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Cittidano della Republica di Londra.
European.
Not buying, not selling: not in the food-chain; here for the news and views.
Photos are my own.
I'm grateful for any following.
Cittidano della Republica di Londra.
European.
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Die #Weihnachtsfrau von den #Kapverden, handgefertigt von der #Frauenkooperative um Djunta Mo Art auf Sal #Weihnachten
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Die #Weihnachtsfrau von den #Kapverden, handgefertigt von der #Frauenkooperative um Djunta Mo Art auf Sal #Weihnachten
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Archaeology Advent Calendar Day 21
"Jug with a Man and Deer"
Cypriot Red-Polished Ware Jug with figurative scene of seated human, deer and bowl. Perhaps he is milking the deer?
Early-Middle Cypriot, c. 2300–1600 BCE
Getty Museum 2001.79
www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
"Jug with a Man and Deer"
Cypriot Red-Polished Ware Jug with figurative scene of seated human, deer and bowl. Perhaps he is milking the deer?
Early-Middle Cypriot, c. 2300–1600 BCE
Getty Museum 2001.79
www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
December 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Archaeology Advent Calendar Day 21
"Jug with a Man and Deer"
Cypriot Red-Polished Ware Jug with figurative scene of seated human, deer and bowl. Perhaps he is milking the deer?
Early-Middle Cypriot, c. 2300–1600 BCE
Getty Museum 2001.79
www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
"Jug with a Man and Deer"
Cypriot Red-Polished Ware Jug with figurative scene of seated human, deer and bowl. Perhaps he is milking the deer?
Early-Middle Cypriot, c. 2300–1600 BCE
Getty Museum 2001.79
www.getty.edu/art/collecti...
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Always a pleasure to see a Tripos sp. dinoflagellate in one of my samples. I don’t see them too often so when I spot one I do get a little excited!
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
December 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Always a pleasure to see a Tripos sp. dinoflagellate in one of my samples. I don’t see them too often so when I spot one I do get a little excited!
#marineplankton 🦑
#marineplankton 🦑
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Day 21 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
bight — 'a bend in a coastline, a shallow bay'
Common to Germanic, cognate with Dutch bocht, German Bucht.
As in German Bight from the Shipping Forecast:
"There are warnings of gales in Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight…"
bight — 'a bend in a coastline, a shallow bay'
Common to Germanic, cognate with Dutch bocht, German Bucht.
As in German Bight from the Shipping Forecast:
"There are warnings of gales in Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight…"
December 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Day 21 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
bight — 'a bend in a coastline, a shallow bay'
Common to Germanic, cognate with Dutch bocht, German Bucht.
As in German Bight from the Shipping Forecast:
"There are warnings of gales in Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight…"
bight — 'a bend in a coastline, a shallow bay'
Common to Germanic, cognate with Dutch bocht, German Bucht.
As in German Bight from the Shipping Forecast:
"There are warnings of gales in Forth, Tyne, Dogger, Fisher, German Bight…"
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🌍 2025
🗓 20th - 21st December
🕘 09:00Z
🛰 Meteosat-9
🗓 20th - 21st December
🕘 09:00Z
🛰 Meteosat-9
December 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🌍 2025
🗓 20th - 21st December
🕘 09:00Z
🛰 Meteosat-9
🗓 20th - 21st December
🕘 09:00Z
🛰 Meteosat-9
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series of sculptures from 2017
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series of sculptures from 2017
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December 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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series of sculptures from 2017
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series of sculptures from 2017
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Black-headed gull having a wash.
#SuperSeabirdSunday
#SuperSeabirdSunday
December 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Black-headed gull having a wash.
#SuperSeabirdSunday
#SuperSeabirdSunday
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Bonus Book Cover of the Day:
December 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Bonus Book Cover of the Day:
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I kid you not.
Wait till you see what they have in store for the Donbas.
Wait till you see what they have in store for the Donbas.
December 21, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I kid you not.
Wait till you see what they have in store for the Donbas.
Wait till you see what they have in store for the Donbas.
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December 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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4 stained glass quatrefoil windows in the east window at Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, by Lavers, Barraud & Westlake. They depict Saints Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, Juliana of Liege, and Clare of Assisi. The altar is of Caen stone, and by Thomas Earp. #StainedGlassSunday
December 21, 2025 at 7:05 AM
4 stained glass quatrefoil windows in the east window at Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, by Lavers, Barraud & Westlake. They depict Saints Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, Juliana of Liege, and Clare of Assisi. The altar is of Caen stone, and by Thomas Earp. #StainedGlassSunday
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secure an outfit that would make them stand out. Only the best were used, such as Worth, who made numerous outfits for the event. He made this dress for the hostess, who went as the Queen Zenobia of Palmyra (the capital of a 3rd-century empire state in modern-day Syria). Zenobia
December 21, 2025 at 5:29 AM
secure an outfit that would make them stand out. Only the best were used, such as Worth, who made numerous outfits for the event. He made this dress for the hostess, who went as the Queen Zenobia of Palmyra (the capital of a 3rd-century empire state in modern-day Syria). Zenobia
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Mick Jagger
Anton Corbijn, 1996
Anton Corbijn, 1996
December 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Mick Jagger
Anton Corbijn, 1996
Anton Corbijn, 1996
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When you're looking at a Ge'ez manuscript and all of a sudden it is looking back at you… 👀
Ethiopia, 18th c. #geez #manuscript #magic #africanmagic #africanart
Ethiopia, 18th c. #geez #manuscript #magic #africanmagic #africanart
December 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
When you're looking at a Ge'ez manuscript and all of a sudden it is looking back at you… 👀
Ethiopia, 18th c. #geez #manuscript #magic #africanmagic #africanart
Ethiopia, 18th c. #geez #manuscript #magic #africanmagic #africanart
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December 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Behind the clouds there is always a little sunshine. The view from my garden this morning made me think both of that particular truism and then of this mid #1930s ribbon cape by Charles James, rays of light between the grey #VandA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
December 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Behind the clouds there is always a little sunshine. The view from my garden this morning made me think both of that particular truism and then of this mid #1930s ribbon cape by Charles James, rays of light between the grey #VandA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Day 21 of my Edwardian #AdventCalendar is this c. 1905 black silk evening dress with a white doupionné weave, that belonged to Marchesa Maria Rucellai. The dress is decorated with lace medallion inlays, blue velvet appliqués, and jet beads. Uffizi Galleries collection. #fashionhistory
December 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Day 21 of my Edwardian #AdventCalendar is this c. 1905 black silk evening dress with a white doupionné weave, that belonged to Marchesa Maria Rucellai. The dress is decorated with lace medallion inlays, blue velvet appliqués, and jet beads. Uffizi Galleries collection. #fashionhistory
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Good morning, Glasgow, and happy Winter Solstice to those of you who mark it. This was the Solstice sunrise at the Sighthill Stone Circle in the north of the city.
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#glasgow #sighthill #wintersolstice #sunrise #stonecircle
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#glasgow #sighthill #wintersolstice #sunrise #stonecircle
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Good morning, Glasgow, and happy Winter Solstice to those of you who mark it. This was the Solstice sunrise at the Sighthill Stone Circle in the north of the city.
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#glasgow #sighthill #wintersolstice #sunrise #stonecircle
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#glasgow #sighthill #wintersolstice #sunrise #stonecircle
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Happy 88th Birthday to Jane Fonda
December 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Happy 88th Birthday to Jane Fonda
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Galanthus 'Three Ships' and Arum italicum 'Tiny'. This combination reminds me of reading Margery Fish's books years ago. Have a look if you haven't.
#gardening 🌱
#gardening 🌱
December 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Galanthus 'Three Ships' and Arum italicum 'Tiny'. This combination reminds me of reading Margery Fish's books years ago. Have a look if you haven't.
#gardening 🌱
#gardening 🌱
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Chica-gull Skyline
📍Navy Pier, Chicago
📷Carlton Holls
#cityscapephotopgraphy #cityscape #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/gFDh9w
📍Navy Pier, Chicago
📷Carlton Holls
#cityscapephotopgraphy #cityscape #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/gFDh9w
December 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Chica-gull Skyline
📍Navy Pier, Chicago
📷Carlton Holls
#cityscapephotopgraphy #cityscape #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/gFDh9w
📍Navy Pier, Chicago
📷Carlton Holls
#cityscapephotopgraphy #cityscape #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/gFDh9w
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Giovanni Pisano. Memoria di uno scultore
Open to March 8, Palazzo dell'Opera del Duomo di Pisa, this fascinating exhibition charts the #medieval sculptor's international reception and marks the centenary of the reinstallation of his pulpit in the cathedral.
www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitio...
Open to March 8, Palazzo dell'Opera del Duomo di Pisa, this fascinating exhibition charts the #medieval sculptor's international reception and marks the centenary of the reinstallation of his pulpit in the cathedral.
www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitio...
Pisa, a major exhibition traces the story of Giovanni Pisano's rediscovery
At the Palazzo dell'Opera del Duomo in Pisa, an exhibition traces the critical rediscovery of Giovanni Pisano between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and celebrates the return of three fragment...
www.finestresullarte.info
December 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Giovanni Pisano. Memoria di uno scultore
Open to March 8, Palazzo dell'Opera del Duomo di Pisa, this fascinating exhibition charts the #medieval sculptor's international reception and marks the centenary of the reinstallation of his pulpit in the cathedral.
www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitio...
Open to March 8, Palazzo dell'Opera del Duomo di Pisa, this fascinating exhibition charts the #medieval sculptor's international reception and marks the centenary of the reinstallation of his pulpit in the cathedral.
www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitio...
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Les motifs de ce bol😍
Civilisation Nazca tardive (Ve siècle de notre ère)
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Civilisation Nazca tardive (Ve siècle de notre ère)
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December 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Les motifs de ce bol😍
Civilisation Nazca tardive (Ve siècle de notre ère)
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Civilisation Nazca tardive (Ve siècle de notre ère)
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