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The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
December 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
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Alessandra Bonvicino / Il Moretto (1527), Ritratto di gentildonna come Salomè
Raffaello Sanzio (1501), Angelo
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo #Brescia
Raffaello Sanzio (1501), Angelo
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo #Brescia
December 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Alessandra Bonvicino / Il Moretto (1527), Ritratto di gentildonna come Salomè
Raffaello Sanzio (1501), Angelo
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo #Brescia
Raffaello Sanzio (1501), Angelo
Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo #Brescia
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Soms vind je boeken met een minder 'mooie' provenance.
Dit is bijv. het ex-libris van Martien Beversluis en zijn vrouw Dignate Robbertz.
Beversluis werd in 1944 NSB-burgemeester van de Zeeuwse gemeenten Veere en Vrouwenpolder.
Er is een link met Han van Meegeren (ook NSB'er)
die ze portretteerde.
Dit is bijv. het ex-libris van Martien Beversluis en zijn vrouw Dignate Robbertz.
Beversluis werd in 1944 NSB-burgemeester van de Zeeuwse gemeenten Veere en Vrouwenpolder.
Er is een link met Han van Meegeren (ook NSB'er)
die ze portretteerde.
December 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Soms vind je boeken met een minder 'mooie' provenance.
Dit is bijv. het ex-libris van Martien Beversluis en zijn vrouw Dignate Robbertz.
Beversluis werd in 1944 NSB-burgemeester van de Zeeuwse gemeenten Veere en Vrouwenpolder.
Er is een link met Han van Meegeren (ook NSB'er)
die ze portretteerde.
Dit is bijv. het ex-libris van Martien Beversluis en zijn vrouw Dignate Robbertz.
Beversluis werd in 1944 NSB-burgemeester van de Zeeuwse gemeenten Veere en Vrouwenpolder.
Er is een link met Han van Meegeren (ook NSB'er)
die ze portretteerde.
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File under: treasures I hadn't realized were online. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek 64 Weiss. is a palimpsest with Isidore in a very challenging 8c North Italian cursive on top and, inter alia, a fragment of Ulfilas' Gothic translation of Romans below. Here's part of that section, f256r. 🧵
December 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
File under: treasures I hadn't realized were online. Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek 64 Weiss. is a palimpsest with Isidore in a very challenging 8c North Italian cursive on top and, inter alia, a fragment of Ulfilas' Gothic translation of Romans below. Here's part of that section, f256r. 🧵
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it's the mOOOOOOOOOOOOst wonderful time...of O antiphons! #fragmentfriday
December 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
it's the mOOOOOOOOOOOOst wonderful time...of O antiphons! #fragmentfriday
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I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy.
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy.
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...
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My baby is finally getting published!
...aaaand it's almost as expensive as a literal baby! 🥹❤️🐣
...aaaand it's almost as expensive as a literal baby! 🥹❤️🐣
December 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
My baby is finally getting published!
...aaaand it's almost as expensive as a literal baby! 🥹❤️🐣
...aaaand it's almost as expensive as a literal baby! 🥹❤️🐣
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Ruim 4000 Romeinse munten uit laat-Romeinse tijd gevonden bij Buggenum historiek.net/muntvondst-b...
Ruim 4000 Romeinse munten uit laat-Romeinse tijd gevonden bij Buggenum
Meer dan vierduizend laat-Romeinse munten uit Buggenum tonen hoe bronsgeld in Limburg bleef circuleren terwijl het Romeinse rijk afbrokkelde. Nu te zien in Venlo.
historiek.net
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ruim 4000 Romeinse munten uit laat-Romeinse tijd gevonden bij Buggenum historiek.net/muntvondst-b...
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1 Postdoc "Spätantike und Frühmittelalter" (Universität Wien) www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
1 Postdoc "Spätantike und Frühmittelalter" (Universität Wien)
Das Institut für Geschichte und das Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (Universität Wien) schreiben eine Postdoc-Position für Spätantike und Frühmittelalter für sechs Jahre ab den 1. Jul...
www.hsozkult.de
December 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
1 Postdoc "Spätantike und Frühmittelalter" (Universität Wien) www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
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"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
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New from 404 Media: the Trump administration's top nuclear scientists think AI can replace humans in power plants.
“The goal is simple: to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade.”
www.404media.co/nuclear-rian...
“The goal is simple: to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade.”
www.404media.co/nuclear-rian...
‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants
A presentation at the International Atomic Energy Agency unveiled Big Tech’s vision of an AI and nuclear fueled future.
www.404media.co
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New from 404 Media: the Trump administration's top nuclear scientists think AI can replace humans in power plants.
“The goal is simple: to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade.”
www.404media.co/nuclear-rian...
“The goal is simple: to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade.”
www.404media.co/nuclear-rian...
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More concrete proof—if any were needed—that mindlessly shoehorning AI into everything, including Higher Education, causes not progress but decay.
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
More concrete proof—if any were needed—that mindlessly shoehorning AI into everything, including Higher Education, causes not progress but decay.
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Another article uploaded - an important analysis of the many new coin finds from the Carolingian period in the Netherlands and what they reveal about 9th-century history.
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
works.hcommons.org/records/6fym...
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
works.hcommons.org/records/6fym...
