Born #OnThisDay in 1906 was American computer scientist Grace Hopper. She was a pioneer of computer programming, developing programming languages like COBOL which is still in use today. She was one of the first programmers on the Harvard Mark I computer and is credited with writing the first computer manual.
The Royal Society
@royalsociety #royalsociety #computerscience
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SURPRISE! The Titan arum is in bloom 🎉
We are finishing out a record year for the Titan's with a 4th (and final) flowering. Standing at nearly 2.5 metres, this remarkable, smelly plant is our tallest of 2024.
📍See (and smell!) it for yourself from 10am tomorrow
Kew Gardens @kewgardens
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** Insights from the Zoo, Aquarium, & Museum Benchmarks **
Five Insights to Elevate Engagement in 2025
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2024 State of Engagement in Zoos, Aquariums, and Museums
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This fragile #Christmas pudding is believed to be the last surviving from a batch of 1,000 sent to naval personnel during the Boer War at Christmas in 1900.
The puddings were commissioned by Dame Agnes Weston, a philanthropist known for her kindness to #sailors.
The National Museum of the Royal Navy @NatMuseumRN #BoerWar #militaryhistory #pudding #Christmaspudding
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Recent updates to Mastodon's web interface introduced a hovering preview window that tells you about an account when you move your mouse pointer over account names.
This is on by default, but you can switch it off if you don't want this to happen:
1. Click on ⚙️ Preferences
2. Click on Appearance
3. Tick the box marked "Disable profile preview on hover"
4. Click the button at the top of the screen marked "Save Changes"
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The 1995 version of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility is listed.
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#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia
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#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia
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During Anglo-Saxon times in England, a modest, circular earthwork known as a moot hill or moot mound was the designated site where the leading figures of the hundred convened to make decisions.
Over time, some of these locations had permanent structures built upon them, becoming known as moot halls.
The Moot Hall, Steeple Bumpstead, Essex This 16th century building originally housed the school, which was founded in 1592.
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Solnitsata, located near modern Provadia in Bulgaria, is oldest known salt production center in continental Europe, dating back to 5500‑4200 BC.
Salt, a vital commodity for preserving food and trade, was produced by boiling water from a local spring to create bricks. The settlement's economy thrived on salt trade, and its large defensive walls protected this valuable resource.
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The stele of music shows the foundation rites - performed to the sound of the lyre - of the temple built by Prince Gudea (2100 BC) at his capital of Telloh (ancient Girsu), for Ningirsu, god of the state of Lagash in the Land of Sumer.
The stele thus accords with the tradition of Neo-Sumerian art, which unlike that of the preceding period that focused on the warlike exploits of the rulers of Akkad, tends to show the king engaged in pious activities.
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Silver lyre (2600 BC), from Royal Cemetery of Ur, now in southern Iraq 🇮🇶
Music was an important aspect of many celebratory and ritual occasions in ancient Mesopotamia. Lyre is made of lavishly decorated silver and red limestone. The frame, tuners and strings are modern reproductions made from casts of long-decayed wooden parts. Decorated panels below bull's head depict fallow deer and a tree on a hill, lions attacking a goat, and a lion attacking a gazelle.
British Museum
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The wall and ceilings are completely covered intricately detailed mosaics, inside the 11th Century AD, Orthodox Church of Panagia Phorbiotissa in Cyprus.
Church of Panagia Phorbiotissa, better known as Panagia of Asinou, is one of ten Byzantine churches, dating from 12th-17th Centuries AD in Cyprus' Troodos Mountains. In 1985 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which includes nine other painted Byzantine churches of the Troodos range.
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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
@metmuseum #museums #MetMuseum #ChineseArt
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