Margaret Allen

Worksheet titled: "Evolving from Eel-less Language" and it includes a column titled "Instead of" with a red X, and a column titled "Say this" with a green checkmark. The "Instead of" column includes sayings like "You're doing it wrong" and "Look at those used condoms in the water!" The "Say this" column includes sayings like, "You're grabbing an eel by the tail" and "Hey! Manhattan eels!" I don't have the space here to list all of them. But each expression in the "Say this" column is a bonafide (read that in a Wharvey Gal's accent) historical eel metaphor. We'd all be better off if we talked more about eels.

We're all trying to be careful with our language, so as not to offend, or not to lose federal funding for talking about paragraph transitions.

To help you out, here's a worksheet to guide you in swapping out troublesome phrases for real, historical eel expressions.
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Central Asian Caravan Woman Rousing her Camel While Nursing ORIGINAL LANGUAGE TITLE 騎駱駝哺乳婦人俑 CULTURE Chinese DATE 8th century C.E. MEDIUM Earthenware with unfired coloring DIMENSIONS Overall: 16 × 18 × 11 inches (40.64 × 45.72 × 27.94 cm) CREDIT LINE Purchase: the Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts--Commerce Bank, Trustee, and Hall Family Foundation Endowment for the Oriental Department OBJECT NUMBER 2002.7 ON VIEW On view GALLERY LOCATION 229 COLLECTIONS East Asian Art TERMS ChineseCeramicsTang dynasty (618-906 C.E.)

Good afternoon and major props to this 8th century CE woman breastfeeding as she rides a Bactrian camel along the Silk Roads 🐫 art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/3254...

Oh wow some of those sessions look amazing. Is registration open to the public - people not affiliated with a university?

AAH 2026 poster. Info at: https://aah.conference.uiowa.edu/

Hello, the Association of Ancient Historians meeting will be here in Iowa City from April 16-18, 2026. We are so excited to welcome 23 speakers, 2 keynotes, and dozens of ancient history researchers. Please consider coming over! aah.conference.uiowa.edu

Long-Distance Trade in the Ancient World This book presents a novel perspective on long-distance trade in the ancient world that integrates network theory and environmental analysis

"traditional Eurocentric perspectives .. have tended to focus primarily on empires & imperial agency as the dominant analytical category. [This book argues] instead that environmental factors played a much greater role in influencing the formation of trade routes." link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

We’re thrilled to launch the BlueSky page for CONTACT
🧪We are using radiocarbon, isotopes, DNA & historical analysis to map the timeline of Norse expansion into North America. Follow along!
A 5-year ERC-funded project @rug.nl
#Norse #Archaeology #NorthAtlantic #Research

Hidden in plain sight: Did archaeologists really overlook evidence for early writing at Göbekli Tepe?! When Irving Finkel, esteemed Assyriologist and Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures at the British Museum, who’s always good for some really great publ…

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This is a good one!

Huns Turks and Mongols
Goddesses and witches
Osteology
Arthurian legends
A wonderful archaeological ceramics class

First lecture now available online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/founda... - if you’re in Oxford tomorrow, 29th, come hear the second live with drinks reception afterwards.

Three women on a raft move across a body of water in front of green, yellow, and brown mountains; white text announces the title of the book: THE WESTERNERS: MYTHMAKING AND BELONGING ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER; a narrow strip at left bears four images: Jim Beckwourth, Sacajawea, Ovando Hollister, and Polly Bemis.

Blueskis, studies have shown that when folks see or hear about a book more than five times, they are likely to check it out, and buy it.

So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!

Work in progress painting of a mammoth fossil over a highway map of Lincoln county in Nebraska.

I’m two sittings in on this little piece inspired by the mammoths at UNL’s Morrill Hall and Nebraska’s Highway Paleontology Program. Made with acrylic paint over powdered charcoal - Still quite a ways to go.

#mammoth #iceage #pleistocene #morrillhall 🐡 #fossils #paleoart #unl #painting #drawing

Were there abolitionists in ancient Greece and Rome?

New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from the upper Burgi Member, Koobi Fora Formation, Ileret, Kenya anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A highly stylized 3D knight character wearing red and white armor and brandishing a huge water cooled sniper rifle

A large red cel-shaded boss monster from the Dragon Prince: Xadia

Roughly 30 different avatars I made for Creature Crew

Mr. Negative and one of his goons from Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)

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On the lamb: 50 sheep break away from flock and storm German supermarket Woolly incursion occurred during seasonal migration of animals in the Bavarian municipality of Burgsinn About 50 wayward sheep have broken off from their flock and stormed a discount supermarket in German town, startling and delighting customers as they rushed to explore the aisles before being escorted from the premises. The woolly incursion occurred on Monday during a routine seasonal migration of the farm animals in the Bavarian municipality of Burgsinn. A few dozen of the sheep had other ideas about the route and made their way into a store of the Penny retail chain. Continue reading...

On the lamb: 50 sheep break away from flock and storm German supermarket

i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Yes — Camels Really Lived in Basel During the Roman Era! - Arkeonews Evidence from recent archaeological research in Basel shows that hybrid camels really lived in the city during the Roman era.

Yes — Camels Really Lived in Basel During the Roman Era ⛏️🐪🇨🇭 arkeonews.net/yes-camels-r...

A samurai sitting on a rock. A cat is on her right. Red water. Ink on paper.

Daily sketch 🥷🐈‍⬛️

I hope you can spot the cat

I have a hangover, bye

#art #artsky #ink #sketch

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

The California DMV is in deep need of reform. Enraging stuff, uncovered by a team of reporters at @calmatters.org

calmatters.org/investigatio...

[spoiler]

[yes, spoiler]

[scroll away as desired]

[spoiler decades later]

[extreme Joan Shawlee voice]

[this is for about seven of you]

AND THE RUBIES! IN THE TENNIS RACKET! DID YOU EVER? IT'S ADORABLE!

An old paperback copy of “Leave it to Psmith” by PG Wodehouse, showing a well dressed young man of means relaxing on a sofa.

Mine is not so practical as others, but it’s followed me since childhood, fish, flowerpots and all.

This is going to be so helpful for research and teaching. I can’t wait till it’s up and running.

Having said this, I’d be much obliged if you could go back in time two decades and make it available for me before I began transcribing thousands of thirteenth-century cases!

But what makes it all REALLY feel like I'm doing something right is having regular customers coming by just to say hi, show a friend something amazing, ask how I'm doing.

It's nice to sell things people like.
It's amazing to be a part of a community that thinks what you do is important.

The StW 573 Little Foot Fossil Should Not Be Attributed to Australopithecus prometheus Objectives To test the hypothesis that the StW 573 (Little Foot) fossil specimen should be attributed taxonomically to Australopithecus prometheus. Materials and Methods We adopt the methods of cl.....

No Australopithecus prometheus pero ¿tampoco Au. africanus? 🤔
The StW 573 Little Foot Fossil Should Not Be Attributed to Australopithecus prometheus
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Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man - Reactor Digging in to the nuances of religion, faith, and grace tucked inside the latest Benoit Blanc mystery

Have you read this yet? reactormag.com/entirely-too...

Alice has now seen “Wake Up Dead Man” which means now I can talk about “Wake Up Dead Man” as approximately one million of you have asked me to do. intermittent live-blog in the quoted thread. gay Catholic musings below:

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter
—Infanta?
—No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

The same building still surrounded by snow cover trees but now lit up by the sun

The sun came out