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A personification of fever and ague (common cold) by Thomas Rowlandson, 1788.
"Buccaneer" derived from the French boucan, "a frame on which to cook meat." #BBQhistory http://t.co/pg9kUiVuqc
My new article for @appendixjournal on a pirate surgeon and his Panamanian sojourn. http://t.co/pg9kUiVuqc
Fools dancing in a circle from a French version of "The City of God" at the Hague, c. 1480.
My new @appendixjournal post on @mitchfraas & @BibliOdyssey's rocket cat & animal warfare. http://t.co/VYS26eh2Lq
A child blowing smoke into the faces of Kuna Indians, from Wafer's Description of Darien. http://t.co/6BspM8jdJh
Anyone understand this @HoughtonLib drawing? I gather King of France is the rooster, and the Florentines are eggs...
Ross Ulbricht: #SilkRoad mastermind, or extra from "The Lost Boys" (1987)? Or both? http://t.co/M5g8RwMSNm
Love the animals and costumes in this 1519 painting of spice harvesting in Java, from the Miller Atlas.