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"did she REALLY break the internet, Grandpa???"

Fearing when I'm elderly and I'll just have to answer over and over, "Yes, this was a thing."

All major news outlets are covering this story. I'm sure if arson is determined to be the cause, it will rise to the top of the news cycle.

Banner for Famous Last Words, Dr. Jane Goodall, now showing on Netflix.

From Netflix Insta: "Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall, a UN Messenger of Peace, sat down for a deeply reflective conversation about her legacy & to immortalize her final words w/ the understanding that it would only be shared w/ the world after she passed."

“Famous Last Words” is now on Netflix

A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.

A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm).
Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom.

📷Metropolitan Museum

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The photo shows a wooden model of a cow giving birth accompanied by two men. One man calms the cow while the other ensures a proper delivery.The calf emerges from his mother, licking the hand of the man.

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.

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Juan, Prince of Asturias Juan, Prince of Asturias I’ve been reading a bit of Spanish history lately, researching the life of Queen Isabella of Castile. She had a considerable number of children, however only one male child…

Juan, Prince of Asturias, died on this day in 1497

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I hope there will be proper funereal delights and light refreshments 😔

This feels like a Heatheresque flex, but I knew her as just another college classmate. I am stunned.

Detail from an 18th-century print depicting bewigged James Graham riding astride a large phallic instrument labelled 'Largest in the World' as a little duck says 'quack quack quack' at his feet

Feels a bit early in the day to be posting this, but if I'm spending the morning with 18th-century sex therapist & supposed 'Prince of the Quacks' Dr James Graham then so can you 🍆

What did Blackbeard the Pirate really look like? — RoyaltyNow Blackbeard is a name we all seem to know, gone down in history as one of most legendary pirates of all time. But what do we know about the man behind the flaming beard? Who was he? What did he look…

Article: What Did Blackbeard the Pirate Really Look Like?

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Interesting paper trail... back when a hotel register was more than SVU evidence!🧳

In 2016, Jane Goodall spoke at the International Primatological Society meetings. She closed her talk asking everyone to thank the primates we studied not with applause, but with their calls. And so a room full of Very Eminent Primatologists made delighted monkey noises to Jane Goodall. ⚱️🐒🧪🌍

The photo features Jane Goodall and infant chimpanzee Flint reach out to touch each other's hands. Flint was the first infant born at Gombe (Tanzania) after Jane arrived. With him, she had a great opportunity to study chimp development. Photo source: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/jane-goodall/

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Question: "If chimps are so much like us, why are they endangered while humans dominate the globe?"

Goodall: "Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful."

— #JaneGoodall, 3 Apr. 1934 - 1 Oct. 2025

#ForeverInspiring #LegacyOfHope 🧪

The Women Who Ran Senegambia How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town.

The Women Who Ran Senegambia: How trade shaped the lives of the people who lived in a 17th century West African port town. An excerpt from The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green at History News Network #slaveryarchive www.hnn.us/article/here...

Here’s my favourite miniature portrait Chapps …. an unidentified man with a Latin motto above his head ‘Alget qui non ardet / he grows cold who does not burn’.

It was painted c. 1610 by Isaac Oliver, a pupil of Hilliard. Part of the collections at Ham House.

RIP Jane Goodall. In addition to all her other wonderful qualities, she also had a sense of humour, and once even wrote a foreward to a collection of Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons.
#janegoodall #farside #garylarson

Today we lost one of my biggest inspirations for going into the environmental field.

Dr. Jane Goodall will be greatly missed, but we can carry on her legacy by not giving up hope and continuing the fight to make this planet a better place.

Source: ABC Australia

From “Me …Jane” by Patrick McDonnell

RIP Jane Goodall

Why I Went Plant-Based (And Why We Should All Eat Less Meat) Dr. Goodall went plant-based after confronting what that meat represents: pain. Since, she learned more reasons why the work to #eatmeatless is important.

RIP Jane Goodall. I feel like it's shortchanging her legacy to focus only on her work with chimpanzees when her compassion extended to ALL animals. One of the best ways you can honor & continue her legacy is to incorporate more plant based meals into your life. ❤️ news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...

What a genuine hero. I hope we continue to be inspired by Jane, to do better.

