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Vintage passport-style photograph of a man with a formal expression, wearing a dark suit and tie. The background is neutral, and there is a visible official stamp partially showing in the top left corner.

4 February 1901 | A Czech Jew, Josef Merksamer, was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Prague in late October 1944. He did not survive.

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You avoided comments about tumblers spinning, spinning classes, wool spinners along - gasp - ominous music, the different spinning of water emptying from one's sink depending one's lives in the Northern or the Southern hemisphere (see XFiles). Giggles. Now running before your patience runs out away

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Define 'the world'? (what follows is me being cheeky/not difficult/teasing). The world as planet Earth, the Solar system, the Milky Way? Or is it about bikes?

Vintage black-and-white portrait of a young man with short curly hair, wearing a suit and tie.

3 February 1916 | Italian Jew, Alberto Cassin, was born in Busca.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Fossoli on 22 February 1944.
He did not survive.

Thinking of voting for ReformUK Ltd.
Nigel Farage and Reform MPs want an American style insurance base system, to replace the NHS which is currently free at point of delivery for all U.K. citizens!
#NHS

Oliver North in background?

How does he know you will never be a grandpa? You have 3 boys, FGS.

I was a White House ethics lawyer.

I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.

I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

I love the stabbing of cake.

Piece of junk, crappy movie.

ex-Lord Mandelson!

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: 'I ain't going to surrender to Elon Musk' Ed Davey talks battling Elon Musk, why polls consider him a popular prime minister and his stunts show why the left is too serious.

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: 'I ain't going to surrender to Elon Musk'

Message de service : ce vendredi à 19h30, j'animerai un débat sur le thème « Comment l’extrême droite réécrit l’Histoire » dans la belle ville de Laon (02), à l’Étoile Noire, 5 rue Saint-Jean.

Venez nombreuses et nombreux !!!!
Poke @libertalialivre.bsky.social

I guess they are pretty upset.

For some reason.

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This post is awarded this evening best giggles medal.
(Russian marshals run in a special competition)

Ah, the old phallic charmer... Did Native tribes follow the same attraction to body parts as Romans or was their taste running in a different direction?

Amazing. Your picture has become a Sunday table talking point. So... unlike African lions, their mane was not all around the head but more in the chin, whiskers area. Question: what use in the ice age has a chin mane versus a full head mane for a lion?

My photo shows the left side profile of a head of a cave lion skilfully carved from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago (Aurignacian culture). Carved details include muzzle, nose, eye, raised ears, and cross-hatching on the neck to indicate a mane. The ivory is a light creamy brown in colour with a surface sheen, and darker patches caused by time spent buried in the ground. It is displayed against a dark background. The head measures 2.95 cm in length x 2.11 cm in height. On display Landesmuseum Württemberg Stuttgart.

Wonderful Ice Age art!

Some 40,000 years ago, this tiny head of a cave lion was skilfully sculpted from mammoth ivory. It is one of the oldest known works of figurative art!

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#Archaeology

Les tombes aristocratiques de Saint Dizier A Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne), à moins de cinquante centimètres sous le sol, l'Inrap a mis au jour les tombes de deux hommes et d'une femme, riches de quelque deux cents objets précieux, ainsi que les ...

Mysterious as in non-existent as there were no knights, no round table & no king Arthur? @jem-duducu.bsky.social @davidpetts1.bsky.social @jasoncolavito.bsky.social OTOH there were real 'lords of the rings'. www.inrap.fr/magazine/les.... See the sword @archeodgarcia.bsky.social

Let us not forget she suffered an awful journey in cattle cars. A very young child, sacrificed to racist delusional beliefs. A modern massacre of the innocents. I really wonder why God, any God would allow this.

Vintage black and white portrait of a young girl with a startled expression.

31 January 1940 | French Jewish girl of Polish origin, Evelyne Chwiedziuk, was born in Paris.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on 20 January 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

Thank you. Amazing. Enchanting. Bagsied.

🎨 Gentile Bellini

🎨 Portrait of a Young Scribe at Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, 1480 #15thcentury

Impressive wall. @archeodgarcia.bsky.social Question do we know if the wall was decorated like Le Mans city walls, same for Cologne walls. Or was it plain?

Vintage black-and-white portrait of a young girl wearing a collared dress and a headband.

1 February 1930 |A French Jewish girl, Mathilde Zameczkowski, was born in Paris.

In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and, after selection, murdered in a gas chamber.
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🎧 Listen about the development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/tRwZ49q-9e0

Monet suffered from cataract. As a fellow sufferer, I know how eyesight is altered when cataract. How old was Monet when he painted this? The blur, the fog of the painting, it has been mine for the last ten years; hence my question.

Read about ancient Egyptian beadnet dresses on this link:

fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/beadnet-dress/

My photo shows an ancient Egyptian beadnet dress on display at the MFA Boston. The dress is constructed of approximately 7,000 cylindrical faience beads which are arranged in a lozenge pattern which looks like netting. The beads were originally coloured blue and blue-green in imitation of lapis lazuli and turquoise, though their colour has now faded. The dress has a high waistband with shoulder straps which cover the chest, and a fringed hem with shells attached to it. It is displayed on the mannequin with a faience and gold broad colla (around the neck). When discovered, the original string had disintegrated though some beads still lay in their original place. The beads have been reassembled according to the original pattern. It’s suggested they were either sewn onto a linen dress or worn as a net over linen. The beadnet dress was excavated in 1927 from Giza, tomb G 7442 (formerly G 7440 Z) by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. It was assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. According to the museum label: “Depictions of women in Egyptian art occasionally feature garments decorated with an overall lozenge pattern. This design is believed to represent beadwork, which was either sewn onto a linen dress or worked into a separate net worn over the linen. This beadnet dress is the earliest surviving example of such a garment”.

Something lovely for the weekend!

A 4,500 year-old ancient Egyptian faience beadnet dress.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston collections.mfa.org/objects/1465...

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#Archaeology

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Not that it was wrong. One doesn't earn a doctorate in medicine studying mythologies just like an historian does not need bacteriology classes. It remains it is a pleasure to re-open our understanding along finding out school old friends when our world was really new & history myths were a tease.