So beautiful! Thinking about how the colors of flowers are often geared towards pollinators in ways the human eye can’t see it feels oddly poetic that your original watercolor has subtleties that get lost in translation with the scan

With Away in a Manger we are treated to this gem: There’s no evidence that Martin Luther wrote this song but there’s no evidence he DIDN’T write it either!

I read Light From Uncommon Stars with friends earlier this year for a book club and we all really enjoyed it! I liked the way it made the most of its wonderfully strange premise and played with tropes from different genres

It was written in 1910, well before the Troubles or even Independence, but James Connolly’s Labour in Irish History still provides a good introduction to centuries worth of anticolonial struggle

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Are there any unusual conditions or environments that are conducive to this mode of replacement or is it just contingent on the fossil forming in an area with beryl deposits like with opalized fossils?

Some of this is just imitation; Bolívar like Washington intentionally styled himself as a virtuous republican statesman, but it is kinda eerie how the original plan to bury Washington in the crypt beneath the Capitol rotunda prefigured Lenin’s mausoleum

Also, each of them ended up becoming the father of their respective countries even though they never had any children of their own!