Jon Fell
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Corsica, Article 36, charities, pedantry.
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‘Portrait of a man’, who was 18th-century Corsican independence leader, goes on sale
‘Portrait of a man’, who was 18th-century Corsican independence leader, goes on sale
Painting of Enlightenment figure, whose constitution for the island inspired revolutionaries in US, is up for auction
Thirty years ago, a painting by the British artist Sir William Beechey was sold as “portrait of a man”.
The anonymous buyer, however, knew precisely who the unnamed man in the picture was: Pascal Paoli, the 18th-century Corsican independence leader and icon of the Enlightenment. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
‘Portrait of a man’, who was 18th-century Corsican independence leader, goes on sale
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RIP Steve Cropper 🎸
Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight (Live, 1970)
YouTube video by 60s70sVintageRock
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December 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
RIP Steve Cropper 🎸
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Le sketch pénible en cours ici est une amusante parabole.
Le lieu revendiqué de la bienveillance et des valeurs devient un nœud de vipères où des minorités très sûres de leur supériorité morale s'excluent mutuellement dans des guerres inexpliables d'une rare perversité.
Le lieu revendiqué de la bienveillance et des valeurs devient un nœud de vipères où des minorités très sûres de leur supériorité morale s'excluent mutuellement dans des guerres inexpliables d'une rare perversité.
June 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Le sketch pénible en cours ici est une amusante parabole.
Le lieu revendiqué de la bienveillance et des valeurs devient un nœud de vipères où des minorités très sûres de leur supériorité morale s'excluent mutuellement dans des guerres inexpliables d'une rare perversité.
Le lieu revendiqué de la bienveillance et des valeurs devient un nœud de vipères où des minorités très sûres de leur supériorité morale s'excluent mutuellement dans des guerres inexpliables d'une rare perversité.
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Interesting discussion, via a new biography, of the historian Christopher Hill, in the latest @lrb.co.uk:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
#History 🗃️
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
#History 🗃️
Stefan Collini · Agent of Influence: Christopher Hill’s Interests
Christopher Hill devoted his attention almost exclusively to 17th-century England; he wrote far more about intellectual...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Interesting discussion, via a new biography, of the historian Christopher Hill, in the latest @lrb.co.uk:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
#History 🗃️
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
#History 🗃️
Link to new blog article for the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, avec une traduction française
New blog post for Cambridge MAA / Nouvel article de blog pour le MAA de Cambridge
Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’s Digital Lab has recently posted a new article on the statuette of Campu Fiureddu, Layers of Meaning: A Corsican figurine at MAA, available via this l...
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April 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Link to new blog article for the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, avec une traduction française
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Easily overlooked amongst the teaching collections at MAA, a small figure from Corsica has a history entwined with archaeology, folklore, and cultural identity. In his blog post Jon Fell traces its journey from a 1926 auction to the debates surrounding it today: www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2025/04...
April 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Easily overlooked amongst the teaching collections at MAA, a small figure from Corsica has a history entwined with archaeology, folklore, and cultural identity. In his blog post Jon Fell traces its journey from a 1926 auction to the debates surrounding it today: www.maadigitallab.org/blog/2025/04...
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There’s a fucking Twix advert, when I am listening to podcasts, that has made me never ever wish to purchase a Twix in my life again and I will make it my mission to ensure that nobody I know buys that twin sticked chocolate monstrosity in the future.
Has anyone ever done a study on how much adverts proportionally and actively put people off the products being shown (way more than alluring prospective customers to the bloody things on offer)?
I swear all adverts totally repulse me to the thing on offer.
I swear all adverts totally repulse me to the thing on offer.
March 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
There’s a fucking Twix advert, when I am listening to podcasts, that has made me never ever wish to purchase a Twix in my life again and I will make it my mission to ensure that nobody I know buys that twin sticked chocolate monstrosity in the future.
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Nick Cave rispondi à i culleghjenti di Moltifau.
Un testu incù prufundezza, unistità, umurisimu è sopratuttu tracolmu di gentilezza: l'umanità benevulenti senza gnagnulimi. Ci cambia appena.
www.theredhandfiles.com/students-in-...
Un testu incù prufundezza, unistità, umurisimu è sopratuttu tracolmu di gentilezza: l'umanità benevulenti senza gnagnulimi. Ci cambia appena.
www.theredhandfiles.com/students-in-...
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #310 - We are some students in an elementary school, from 12 and 13 years. We have studied with our teacher about the death in your music. We’ve got some questio...
Dear Children from the College of Corsica, Thank you for your letter. I liked it a great deal. Your questions are so open, honest, curious...
www.theredhandfiles.com
January 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Nick Cave rispondi à i culleghjenti di Moltifau.
Un testu incù prufundezza, unistità, umurisimu è sopratuttu tracolmu di gentilezza: l'umanità benevulenti senza gnagnulimi. Ci cambia appena.
www.theredhandfiles.com/students-in-...
Un testu incù prufundezza, unistità, umurisimu è sopratuttu tracolmu di gentilezza: l'umanità benevulenti senza gnagnulimi. Ci cambia appena.
www.theredhandfiles.com/students-in-...
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Indescribably terrible—just a real collapse of the human purpose of the thing itself, self-inflicted, for some reason
Meta is testing, or has started to ship, its AI generated profiles, here on Instagram
www.instagram.com/himamaliv
#SocialWeb
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#SocialWeb
January 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Indescribably terrible—just a real collapse of the human purpose of the thing itself, self-inflicted, for some reason
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It’s three months since I launched London Centric, so here’s what’s happened and a little bit on what’s next. open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
The best of London Centric, so far
The investigations, exclusives, and intrigue you might have missed.
open.substack.com
January 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
It’s three months since I launched London Centric, so here’s what’s happened and a little bit on what’s next. open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
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How will I post things on my IG stories in the hopes someone will see them and fall in love with me
Meta down: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads not working amid major outage
www.independent.co.uk/tech/faceboo...
www.independent.co.uk/tech/faceboo...
The whole of Meta has broken
All of Meta’s platforms – Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads – appear to have broken in a huge outage.
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 8:09 PM
How will I post things on my IG stories in the hopes someone will see them and fall in love with me
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Dans quel état serait le monde sans cette invention salutaire ?
December 9, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Dans quel état serait le monde sans cette invention salutaire ?
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This made me laugh. Curb levels of embarrassment. heawood.substack.com/p/why-scotla...
Why Scotland Yard put me and my child on a register
and Stath Lets Flats is to blame.
heawood.substack.com
December 9, 2024 at 9:16 AM
This made me laugh. Curb levels of embarrassment. heawood.substack.com/p/why-scotla...
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Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
December 8, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
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🇬🇧🏫🌍🏺⚱️ “An estimated 350,000 African artefacts and manuscripts, as well as human remains, photographs and natural history specimens, have been found in a university's collections…”👇🏾
Cambridge University collections hold 350,000 African artefacts
The vast majority are in stores and they range from Maasai armlets and dodo skeletons to fossils.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 9:43 PM
🇬🇧🏫🌍🏺⚱️ “An estimated 350,000 African artefacts and manuscripts, as well as human remains, photographs and natural history specimens, have been found in a university's collections…”👇🏾
@jamiembrixton.bsky.social more Forsyth Majoring: jonfell73.substack.com/p/forsyth-ma...
Forsyth Major, Sir Arthur Evans, and a rediscovered ‘neolithic’ treasure
The clay tablet from Capo Pertusato located in the Ashmolean Museum
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November 26, 2024 at 7:22 AM
@jamiembrixton.bsky.social more Forsyth Majoring: jonfell73.substack.com/p/forsyth-ma...
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A bit more luck tracking down a 'lost' Corsican archaeological treasure. #Corsica #archaeology #ForsythMajor
A bit more luck tracking down a 'lost' Corsican archaeological treasure. #Corsica #archaeology #ForsythMajor
Forsyth Major, Sir Arthur Evans, and a rediscovered ‘neolithic’ treasure
The clay tablet from Capo Pertusato located in the Ashmolean Museum
jonfell73.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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A bit more luck tracking down a 'lost' Corsican archaeological treasure. #Corsica #archaeology #ForsythMajor
A bit more luck tracking down a 'lost' Corsican archaeological treasure. #Corsica #archaeology #ForsythMajor
November 17, 2024 at 11:37 AM
