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I knew it had to be Toronto before I googled it. The architecture is unmistakable.

Ontario's Halton Region shutting down heritage division, getting rid of 30,000-item historical collection | CBC News The region is hoping other organizations will take the items in order to keep them in public hands, but says anything it can't rehouse will be up for public auction – a move heritage advocates say can...

I predict that all the people who yowl, “History will be forgotten!” if we don’t name every damn thing after John A. Macdonald will be absolutely silent about this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A modern Circassian saddle, seen from behind. The tree holds the seat high over the horse’s back. There is a very heavily-stuffed four-lobed leather seat cushion attached at either end to the saddlebows.

I wonder if thirteenth-century Circassian saddles looked like present-day ones? In that case, it could be some word for high, or cushioned. What’s the text? I’d like to read something that mentions Circassians that early.

A Facebook post by the U.S. Coast Guard station in Burlington, VT, welcoming the CGC Hawser, a ship normally working out of New Jersey, to their port. They helpfully provide the station’s phone number: (802) 951-6760.

Looks like the local Coast Guard station have a Facebook page and a phone number where we can share our thoughts with them.

Oh look, they have a Facebook page and a phone number.

A Facebook post by the US Coast Guard Station in Burlington, VT, welcoming the CGC Hawser (home port Bayonne, NJ) to their port. It was posted six days ago.

Under this Facebook post, a commenter (not pictured) asks obliquely why certain boats on the lake have their AIS turned off. The comment is around the same time that the CGC Hawser is alleged to have been in Canadian waters.

This Coast Guard ship? It ought to be possible to verify the incident. Anyone got a paid subscription to MarineTraffic? www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai...

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This Coast Guard ship? The story ought to be verifiable. Anyone got a paid subscription to MarineTraffic? www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/detai...

Yay, you got there safely and on time!
Happy no skinks were harmed in the making of your soup. 😉

From Gaza to Amman, how UNRWA's family archives were rescued under fire Documents attesting to the refugee status of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were taken out of Gaza in the early months of the war and stored safely in Jordan. Le Monde reconstructed the story of this previously unreported secret operation.

From Gaza to Amman, how UNRWA's family archives were rescued under fire

Oh good, it’s not just me. Colloquial French is definitely its own dialect(s).

An illustration I did on a cat being a cat version of Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

In a cafe this evening, I made a palm-signing gesture to ask for the bill, and realized belatedly that no one in these parts has had to sign a restaurant receipt in …decades? The undergraduate waitress may never have seen the action that the gesture signifies.

The little dragon looks like he’s saying, “What’s that I smell?”

What has happened with Google search’s indexing? It used to be that you could search, in “”, a random Latin or old language phrase and if the text was digitized, it would come up.

This is not true anymore. I search for phrases in texts I KNOW are online and I get “no matches for your search terms”

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

I have read that pie crusts were the Tupperware of premodern times, so the pastry may indeed have been meant as a container, to be given to the dogs after use.

Rosehip kombucha was one of the happy discoveries I had in the Pankisi Valley. I hope they manage to export it someday.

I saw a lot of homes making solar power when I was in the Netherlands in May. Just regular row houses with a couple of panels on the roof.

They named a warship after Johan de Witt? Do they serve liver in the mess?

“Toronto is full. Cap its population.”

Fact check - most Toronto neighbourhoods have declining population since 1970.

My neighbourhood I grew up in declined -35.7%.

A Part of Our Intangible Cultural Heritage. That fight could have its own UNESCO listing.

A martial arts instructor of my acquaintance once taught a seminar in Australia. He started out with some responses to the classic hockey shirt grab. “But who starts a fight by grabbing your shirt?” his students asked. “Nobody does that.”

See the linked video in this thread. The anthropology paper writes itself: “The grammar of contention in the culture of drunk Canadian bros: a pretty funny case study.”

All the best!

Hmm, my research project would have to be about American law.
*Spends 30 seconds trying to think of an American law angle to trial by combat.*
*Spends another 30 seconds imagining living in the US.*
*Laughs darkly and wanders away.*

👀 Where’s this?

So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death.

A mini medieval story time!

I’ve also heard some people refer to “Number 9 Highway”. It seems to be a rural Central Ontario thing. You have to say it with Canadian raising: “Number Nein Heighwyy”.

Le ciel est bleu! L’enfer est rouge!