staff, store, or share it properly?
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
morangles.bsky.social
Were Neanderthals capable of making art?
theconversation.com/were-neander...
The answer is YES! @inrap.fr @archeodgarcia.bsky.social @archeonationale.bsky.social Ou sont passes nos freres/ missing our brothers Neanderthals? @jwhoopes2.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social
Were Neanderthals capable of making art?
Art has sometimes thought to be exclusive to modern humans.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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nealshepperson.bsky.social
“Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

~ Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
November 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
morangles.bsky.social
Yummy! Booking History's Hidden Gems: Facts You Never Knew via #Rest-less events. In these monthly talks, author and historian @jem-duducu.bsky.social shines a torch into the dark recesses of history, bringing forward tales of mad rulers, insane coincidences, & powerful yet obscure women.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
morangles.bsky.social
Watching (belatedly) Dr Lilian Fespedes-Gonzalez lecture event about Zombies @jem-duducu.bsky.social Memories of our dear late Sacha #BeingHuman Season 3 @scotchmist31.bsky.social through #rest-less=events. Reminded of 1971 Omega Man I am Legend which makes me hesitant of watching latest version🧵⬇️
November 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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TEXT SIGN PGOSIG TO 50409 TO TELL YOUR OFFICIALS STOP Trump-caused preventable deaths. Do oversight. AN OPEN LETTER to THE U.S. CONGRESS STOP Trump-caused preventable deaths. Do oversight. 1 so far! Help us get to 5 signers! Too many deaths. Trump and the GOP are overseeing a regime of contempt for human life, health, and well-being. I am outraged and you should be too. There have been at least 25 deaths in ICE custody this year-- the deadliest year for ICE in decades. Plus one person killed by ICE agents shooting. Measles has now returned to the US after being virtually eradicated; there have been 3 confirmed deaths. Trump has illegally stopped USAID funding. The Lancet has published research showing that current funding cuts and the potential dismantling of USAID could result in more than 14 million additional avoidable deaths by 2030. By now there have been 64 humans killed by the US's 15 illegal attacks on small boats -- there is no proof that such vessels carry drugs and when the US attackers had the chance to detain sailors and seek proof they did not so do. Changes to childhood and adult vaccine protocols made by RFK Jr will also undoubtedly result in deaths and unnecessary illness. The House funding bill is projected to cause 51,000 Preventable Deaths annually-- this, per the a Penn LDI Seminar which detailed How administrative barriers, subsidy rollbacks, and work requirements will block life-saving care.-- this per the magazine of UPenn's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics this past June. How many preventable deaths will there be due to the closure of rural hospitals? How many women have died because of the unavailability of necessary care after miscarriages since the roll-back of Roe? How many people have been taken ill as a result of the cessation of food safety inspections for bacterial contamination? The CDC recently made major cuts to a program that for decades has monitored foodborne illnesses through a partnership betwee…
November 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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1 November 1882 | A Jew, Abraham Bernstein, was born in Malmö. In 1900 he emigrated to Norway. He served as a Norwegian border guard, later owned glass store.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
An id photo of a mature man - Abraham Bernstein
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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jmharland.bsky.social
Two great scholars of the early Middle Ages having a chat about @alexharvv.bsky.social’s cracking book!
November 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
30 October 1935 | A Jewish boy, Georges Halpern, was born in Vienna. After his mother, Séraphine, was hospitalised and had to separate from her son, Georges was taken to the Izieu children's home.

Deported to #Auschwitz with other children on 13 April 1944, and murdered in a gas chamber.
Black and white photo of a young boy standing confidently on a pile of logs, wearing suspenders and boots, with hands on hips in a forest setting.
October 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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jem-duducu.bsky.social
🔥Hot off the press🔥

A new Condensed Histories #podcast about Nationalism and its sad impact on #PopCulture

Please subscribe, listen 🎧 and share 👍🏻
October 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
29 October 1913 | A Dutch Jew, Alexander Pach, was born in Amsterdam. A clerk.

In #Auschwitz from 17 July 1942.
No. 48310
He perished in the camp on 10 August 1942.
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Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/
Vintage black and white photo of a man, engrossed in writing at a small desk.
October 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
27 October 1902 | A Dutch Jewish man, Levie van de Kar, was born in Amsterdam.

He was deported to #Auschwitz in 1942 and registered in the camp. He perished on 3 September 1942.
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Video about the history of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/Fxnl5HTygrs
Portrait of a man wearing a flat cap and glasses.
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
morangles.bsky.social
Who knew! @scotchmist31.bsky.social
Spoiler: coming to you soon TBA.
Fishmonger and strawberry picker romance.
Because the good people who allow me to delight into Seared scallops with Whisky Sauce and Strawberry Jam deserve Romance too. Nah! @highlandheathen.bsky.social @locktowndog.bsky.social
locktowndog.bsky.social Rick @locktowndog.bsky.social · 17d
The spicy corner of the bookstore...
October 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
morangles.bsky.social
Yes, we do! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fWd...
"Sadly, poor beasts like us can only prove their love by laying down and dying..."
"You are a strange little girl"

Thank you for this modern version. Hoping you have visited the Chateau of Anet where this movie was filmed.
October 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
✨The enigmatic Penbryn ‘spoons’ whisper secrets of long-lost rituals of the British Iron Age 2,000 years ago! ✨

Made for knowing rather than eating, these rare ‘spoons’ are thought to be magic objects of divination, used in ceremonies to seek knowledge and foretell events.

📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a pair of cast bronze spoon-like tools. Each placed on a thin black metal stand in a display case with forest-like backdrop at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Dated 50 BC-AD 100. The bowl of each ‘spoon’ is oval-shaped and almost flat, with short, ornate handle, ideally-sized to be held between thumb and forefinger. Length 12 cm x width 7.3cm. The bronze has corroded and appears gold and green in colour. The top spoon has a small perforated hole near the rim. The lower spoon is divided into four areas by an incised cross. In the centre of each area is an inlaid dot of a different metal: top left gold, top right uncertain, bottom left bronze (different bronze composition to bowl), bottom right now filled with corroded material. The prevailing theory is that liquid was dripped from the perforated spoon to the other for the purpose of divination to predict future events. They are a rare find, with only 27 individual spoons from 17 pairs found to date, across Britain, Ireland, and France (one pair).
October 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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archaeohistories.bsky.social
Terracotta Vase with incised decoration depicting winged Ishtar, naked with horned crown and surrounded by fish, bird, tortoise and bull (2000-1600 BC)

Vase is 26.2cm high and was excavated in 1933 by André Parrot at Larsa, an important city-state of ancient Sumer, present day Iraq 🇮🇶

Louvre Museum
October 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
If you're in London tomorrow, do come along - it's all free and there's no need to book.

... or if you're not in London, then you can watch online on our YouTube channel.

#Archaeology 🏺
October 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
morangles.bsky.social
@prehistorian.bsky.social @jem-duducu.bsky.social @drnwillburger.bsky.social @helengittos.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Now this would certainly revolutionize archaeology.
Pregnancy test created … for 1,000-year-old skeletons
It has been very tricky for archaeologists to identify women who died while carrying a baby or in childbirth — until now
www.thetimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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@donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social @potus47mirror.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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a man with long hair and a hat is standing in front of a sign that says it will be mine
ALT: a man with long hair and a hat is standing in front of a sign that says it will be mine
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October 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM