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Alaska beckoned. A young adventurer trades screen time for wilderness savvy.
Alaska beckoned. A young adventurer trades screen time for wilderness savvy.
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July 31, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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For #InternationalTigerDay... "Tigerlillia Terribilis" — from Edward Lear’s Nonsense Botany (1871–77).

More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/edward-lears-nonsense-botany-1871-77 #InternationalTigerDay2022
July 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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27 juillet 1830 : Début de la Révolution française de juillet 1830.
À la suite de cette révolution qui se déroule sur trois journées appelées les « Trois Glorieuses », le duc d'Orléans Louis-Philippe est proclamé « roi des Français ». #CeJourLà fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trois_G...
July 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Nieuwe studie bevestigt:"Vanaf 7.000 stappen per dag maak je grote mentale én fysieke gezondheidswinst" vrtnws.be/p.y341EV85A?t=175... @vrtnws.be
Nieuwe studie bevestigt:"Vanaf 7.000 stappen per dag maak je grote mentale én fysieke gezondheidswinst"
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July 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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July 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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The officially-endorsed community SiIvaGunner Wiki has forked from Fandom! We fully support what they're doing, and we suggest you check them out at www.siivagunner.wiki
July 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
holy fuck this painting goes hard
Contrairement aux idées reçues, la phrase « Je ne suis pas d’accord avec ce que vous dites, mais je me battrai pour que vous ayez le droit de le dire » n'a pas été prononcée par Voltaire.
Elle a été écrite par Evelyn Beatrice Hall qui pensait ainsi résumer la pensée du philosophe😉. #ideesrecues
July 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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J'adore que l'on se rappelle de ces 1ères femmes qui ont osé franchir les obstacles pour sortir des rôles stéréotypés dans lesquels on enfermait les femmes
Merci à elles, elles nous ont ouvert la voie
» Article amélioré: Augusta Hure, (1870-1953), géologue, archéologue française, et première femme conservatrice de musée en France
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_Hure
July 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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This wonderful 1805 book exposes the reality behind various tricks and illusions of the day, beginning with arguably the most enigmatic of the tricks listed, that of the “Learned Pig”, or as the excellent frontispiece refers to it “The Pig of Knowledge”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
July 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Mateo Pedrali
Self portrait with laughing horses
1935
July 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Born #onthisday in Berlin in 1892, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin. Read an essay by Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age, and the implications of his work entering the public domain. publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd
July 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Fijne verjaardag, kameraad
Rembrandt 1658. The artist ages. Not just a self-portrait: this painting thinks of itself as an artwork, which is new. And today was his birthday.
July 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Uncanny images from a 19th-century gynaecological text-book, filled with demonstrating figures bizarrely similar to the “Grey Alien” (that wouldn’t hit popular consciousness for another 65 years). More here: http://bit.ly/1OuCXYY
July 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Giovanni & Giovanna, swearing a vow & painted in 1434 by the incomparable Jan van Eyck. Today is his day.
July 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Concerning
July 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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An allegory of the continent America, pictured riding atop an armadillo, from a late 16th-century Dutch print: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/america-a-personification-ca-1590
July 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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this rules. normalize taking time off and trusting your subscribers will understand and not worrying they have an insatiable need for content.
June 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social how do you know everyone's birthday
June 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Happy Solstice! Here's the Sun putting on its best happy shining face for the special occasion, from the Splendor Solis, a 16th-century alchemical treatise.

More art from the history of alchemy here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
#SummerSolstice #Solstice #Midsummer #longestday
June 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Trop mignon. 🥰
June 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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“The great south sea caterpillar, transform’d into a Bath butterfly” (1795) by James Gillray, caricature of Joseph Banks, who died #onthisday in 1820.

Read more about Banks in Patricia Fara's "Joseph Banks: Portraits of a Placid Elephant": publicdomainreview.org/essay/j... #OTD
June 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Wikipedia... IS THE SUMMARY. THAT'S WHAT AN ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLE IS. A SUMMARY.
June 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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11 juin 323 av. J.C. : Alexandre le Grand, roi de Macédoine et figure majeure de l'Antiquité, meurt à 33 ans.
Il devient l'un des plus grands conquérants de l'histoire en s'emparant de l'Empire perse et en atteignant les rives de l'Indus. #CeJourLa
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
June 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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On sait quand l’extrême droite prend le pouvoir, on ne sait pas quand elle le rend.
June 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I LOVE YOU TOO!
Vous êtes maintenant plus de 10 000 à nous suivre 😍.
Merci à toutes et tous d'être là et d'être chaque jour plus nombreux.
Bon dimanche tout le monde 😊 ! WIKI LOVES YOU ❤️.
June 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM