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Artist / Author of Ghosts of the British Museum, a narrative non-fiction book about the museum's many ghosts. Wayfaring North Carolinian. Represented by Zoe Ross at United Agents. https://linktr.ee/ghostsofthebritishmuseum

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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · Apr 1

Paperbacks arrived this morn, and I'm happy to report that they're beauties!!! 👻🏛️🌷🌸

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Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 22h

🇧🇷Bandeirinha
🌎Discosura longicaudus
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante

O bandeirinha é uma ave Apodiforme da família Trochilidae.

Também conhecido como beija-flor-bandeirinha e pavãozinho.

📷 Marlos Menêzes

Um pequeno pássaro de plumagem vibrante, predominantemente verde esmeralda na cabeça e no peito, com reflexos iridescentes. A região do ventre exibe um padrão escamado em tons de marrom, bronze e dourado. A cauda é longa e bifurcada, com penas escuras, quase pretas, terminando em formatos arredondados. O pássaro está empoleirado em um galho seco, com o corpo ereto e a cabeça ligeiramente inclinada para cima, como se estivesse observando algo. O fundo é um borrão suave em tons de verde e bege, sugerindo uma vegetação densa.
Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

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Haydyn Williams @tine119.bsky.social · 1d

A different kind of ghost for yers a brathair - @noahangell.bsky.social

Liz Craig @willsmanonename.bsky.social · 1d

Not quite a skeleton, but an Anglo Saxon burial at #SuttonHoo. The bones have not survived, but the flesh had stained the sandy soil. During excavation, the soil was then laminated so that the figures of the dead were preserved & casts taken
#31DaysOfGraves
Day 13: skeleton

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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 1d

This past Saturday I caught @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social,
Justin Robinson & friends celebrating the life and work of Joe & Odell Thompson at the Mebane community center. An extraordinary performance. Here's a bit of "Dona's got a rambling mind." 🪕🪕🪕🔥🔥

museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 1d

Fyi Satch's first "Un-muting" release is now available via a limited edition 10" record. You can listen here: honestjons.com/shop/artist/...

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Angutekaraq Qakvalria @angutekaraq.bsky.social · 2d

From accounts with relatives from Kipnuk, the village is a total loss. One of my Elder relatives says it's wiped out. Those rectangular dots in the distance? Houses floating away

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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 2d

The Benin Bronzes have *always* belonged to the Oba of Benin Kingdom - that's been the case for centuries. That Europeans are still confused about this speaks to their own ignorance.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas

The public display of artefacts looted by British colonial forces at the new Museum of West African Art was supposed to be the crowning glory of a decades-long restitution effort. What went wrong?

www.theguardian.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 6d

Please donate or share

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 7d

It was a warm morning at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica today and this male Snowcap #hummingbird was enjoying a sunbath.

#birds #nature

A small hummingbird with iridescent magenta feathers and a bright white cap perched on a branch in a forest setting.

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Lynda Albertson @sauterne.bsky.social · 7d

Thieves used a power saw to remove a painted section from the historic wall inside the tomb of Khentkaus in the Giza Governorate in Egypt. apnews.com/article/egyp...

A limestone pharaonic painting vanishes from the famed Saqqara necropolis in Egypt

Egyptian antiquities officials have reported the disappearance of a pharaonic painting from the Saqqara necropolis near Cairo.

apnews.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 8d

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Oftentimes Jack 🎃 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 10d

Ahmed sent me a video of Wateen, both before, with her smiling joyous laughter and after almost two year of genocide with her struggling to find the words, you can see her little heart break when she can't speak properly. Damn the world that does this to a child so beloved.

shorturl.at/c6z2y

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 9d

No donations for three days yall

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 9d

Palestinian children like Rosette's are being violently displaced, sickened, & starved to death in Israel's genocide. Please help by sharing & donating if you can to cover the costs of food, healthcare, travel, & shelter:

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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 10d

You're welcome. I did (unofficial) walking tours of the British Museum for a year and a half, telling the ghost stories I collected from staff, but I only touched on that in the book

museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 10d

For a (very) critical perspective, there's "Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism & Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era" by Tiya Miles

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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 10d

Interesting note on Cold War-era CIA experiments on bilocation / remote viewing 🧐

photograph of a paragraph which reads: Another email came from a former CIA agent who had worked in the Stargate Project, which was about remote viewing. For two decades both the United States and the Soviet Union employed psychics to see what was on the other side of the Iron Curtain. They scored many hits, and therefore the program kept going for twenty years. Of course, there are people who say it was not for real. Anyway, he was also very happy to see one
detail in my book, something he had experienced.

photograph of a printed paragraph, which reads: When María of Ágreda bilocated to Texas, she could speak to the natives. She didn't know their language, and they didn't know her language, but they understood each other. This former CIA agent said to me in an email, "Sometimes when I was remote viewing, I would break through to the other side [i.e., Russia] and I could talk to people on the other side. They could talk to me, and we understood each other perfectly, and I can put you in touch with more people who have had this experience."

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 11d

Ruaa rarely reaches out to me, but she has just reached out to me this morning because she’s so desperate. She and her family are starving and they urgently need our help, so please give if you can and share:

chuffed.org/project/help...

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Dr Katherine Blouin @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 Global Sumud Flotilla approaching Gaza and therefore IOF pirate-style attacks: Watch and share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCAN...
#AllEyesOnSumudFlotilla

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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 13d

Attn US Kindle readers: Ghosts of the British Museum is available for a low price all month long - Check us out!

Ghosts of the British Museum on sale for $1.99 through the month of August

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 14d

Two people in my extended circle are on the Global Sumud Flotilla, aiming to break the siege on Gaza. They are asking us all for increased vigilance as the flotilla enters the high risk zone. You can follow the progress of the flotilla at www.globalsumudflotilla.org/live

WE ARE LESS THAN 160NM FROM GAZA, 10NM FROM THE HIGH RISK ZONE STAY ALERT
Witness brings protection. g ww.globalsumudflotilla.org/live

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SamWalkerOBXNews 🎙📻📰🥍🦓 @samwalkerobxnews.com · 14d

BREAKING: Five houses collapsed over a roughly 60 minute period this afternoon in Buxton. Details: islandfreepress.org/outer-banks-... [@IslandFreePress video] #yestv #ncwx #obx #Humberto #Imelda

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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 16d

Was at the restaurant 2 doors down just a few hours before 👀

BNO News @bnonews.com · 17d

BREAKING: Active shooter on boat opens fire at restaurant in Southport, North Carolina, killing multiple people, police say

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 20d

Please donate or share

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Haydyn Williams @tine119.bsky.social · 20d

Please help. Thank you

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 21d

On the one hand, there’s all the other stuff, but on the other hand, it’s John Coltrane’s 99th birthday and you can listen to WKCR’s 24-hour broadcast of his music www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/

WKCR 89.9FM NY

www.cc-seas.columbia.edu

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