Pottery lamp from Roman Cirencester (Corinium) with a lion motif. The lamp is on display at the Corinium Museum in Cirencester. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain
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Blossom Puzzle, August 5 Letters: D E I T N R W My score: 339 points My longest word: 11 letters 🌹 💐 🏵 🌼 🌸 🌺 🌻 🌷 💮 🌹 💐 #MerriamWebsterGames
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica Aug. 5, 2026 T I G H T R O P E ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉 My Score: 2480 💯
Most Pompeiians lived in multi-story dwellings without kitchens and got their food at thermopolia, essentially taverns with ready-made food and wine. There is a fine fresco and colored plaster lararium - shrine - above the counter at the thermopolium of Lucius Vetutius Placidus.🏺 1/ 📸 me
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Blossom Puzzle, August 4 Letters: I J N E R S U My score: 414 points My longest word: 12 letters 🌹 🌸 🌷 💮 🌺 🌼 🏵 💐 🌻 🌹 🌸 🌷 #MerriamWebsterGames
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For this week's #MosaicMonday, here is a mosaic from Trier depicting the philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610–c. 546 BC), who is credited with inventing the sundial. The mosaic dates to the 3rd century AD. 📷 Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
On this day in 1974: Midwest governors formally request repeal of permanent Daylight Saving Time, citing danger and dreariness of unnaturally long morning darkness.
NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.
FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount
Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...
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Blossom Puzzle, August 3 Letters: A E I C P R T My score: 386 points My longest word: 11 letters 🏵 🌹 🌸 💐 🌻 🌺 🌷 🌼 💮 🏵 🌹 #MerriamWebsterGames
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica Aug. 3, 2026 T I G H T R O P E ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉 My Score: 2440 💯
scienceblog.com/b-the-antiky... Fascinating story of the #Antikythera mechanism. #ancienttechnology #ancientengineering #mechanicalengineering #computer #astronomy
The Antikythera mechanism recovered from a Roman shipwreck in 1901 turned out to be a hand-cranked bronze computer that could predict eclipses and track the irregular orbit of the Moon, and nothing of...
A device that predicted celestial events with mechanical precision lay forgotten underwater for two millennia, only to challenge everything we thought we knew about ancient engineering.
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Blossom Puzzle, August 2 Letters: A B E L N T U My score: 371 points My longest word: 12 letters 🌸 🌺 🌷 💮 🏵 🌼 💐 🌻 🌹 🌸 🌺 🌷 #MerriamWebsterGames
Tightrope, a daily trivia game | Britannica Aug. 2, 2026 T I G H T R O P E ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🎉 My Score: 2520 💯
Tell your legislators to oppose permanent Daylight Saving Time, and support permanent Standard Time, for health and safety! www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
Why standard time is better for your health than daylight saving time
Proposed legislation would make daylight saving time permanent. But standard time is actually better for your body, according to science.
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In honor of The Odyssey, here’s an alabaster #Etruscan cinerary urn with the scene from the epic where Odysseus is tied to his ship’s mast so that he might hear the song of the Sirens. Oddly, the Sirens here don’t have birds’ bodies/legs, but appear as women playing musical instruments. 🏺 1/ 📸 me
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Blossom Puzzle, August 1 Letters: E I N R O S V My score: 441 points My longest word: 13 letters 🌹 🏵 🌷 🌺 🌻 💐 🌼 💮 🌸 🌹 🏵 🌷 🌺 #MerriamWebsterGames
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