Melissa
@mill-land.bsky.social
“Ose savoir”• Franglo • Montreal • 🏛️🧘🏻♀️🌳🚲
Reposted by Melissa
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
March 9, 2025 at 4:19 AM
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
Reposted by Melissa
This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
March 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record)
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
I don’t remember seeing anything like this before
Reposted by Melissa
Zelensky pretty sure disgraceful meeting could have been disgraceful email
Zelensky pretty sure disgraceful meeting could have been disgraceful email
WASHINGTON D.C. - Following an explosive White House meeting that saw President Trump berate the visiting Ukrainian president and push Russian talking points, Zelenskyy opined that the entire dishonou...
www.thebeaverton.com
March 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Zelensky pretty sure disgraceful meeting could have been disgraceful email
Reposted by Melissa
La sonde Blue Ghost s'est posée sur la Lune ce matin.
Voici une première image !
Voici une première image !
March 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
La sonde Blue Ghost s'est posée sur la Lune ce matin.
Voici une première image !
Voici une première image !
Reposted by Melissa
Pompei, emerge nella Regio IX una sala affrescata con iniziazione ai misteri e corteo di Dioniso - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyiw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyiw...
Pompei, emerge nella Regio IX una sala affrescata con iniziazione ai misteri e corteo di Dioniso
YouTube video by Pompeii
www.youtube.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Pompei, emerge nella Regio IX una sala affrescata con iniziazione ai misteri e corteo di Dioniso - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyiw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyiw...
Reposted by Melissa
Juste pour dire. Le salut ''romain'' sous cette forme n'existe dans aucune source ancienne. On élevait plutôt la paume droite comme dans l'image ci-joint. 1/3
January 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Juste pour dire. Le salut ''romain'' sous cette forme n'existe dans aucune source ancienne. On élevait plutôt la paume droite comme dans l'image ci-joint. 1/3
Pour tous les gens qui pourraient être encore confus…
For instance: Der Spiegel’s headline is “That was definitely a Hitler salute”:
www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...
www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...
(S+) Kira Ayyadi über Musks kontroverse Geste: »Das war definitiv ein Hitlergruß«
Kira Ayyadi von der Amadeu-Antonio-Stiftung beobachtet die rechte Szene seit Jahren. Als sie Elon Musks Geste bei Donald Trumps Amtsantritt sah, war sie schockiert. An ein Versehen glaubt sie nicht.
www.spiegel.de
January 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Pour tous les gens qui pourraient être encore confus…
Reposted by Melissa
Sur ce, bonne nuit. ❤️
January 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Sur ce, bonne nuit. ❤️
Reposted by Melissa
The Trier Gold Hoard is the largest #Roman gold hoard ever discovered. It comprises more than 2650 aurei (gold coins) with a total weight of about 18.5 kilogram. The aurei were hidden in 196AD during the revolt of Clodius Albinus against emperor Septimius Severus. 🧵1/2
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
January 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The Trier Gold Hoard is the largest #Roman gold hoard ever discovered. It comprises more than 2650 aurei (gold coins) with a total weight of about 18.5 kilogram. The aurei were hidden in 196AD during the revolt of Clodius Albinus against emperor Septimius Severus. 🧵1/2
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
🏺 AncientBluesky #archaeology
Reposted by Melissa
Quand certains auront fini de nous emberlificoter avec des considérations vaseuses sur les «wokes» et autres bonhomme Sept-Heures, au nom d’une guerre culturelle qui détourne l’attention de la guerre des classes, il faudrait bien se demander qui, en vérité, s’affaire à saigner nos sociétés
Pillez-vous les uns les autres
Il faudrait bien se demander qui, en vérité, s’affaire à saigner nos sociétés.
www.ledevoir.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Quand certains auront fini de nous emberlificoter avec des considérations vaseuses sur les «wokes» et autres bonhomme Sept-Heures, au nom d’une guerre culturelle qui détourne l’attention de la guerre des classes, il faudrait bien se demander qui, en vérité, s’affaire à saigner nos sociétés
Reposted by Melissa
The Pantone Color Institute has unveiled its pick for 2025 Color of the Year: Mocha Mousse.
Stop Hating on Pantone’s “Mocha Mousse” Color of the Year
I am always unfortunately attuned to the manner in which people respond to the color brown.
hyperallergic.com
December 6, 2024 at 7:19 PM
The Pantone Color Institute has unveiled its pick for 2025 Color of the Year: Mocha Mousse.
