Did you know? Cow horn was used for lanterns before glass!
Andrew from the Fleet team show us how this traditional technique is being used to repair the stern lantern on our replica 1606 Dutch tall ship Duyfken.
sea.museum/en/whats-on/events/…
#Restoration #TraditionalCrafts
Australian National Maritime Museum
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#TodayinSpyHistory - On December 10, 1999, Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee was arrested and charged with 59 counts of mishandling classified information. 💻
Lee faced intense scrutiny as the only suspect in an alleged Chinese espionage case, but nine months later, all espionage allegations collapsed. 🤯
In 2006, Lee received settlements from both the government and media outlets for the mishandling of his case.
📸 : Mike Fiala / AFP / Getty Images file @IntlSpyMuseum
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art are thrilled to unveil the design for the Oscar L. and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing at The Met! Designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, the wing will provide a new world-class home for their extraordinary collection of 20th and 21st-century art. Set to open in 2030, the new wing will increase gallery space by nearly 50 percent and address important accessibility, infrastructure, and sustainability needs.
@metmuseum #museums #MetMuseum
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Born #OnThisDay in 1815 was mathematician Ada Lovelace. She is known for her work on the Analytical Engine with mathematician Charles Babbage, an early proposed mechanical computer for which she wrote one of the first algorithms.
The Royal Society @royalsociety #mathematics #algorithms
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It's Trilobite Tuesday! Rarely exceeding 1 in (2.5 cm) in length—including its long, graceful tail spine—the small Middle Cambrian ptychopariid trilobite Norwoodia bellaspina hails from Utah’s Weeks Formation. It takes a sharp eye to spot one in the field.
American Museum of Natural History
@AMNH #Trilobite #museums #fossils
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This guide will introduce you to the GLAM-E method of building an open access program. It will give you a clearer picture of what open means in practice for you, your institution, your collections, and your community.
This handbook is part of the GLAM-E Lab Open GLAM Toolkit for cultural heritage organisations.
glamelab.org/products/go-open-… #museums #Openaccess #collections
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In the celebration of the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation's 10th anniversary, Caroline Jane Knight (Austen's fifth great niece) writes a beautiful essay on the history of the Foundation and what's to come.
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#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian @romancelandia #JaneAusten
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Official PeerTube app out now:
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
apps.apple.com/app/peertube/id…
(coming soon to F-Droid)
How to add more servers:
1. Click Explore
2. Click "Show More Platforms"
3. Click the + icon in top right
4. Enter server's web address & connect
5. Click "Platforms" at the bottom to browse added servers
App is missing a lot of features, but it is not the developers' fault (framablog.org/2024/12/10/peert…). See reply below for how to get these features.
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#Saltmarsh #Biodiversity #Wildflowers #NatureRestorationFund #NatureScot
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Crowning Achievements in #Marketing #History: Conference on Historical Analysis and Research in Marketing (CHARM)
22nd Biennial – Now running from 12-15th June 2025
Host University: Brunel University London
Paper Submission Deadline: 14th Jan 2025
Direct your submission to the Program Chair: keep@tcnj.edu
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No evidence to indicate misconduct or wrongdoing concerning missing items: Canadian museum.
The Royal Ontario Museum ( #ROM ) has vigorous security procedures in place, and there has been no evidence to indicate that any objects are missing as a result of misconduct or wrongdoing, the Canadian museum told the Global Times on Sunday in response to a report that 2,234 items in its collection, including 136 oracle bones from China, are unaccounted for
globaltimes.cn/page/202412/132… #museums #Canada
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Why Aren’t Classical Statues Very Well-Endowed?
Cultural values have changed a lot since ancient Greece.
If you spend enough time with classical statuary, you may begin to ask yourself some questions that seem more appropriate to middle school health class than an art history discussion. Namely: Is it just me, or are all these dudes kind of … small?
mentalfloss.com/article/79897/… #Greece #Classicalstatues #Greek #art
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Not certain about Ancient Greece but Rome had seasonal fertility festivals where they paraded enormous (wooden) phalluses through the streets so I think the context mattered a lot when depicting size.
Also, kind of an aside since it's a different culture, but there is a similar festival in Japan called Kanamara Matsuri which is still celebrated.
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If I haven't misunderstood the meaning of "hill", a "backstuga" is not a "hill cottage". " Backe" in swedish has several meanings, and one is "slope" - and many times these houses were situated in a stony slope at the edge of a wood, where nothing could be grown - so some poor people could just as well have it.
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