I've never been one to design my characters, but I've been trying it with those in my new manuscript, and I LOVE it. Amazing how I've learned so much about these guys just by putting them together with a Picrew! but also Link: https://t.co/nzAehxpdon

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Cherry Lake Publishing Group/ is thrilled to present the Own Stories Award! With this award, they hope to reach a more inclusive audience of children. For full details and info on how to submit a manuscript, visit https://t.co/OgoFr31RGs.

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4. Peter Apian, Cosmographie, Paris, 1581 (original lead weight!). https://t.co/LbCIowgS3u
5. Vincenzo Capirola, Lute Manuscript, 1517. https://t.co/H1H3ZKcfkV
6. Anonymous, Cordiform Map in Fool’s Cap, engraving, c. 1590. https://t.co/hXwqiyIfIB

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Advent Calendar 2020, Explained!


1. German Calligraphic Calendar Manuscript, 1617
https://t.co/X3Do2Zw1S8

2. Albrecht Dürer, World Map, 1515 (1781)
https://t.co/ceuZJfjsSQ

3. Girdle Book and Master BF miniature
https://t.co/Olcw82eYLg
https://t.co/5KYkBZnyRV

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A piece of a forgotten medieval manuscript, Kitten Jousting

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Pages from the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary, c. 1500. This manuscript, created in Suffolk, England, provides unique testimony to the natural knowledge and mythical imagination of the Tudor era. 🦌

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The beautiful Copiale cipher manuscript, written in the 1730s but only cracked in 2011. It was revealed to be the work of a German secret society called the "High Enlightened Oculist Order of Wolfenbüttel", and details their initiation rites, which included eyebrow plucking

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This week's Museum Crush digest: down a deep well in Brighton, a convict escape caper, a forgotten medieval manuscript, portraits of musical women and how to explain the Stone Age. https://t.co/9telpTmGqS

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Bringing old stories to life at the House of Manannan, a scene by Julia Ashby-Smyth. Inspired by the Medieval manuscript, The Chronicles of the Kings of Man and the Isles. In 1228, King Olaf II faced his brother Reginald at Tynwald. It didn’t end well for Reginald!

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Codex Zouche-Nuttall: A Rare, Accordion-Folded Pre-Columbian Manuscript, finished around 1556. “Considered to be of pre-Hispanic origin, since it preserves a strong indigenous tradition in its pictographic techniques…” https://t.co/vQ9n1M9AAg via

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And finally, medieval rabbit marginalia and an actual note found in the margin of an illuminated manuscript, left by a man who truly hated his boss

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We know a lot about the beautiful just not the composer! It's from 1716 & dedicated to future HRE Charles VII. Read for more:
https://t.co/25zr68dwPv

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On this day, July 16, 1816, finished writing her first version of Persuasion. Not happy with the ending, she worked two more days to perfect it. See her original manuscript, with her cross-outs and revisions here.
https://t.co/GAYxPhR8Uy

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If you need a little escapism this week, look out for our final pull out in today’s . Discover magical myths and legends, study a stunning medieval manuscript, and find out about the amazing upcoming activities on offer in our renovated Keep.

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The abandoned manuscript, because I won't continue to draw this story,so I will post it to everyone watch.

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Just received these stunning figures of African painted dog (#Lycaon pictus) forelimb muscles for our manuscript, beautifully illustrated by

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"Approach & Entry Into Dis," Italian manuscript, 1355.

"Tell him to go away. Just get out there and tell him we're not voting for fucking Bloomberg."

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Every time I look at the manuscript, I’m shaken. There’s Europe, in kaleidoscopic fragments, at the moment of its implosion . . . and it goes on and on, all the way down.

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OTD, 1415, the Battle of
L: miniature from C15th French manuscript, shows evenly matched battle (far from truth).
R: John Gilbert’s “Morning of the Battle of Agincourt” (1884, Guildhall Art Gallery) imagines a dejected English army, knowing it is impossibly outnumbered

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Did you know that Bound by Fate is set in two time periods? The story is told both through Shane and Lavina. To celebrate finishing the manuscript, the first two are available!

Chapter one: https://t.co/kHtueEnDLw
Chapter two: https://t.co/t2CetFV6Xx

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