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Rodney Mancuso
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PhD student at SLU studying late 5th/early 6th century Gaul and Italy. Italophile. (Sorry, France.) Purveyor of fluffy pastries. Has a Turkish goat hide in the garage.
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June 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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"Woke historians won't stop talking about white supremacy!"
The Houston Chronicle in 1905:
Old newspaper text reading, in part, "Governmental policies, fiscal schemes and all other questions relating to government and statecraft were of less moment in the eyes of the white men of Texas than was the importance of the absolute unqualified and undisputed supremacy of the white man in the matter of government."
December 11, 2024 at 4:10 AM
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September 26, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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I get to live in a castle for the next four weeks: a rather exciting development.
June 23, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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The tablet itself:
A black and white photograph of an eroded, rolled up metal curse tablet.
June 15, 2024 at 1:20 AM
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Also here, is a delightfully floofy and majestic pigeon I discovered in Chicago.
A pigeon standing on a concrete sidewalk with his dark grey feathers poofed out around him. Some feathers around his head are iridescent. He positively radiates majesty.
June 13, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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Let the dogification of Bluesky proceed apace!
A light cream colored golden retriever sitting and looking at the camera with a pleasant but goofy expression.
June 13, 2024 at 1:23 AM
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Famous graffito in Greek left by an ancient tourist:

"I didn't like anything but the sarcophagus!"
A brightly lit dun-colored stone wall on which is carved two colored Egyptian figures surrounded by graffiti in Greek letters.
April 17, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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Picked up the DC talk album later.
March 28, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Really, 1891? Do better.
A blurry photo of microfilm of an 1891 newspaper reading "On a pretty girl saying to Rufus Choate, "I am very sad-you-see," he replied, "O no; you belong to the old Jewish sect ; you are very fair-I-see!"
March 26, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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A Star Trek Cardassian standing menacingly in front of four bright lights, separated into a four by four CAPTCHA grid and captioned "Select... All 5 Lights"
March 1, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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A cartoon of two tired, disheveled WW2 US soldiers sitting in a marsh. One says, "Joe, yestiddy ya saved my life an' I swore I'd pay ya back. Here's my last pair of dry socks."
March 1, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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I found this a while ago while researching something completely unrelated. From a late 19th century Texas newspaper.
February 15, 2024 at 4:28 AM
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A top down shot of a brown and yellow dog with his face and chest obscuring the rest of his body. Text: "He looks like we mounted him to the wall."
November 12, 2023 at 12:14 AM
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Poking around in an old yearbook and found this photo. Had to stop myself from dying laughing in the library. Plus ça change...
A young man and woman walk together, his hand around her waist. He looks backward at a different young woman walking the other direction while his partner's face expresses disapproval.
November 10, 2023 at 6:28 AM