My photo shows a Hellenistic era hemispherical mosaic glass bowl viewed from above. The glass has a floral pattern made up of tiny, many-petalled blue, white, and yellowy-green flowers against a dark purple background (looks black in my photo). The bowl has an alternating diagonal-striped black and white glass rim. The bowl has been reconstructed from fragments and the plain light blue areas are where missing glass fragments have been replaced during reconstruction. It measures 13.2 cm in diameter and 7.5 cm in height. It was made in the eastern Mediterranean about 200-100 BC.

This Hellenistic mosaic glass bowl looks so modern, yet it was made over 2,000 years ago!

Ancient glassmakers created the tiny flower pattern using a technique now known as ‘millefiori’ (thousand flowers). A timeless design still made by glassmakers today!

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Mesmerising in its hideousness. Zoom in, and out, and in again.

I can’t compete with this

'Rare' Seacroft Hospital red telephone box given listed status The box is only one of seven K8 Mark IIs in the country to be listed, according to Historic England.

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Fascinating history of Trig Points.... c20society.org.uk/news/heritag...

Drone pictures show that massive Kent solar farm is nearly complete The facility is the UK's biggest and covers the area of 500 football pitches

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Check out the new design for the Czech Constitution A graphic designer, a paper specialist and a typographer are behind the fresh contemporary look

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Pendle Weaving Mills Design Code Supporting the sustainable use and redevelopment of historic textile mills

Historic England and Donald Insall Associates have released a Design Code for Weaving Mills developed with Pendle Borough Council - the integrated approach to social and built heritage will be relevant to many projects at industrial buildings. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/47dc...

Many other examples (eg, the Philippines pictured).

In Sweden, speeding cameras don't just catch speeders, they also enter drivers going the proper speed into a lottery to win cash prizes funded by the traffic tickets. We should do the same with timely tax filers.

Dales pony and owner embark on trek between Dorset hill forts Roger Sewill has given himself three weeks to complete the challenge with his pony Scarlet.

Roger Sewill's 3 week 200 mile challenge to walk to every Iron Age hillfort across Dorset to support @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social begins today

With perfect timing for #HillfortsWednesday 😊

Good luck Roger 👍

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US soldiers headed to the frontlines of the Philippine-American War in 1899.

During the 1898 Spanish-American War, US troops stationed in the Philippines wore sand-colored pants made from a heavy cotton twill woven in China. Since the Philippines had been under Spanish colonial rule at this time, the locals call these "pantalones chinos" (Chinese pants).

A new house in a South Downs village is a masterful example of modern rural design Sandy Rendel Architects has completed Monkton, a generous country house that finds richness and warmth in careful detailing and modest materiality

Not getting the rural vibes, but nice anyway www.wallpaper.com/architecture...

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Collaborative Doctoral Awards Learn more about our Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

We're currently recruiting for five (yes five!) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership awards at IWM See the full list of projects and partners here, with further details of how to apply: www.iwm.org.uk/research/doc...

Not Jesus, obviously, just some bloke selling loaves and fishes

"The image clearly depicts me as a simple vendor of seafood sandwiches"

A vintage black-and-white historical photograph of astronomer Elizabeth Langdon Williams standing outdoors in early 20th-century attire. She wears a wide-brimmed hat with fur trim, a long dark coat or cape with light-colored collar and fringe details, a long pleated skirt, and gloves, holding what appears to be a camera in front of her. She stands in front of a large industrial building with open garage doors and wooden plank flooring, looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.

A detailed, full-disk view of the dwarf planet Pluto captured from space, showing its rugged, mottled surface in shades of tan, brown, and pale beige. The icy world displays a large, bright heart-shaped region (Tombaugh Regio) on the right side contrasting with darker equatorial areas, numerous craters, and subtle textural variations across its spherical form, set against a deep black background of space.

Pluto was discovered #OTD in 1930.

