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LilacSunday
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History, art, science, genealogy, California, and wildlife. Profile 📷: Self Portrait of Sarah Goodridge, 1830.
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Twitter has video from within the crowd with the chant clearly audible, the protesters were chanting "Kamala Kamala you can't hide, we won't vote for genocide." Given the substance of the chant, I think her response was appropriate.

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They were great together. The end made me the weepiest, Tom Baker was my first doctor.

A scene from the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special, "The Day of the Doctor", featuring the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) talking to the Twelfth Doctor (Matt Smith).
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What's the best episode of TV you've ever watched?

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July 8, 1741: Reverend Jonathan Edwards, one of my stern Puritan cousins, delivered his terrifying "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon in Enfield, Connecticut. 🕷️🔥 #OTD Portrait by Henry Augustus Loop (after a contemporary portrait by Joseph Badger), 1860. At Princeton University.

A very dark portrait. Edwards is painted wearing a black robe against a nearly black barckground. The only light is from Edwards' pale, staring, thin-lipped face, his corona of white hair, and his white collar with vertical white tabs. Repent, insects!
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For #MosaicMonday: a brooch made in Italy c. 1863 and engraved "CLWF; Septr. 10, 1863." Memento of a European Grand Tour, perhaps? Bequeathed to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts by Caroline Louisa Williams French, 1915. Item no. 15.235.

Mosaic medallion of a white dove with a green branch in its beak against a red ground bordered with dark blue. Gold and black enamel setting.
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Did you know that there were a few 13th century women working in the exchequer- if not, here you go! All that we know about Rachel Reeves' medieval predecessors at the treasury: medium.com/@elizabethcb...

“First Female Chancellor of the Exchequer in Eight-Hundred Years”
“First Female Chancellor of the Exchequer in Eight-Hundred Years”

So said most of the UK media on Friday about Rachel Reeves’ appointment. But was there a woman in the role 800 years ago?

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#CougarOrNot? I think not. The picture is blurry, but I think I see a spotted coat, jowls, and a bashfully perfect tail. Bobcat?

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Jeremy deserves nothing less than the Holy Roman Emperor Salad, including greens, beans, peas, corn, figs, plums, pomegranates, and blossoms. "Vertumnus - Rudolf II" depicts Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II as Vertumnus, the Roman god of seasons. By Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1591. At Skokloster Castle.

The image of a man painted entirely in fruits, vegetables, and blossoms. His chest is green leafy vegetables, his cheeks are peaches you just want to pinch, his lips are ripe red cherries, he has maybe olives for eyes, and he wears a garland of flowers. His crown is an autumnal harvest. It's weird and gorgeous.
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History, art, science, genealogy, California, and wildlife. Profile 📷: Self Portrait of Sarah Goodridge, 1830.
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