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Sharon Diane Nell

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French Prof (17th&18th)/Arts&Hum dean. Opinions my own. Trans. & ed, Scudéry's _Lucrece & Brutus: Glory in the Land of Tender_ (Toronto: Iter P, '21)

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Can you read cursive? The National Archives needs volunteers with your 'superpower' “Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, D.C.

Apparently the National Archives doesn’t realize that this is not just a case of being able to read cursive. This is 18th century cursive, which, I can tell you as someone who transcribes 18th century French cursive, will require more than an untrained volunteer.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

16.01.2025 16:41 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0

What a wonderful piece!

20.12.2024 20:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I don't see many long threads on here, but I'll try one - it's about Holbein's Ambassadors, his 1533 masterpiece in the National Gallery. It's often presented as a great mystery, but I think once we understand the circumstances in which it was made, its meaning becomes clearer.
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17.12.2024 23:15 — 👍 1290    🔁 405    💬 52    📌 117

There have been multiple plans to create a triangle of high-speed trains Houston—>Dallas—>Austin/San Antonio—Houston. SW Airlines quashed one plan all the way back in the 1980s. Wouldn’t that have been fantastic?

18.12.2024 22:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr. “Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the former Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/u...

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