Me semble que ce genre de nouvelles sortent a tous les deux jours ces temps-ci, Legault qui sort la cartes de l’Autre pour se faire du capital politique.
www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...
www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...
Legault songe à légiférer pour interdire la prière dans l’espace public
«Les exemples qu’on a vus, c’était de l’islamisme, pas d’autres religions», dit-il au sujet d’entorses à la laïcité.
www.ledevoir.com
December 6, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Me semble que ce genre de nouvelles sortent a tous les deux jours ces temps-ci, Legault qui sort la cartes de l’Autre pour se faire du capital politique.
www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...
www.ledevoir.com/politique/qu...
Reposted by Melissa
This stunning amphora-shaped silver and gilded rhyton with lion-griffin handles was found in a Thracian tumulus (burial mound) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. A Greco-Persian mashup, it displays the shape of an Achaemenid vessel, with Greek decorations. From Anatolia, possibly a diplomatic gift. 🏺 1/
📸 me
📸 me
December 5, 2024 at 3:34 AM
This stunning amphora-shaped silver and gilded rhyton with lion-griffin handles was found in a Thracian tumulus (burial mound) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. A Greco-Persian mashup, it displays the shape of an Achaemenid vessel, with Greek decorations. From Anatolia, possibly a diplomatic gift. 🏺 1/
📸 me
📸 me
La cathédrale n’a jamais été aussi resplendissante !
Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it
November 29, 2024 at 5:53 PM
La cathédrale n’a jamais été aussi resplendissante !
Reposted by Melissa
Ancient Babylonians kept copious records of astronomical phenomena on clay tablets that we call Astronomical Diaries.
In 164 BCE, they saw Halley’s Comet hover softly in the night sky, and recorded it in cuneiform on clay www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentariu...
In 164 BCE, they saw Halley’s Comet hover softly in the night sky, and recorded it in cuneiform on clay www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentariu...
November 27, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Ancient Babylonians kept copious records of astronomical phenomena on clay tablets that we call Astronomical Diaries.
In 164 BCE, they saw Halley’s Comet hover softly in the night sky, and recorded it in cuneiform on clay www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentariu...
In 164 BCE, they saw Halley’s Comet hover softly in the night sky, and recorded it in cuneiform on clay www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentariu...
Reposted by Melissa
Whenever he does this shit I think of Crassus, 1/3 of the triumvirate with Caesar and Pompey; briefly the richest man on earth his hubris was so chronic he walked into avoidable slaughter at the hands of the Parthians who, we're told, poured molten gold down his corpse's throat to mock his greed.
November 25, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Whenever he does this shit I think of Crassus, 1/3 of the triumvirate with Caesar and Pompey; briefly the richest man on earth his hubris was so chronic he walked into avoidable slaughter at the hands of the Parthians who, we're told, poured molten gold down his corpse's throat to mock his greed.
Reposted by Melissa
"Archaeology has always been about people. We’ve become so specialized that there is a tendency sometimes to forget the people. Archaeology helps explain why we are similar and why we are different."
(B. Fagan, A Little History of #Archaeology 🏺, New Haven/London 2018.)
(B. Fagan, A Little History of #Archaeology 🏺, New Haven/London 2018.)
November 25, 2024 at 5:17 PM
"Archaeology has always been about people. We’ve become so specialized that there is a tendency sometimes to forget the people. Archaeology helps explain why we are similar and why we are different."
(B. Fagan, A Little History of #Archaeology 🏺, New Haven/London 2018.)
(B. Fagan, A Little History of #Archaeology 🏺, New Haven/London 2018.)
Reposted by Melissa
There is a metaphor here somewhere
November 25, 2024 at 8:01 PM
There is a metaphor here somewhere
Reposted by Melissa
I don’t dream of labor
9. what is your dream job?
November 21, 2024 at 7:56 PM
I don’t dream of labor
Reposted by Melissa
We have a cover!!! The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters is in production. We tried to put together articles that would foster a dialogue between traditional scholarship and more contemporary monster/horror. Now it's waiting, and preparing for the fun that will be proofing and indexing.
November 16, 2024 at 12:00 AM
We have a cover!!! The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters is in production. We tried to put together articles that would foster a dialogue between traditional scholarship and more contemporary monster/horror. Now it's waiting, and preparing for the fun that will be proofing and indexing.
Reposted by Melissa