Clyde Tombaugh confirmed visually after searching the specific area predicted by Elizabeth Williams' complex mathematical models. A 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳, she analyzed irregularities in the orbits of Uranus & Neptune thought be caused by a 9th planet. #WomenInSTEM 1/2

Trump posting an AI photo of himself as the Pope

And, for the record, this was also very obviously Trump depicting himself as a doctor. About to do a prostate exam.

Mysterious Lake District barn joins national treasures on heritage list Officials grant Grade II* protection to ‘rare building that raises more questions than it answers’

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Comic ✍️: Tom the Dancing Bug’s Dementia Donnie wants his pudding, you crazy bastards!
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Belle And Sebastian debut new Scottish football anthem "It Only Takes One Lion" ahead of this summer's World Cup

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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

An image showing the Newhaven cliffs in the background, with sailing ships and barges in the middle, and a part of a broken up groyne in the foreground.

Image of the sweep of Seaford Bay, showing Newhaven in the background with a windmill on the far hill, a facory with smoke, people walking along the beach, and rows of wooden groynes in an arc. A woman walks with her child and a basket towards Seaford (or Tidemills?)

Close up of the woman and child, also a man sitting on one of the groynes and another family of three -- a man, woman and child. In the background are the buildings of Newhaven, with one having a smoking stack. A sailing ship is moving through Mill Creek, having entered through Newhaven Harbour at the River Ouse.

Trying to find out more about an image of a painting we hold at Newhaven Museum. It's of Seaford Bay, between Newhaven and Seaford. These are a few closeups. #SussexCoast Anyone have any clues as to painter or date?

BREAKING: Bristol music legend Rob del Naja arrested in London.
Full story here:
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The illustration you provided is titled Sinking of the Titanic and was created by the German maritime artist Willy Stöwer. Published in the magazine Die Gartenlaube in 1912, shortly after the disaster, it became one of the most iconic early depictions of the tragedy.

This image is a commemorative feature from The Illustrated London News published shortly after the Titanic disaster on27 April, 1912, highlighting the band members who perished. The band, led by Wallace Hartley (centre), famously continued playing music until the ship sank to calm passengers. All eight musicians, including those pictured, died in the sinking. The group was composed of two smaller ensembles—a quintet and a trio—that joined together on the final night.

On 10 April 1912 eight musicians boarded a ship on its initial voyage from Southampton. One was bandmaster Wallace Henry Hartley. Just days later Wallace and his fellow musicians would be almost legendary figures. The ship you see was the RMS Titanic. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/musi...

Absolute marble. Would physics again.

This is the Church House, originally a farm house, in Grassington, Yorkshire. Can anyone help with the meaning of the symbols, the wheel crosses and the inverted hearts please? I'd love to know!

'Labor Vincit Omnia', Work Conquers All on the corner of Darley Street and Kirkgate, Bradford, West Yorkshire, built for the Bradford Banking Company in 1858 by Andrews & Delanney. Few British cities can boast as many grand Victorian commercial buildings as Bradford. 1/3
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A wall of rust on an old barn

A wall of rust.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #abandoned #decay #snow #rust

Red Kite (Milvus milvus): This European, Asian & north African bird of prey utilises its wingspan of up to 179cm (70in) to great affect soaring, drifting & when necessary acrobatically diving. In-flight photo taken by David Newman in the UK #kite #redkite #hawk #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography

Abandoned Battle of Britain control tower to become a home for holidaymakers … and six species of bat Council backs £700,000 plan to save historic landmark at former RAF base in the New Forest A unique RAF watch office that has been crumbling for decades is to be turned into a smart hideaway home to be shared by holidaymakers – and the bats that already use it. The Landmark Trust, which rescues at-risk buildings, has been given permission to convert the ruined property in Hampshire into a holiday retreat with four bedrooms and a roof terrace. Continue reading...

Abandoned Battle of Britain control tower to become a home for holidaymakers … and six species of bat