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margaret beaufort #1 fan
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B.A. in history. Snoopy enjoyer. Tudor women. medieval & early modern. writer.

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✨Reposting✨ so I can pin what I think is some of my best work to date.
Anne Boleyn: The Birth Debate
1501? 1507? Neither?
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Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️

Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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She is the lady of drunkenness, the queen of the dance. She stabs the enemy, drives back the rebels, kills off the enemies in the place of internment; she is Sekhmet the great, who has power over the masses--the countless crowd trembles upon seeing her. (OGC)
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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A complete pottery vessel, featuring repairs mid-body and a cord tied around its neck.

Found in a Neolithic well in Altscherbitz, Saxony, dating 5100-5000 BC.
Multiple complete vessels have been discovered within the well. They may have been intentionally...🧵 1/2

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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A reminder that I mostly left Twitter because I was getting so relentlessly sexually harassed on there that I basically couldn't do anything anymore & there are a group of women who all have similar experiences and we all talk about it with each other! This stuff sucks so much!
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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POV: your headphones are being stolen and eaten
November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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'HIEROGLYPHS: An ancient Egyptian language, invented by priests to conceal their criminal secrets. And to think there are people who understand them! Perhaps it's all a joke?'

- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield said outer space smells like gunpowder and burnt steak.

Yankee Candle, your newest seasonal scent has arrived.
November 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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#OnThisDay - 17 November - in AD 9 Titus Flavius Vespasianus (my fave!) was born. As 'last man standing' at the end of the Long Year that was AD 69, he inaugurated the Flavian Dynasty. #AncientHistory 🏺

Image: Obverse of RIC 2.1 Vespasian 515; ANS 1956.184.26. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....
November 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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next week will be NINE MONTHS since Adonis came to live with us and I'm making myself emotional looking at pictures from when we first brought him home vs now
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Glimpses of light, in the darkness...
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Interesting household (food) account for Elisabeth of Valois, Queen of Spain, 9 August 1559 (as I suppose), on ebay: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/28692927...
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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#OnThisDay - 17 November - Tjaiemhotep was born in Year 9 of Ptolemy XII Auletes' reign, i.e. in 73 BC. A record of her life is left on her funerary stela, including a plea to seize the day while you may. #Archaeology #Egypt 🏺

Image: British Museum (EA147). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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November 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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good morning
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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The arms of an octopus were used to mark specific parts of this page that were of importance or interest - 14th century, Bancroft Library, BANC MS UCB 085
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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As night settled over the river, Cardinal Reginald Pole, the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury, breathed his final breath on 17 November 1558, the very same day as Mary I. England would wake to a new ruler - Elizabeth I.

Read more on IG! @ allthingstudors
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Following last week's monochrome elephant, this is another common type of depiction in Roman mosaics. From the Great Pavement at Woodchester, moving around Orpheus. 1/2
#MosaicMonday
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November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Boarding an international flight out of Boston and CBP officers literally in the gateway face scanning every passenger with their phones. I have never seen this before.
November 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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hydration is her beauty secret
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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She's pretty happy 😻
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Black Glass Madonna, by unknown artisans of the Innsbruck Court Glassworks, 1570-1591, Lampworked and pressed glass on wood mount, 52.5 x 28.8 cm (20 11/16 x 11 5/16 in.), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM