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Joe Barry
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📚 Author: "Almost in Reach of Fame" (upcoming), Veteran 🇺🇸, Visual Astronomer 🔭 www.joebarryauthor.com
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Joe Barry @joebarry.bsky.social · Mar 2
Excited to have my author's web page up! To learn more about my upcoming biography on Joseph B. Stewart, the "Forrest Gump" of nineteenth century America, visit: joebarryauthor.com

#skystorians #booksky #history #biographies 📚✍🏻
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Join the manhunt
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November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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What was the final battle of the Revolutionary War? Hint: not #Yorktown. Read more here about the little-known battle in #Kentucky ...

#history #skystorians #blogs #RevolutionaryWar
Daniel boone meets Leeroy Jenkins — Joe Barry
How does a 2005-era viral video game meme relate to the American War of Independence? The answer is a cautionary tale on insufficient planning, lack of intelligence, and rash decisions.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Visual astronomers, where are you at? Let's connect; show me what you're observing with! Me: 24" f/3.3 StarStruture Dob, 16x70 Fujinons. Not pictured: 6" f/6 Intes MakNewt and A-P 92mm f/6.6 Stowaway.

#astronomy #telescopes #binoculars #observing 🔭 🌟🌌
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Time for another weekend #writerslift!

Be bold, be #shameless drop links to your #books #blogs #poetry #art and #youtube. #like #follow and #retweet. Go #viral! #readers BUY A BOOK! Leave reviews! We need them.
#WritingCommunity #readingcommunity #booksky #AuthorsandWriting #horrorsky
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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New blog post! How does a 2005-era viral video game meme relate to the American War of Independence? The answer is a cautionary tale on insufficient planning, lack of intelligence, and rash decisions.

#history #skystorians #Kentucky #DanielBoone #BlueLicks #RevolutionaryWar #blogs #booksky #gaming
Daniel boone meets Leeroy Jenkins — Joe Barry
How does a 2005-era viral video game meme relate to the American War of Independence? The answer is a cautionary tale on insufficient planning, lack of intelligence, and rash decisions.
joebarryauthor.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Black Friday Sale on Lincoln Assassination Tours! This will be an amazing tour put on by Dave Taylor @linconspirators.bsky.social. Sign up for the March tour, or, come sit next to me in April! #history #skystorians #abrahamlincoln
Black Friday Sale on Lincoln Assassination Tours
It’s Black Friday, otherwise known as “Every Business You’ve Ever Bought Something From Sends You an Email” Day. Generally, I’m not one to add to the chaos that is eve…
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November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Another awesome reason to join the Lincoln Assassination tour! #history #skystorians #Lincoln #tours
assassinationtours.bsky.social Lincoln Assassination Tours @assassinationtours.bsky.social · 20d
Sign up for a Lincoln Assassination Tour and visit Cleydael, the historic home of Dr. Richard Stuart. This private home has been beautifully restored by the owners, and they graciously allow us inside for a tour. Register for a Spring 2026 tour today: lincolnassassinationtours.com/register/
A photograph of Cleydael in King George, VA. An advertisement for Lincoln Assassination Tours with the website and a QR code included.
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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When the fugitive Lincoln assassination conspirator John Surratt was returned to the U.S. to face trial in 1867, he came face-to-face with members of the Kanza/Kaw tribe. For Native American Heritage Month, we share the story of The Kaw and the Last Lincoln Conspirator:
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The Kaw and the Last Lincoln Conspirator
YouTube video by Lincoln Assassination Tours
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November 16, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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If you open your MS Word app and see the horrible Copilot icon STUCK on the bottom of your document window, go to the link below (Mac version). Get a clue Microsoft; make this easier to fix; this is going to piss a lot of people off! Carbon over silicon. #writing #authors #ai #booksky
How to remove copilot from Word, or at least the icon? - Word for Mac - Microsoft Q&A
Microsoft seems to be forcing me to have a copilot icon on my word documents as I write. As an author, I need to start a blank page!! I already arranged to switch to 365 classic, but that doesn't sta...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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How Former American Slaves Found New Lives in the North #history
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Singing For Freedom: How Those Fleeing Slavery Found New Lives in the North
The strangeness of the experience of running away, the abrupt departure of enslavement, shocked the consciousness of those who experienced it, creating a kind of daze that animated those who built …
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November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Excited to be published in the current Surratt Courier, the premiere forum on the #Lincoln #assassination since 1975. I introduce Joseph B. Stewart, the lawyer who chased Booth, and subject of my upcoming #biography. Read here: www.surrattmuseum.org/surratt-cour...
#history #skystorians #booksky
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Harper Goff painting in Feb 1946 Coronet Magazine.
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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For those in the capital region interested in history, this tour is going to be epic!

#history #skystorians #LincolnAssassination #Lincoln #tours
November 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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David Nagler's comments on the passing of his father, Al Nagler, founder of Tele Vue:

#astronomy #TeleVue 🔭✨
October 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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RIP Al Nagler, the man who revolutionized amateur astronomy with his optics at Tele Vue. You will be great missed. Pic from 2025 Northeast Astronomy Forum, where the Astronomy League recognized his contributions to astronomy. #astronomy #NEAF #TeleVue 🔭 ✨
October 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Introducing LincolnAssassinationTours.com lincolnconspirators.com/2025/10/23/i...
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October 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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For all the Lincoln fans and history buffs, Dave Taylor of LincolnConspirators.com has launched a tour company for the Booth escape route! Going to be incredible!
#history #skystorians #Lincoln
assassinationtours.bsky.social Lincoln Assassination Tours @assassinationtours.bsky.social · Oct 25
“After several years of absence Dave Taylor is renewing the Booth Escape Tour. I can’t think of a better person to narrate this exciting tour... Dave is clearly the leader of a new generation of assassination scholars. Take the tour. You will love it!” - Ed Steers
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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A President murdered. His assassins on the run. A nation in mourning.
Join us for a historic, true crime bus tour like no other as you become part of the manhunt for Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. We are now booking tours for Spring 2026.
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The painting “Assassination of Lincoln” by Howard Hill (1872). It depicts Abraham Lincoln being carried out of Ford’s Theatre by a sobbing crowd. In the top right is a depiction of John Wilkes Booth and David Herold on horseback with Herold looking off to a vision of his execution and Booth rides full bore into a nest of hellish monsters.
October 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Call me petty, that's fine, but I just enjoyed blocking a *certain #Harvard #astronomer on Substack, so I don't have to see his nonsense. And no, I'm not going to say his name. ✌🏻👽🛸 #astronomy #junkscience #misinformation
October 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Harper Goff painting (1946) of John Wilkes Booth onstage Ford's Theatre with Joseph B. Stewart rushing to pursue the assassin. My upcoming book on Stewart reveals why he was the "Forrest Gump" of 19th century America.
#history #skystorians #biography #booksky
February 1946 Coronet issue with Harper Goff painting of John Wilkes Booth on stage. Two actresses frightened. Audience member Joseph B. Stewart entering stage to pursue the assassin.
September 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Good vaccine 💉 idea:
cwebbonline.com Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Sep 19
Consider looking for vaccine guidance from University Public-Health Schools / Institutes — examples: Yale School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
September 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Carbon over silicon.
#AI #art
September 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Bad science communication can be disastrous. But a typo clearly isn't as bad as fraud. Clearly, a scale is needed to resolve this ambiguity.

Thus, I here propose the Loeb Scale for scientific PR disasters.

It is NOT to be confused with the recently proposed Loeb Scale for interstellar objects. 🔭
The Loeb Scale for science PR disasters
Science miscommunication is dangerous. But how dangerous?
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September 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Check out Dave Taylor's @linconspirators.bsky.social great article "In the Peanut Gallery" from his Lincoln Conspirators site. Compelling theory on the identity of the boy who held Booth's horse. #skystorians #history #lincolnassassination 💙📚
In the Peanut Gallery
I’m very grateful to Joe Barry and his piece “Will Research for Peanuts,” which he recently contributed to this website. Through his research, Joe put together the known facts about Peanut John and…
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September 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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In ordinary times, this would be leading news. Nonetheless, it's still an amazing development. Bravo to all involved, and let's get those samples home!

#astronomy #mars #marsrover #lifeonmars #NASA
skyandtelescope.bsky.social Sky & Telescope @skyandtelescope.bsky.social · Sep 12
The Perseverance has found compounds associated with life on Earth. But whether they indicate life on Mars awaits sample return.
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#astronomy #mars #perseverancerover #marsrover #lifeonmars
September 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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#Skystorians Today is the anniversary of the Christiana Resistance. In 1851, a group of Black men and women defied the federal Fugitive Slave Act & fought back against kidnappers intent on enslaving them. Read about this prelude to the Civil War: lincolnconspirators.com/2018/06/03/f... 🗃️
“Freedom’s Battle at Christiana”
On September 11, 1851, the small town of Christiana, Pennsylvania, became the epicenter of an event that sent shock waves across the nation. Bloody conflict occurred, foretelling a national reckoni…
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September 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM