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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Aug 28

Photograph of the artist Carton Moore-Park (1876-1956 Born Stewarton, Ayrshire - Died New York) in his chelsea studio around 1898.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Aug 22

Aye...

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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · Aug 15

Good night😴 dear people at #Bluesky💙🤝-

❤️‍🔥 #Kyiv Churches Ring National Anthem as #Alaska Talks Begin

I really love #Ukraine and it's people

#ArmUkraineNow
#UkraineWillWin
#StandWithUkraine

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · Aug 15

An ENORMOUS Ukrainian flag is unfurled at protest in Alaska.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Aug 15

Looks like it is PURUSING not PURSUING peace?

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jul 26

Trump is in Scotlamd and tonight watching BBC and the film "Avengers: Infinity War" part of which was filmed in Edinburgh. Later Trump dreams he is in the movie and a Master of the Universe but they don't tend to be a fat bully sociopath with a comb-over.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jul 15

It “Caught the English spirit in all its ambiguity and whimsey”
Lion and the Unicorn Pavilion at Festival of Britain, 1951 typically ignored the fact that the Unicorn is the symbol of Scotland - along with any mention of our country anywhere in the exhibition!

Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jul 15

Company advertising material from the 1930s for furniture designed and made by Morris and Company of Glasgow

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jul 10

In 1891 Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle became the artist's first painting to enter a public collection when it was purchased, at the insistence of the Glasgow Boys, by the City of Glasgow.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jul 2

Sean "Diddy Man" Combs has been found guilty of prostitution charges but cleared by a jury of sex trafficking and racketeering, at the conclusion of his New York City criminal trial.

Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Two Scottish postcards designed by Crackerjack, c1914

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Avro Part after Robert Burns...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=acnH...

Arvo Pärt My Heart's in the Highlands Else Torp and Christopher Bowers

YouTube video by MrTriangleman

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jul 1

BBC Saying number 5
"Fill my can once, shame on you; fill my can twice, shame on me”.

Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 30

Bob Vylan on YoutTube. UK government condemned it but I, friends and family agree with much of it.
According to a United Nations Special Committee, Amnesty International, and other experts such as academics and lawyers, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza against the Palestinians.
Starmer stinks!

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 29

"Adoration of the Mystic Lamb," also known as the Ghent Altarpiece, by Jan van Eyck was one of the most notable works found in the Altausse mine by the Monument Men at the end of WWII

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 23

Illustrations to "Polish Fairy Tales" of 1920 by Cecile Walton (1891 – 1956) Scottish painter, illustrator and sculptor.

Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 23

China’s Wuhan's Optics Valley Light Rail - a suspended monorail in 2025.
A century earlier - the Bennie Railplane was a form of rail transport invented by George Bennie. Built near Glasgow in 1929.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 22

Large murals from auditorium of the lost Rutherglen Repertory Theatre. One by Irene Bruges on life in the theatre and the other by Thomas H. Sharks showing the historic industrial and cultural story of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen. Both c1948.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 19

Jim Prime, keyboardist to Scottish band Deacon Blue, has died.

Thank you for the music.

Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 17

From the royal court, to humble rural communities, Robin Hood's popularity in medieval Scotland was huge. Earliest references to the outlaw are found in 15thc chronicles but only the Asloan Manuscript (1515) references Robin Hood and a May parade in Edinburgh for all the burgh's male inhabitants!

Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 17

Arnold Bronckhorst, or Bronckorst (fl. 1565–1583) was a Flemish or Dutch painter who was court painter to Mary I and James VI of Scotland.

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 16

My sign at the Swallow Theatre, Whithorn – the smallest professional theatre in Scotland. Just booked for another 4 forthcoming wonderful productions!

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 16

Wild griffins with flaming torches!

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Jack Sloan @jacksloan.bsky.social · Jun 16

William Miles Johnston (1898-1974) Kirkcudbright based animal and bird artist, a Life Fellow of the Edinburgh Zoological Society. After WWI assisted Robert Lorimer on the Scottish War Memorial in Edinburgh. Now known for his pottery, which he sold under the “Zoo” brand.

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