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Goat Testicle Transplants: The Bizarre History - Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society Join sex historian Kate Lister on Betwixt the Sheets as she gets intimate with the stories that would make your history teacher blush.What were the Victorians really like behind closed (bedroom) doors...

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This is such a great question that I think it deserves a whole thread.

The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.

A Calvin and Hobbes cartoon: 1: Calvin running through the panel 2: "Calvin stop running through the house!" 3: Calvin faces the reader "the law is on the books, but it would take all their resources to enforce it." 4: Calvin runs out of the panel. "CALVIN!"

038 - I Will Choose Free Will - The Prancing Pony Podcast The Prancing Pony Podcast is a weekly show about the Middle-earth legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien, hosted - for six seasons - by Alan Sisto and Shawn E. Marchese. Now in its ninth season, Alan is joined...

Today's podcast!

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@prancingponypod.bsky.social - if they get more active anyways

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A link card with a picture of a cartoon mantis shrimp wearing a watch cap.

We couldn't do a series of jaunty ocean critter stickers with @ethankocak.com and not do a mantis shrimp. Behold, the final sticker in the series, coming this February, the Precocious Peacock Mantis Shrimp!

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Gritty holding a pride flag with the message "love is luv"

Gritty continues to be a real one

Ooooo

Hooray! Jacke is here!

Fed is best.

Leaving aside idiosyncratic/vernacular applications of “dinner” & related lexical items (eg, “supper”)

I spent so much of my allowance on those books ❤️

Dev diary day! I’m excited to finally share this look into Civ VII’s new emergent narrative system.

A List of Things People Blamed on Dancing

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Researchers Uncover the Oldest Record of Humans Using Fire in Tasmania, Almost 2,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Known A new paper reveals how Aboriginal people changed the landscape by burning, demonstrating how similar practices could help manage modern bushfires

Researchers Uncover the Oldest Record of Humans Using Fire in Tasmania, Almost 2,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Known.
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Fossil Forensics - Weird & Dead A podcast about evolution's most embarrassing and bizarre stories as told by two very gossipy paleontologists. Amy and Meaghan happily dish the details on everything from fossilized dinosaur butts to ...

"Cadbury egg from Hell"
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Maybe? If so, the pie was delicious Greg! 😂😁

We had a full flock walk by the windows during Thanksgiving dinner prep. My uncle offered to run out and catch us a backup, but we declined

Oh man! I'd forgotten about that game

The only version of this gimmick I will accept

Become ungovernable

a large boat coming through a set of locks

Margaret Bourke-White, Locks, Sault St. Marie, c. 1929

Have you tried any of the expansions? My co-workers are keen on Oceania

It's such a beautiful game!

I was taught about the Rapture at 12 by a very devout Sunday school teacher. Later on, I couldn't understand his shock when I said, very nonchalantly, that I hadn't expected to live past 16

Fashion History Now #63 - Dressed: The History of Fashion With over 8 billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common: everyday, we all get dressed. Join fashion historians April Calahan and Cassidy Zachary in celebrating the who, what, when of ...

Chainmail booty shorts

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The one man Pride and Prejudice TT guy made it to NPR.

I'm an early adopter!

Right!? And that's leaving out the weaving the fabric, embroidering any details, making the lace, making any notions....