Drew
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Drew's feed reads like a museum exhibit curated by a caffeinated octopus with a penchant for politics and pet pics. 🚩Can get lost in deep discussions about medieval fishing practices. I don't think I'm a bot but does a bot know it's a bot?
If you were to name a pursuit with precise research, an eye toward historical accuracy; enthusiasts worldwide, cherished in climate controlled museums; ranging from early aviation to spaceflight, and so much more... A peek into historic and scale modelling: blog.museumofflight.org/miniature-mu...
Miniature Museum Treasures
A showcase of rare aircraft and space-related models from the archives of The Museum of Flight. These items are not on display!
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Convair XF92A. This beauty first flew on 18 September 1948 and paved the way for Convair designs like the F-102 Delta Dagger, F-106 Delta Dart, B-58 Hustler, F2Y Sea Dart, and XFY-1 Pogo. 📷 catalog.archives.gov/id/348099125
New recipe on Cooking in the Archives: To preserve peaches from a @bodleian.ox.ac.uk manuscript. 🍑 rarecooking.com/2026/08/05/t...
To preserve peaches
I’ve been working on a salad* recipe to share here, but this summer has not felt like a good time to test salads. On this rainy August morning, I realized I had some very very ripe peaches an…
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📢 BREAKING MENHADEN NEWS: The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) advanced a proposal that could cut the Bay’s industrial menhaden harvest by up to half
Fisheries Commission Advances Proposal for Chesapeake Bay Menhaden Protections • Chesapeake Bay Foundation
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation urged the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to set meaningful targets to reduce harmful chemical discharges under a stormwater permit for Richmond International Airport.
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Some intriguing maps of #Garneau (River Lot 7) before the university began to seep into the neighbourhood. The campus fringe of the University of Alberta, by Windsor, Robert Francis published 1964. UofA Geography Thesis. archive.org/details/camp... #CampusMorphology #CampusFringe
Did you know the Coast Guard absorbed the U.S. Lighthouse Service? In 1939, thousands of lighthouses, buoys, and beacons became part of the Coast Guard—expanding a legacy of protecting those at sea. https://ow.ly/Yys650ZveN6 #USCGHistory
Consolidation of the Lighthouse Service with the Coast Guard
On July 1, 1939, two of the
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The song is best performed in the original Klingon.
Coach Gowron@coachgowron.com · 2d agoYour rendition of Wind Beneath My Wings was very tender and emotional.
PANTONE 448 C FTW
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 8h agoThis is low key one of the most important popular studies that supports the societal importance of art history. So much so that I am doing everyone here a solid by not allowing the article preview to show, the images of which will haunt you for life. english.elpais.com/health/2026-...
I’m in York! Today’s main character, from the stonemasons’ yard at York Minster, who I can only understand as a Dragon-Staffie crossbreed:
"We were so close, there was no room We bled inside each other's wounds We all had caught the same disease And we all sang the songs of peace" youtu.be/pUfgjp10w-w?...
Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) (Long Version)
YouTube video by Melanie - Topic
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While Air Zermatt has a challenging rescue environment in which to work, it must be nice that the view from their office regularly includes the Matterhorn. Their testimonial, from the Bell Helicopters blog, includes a video with eye-popping visuals. | 🛩️ 🚁 📹 🥇 | 🔗 www.bellflight.com/post/air-zer...
On this day 14 years ago, Curiosity rover landed on Mars 🔴
The World Documentary Repository: M is for Michel Brault. French Canadian documentarian and among the leading exponents of direct cinema by pursuing a mobile, observational approach that used lightweight 16mm cameras with sync-sound tape recorders, as illustrated by Pour la suite du monde (1963).
Multi-use path opens at Gordie Howe International Bridge as dozens line up to be first to cross #Windsor #Ontario Path opened at 8 a.m. Wednesday www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Multi-use path opens at Gordie Howe International Bridge as dozens line up to be first to cross | CBC News
Pedestrians and cyclists have begun crossing the Gordie Howe International Bridge. The bridge's multi-use path opened at 8 a.m. on Wednesday.
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Some footage from a very interesting film: "AMC PICTORIAL REVIEW NO. 6 PROJECT THUNDERSTORM" 🎞️📑 catalog.archives.gov/id/23923
Me LOVE this! Me want more Cookie Monster content!
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · yesterdayCookie Monster's Take Me Out To The Ballgame
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Aug 04, 1834 John Venn born in Hull, England 🇬🇧 1880: The Venn diagram, a visual representation of logical propositions and relations, often used for showing overlaps among sets.
Per my Grateful Dead post yesterday, I’m excited to listen to this: www.npr.org/series/g-s1-...
The Ripple Effect: The Grateful Dead's long, strange trip might keep going forever
This summer marks a moment of transition in the Grateful Dead's long, strange trip: the first in many years where there is no clear center of the band's universe. Where do Deadheads go from here?
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Lake trout colonization of artificial reefs: Who’s interested, and how long does it take? #GreatLakes 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New article! Matthew Evenden @arts.ubc.ca on 'Deptford Stones: London, the River Thames and the Circulation of Ballast in the Age of Sail, c.1750–c.1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Deptford Stones: London, the River Thames and the Circulation of Ballast in the Age of Sail, c.1750–c.1850*
Abstract. In the Age of Sail, ships required ballast to ensure buoyancy at sea, pulling the vessel down in the water and stabilising it against lateral for
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"EARLIEST USE of flotation gear on helicopters was on Sikorsky’s historic VS-300, the first successful American helicopter. This picture made at Stratford, Connecticut on April 17, 1941, shows Igor Sikorsky at the controls of the VS-300. It had three rubber floats." 📷📑 www.google.gr/books/editio...
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
In honour of #InternationalOwlDay. (It may be a bit niche [or maybe not, seeing the popularity of #TheOdyssey], but it's my favourite of any memes I've made.)
For today's #Birdoftheday alt theme #Robins here is a beautiful leucistic American Robin in #Ontario #Canada. #birds #birding #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #thrushhour
Made me think of First Aid Kit
Dying to Make A Living
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Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
Day 3 - Late Night Music Month The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army - Late Night w/ Conan O’Brien Apr. 22/03 Formed in Detroit in '97 w/singer-guitarist Jack White & drummer Meg White. Released as the 1st single from their 4th album Elephant. It won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. GN BS! 💙
The White Stripes: "Seven Nation Army" Live on 4/22/03 (HD Premiere) | Late Night with Conan O’Brien
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