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Wyoming Dinosaurs Sold For $15 Million In Europe, But How Legitimate Are They?
Collectors might want to beware when bidding on #dinosaurs at auction houses.
How much of the dinosaur skeletons are legitimate vs 3D printed material?
cowboystatedaily.com/2024/12/1… #auctions #collections
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Aren't most dinosaur skeletons recreations? I mean, bone doesn't survive millions of years in bone form does it? I thought it was either petrified or simulated from fossils.
Bone in stone format via petrification weighs a ton (literally) so these standing dinosaurs need to be lighter weight with the real stuff never getting out in public.
Restitution, wrangling and renewal in Benin
How the return of priceless looted treasures sparked a creative renaissance ft.com/content/af133939-e6da-4… #Benin #Beninbronzes
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As well as filling in your profile, it's a really good idea to also pin an introduction post about yourself to your profile.
Pinned posts let you write a lot more than profile texts, and let you attach photos, audio or video. You can even reply to your own pinned post to create a pinned thread.
More info including how to pin posts:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-pin-my-post…
For technical reasons, pinned posts and pinned threads are distributed much more widely than ordinary posts.
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Pinned posts are treated differently at a technical level by Mastodon, they are (currently) the only type of post that is automatically "backfilled" to any server that views the profile. This means everyone who views a profile will always see all of its pinned posts.
Normal posts don't get backfilled, so they may not be visible to everyone, which is why some profiles might look blank:
fedi.tips/why-does-someones-ac…
Profiles with pinned posts never look blank because of backfilling 🙂
Happy 249th birthday to Jane Austen!
#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia
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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!)
#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian @romancelandia #JaneAusten
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Credits: GSFC, Univ. Maryland, EPOCh/DIXI Science Teams
#nature #space #astrophotography
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Chase the Sun
Hi, is anyone in this group doing Chase The Sun? I'm doing the UK South route.
Chase the Sun | Cycle 205 miles in a day, sunrise to sunset
Cycle 200+ miles on the longest Saturday of the year, Coast to Coast, East to West, Chase The Sun. Now departing at sunrise's across England, Scotland, Ireland and Italy.Chase the Sun
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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
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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
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#FestiveTraditions at #Hogmanay in Fetlar, Shetland in the early 1900s. Straw-clad guisers would go from house to house.
📷 @NatMuseumScot ow.ly/zUBN50UnEZO
#ArchiveAdventCalendar
@ARAScot #museums #Scotland
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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
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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
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Carolyn
in reply to Global Museum • • •Really interesting. I had never heard of it, thanks for reminding us of the mysteries of the world that don't include Orion being made up of drones. :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattusa_…
Global Museum
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