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An amazing display of inter-species coordination.

["Buch der Weisheit der alten Weisen" (Book of Fables and Moral Stories). 15thC translation of a 13thC Latin trans. of an earlier Hebrew trans. of a Sanskrit text] https://t.co/VEd8lNLQ2t

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2019-05-24

Puce: a colour favored by Marie Antoinette & popular in the late 18thc/ early 19thc. Puce is French for flea; the colour is described as resembling congealed blood or a flea after it’s been crushed on white linen— a familiar shade in its heyday.

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2019-05-24

The colour most people associate with Oliver is black, by the way he is depicted in films. In reality are no portraits of him wearing black (& few descriptions) as it was an expensive dye, so Charles I is more commonly shown wearing it!

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2019-05-16

Octopus: a very small exhibit// 1. Mosaic, Isthmia, Greece 2. BANC MS UCB 085 (14th c) 3.Ulisse Aldrovandi, Animali, watercolor (16th c) 4. Ito Jakuchu (Japan, 18thc) 🎨 🖌️ ✏️ 🖊️

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2019-05-03


I hope that for the 10th anniversary of THC, Martin is included, one of my favourite villians in horror movies

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2019-04-22

Tozoztontli, the Third Month of the Aztec Solar Calendar (c. 1585); from the Tovar Codex, attributed to the 16thC Mexican Jesuit Juan de Tovar; this page represents the month of April with the astrological symbol of a bull; via https://t.co/yUTprV3sjJ

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2019-04-18

Mostly a Western phenomenon, but they have an Asian counterpart in the kirin, a similar creature with 2 horns. Their existence was discredited by end of 16thC, but by then unicorns had a cultural stronghold in art: https://t.co/5zONSpbvhR via

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2019-04-09

Snake Tales from 19th-Century America (with a connection). New on the blog https://t.co/8eJX2qS9cE

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2019-04-05

The Cat’s Repast
by Gilles Antoine Demarteau (the Younger)
1778 or 1779
Maintained by the Art Institute of Chicago, but not on display

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2019-03-31

The second installment of The World of Thomas Turner, extracts from a rural 18thC diary, is up on in which our hero gets into a spot of bother after drinking at the Dorset Arms in Lewes.

Illustrations by the amazing

https://t.co/nx0mDWINY5

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2019-03-27

Maria Sibylla Merian’s early 18thc natural history illustrations, she was a major contributor to – particularly with her research on the metamorphosis of butterflies

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2019-03-21

Spotlight on - Elizabeth Blackwell was a talented 18thc botanical artist who had a difficult life and an even more difficult husband, who she supported from debtors prison to accusations of high treason. Discover more: https://t.co/DegLmnANpf

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2019-03-08

Eccentric London dentist Martin Van Butchell rode his purple painted pony in Hyde Park on Sundays and displayed his embalmed wife in his surgery. Find out why at https://t.co/viU76fsKxo

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2019-03-01

NEW THC! Dr. Diana Pasulka | American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, & Technology https://t.co/7H2epGdn3o Not one to miss! In American Cosmic, Diana writes about many things. Most interesting to me was her time within the "inner circle." Enjoy!

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2019-03-01