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Women who changed science Women who changed science celebrates and explores the contributions, careers and lives of women who have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their scientific achievements. www.nobelprize.org/women-who-ch... Women in STEAM at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books... #womeninstem

Pierre and Marie Curie in the laboratory, c. 1904.

Pierre and Maria Skłodowska-Curie in the laboratory, demonstrating the experimental apparatus used to detect the ionsation of air, and hence the radioactivity, of samples of purified ore which enabled their discovery of radium. Maria is operating the apparatus. With her right hand she is adding/subtracting known weights from a pan hanging from a strip of piezo-electric material which generates a very small elecrical charge (of the order of picoamperes) according to the weight hung on it. This is nulled against the charge accumulated on an ion chamber due to radioactivity. In her left hand she has a stopwatch to measure the rate of change of charge using a quadrant electrometer. When the weight is changed, the time elapsed for the charge to be nulled is measured by the stopwatch. The charge is indicated by a light spot on the scale in front of her projected by the quadrant electrometer, which is off the left of the picture.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 17h ago

How smart were T. Rex? | Steve Brusatte www.youtube.com/shorts/1WHg1... Dinosaurs at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #paleontology

The image shows a toy Tyrannosaurus Rex on a table. The dinosaur is moving forward with its mouth wide open. Its teeth are white, and its tongue is pink. The toy is dark greenish-gray.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 17h ago

William Shakespeare Scholars conclude ‘beyond doubt’ that Shakespeare was main author of Edward III by Dalya Alberge www.theguardian.com/culture/2026... Edward III at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1770 #books #literature

A painted portrait labeled “Edwardus III” of an elderly king with long white hair and a forked beard, wearing a gold fleur-de-lis crown and an ermine-trimmed cape. A gold-studded tunic with button closures stands out against the dark background.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 21h ago

A New Big Database of DNA From Indigenous Americans Shakes Up Scientists’ Theories About Human Settlement of South America by Sarah Kuta www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... #indigenous_people #anthropology

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Machu Picchu, in the valley of the Urubamba, north of Cuzco. These ruins of an ancient Inca city were discovered by Hiram Bingham, of the Yale University and National Geographical Society expedition, in 1911, and are by him identified with the "Tampu-Tocco" of Inca tradition (see pages 216-18, and Plate XXXVIII). From photograph, courtesy of Hiram Bingham, Director of the Yale Peruvian Expedition.

Title: Latin American Mythology
The Mythology of All Races - Vol. 11

Author: Hartley Burr Alexander

Editor: Louis Herbert Gray

A vintage black-and-white photograph of Machu Picchu’s stone ruins: terraced walls and buildings climb a hillside beneath a steep, jagged peak.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 2d ago

From Slasher Films to Vampire Flicks, Horror Movies Are More Popular Than Ever. Relive the Genre’s Scariest Moments—if You Dare—at a New Exhibition www.smithsonianmag.com/history/from... Horror at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #film #museums #horror

This vintage movie poster is for the 1920 German Expressionist silent horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari). In the foreground, Cesare, the somnambulist, a thin man with pale skin, dark circles under his eyes, and messy black hair, wears a tight black bodysuit. He leans over a woman in a pale gown who looks unconscious or dead, gripping her shoulder with long, claw-like fingers. In the background, atop a sharp, angular wall, a small, dark figure in a top hat, Dr. Caligari, watches them. The scene feels very dreamlike. On the left, a warped streetlamp stands.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 2d ago

How to be a (Roman) man Cicero’s ideal of manly virtue stressed the performance of self-control and bravery, not boastful egotism and domination by Catharine Edwards aeon.co/essays/the-p... Books by Cicero at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature

The following morning Cicero made another speech against Catiline.

Title: The Story of Rome, From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus, Told to Boys and Girls

Author: Mary Macgregor

Illustrator: Dudley Heath

W. Rainey

Paul Woodroffe

A color illustration of an ancient Roman forum scene: a tall orator (Cicero) in a cream toga and white headband, scroll in hand, leans from a platform to address a crowd of raised hands and spears. A laurel wreath lies at his feet.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 2d ago

Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, 1886 by Shelton D. flashbak.com/life-and-lan... Original version is provided by @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org : archive.org/details/mma_... Books by P. H. Emerson at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #art #photography

"Ricking the reed", from Emerson's first photographic album Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads (1886).

A vintage black-and-white photograph of two men gathering reeds on a marshland: one stacks bundles onto a large reed stack, while another stands in a flat-bottomed boat loaded with bundles. A narrow canal and a distant sailboat recede behind them.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 3d ago

Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Pinkie the Pink Elephant www.atlasobscura.com/places/pinki... #travel

Pinkie the Pink Elephant in Sun Prairie

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 3d ago

You Wince Like a Girl More of Sylvia Plath’s writing is available than ever before. Can you take it? by Kristin Grogan www.bostonreview.net/articles/you... #books #literature #poetry

Sylvia Plath, sitting sideways to the camera.

A black-and-white close-up portrait of Sylvia Plath with short, dark, bowl-cut hair and a straight fringe, gazing off to the left with parted lips and a pensive expression. She wears a soft, textured wool collar against a blurred background.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 3d ago

Arthur Conan Doyle Based Sherlock Holmes on a Real-Life Scottish Surgeon Who Used Deduction to Diagnose Patients and Investigate Crimes by Lindsey Fitzharris www.smithsonianmag.com/history/arth... Books about Sherlock Holmes at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #books #literature

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 4d ago

The Teenagers Who Imagined GPS Before the Civil War By: Alexander MacDonald thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-teenager... Books by Edward Everett Hale at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #science #technology

An illustration of The Brick Moon, a short story written in 1869 by Edward Everett Hale.

A black-and-white pen illustration of a brick-textured sphere floating through clouds and sparkling stars under a crescent moon. Palm trees and tiny figures sit on top, a broken ring of bricks circles it, and luggage tumbles below.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 4d ago

The best books on Knitting recommended by Rosie Fletcher Knitting provides a slow, screen-free creative outlet, and opens up a wealth of style choices that you can’t buy on the high street. fivebooks.com/best-books/k... Knitting at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #knitting #hobbies

At the bottom, there is a rectangular knitted swatch made with pink and bright blue yarn. Two long, light-colored wooden knitting needles rest above the swatch. At the top are the pink and blue skeins of yarn.

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 4d ago

Born #onthisday in 1854: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde. Celebrated for his wit, Wilde + the notion of originality are common bedfellows, but the pairing is not without complications. Our essay on the claims of plagiarism that dogged his career publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd

The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 4d ago

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray #botd #books #literature

Book cover. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · 4d ago

On this day in 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first family planning clinic in the U.S. It was – and in many ways still is – one of the most groundbreaking moments in the long struggle for equal rights for women. 🧵 #Healthcare #Contraception #Abortion #Comstock #OTD

The first family planning clinic in the US opened on October 16, 1916
(It's the storefront with white curtains in the windows)
Photo: Underwood Archives/Getty Images
Source: PBS

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 4d ago

The Brotherhood of Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Fiction Must Pay for Its Crimes by Lyndsay Faye crimereads.com/the-brotherh... Books by Edgar Allan Poe at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature

Title: Edgar Allan Poe
Die Dichtung, Band XLII

Author: Hanns Heinz Ewers

A bold black-and-white woodcut-style portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, stylized with high contrast and simplified features — large mustache, dark eyes, curly hair, and a cravat — labeled “A Edgar Poe” below, signed “FV” (Félix Vallotton) in the corner.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 4d ago

Sorry, but Jane Eyre Isn’t the Romance You Want It to Be By Erin Blakemore daily.jstor.org/sorry-but-ja... Books by Charlotte Brönte at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature

Based on the description found in a letter from Mrs Gaskell to Catherine Winkworth. "She has soft brown hair, eyes (very good and expressive looking straight and open at you) of the same colour".

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 5d ago

The Real Christopher Robin Had a Complicated Relationship With Winnie-the-Pooh By Chris Wheatley www.mentalfloss.com/literature/b... Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098 #books #literature

A. A. Milne, with his son Christopher Robin and the original Pooh Bear, at Cotchford Farm, their home in Sussex. Photo by Howard Coster, 1926.

A sepia-toned vintage photograph of a man holding a young child on his lap, both gazing at the camera, with a well-worn teddy bear propped beside them.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 5d ago

9 Novels About Being the Poorest Person in the Room Carla Vass Recommends F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith and More lithub.com/9-novels-abo... "The Great Gatsby" at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64317 #books #literature

This original 1925 cover of “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald shows the title at the top and the author’s name at the bottom. The cover is mostly dark blue, suggesting the night sky. In the center, there are two sad, feminine eyes, with bright red lips below them. Just above the author’s name, an abstract cityscape appears in bright yellows, oranges, and reds.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 5d ago

Dainty French Imitations of S. and J. Fuller Paper Doll Books: Delphine and Emma by Augustin Le Grand by Andrea Immel cotsen.blogs.princeton.edu/2026/10/dain... #Books #paper_doll

La Récréation by Augustin Le Grand.

