Tom Sharpe
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Geologist, writes on the history of geology and palaeontology, especially in the late 18th–early 19th C, and on the history of geology in Antarctica. Patron Lyme Regis Museum. Author of THE FOSSIL WOMAN A LIFE OF MARY ANNING (Dovecote Press 2020).
It is, rather, but it seems to go back only to the 1970s. The story was examined by a chap at the Library of Congress in 2017 blogs.loc.gov/folklife/201...
She Sells Seashells and Mary Anning: Metafolklore with a Twist | Folklife Today
A little while back, the internet was abuzz with the inspirational story of Mary Anning, a pioneering 19th-century paleontologist from Lyme Regis in England. Some of my favorite blogs and magazines go...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It is, rather, but it seems to go back only to the 1970s. The story was examined by a chap at the Library of Congress in 2017 blogs.loc.gov/folklife/201...
No, it's not. That's a popular myth. One of many about Mary Anning.
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
No, it's not. That's a popular myth. One of many about Mary Anning.
Lens cap? What's a lens cap? I have lots of 35mm slides with lens caps for scale but I no longer know what size the lens caps were. Likewise, coins. The UK shrunk the size of its 5p, 10p and 50p coins at some point so I have pics with larger coins and smaller coins and don't know which were which.
November 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Lens cap? What's a lens cap? I have lots of 35mm slides with lens caps for scale but I no longer know what size the lens caps were. Likewise, coins. The UK shrunk the size of its 5p, 10p and 50p coins at some point so I have pics with larger coins and smaller coins and don't know which were which.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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The soft tissues of the eyes were supported by a ring of thin bony plates, a sclerotic ring' which is what is well-preserved here.
November 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The soft tissues of the eyes were supported by a ring of thin bony plates, a sclerotic ring' which is what is well-preserved here.