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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

An Ujosh (wool jacket) from Zakarpattia, Ukraine I recently cleaned and patched up with all the love in my heart ❤️
#standwithukraine

February 12, 1835: Anatolij Kralyckyj, belletrist & publicist, is born in Čabiny 🇸🇰 († 1894). A prolific writer, his works include historical, geographic & ethnographic studies of Carpatho-Rusyns, short stories about Carpatho-Rusyn village life, tales such as Prince Laborec & many others.

A metal collar that is shaped like a horseshoe and anchored to a piece of wood.

Here's your #DailyDose of medical history!

COFFIN COLLARS were used to thwart bodysnatchers in early 19th century. The collar was fixed around the neck of a corpse and bolted to the bottom of a coffin. Bodysnatchers sold bodies to anatomists and medical schools.

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February 6, 1964: Anna Gajová, painter & illustrator, is born in Prešov 🇸🇰. She is a representative of the Slovak fantastic realism school. Gajová's work is dominated by fantasy compositions with symbolic or allegorical content. She also illustrated several Carpatho-Rusyn publications.

our lady of palestine

franciscan monastery of the holy land, washington, d.c.

american radicalism in mexico

reuben kadish and philip guston, the struggle against war and fascism, morelia museum, michoacán (1934-35)

Full length movie "Лемківске Весіля", which was filmed over a single weekend in 1964 at "Lemko Park" in Monroe, NY. https://youtu.be/5uPyKlVx2pU Фільм "Лемкі... Lemkos in the USA. "Lemko Wedding/Лемківске Весіля" (1964) @lemkovladek

February 3, 1895: Musician Stephen Skimba is born in Wołowiec 🇵🇱 († 1966). He is best remembered for his recordings of a Lemko wedding & folk music. Skimba also played a leading role in producing the film Lemko Wedding (1929), co-founded & worked with several Russophile organizations.

A shack on a hill

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The feminine urge to go completely off grid and live in a shack in the middle of nowhere

February 1, 1931: Painter Volodymyr Mykyta is born in Rakošyno 🇺🇦. His portraits, genre scenes, landscapes & still-lifes are filled with reflections on human existence & problems faced by the modern society. Mykyta took active part in the post-1989 Carpatho-Rusyn revival movement in Ukraine.

The fact that this exists around us but we got stuck on this stupid planet with a bunch of man babies trying to work out their grievances is just so annoying.

An advertisement for cocaine, listing the various merits of the drug. It says that it is "a first-class, thoroughly reliable preparation" that has "been fully recognized by the majority of physicians, surgeons and chemists."

THE MERITS OF OUR COCAINE - a pharmaceutical advert from 1907. A "first-class, thoroughly reliable preparation" that has "been fully recognized by the majority of physicians, surgeons and chemists."

January 29, 1932: Andrej Gaj, painter & illustrator, is born in Sukov 🇸🇰 († 2016). His works are primarily landscapes, still-lifes, portraits & figurative compositions. Gaj has also completed large-scale works (mostly in mosaic) for public buildings in eastern Slovakia.

dahədubš auntie!! ❤️🙌🏼

Honoring the land I’m on with the practices my ancestors taught me 🙌🏼🪶

Hiawatha belt/Six nations flag beaded hoops

Navajo Citizens Facing Identity Challenges During ICE Deportation Raids The Trump administration’s intensified deportation efforts have created unexpected challenges for Navajo citizens living in urban areas like Phoenix. As the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement b...

Get your Tribal ID!
Be careful out there, brothers and sisters.

Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works.

Confirming that the Anansi Boys comic series and collected volume have been cancelled.

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The heart shaped Antennaea galaxies.

The Heart Shaped Antennae Galaxies.🔭

Image Credit & Copyright: Kent E. Biggs

January 22, 1880: Sándor Bonkáló, philologist & translator, is born in Rakhiv 🇺🇦 († 1959). He published several studies that presented all aspects of Carpatho-Rusyn society to the Hungarian public. After WWI, Bonkáló also chaired the Rusyn Studies department at the University of Budapest.

I was using this app until it stopped showing me any data unless I put what state I lived in. I switched to the Flo app, but you have to pay a monthly fee to use it. I believe Ovia is the only free ovulation tracker, which makes this much scarier.

January 20, 1888: Ioann Polanski (pseud. Lemkyn), priest, journalist & historian, is born in Banica 🇵🇱 († 1960). He was the first chancellor of the Lemko Apostolic Administration & a Lemko-Soiuz supporter. After WW2, Polanski wrote a history of the Lemko Region, published in USA.

Roman flask made of translucent cobalt blue glass in the form of a mouse. The neck of the flask is funnel-shaped and slightly up-turned to look like a tail. The body of the vessel is rounded and has four tooled trails for feet. A separate blob of glass forms the head with eyes, ears, and a pointed nose. The flask surface is decorated with distinctive trails of glass which have been flattened and notched, known as ‘snake thread’.

Something lovely for the weekend! A 1,800 year-old Roman glass flask shaped like a little mouse 🐭😍

📷 by me www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

Every day I feel my frontal lobe develop more and things start to feel worse and worse 🙃

When you’re trying to signal that you’re conservative but also a Disney adult? Terrifying combination.

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Vampires in the Carpathians: Magical Acts, Rites and Beliefs in Subcarpathian Rus’ – Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center translated by Stephen Reynolds and Patricia A. Krafcik

January 16, 1893: Petr Bogatyryov, ethnographer & literary scholar, is born in Saratov 🇷🇺 († 1971). While living in Prague, he studied Rusyn ethnography - primarily folk customs, rituals & magic beliefs - applying contemporary structuralist methodology in this field.