A woman blows soap bubbles for two children at a table, one perched on a stool with a basket nearby, while a small dog plays with a toy on the floor beside them.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 5d ago

How literature can inspire us to forgive by Emily Caldwell phys.org/news/2026-10... Original article: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... #books #literature #empathy

Leonardo da Vinci, Quaderni d’anatomia (1490): the central nervous system and cranial nerves. The main drawing shows the layers covering the brain compared to the layers of an onion cut in half (on the left of the image). At the bottom of the drawing, the ventricles viewed from above are illustrated, including the optic and auditory nerves entering the anterior ventricle.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 6d ago

#OTD in 1888, Katherine Mansfield is born. She "was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katheri... Mansfield at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature

This black-and-white studio portrait shows Katherine Mansfield from the chest up, looking directly at the camera. Her dark hair is softly textured and cut in a short bob with bangs. She wears a drop earring in her right ear and a light-colored blouse or dress with a V-neckline and a ruffled collar.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 6d ago

When Europe’s monastic libraries were looted, Britain’s richest book collectors went hunting The forgotten story of how Britain acquired Europe’s rarest books. by Kelsey Williams theconversation.com/when-europes... #books #history #colonialism

Bodleian Library, Oxford.

London, Frederick Warne & Co.

Title: Amenities of Literature

Author: Isaac Disraeli

Editor: Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli

Steel engraving captioned “Bodleian Library, Oxford,” by A. Pugin and W. Finden. A vaulted interior with a coffered ceiling and balustraded galleries. Bookcases and framed portraits line the bays, and a long aisle leads to a traceried Gothic window.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 6d ago

The 1600s pioneer who challenged earth's origins by Sophie Parker www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Books by John Aubrey at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature #history

John Aubrey.

Charcoal and chalk portrait in an oval of a young man with long, dark curly hair, looking at the viewer. He wears an ornate embroidered lace collar and a dark coat with a gathered shoulder, on cream paper.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 7d ago

How Kate Warne, America’s First Female Detective, Shaped Modern Investigation An undercover agent, a spy, and the first woman gumshoe, Kate Warne helped bust crime and save the Union. www.thecollector.com/kate-warne-f... #history #USHistory

How Kate Warne, America’s First Female Detective, Shaped Modern Investigation | TheCollector

An undercover agent, a spy, and the first woman gumshoe, Kate Warne helped bust crime and save the Union.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 7d ago

The Man Who Created a Written Language for the Cherokee Did It So Efficiently and Elegantly, His Peers Thought It Was Magic by Andrew Lawler www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/m... Sequoyah and Cherokee Indians at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #books

Portrait of Sequoyah by Henry Inman.

Oil portrait of a man in a red patterned turban, blue striped coat, white collar and red cravat. He holds a pipe in his mouth and a silver medallion at his chest, and points to a tablet of written syllabic characters. A quill and inkwell sit on the table beside him.

Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 7d ago

Let's celebrate, today is Ada Lovelace Day! Known for creating the first machine algorithm for Babbage's Analytical Engine, Ada Lovelace is widely celebrated as the first programmer. Ada Lovelace at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #womeninstem

Watercolour portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, c. 1840, possibly by Alfred Edward Chalon.

Watercolor portrait of a young woman glancing over her shoulder, in a purple satin gown draped with black lace. Her hair is in side coils with a yellow flower, and she holds a gold fan in a white glove.

Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · last wk.

One of the earliest theorists of the fantastic, & grandfather of modern #fantasy literature, George MacDonald (1824–1905) was read & admired by CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien & Madeleine L’Engle, among others. There’s an ebook of LILITH on @gutenberg.org www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1640

Lilith: A Romance by George MacDonald

Lilith: A Romance by George MacDonald. Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · last wk.

Renoir in Paris: Impressionism and the 'city of love' | National Gallery Follow the first 20 years of Renoir's career from the 1860s to the 1880s www.youtube.com/watch?v=inr_... #art

Dance at Bougival - “The painting depicts two dancers surrounded by a lively scene of café goers. The painting's actual subjects are disputed, but it is well known for conveying the sense that they are in motion, making the viewer feel that they are actually there. Renoir used mostly pastel colors, but included a more vibrant hue in the hats of both the subjects….

The two people are depicted in pastel colors, with the deep blue suit of the man contrasting the pale pink dress on the woman.” - Wikipedia

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NASA Just Made Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data Available to the Public The data drop includes photographs, audio, video, and astronauts’ notes that will be used to study the moon and prepare for future human missions. by Jorge Garay www.wired.com/story/nasa-j... #astronomy

Potential moon impacts annotated by astronauts on the Artemis II mission.Courtesy of NASA