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
Coin finds suggest that in the ninth century the northern Dutch provinces – Friesland above all, but also Noord-Holland, Groningen and Drenthe – were different not only from the rest of Francia, but a...
works.hcommons.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Another article uploaded - an important analysis of the many new coin finds from the Carolingian period in the Netherlands and what they reveal about 9th-century history.
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
works.hcommons.org/records/6fym...
Coins and Vikings: On the trail of the Scandinavians in Frisia
works.hcommons.org/records/6fym...
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Eigenlijk is het zonde om zo'n boek te herstellen, want dan zie je die oude perkamenten stroken met tekst niet meer.
Herstel is niet zo moeilijk omdat alleen de spitsels kapot zijn gegaan. Het boekblok is zo goed als nieuw.
ORLERS Beschrijvinge der Stadt Leyden, 1641.
Herstel is niet zo moeilijk omdat alleen de spitsels kapot zijn gegaan. Het boekblok is zo goed als nieuw.
ORLERS Beschrijvinge der Stadt Leyden, 1641.
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Eigenlijk is het zonde om zo'n boek te herstellen, want dan zie je die oude perkamenten stroken met tekst niet meer.
Herstel is niet zo moeilijk omdat alleen de spitsels kapot zijn gegaan. Het boekblok is zo goed als nieuw.
ORLERS Beschrijvinge der Stadt Leyden, 1641.
Herstel is niet zo moeilijk omdat alleen de spitsels kapot zijn gegaan. Het boekblok is zo goed als nieuw.
ORLERS Beschrijvinge der Stadt Leyden, 1641.
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USA 🇺🇸 NYC métro subway ; graffiti Blade Blade, quartier du Bronx (1982) 📷 Martha Cooper
November 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
USA 🇺🇸 NYC métro subway ; graffiti Blade Blade, quartier du Bronx (1982) 📷 Martha Cooper
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For #FindsFriday Scandinavian objects found at Wijk bij Duurstede (Dorestad) - unsurprising given the importance of trade with Scandinavia, and Danish rule over the site for lengthy periods. Pictures: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden (RMO)
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
For #FindsFriday Scandinavian objects found at Wijk bij Duurstede (Dorestad) - unsurprising given the importance of trade with Scandinavia, and Danish rule over the site for lengthy periods. Pictures: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden (RMO)
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... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Leicester to consult on redundancies
University bosses are also planning to stop a number of courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
... and Leicester... Languages, History...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Delighted to add this article to my publications available to download:
Who ruled Frisia in the mid-ninth century? works.hcommons.org/records/n3a9...
Who ruled Frisia in the mid-ninth century? works.hcommons.org/records/n3a9...
Who ruled Frisia in the mid-ninth century?
An important article setting out the reasons for retaining the traditional view that Lothar I and II ruled the whole of Frisia between 840 and 869, from the Sincfal to the Weser, not just the western ...
works.hcommons.org
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Delighted to add this article to my publications available to download:
Who ruled Frisia in the mid-ninth century? works.hcommons.org/records/n3a9...
Who ruled Frisia in the mid-ninth century? works.hcommons.org/records/n3a9...
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Last night Trump directed the Pentagon to start testing nukes again. If that happens, it’ll be the first time the US has detonated a nuke in more than 30 years.
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-orders...
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-orders...
Trump Orders Nuclear Testing As Nuke Workers Go Unpaid
Everyone loses and nobody wins if America decides to resume nuclear testing after a 30 year moratorium.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Last night Trump directed the Pentagon to start testing nukes again. If that happens, it’ll be the first time the US has detonated a nuke in more than 30 years.
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-orders...
🔗 www.404media.co/trump-orders...
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This #FragmentFriday is found in De Thiende (1585), a groundbreaking #mathematical book by Simon Stevin, introducing the decimal separator (now , or . ) for fractions. It has a 19th century library binding, but retains the medieval parchment wrappers it was originally bound in.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This #FragmentFriday is found in De Thiende (1585), a groundbreaking #mathematical book by Simon Stevin, introducing the decimal separator (now , or . ) for fractions. It has a 19th century library binding, but retains the medieval parchment wrappers it was originally bound in.
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It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship!
We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
October 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
It’s the 1200th anniversary of the “Paris Meeting of 825,” at which a group of Frankish bishops discussed the permissibility of images in Christian worship!
We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
We are celebrating by meeting in Paris. 🎉
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So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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I'm getting that old that it's getting bloody hard to scroll all the way to my date of birth when filling out online forms. Unless it is really important, I now just select 2007
October 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I'm getting that old that it's getting bloody hard to scroll all the way to my date of birth when filling out online forms. Unless it is really important, I now just select 2007
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For #FindsFriday some of the lovely objects in the Ilanz hoard from Switzerland, buried during Charlemagne's reign, in the early 790s. Gold Lombard and Carolingian coins, silver Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon and Arabic coins, as well as gold jewellery. See more here: raetischesmuseum.app/extras/highl...
October 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
For #FindsFriday some of the lovely objects in the Ilanz hoard from Switzerland, buried during Charlemagne's reign, in the early 790s. Gold Lombard and Carolingian coins, silver Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon and Arabic coins, as well as gold jewellery. See more here: raetischesmuseum.app/extras/highl...
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If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.