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Being Human Festival Proposals: Submission Deadline is 12/18/24.

The National #Humanities Center invites proposals for events to be included in the Being Human Festival, a public humanities initiative for diverse, non-academic audiences in the USA

nationalhumanitiescenter.org/b… #Festivals

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The Medieval mason who did this definitely had quite a sense of humor 🫣😃

(Abbey of Sainte Foy, Conques, France, 1050 AD)

#drthehistories #medieval #masonery #stonemason #religion #history

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Police inundated with calls over #art #forgeries | Amid an ongoing police investigation of a Thessaloniki auction house for allegedly selling fake artworks, calls have flooded in from previous buyers, both domestic and international, willing to testify ekathimerini.com/news/1255824/…

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The Year in Review: Escalating art attacks and responses to war | This year has been marked by a rising number of politically-motivated attacks on art. But we should not forget the power of art to unite diverse groups of people archive.ph/rDneY #art #artattacks #crime #museums

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Assad involved in illegal excavations, former head of Aleppo National Museum tells Türkiye Today | "In my opinion, the future will be very promising for Syrian museums, particularly the national museums" turkiyetoday.com/region/assad-… #Syria #museums #Assad

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Threads, Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp all went down today, because they are centralised services owned and run by Meta. When Meta breaks, Meta's services break too.

This doesn't happen on the Fediverse because it is thousands of totally independent servers owned and run by thousands of different people. If one server goes down, the other servers keep running.

This is one of the reasons why decentralisation is so important: it makes networks more resilient through diverse ownership.

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in reply to World Beauty

Explanation:
During the day, over 12,000 large mirrors reflect sunlight at the 100-megawatt, molten-salt, solar thermal power plant at the western edge of the Gobi desert near Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China. Individual mirror panels turn to track the sun like sunflowers. They act as a single super mirror reflecting the sunlight toward a fixed position, the power station's central tower.

@photography
#astrophotography
#SolarPower
#mirrors
#StarTrails
#APOD

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One of the oldest "goofs" in the history of cinema: A dancer loses a shoe during this scene from Georges Méliès's Le Rêve de Noël (1900) and the rest of the cast work around it

@silentmoviegifs #dancing #cinema #cinemahistory

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How do you clean a 600-year-old painting? 👀

Paolo Uccello died #OnThisDay in 1475. Restorer Paul Ackroyd talks us through some of the challenges he's encountered while working with Uccello's 15th-century battlefield scene.
Watch the full film: bit.ly/3ZEelHv

@NationalGallery #museums #artgallery #conservation #art #painting

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Go behind the scenes with designer Todd Oldham as he uncovers memories of a cherished friendship with André Leon Talley and shares the many inspirations that found their way into his bespoke fabrics.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
@metmuseum #Fashion #museums #design #NewYork

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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
@seamuseum_

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