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ppflieger 🇺🇦
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Student of early-19th-century American works for children (research at merrycoz.org); and occasional fiction writer
It truly is a plesiosaur-eat-pterosaur (& everybody-eat-everybody-else) world, with a worried-loking turtle, in Elements of Geology, by Samuel St. John (1851) #paleoart #fossilfriday #bookhistory
July 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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BREAKING: A 21-year-old Norwegian tourist, Mads Mikkelsen, claims he was denied entry to the United States and harassed by ICE agents after they discovered a bald JD Vance meme on his phone.

Don’t you dare share the meme that he was harassed over below:
June 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
1/5 Flowers for May: the magnificent "Flower Power," by Paula Minkebige (Crossed Wing #28), which I still haven't framed #xstitch #crossstitch #flowers #hummingbirds #butterflies
May 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Happy International Children's Book Day! Read 'em and reap!

The book that changed my life, read about age 10. What book changed your life?
April 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
March 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I bet you know where & why THIS book was controversial in the U.S.; originally published 1958 #bannedbooks #bookhistory
March 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Where we were in 1852: controversial Bloomer dress, which made women look like ruffly pumpkins. from children's magazine Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet (Woodworth didn't completely approve) #AmericanHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #19thcentury #fashionhistory
March 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
1/4 #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth A reminder of where we came from: despite Dr. Harriot Kezia Hunt & Dr. Sarah Hunt opening a practice in Boston in 1835, a woman apprenticing with a doctor in Pennsylvania in 1838 was arrested:
March 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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March 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
1/4 Honoring a transwoman who died in 1853; from the Alexandria Gazette [Alexandria, Virginia] 24 May 1853: "Last summer a (reputed) female was going the rounds, instructing ladies in the art of cutting dresses, &c., hailing from the North, we believe." #LGBTQ+
March 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
early brand name #PeterParley makes his debut in Tales of Peter Parley About America, by #SamuelGriswoldGoodrich, 24 Feb 1827; images from 2nd edition, possibly 1828 #OTD #bookhistory #1820s #fashionhistory
February 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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February 24, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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February 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
a president worth honoring; a mezzotint of an 1864 photo by Matthew Brady; for subscribers to The Little Corporal, 1865 #bookhistory #AbrahamLincoln #lincoln #presidentsday
February 17, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Tomorrow! If you can't march, then please share this post and let others know.

#march #resistance #ResistFascism #ResistTrump #protest #PresidentsDay #NDOP #OTBOF
February 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A little late (it was Feb 11), but birthday wishes to Lydia Maria Child, abolitionist and editor of The Juvenile Miscellany, 1826-1836 #bookhistory #lydiamariachild #juvenilemiscellany #19thcentury #childrensmagazines
February 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Been having a good time with this, though my corrections have gotten increasingly ... personal.😉
1. Google Gulf of Mexico.
2. “Gulf of America" comes up
3. Click on the three dots to the right of “Gulf of America”
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America" text
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
#resist #gulfofmexico
February 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
for a valentine: found in a 19th-century book (probably a bound volume of a children's magazine), a nice little heart in a hand
February 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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This. Civil disobedience.
February 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
#mammoth on ice, Charles Livingston Bull; from The Boy Scouts of the North, by Samuel Scoville, 1920: "untouched by time, & intact as when some unknown fate had overtaken it when the last Ice Age overwhelmed the earth" #mammothMonday #fossil #bookhistory
February 10, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Winter in Ohio, 1950 or 1951: my grandmother's dog ("Foxy") and car (If it's a Model-A, it was my father's.) #1950s #dog #winter
February 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
my favorite #megatherium ("one stroke of its paw would demolish a lion or an alligator"); from "Wonders of Geology," in The Schoolmate magazine; 1852 #bookhistory #fossilFriday
February 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
an editor misunderstands trilobites: "a curious animal which has received its name from the fact that it had three bodies joined to one head." Yeah ... From The Schoolmate, 1852 #bookhistory #trilobiteTuesday
February 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Prehistory's most delightful #mammoth emerges from the ice in 1799; in The Children's Friend, a Quaker publication; 1871 1/3 #bookhistory #mammothMonday
February 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
the #labyrinthodon crawls through the Triassic: an unusual layout in Elements of Geology, a book for young readers by Samuel St. John; 1851. 1/3 #fossilFriday #ichnology #bookhistory
January 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM