Wil Eelsing
@wileelsing.bsky.social
Dutch. History, lit, art and animal lover, especially cats. Not particularly woke, just a decent upbringing which apparently is the same as woke. This is my DetoX space. No DMs.
Photographer Captures the Working Bodega Cats of New York City petapixel.com/2026/08/04/p...
Photographer Captures the Working Bodega Cats of New York City
Together with a writer, the pair have put together a comprehensive documentation of the city's unique felines.
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Look how cool! A person I'm acquainted with on Instagram does photography with antique equipment and he did a portrait of his cat using a camera made in 1926. www.instagram.com/glass_negati...
'A London Back Garden' by Charles Ginner (1878-1952) (The Higgins Art Gallery and Museum)
Meet Tigernos, one of Britain’s earliest named sailors! ⚓️ A Briton and Roman fleet veteran, his story is recorded on the bronze Lanchester Diploma issued by Antoninus Pius in AD 150. It grants him honourable discharge from the Classis Germanica and Roman citizenship. #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology
An #IceAge masterpiece: This small carving (4.7cm) of a water #bird was made from mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. It's thought to be a #diver, #cormorant, or #duck. Found in the Hohle Fels cave on the Swabian Jura. It's the oldest known representation of a bird. 🧵1/2
A funerary complex, in use between the Late Period and the end of the Roman Period, has been uncovered in the eastern Nile Delta at Tell El-Deir, Damietta, Egypt. 📷SCA Egypt english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/...
Groeten uit Kijkduin ☀️ Het strand van Kijkduin in 1910 met een strandtent en verrijdbare strandhuisjes. Op de achtergrond het Badhotel aan de Zeestraat (later Kijkduinsestraat). Ansichtkaart, collectie Haags Gemeentearchief
Prominent Photographer is Shot Dead by Iranian Authorities petapixel.com/2026/08/03/p...
Prominent Photographer is Shot Dead by Iranian Authorities
He had mentored over 300 photographers in Iran.
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In celebration of #YorkshireDay, please enjoy this Sean Bean bastard collection. Sound up, bastards.
'Willow in Winter', Blackheath (exhibited 1928) by Francis Dodd (Manchester Art Gallery)
New discovery: A monumental 2,500-year-old marble statue has been unearthed at Sardis in Türkiye. The 2.2-meter-high statue, the sculpture depicts a young man and is dated to 470–450 BC. During the Roman period, the statue was reused as paving material and laid face down,...🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology
The World’s First Newspapers May Have Appeared in Medieval China. www.medievalists.net/2026/05/the-...
The World’s First Newspapers May Have Appeared in Medieval China - Medievalists.net
Long before newspapers appeared in Europe, medieval China had printed publications reporting on politics, government decisions, scandals, and military affairs during the Song Dynasty.
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