If you don't know which Darcy this is, this is Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. (Which is a hella lot of fun!)

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#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian @romancelandia #JaneAusten

Why is this blade 600 years older than its hilt?

You can also find a deeper dive into this particular sword over on our YouTube channel for our Up In Arms series here... youtu.be/UrKAFSDNjNc

#armsandarmour #royalarmouries #sword #samurai #museum #history

Royal Armouries
@Royal_Armouries #swords #armaments #museums

Find a selection of skates and snowshoes on the Pitt Rivers Museum's Wonderful Winter Trail, including these snowshoes for horses! Originating from Norway, they were donated to the museum in 1906.

bit.ly/3GB7aW4 Pitt Rivers Museum
@Pitt_Rivers #museums #winter #snowshoes #horses

#FestiveTraditions at #Hogmanay in Fetlar, Shetland in the early 1900s. Straw-clad guisers would go from house to house.
📷 @NatMuseumScot ow.ly/zUBN50UnEZO

#ArchiveAdventCalendar
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The Bezos Learning Center Is Taking Shape on the National Mall.

The design by Perkins + Will would add a spiral galaxy-shaped pavilion and observatory to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. bloomberg.com/news/newsletters… #museums #architecture

An Anglo-Saxon brooch (6th-7th Century AD), it was found in Wingham, Kent - England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Garnet, glass, shell, gold, silver and niello, which is a black mixture of sulphur, copper, silver, and lead used as an inlay on engraved metal. Added as a powder or paste, it melts when fired, thus flowing into the engraved lines. (W: 5cm)
© The Trustees of the British Museum

The oldest preserved #candles north of the Alps. They were made from beeswax around 1,400 years ago. Found in the early #medieval burial site in Oberflacht. The damp environment preserved the candles in good condition.
On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

@DrNWillburger #candles #beeswax

Sencha Ewer or Export Teapot with Wave Design and Dragon-Formed Handles and Spout, second half of 19th century

Masterpieces of Japan
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On December 14, 1972, the Apollo 17 lunar module "Challenger" departed the Moon with Harrison Schmitt and Gene Cernan, the last astronauts on the Moon. LM liftoff was captured by a TV camera on the LRV that was left behind. More on how it was done: s.si.edu/4gx1lsM

National Air and Space Museum
@airandspace #Space #Moon #Apollo17

#Sharks eating #dinosaurs! At the charming National Museum in #Prague.
Totally morbid paleoart. But based on one of the few Czech dinosaur fossils, an ornithopod bone crisscrossed with the razor blade bites of sharks.

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This fossilized skull may look like the head of an actual dragon, but it's as real as they come. It belongs to *Dracorex hogwartsia*, an armored dinosaur from the Upper Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous period.

The skull's striking resemblance to a mythical dragon has captured the imagination of many, but it's a genuine fossil from an extraordinary prehistoric creature.

@Dr_TheHistories #dinosaurs #dragons #fossils

The final portrait of Madame de Pompadour ✨

François-Hubert Drouais was born #OnThisDay in 1727. The former mistress of Louis XV, Madame de Pompadour had become an international celebrity by the time Drouias portrait her portrait in 1763: bit.ly/2MryJCN

National Gallery
@NationalGallery #art #portraiture #museums #painting #France

It's looking frosty! ❄️

As the temperature continues to drop, we're sharing a selection of the snowy scenes from the 60th edition of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.

Which one is your favourite? 🌨️

@nhm_wpy #winter #photography #Wildlife