Plasterwork of a skeleton blowing bubbles set against a pale blue wall.
I am so, so tired. And I know you are, too.
Here's “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution, it became a hospital.
For those who couldn’t read it when it was a LinkedIn post, a useful explanation by a former National Archives & Records Administration employee of some of its responsibilities that you may not be aware of.
Essentially NARA documents a lot of the functions of the state.
#NoDemocracyWithoutArchives
Have just heard the Labour Housing Minister Alex Norris on 5 Live make the unlikely claim that: “We don’t set policy as a result of political considerations.”
I like t shirts; cheap, easily replaced, none of that insufferable bullshit about buttons.
And I like the discursive, or tangential, or, occasionally, ironic nature of footnotes.
So I might buy this t-shirt
Attributed to Jean Clouet (1480–1541), "Portrait of Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre", c. 1527, oil on panel, 62 x 52.5 cm, Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, UK).
www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/por...
#art #arthistory #parrot #bird #painting #oilpainting
Painting of a stout Henry VIII in the famous leg splayed stance, dressed in finely decorated clothes, clasping a sheathed dagger. It is based on an original by Holbein.
You know this portrait of Henry VIII that you always see reproduced but never credited? It's in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/hen...
Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine!
The little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company first chugged onto our screens today in 1959.
Toot-toot! 🚂
#onthisday #wales
Today I welcome @freeburian.bsky.social to my blog for a Q&A about his latest book and managed to ask him how Shakespeare spent Christmas 🎄 amymcelroy.blog/2024/12/24/g...
Mr glorious
Peterborough’s ale conners were routinely suspected of being overzealous and insisting on extra tests; and there were also complaints about people claiming to be ale conners on doubtful authority… 🍻
The flat-earth paper argues that people who live further from Africa are more intelligent, but the method used to measure distance from Africa assumes the earth is flat. When this error was pointed out, nothing was done because it was a “nit-picking” criticism www.frontiersin.org/journals/com...
DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
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10. Smallpox
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I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated.
We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.
I very much do not want this AT ALL, but the US billionaire oligarchy may have just entered the FO stage of FAFO.
Strong and fair democracies are still the best defence against chaos, violence, and oppression that we flawed humans have devised.
The way this genuinely hurt me.
I’m fed up of hearing politicians and journalists talking about immigrants as if they’re not people. Repost if you agree!🚨🚨🚨
I have just had the pleasure of looking through @drchrishiggins.bsky.social's amazing 'Wide Wandring Weemen' database that shows 2000+ journeys of English women throughout Europe and West Asia. #EarlyModern Women MOVED everyone - check it out! 🗃️https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/#
Early Renaissance manuscript illustrated initial letter K showing a naked man - a prisoner with a ball and chain - sitting in a chair with his legs extended before him and a big peacock-like bird diving in to peck at his genitals (Kyrie initial from Jean Courtois' "Missa Domine quis habitabit", 1542, in the Cambrai Library)
Abbot: Your manuscripts are looking dull. Try to jazz up the illustrations
Monk: 'K
21 years ago today #radiohead #thomyorke
27 years ago. RIP #michaelhutchence
Finding out rhat my great aunt was a Suffragette
A white enamelled skull stares out from a gold mourning ring. The skull is surrounded by a ring of rubies which appear quite dark in this image.
The reverse of the bezel of a gold mourning ring which is enamelled with a floral design. The flower has six bold yellow petals which appear quite striking against the white enamel.
A colourful reminder of mortality in this gold ring which has a skull and crossbones shaped bezel, enamelled in white. The skull is bordered by rubies - which look quite a bit more purple here than they do in real life. c.1550-75. From V&A #skystorians #mementomori
what?!?
A man is holding a flying dragon on a line.
Take your dragon out for a fly.
This is an #earlymodern advice (from Athanasius Kircher), on how to and when to use your private #dragon to make an impression. The image is part of Kircher's 1678 "Mundus Subterraneus" (access: www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb1... ), and ...
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"Vaccination has probably saved more lives & is better researched than most, if not all, aspects of healthcare. RFK Jr could set this back & be responsible for the death & disability of myriads of people, particularly children.”
Outstanding BBC fact check on RFK 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
