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The "Great Sea of the West", taking up half of the USA. A giant imaginary northern feature drawn on maps like Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes(1750) by de l’Isle and Buache. It was based on the dodgy account of Juan de Fuca, a Greek sailor who probably never actually existed.
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Marchesa Luisa Casati in 1922, muse of artists like Man Ray. To make an impression at a party she commissioned a plug-in dress with hundreds of tiny electric bulbs, that short-circuited and gave her such a shock that the blast caused her to somersault backwards
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A Quite Interesting account from the team behind the BBC show QI.
QI Head of Digital, Pop DJ, morpharotic dream from a magazine
Composer, lyricist, author, broadcaster
Dr Hana Videen (she/her), author of THE WORDHORD: DAILY LIFE IN OLD ENGLISH & THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY. Sharing the Old English Word of the Day since 2013.
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Screenwriter, storyliner - Vikings, Those About to Die, Tudors etc. Author, former QI writer. Historical consultant Peaky Blinders, Pirates of the Carribean and a few others.
#Spain's only English speaking #TalkRadio network | #BBCWS + #Sky partners | X: @TRETalkRadio | @TRERadioApp | facebook.com/TalkRadioEurope | tre.radio
✈️ I'M COMING TO SEE YOU! Want to come to a show but no $? Email me ➡️ Ariamaamfordba@gmail.com
A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
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Lezen. Opera. Middeleeuwen. Vandaag. Boeken. Erfgoed. Schrijven. Fietsen. Nijmegen. Archieven. Musea. Muziek. Bibliotheken. Groninger in Gelderland.
Novelist. Debut 'A Strange and Brilliant Light' (Arcadia/Quercus) won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain's Best First Novel 2022. I'll pretty much only post about random old music, that is my promise to you.
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The official account of Comedy Bang! Bang! and CBB World.
cbbworld.com
Formerly GuerillaMemoir over there
Writer, editor at Brevity, literal fire-eater
Give yourself permission.
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Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
#Archaeologist. Neolithic-Bronze Age. Doctoral thesis on ~4000 socketed axes from Romania. ~15 years at early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe / Türkiye. Now public relations and research @landesmuseumhalle.bsky.social. Also #photography. Private account.
Curator for the reception of the ancient Mediterranean at the British Museum - PhD in classical archaeology and museum studies - Opinions my own - she/her
Curator of Archaeology at Orkney Museum. PhD in Viking/Late Norse Scotland/social zooarchaeology. Lecturer - Archaeology Institute UHI.
Whelk!
Head LEIZA Exhibition Department ▪︎
Zooarchaeologist ▪︎ Archaeology, Museum, Animals, and Books ▪︎ Private / Feierabend account, views own ▪︎ For more LEIZA follow me @leizafriends.bsky.social and of course @leizarchaeology.bsky.social
Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Archaeologist | Prähistorikerin
archaeology, museum & sketchnotes
Leiterin Museum Schloss Klippenstein/Radeberg
(zuvor u.a. SLUB Dresden/Buchmuseum, smac Chemnitz, AMF FFM) | private account
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