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Lynn🇨🇦

@gerridog.bsky.social

I live on Vancouver Island, enjoy reading, walking and sharing photos of the wonderful scenery. Gerri, was a much loved pup, who sadly crossed the rainbow bridge, years ago.

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Robin Agnew@robinagnew.bsky.social · 2d ago

Happy Birthday PD James, 1920, Oxford. Along with Ruth Rendell, she moved the golden age of British detective fiction into the present, deepening and darkening the form with her classic novels featuring Adam Dalgleish. Her career spanned from the early 60's to her last book in 2011.

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@kaceykells.bsky.social · 6mo ago

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Kacey Kells’ written description of the hellish event put me in the same room with her, and I was aghast and saddened for this innocent, timid, beautiful girl as I read the unfolding of the criminal acts. Only great writing can do that." www.amazon.com/Kellcey-Kace...

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John Cocker@joecocker.bsky.social · 4d ago

On this day in 1903, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 7 May 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt with her husband and daughter (5) and on the 9 May 1942 to Sobibór where she would have been murdered on arrival. Her name was Věra Eislerová Please support @sobibor.org

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United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Maria" is working in Coachella CA doing maintenance on the lemon trees. She wears thick gloves and sleeves to protect herself against the lemon thorns. She shares, "I will work any job to feed my children." Today Coachella temps are predicted to reach a high of 118°. #WeFeedYou

A farm worker who is working in Coachella CA doing maintenance on the lemon trees. She wears thick gloves sleeves, and a hoodie to protect herself against the lemon thorns and the sun
Edward Elderman@elderman.bsky.social · 5d ago

31 July 1932 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Rivka Regina Krzywanowski, was born in Amsterdam. She was arrested while trying to get to Spain. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy on August 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber.

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Carausius@carausius286.bsky.social · 6d ago

This Roman ring, wishing good life to Senicianus, was found in Silchester. It’s now on display in The Vyne. Its fame derives from the archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler consulting Tolkien on it in the ‘20s. Tolkien was inspired by the idea of a lost cursed ring & the rest is literary history. 🕰️C4thAD

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Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · 5d ago

Please enjoy this medieval mosaic of two roosters capturing a fox from the twelfth-century floor of the Church of Santa Maria e San Donato in Murano, as taken by Iowa medievalist Shane Bobrycki. 🐓🦊🐓 Now this is some gallus humor.

edieval mosaic of two roosters capturing a fox from the twelfth-century floor of the Church of Santa Maria e San Donato in Murano
Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5d ago

A rare and fragile survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of hand-spun, undyed silk, c. AD 875-950 Silk was an exotic material imported via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Found during excavations at Coppergate in 1980. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

My photo shows a hood-shaped silk cap from Viking Age York displayed on a thin metal stand against a dark display case background at the Yorkshire Museum. It is made from a rectangle of hand-spun, undyed silk, and shaped at the back by a centre seam. The pale silk is yellowy-gold in colour with a shiny lustre. The edges have been neatened with fine hems. According to the museum, it was probably worn with ties to fasten it to the head, as it includes the remains of two groups of stitches with which to attach ties. The museum says that the silk cap was likely worn by a female Anglo-Scandinavian resident of York. Also that “Silk was incredibly rare in the Viking North because it was not made locally. Silk-weaving is a Chinese technology, but by the 10th-century, the practice had reached the Arabian Peninsula, the Byzantine Empire, and parts of North Africa and Spain. Silk used to make the cap was imported from one of these places. The fine, pale-toned material would have been recognised in the town as a highly expensive and exotic fashion item”.