Badge displaying an enormous phallus, reverse shows a woman pushing a wheelbarrow loaded with phalli, 1375-1450 CE, found in Vlaardingen in The Netherlands 🇳🇱
The phallic image is partly associated with the cult of worship of the phallus itself - a symbol of strength and fertility for people of the past.
Private Collection
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Join Museum experts for presentations about works of art that feature #calligraphy throughout The Met collection.
Explore how artists across different times and cultures have explored calligraphy’s capacity for visual, emotional, and social impact beyond linguistic barriers.
Learn more: met.org/3DfCc7r
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Carn Brea #Castle, located on Carn Brea in #Cornwall, UK, is a historic 14th-century building that was originally constructed as a chapel in 1379. The chapel was thought to be dedicated to St. Michael and measured 60 by 10 feet (18.3 by 3.0 meters). This early structure laid the foundation for what would later become a significant landmark in the area.
ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch
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⭐Happy second Sunday of Advent! Mistletoe (Viscum album), a hemiparasitic plant, is often hung above doorways to kiss beneath during the holidays. We'd like to share this beautiful illustration from Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen (1887). 🌿Find out more: kew.org/plants/mistletoe.
Kew Gardens Library and Archives
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If you have a website, it's a really good idea to put a link to it in your profile! Many people click on website links in profiles to find out more about the account.
When you're adding your website's link to your profile, remember to include https:// at the beginning so that the link will be clickable.
If you want to get really fancy, you can verify your website link which makes it turn green on your profile, and proves you're the owner of the site:
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It should be possible on any platform that lets you add custom HTML.
Alternatively, if the platform allows you to add links to your social media accounts, if they add rel="me" to their link format that will make it work too.
By the way, this green thing is based on what was supposed to be a global standard for verifying links to other accounts, unfortunately Facebook, Twitter etc refused to play ball for some reason. But maybe Newgrounds might listen?
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I really wish news sites, when writing about something about Austen, stopped giving her biography. ESPECIALLY British papers. Sure, some people don’t know the history of Jane, but for pete’s sake, that’s why Google exists! (At least the author didn’t start the article with, “It’s a truth universally acknowledged…” Small mercies.)
dailyecho.co.uk/news/24724201.…
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#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #JaneAusten @romancelandia
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