OPUS SECTILE OF THE DOMUS OF PORTA MARINA, 385-388 CE. MUSEO DELLE CIVILTÀ This is the most magnificent interior from late-antique Ostia. The room is divided into two parts, with the smaller part, a large alcove, visible at far right. The main part of the hall has a surviving floor, which repeats the geometric themes of the wall, particularly an almost obsessive use of peltæ-like shapes, but these are fancier than ordinary peltæ, which originally represented the shields of the barbarian Amazons. The north wall is separated from the alcove by a huge acanthus-scrolled pilaster. The lowest register of the wall is made of large panels of giallo antico with complex frames separated by smaller panels in serpentino and giallo antico. Above this is a register which picks up the acanthus-scroll theme of the pilasters. The next register up, very fragmentary, shows large scenes of tigers attacking animals, in this case a stag, and a further register, almost nonexistent, has circles and geometric shapes.

#MosaicMonday takes us back to the #MuseodelleCiviltà in the #EUR, and to the breathtaking #opussectile hall of the #domus of #PortaMarina in #OstiaAntica, to get an overall view of the north wall. This is #LateAntiquity at its most refined, a real masterpiece of stonework. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Round portrait miniature of Mary Herbert (née Sidney), Countess of Pembroke (1590). She has very curly strawberry blond hair, poofed out on both sides, and with a lace cap - more like a doily - on top. An exquisite and large lace cartwheel ruff frames her face, quite literally like an enormous fan opened up behind and around her head. Her jewelry is a series of choker necklaces and two pendant necklaces - most of them are very dark, but are in fact made with silver and have tarnished. Her bodice is open with a v-shaped embroidered stomacher revealed amid a dark garment. She is posed 3/4 view, facing left, but looks directly at the viewer with her dark eyes, which are startling in such a fair face with blonde eyebrows. Mary Herbert (née Sidney), Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621) was a writer and literary patron, at a time when such pursuits were denied to most women. She was the sister of Sir Philip Sidney and his literary collaborator. Following his early death she became a noted supporter of the writers to whom he had acted as patron. Mary would eventually complete Sidney's paraphrasing of the Psalms and oversee the publication of his poems, including The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1593 and 1598) which her brother had dedicated to her. National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 5994)

This portrait miniature features a man in a hat grasping a hand that has descended from a cloud. Is it an allegory of constant love, or love for the monarch, Queen Elizabeth I? He has pale skin and wavy pale red hair, with a close-cropped red beard that comes to a point and a mustache. His hat is grey and quite high, although rounded at the top, with a brim that is large on the left side and non-existent on the left side - which looks quite rakish with a broad embroidered band and a feather sticking out. He’s wearing a flat lace collar, white, laying on a gorgeous black coat that seems to be made of woven ribbons of cloth. There is also a white lace cuff on his upraised arm. The background is blue, with gold script (see below), and the hand reaching out of the cloud is pale, with a lace ruff cuff. nscribed in gold on either side of the head: 'Attici amoris ergo. / Ano. Dni. 1588'. The motto has never been satisfactorily explained or translated. It has recently been suggested that it could be translated as ‘Because of Athenian love’. V&A Museum, South Kensington, London (P.21-1942)

Relegated to the life of a mere craftsman back in England, he nonetheless excelled at creating flattering miniature portraits of the titled class. Look at that cartwheel ruff! Yes, the hand in the cloud is an allegory, but it’s obscure and very odd. The woman gives QEI a run for her money. 2/

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Paleolithic painters had the blues Two recent studies shine light on the earliest known artistic usages of blue pigment

The color blue never shows up in Paleolithic cave paintings. Archaeologists assumed that's because blue pigments and dyes were unknown in prehistory. A new study by @izzywisher.bsky.social in @antiquity.ac.uk, along with an even older indigo find, suggest otherwise. @science.org

This is figure 3, which shows a conceptual illustration of the ‘Dinosaurs as Ecosystem Engineers’ hypothesis.

Dinosaurs promoted open habitats in the Late Cretaceous, and their extinction could have led to a radical reorganization of the landscape and ecosystem structure at the beginning of the Paleogene, according to a study in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/3InFngj #Paleosky 🧪

I wonder what started Benito's really tight relationship with Comcast NBCUniversal franchises... he's hosting SNL again next weekend!

With NARA funding cuts, access to America’s memory is on the chopping block The White House and Congress are proposing to fund record-keeping like it’s still 1999.

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