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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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margaret beaufort #1 fan @tudorhistetc.bsky.social · Jul 3
✨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
My photo collage shows four pottery vessels, all a creamy yellow in colour, with black painted decoration depicting underwater sea-life featuring lively stylised octopuses with writhing tentacles (arms), All on display at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. Top L - Minoan pithoid storage jar decorated in the “Marine Style” with wide-eyes octopus, argonauts, rocks, and coral. Rounded top tapering down to a narrower base. Short cyclindrical neck flaring out at the mouth with black wavy decoration reminiscent of waves. Loop handles attached to the shoulders of the body. Height 55 cm. From Zakros. 1500-1450 BC Top R - Minoan flask with a rounded body, short cyclindrical neck which flares at the rim, and two small curved handles attached between the top of the spout and the shoulders of the body. Decorated in “Marine Style” which depicts an almost cartoon-like octopus with wide eyes and sucker-lined tentacles which writhe around the vase. Other decorative sea-motifs include sea urchins, seaweed and rocks. Height 27cm. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Bottom L - alabastron, broad at the base, swelling outwards into a fuller belly before narrowing near the top with a very short cyclindrical neck and a wider flat rimmed mouth. Decorated in “Marine Style” with a wide-eyed octopus among rocks. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1370 BC Bottom R - krater with rounded body narrowing at the bottom towards the foot. Wide flaring mouth and rim with black painted wavy decoration, and two sturdy handles attached on each side between the top of the mouth and shoulders of the vessel. Decorated with a central very stylised wide-eyed octopus whose tentacles loop up and down around the body of the pot, 1370-1300 BC
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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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
A rounded pottery vessel with a narrow, slightly flared rim and a cord wrapped tightly around its neck. The surface is a muted gray-brown with subtle incised lines. A repaired area is clearly visible on the mid-body, where a patch of lighter material fills a damaged section. The vessel sits on display against a softly lit background.
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!
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/97488
Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979
November 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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POV: your headphones are being stolen and eaten
orange cat staring intently orange cat pawing at something orange cat with paw out orange cat pulling a headphone into his mouth
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....
Obverse of a Roman aureus: Head of Vespasian, laureate, right.
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
two pictures of an orange cat with a shaved shoulder and scabbed wounds on his face and arm two pictures of a skinny orange cat still scabbed up orange cat curled up asleep on the blankey orange cat smiling for the camera
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Glimpses of light, in the darkness...
Light seeps through a narrow window set deep into a church wall. All around it, 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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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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Part of a coloured engraving of a Roman mosaic showing an elephant moving towards the left. There are crossed lines on the animal's body.
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 😻
Ellie getting brushed & stretching on the table.
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
"This depiction of the Virgin and Child was made in the Innsbruck Court Glasshouse or Innsbrucker Hofglashütte of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria by Venetian glass artisans. The composition is likely based on the statue of Our Lady of Loreto from the cathedral in Loreto, Italy of a Black Madonna and Child. Our Lady of Loreto refers to the Holy House (or Santa Casa) where the Virgin Mary was born. According to tradition, the house was transported by angels from Nazareth to Loreto. When locals went inside the house they found a beautiful dark wooden statue of the Virgin and Child. They thought the dark or black skin of the mother and son signified the carving was old and made by St. Luke, one of the authors of the gospels about the life of Jesus." https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/collection/12086
November 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM