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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 13h

He does not look impressed.

Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 2d

Elizabeth Taylor remarried Richard Burton in Botswana #OnThisDay in 1975. Taylor wore a colourful ombré printed silk chiffon dress designed by Gina Fratini, with a patchwork bodice, floating sleeves, and feather trimmed streamers. Sold via Christies. #ElizabethTaylor #fashionhistory

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Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 2d

Worn #onthisday in 1977 by Nigerian head of state Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, with President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office before sitting down for a candlelit dinner at the White House. Per UPI, Obasanjo wore "a brown Nigerian outfit embroidered with silver thread and an elaborate headdress." #OTD

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

Eleanor Roosevelt, the longest-serving First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, was born #OnThisDay in 1884. She wore this grey wool dress and matching fur-trimmed jacket ensemble at the United Nations in March 1961. FDR Library collection. #FirstLady #fashionhistory

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Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 1d

Worn #onthisday in 1944 by King George VI (with Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery of and Air Vice Marshal H. Broadhurst) visiting the British Liberation Army in Holland: the waist-length British Battledress blouse, the inspiration for the US Army's Eisenhower jacket. #OTD 📷 Imperial War Museums

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 13h

This is every kind of wow.

Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 14h

As if an encrusted silver dress was not already a lot, it has a scarlet satin coat with a matching silver lining. There is an occasion here of which I can only imagine. Late #1950s Arnold Scaasi @mfaboston.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A mannequin in a dramatic pose wearing a sleeveless silver embellished dress with a red bow over the right hip. It has a matching cot of red satin lined with the silver embellished fabric

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 13h

Good read on current usda as maga tool.

Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 1d

New post by Matt Russell: Ag Secretary Rollins turns USDA into partisan tool for Republicans

www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/10/11/a...

Ag Secretary Rollins turns USDA into partisan tool for Republicans

Matt Russell: The official USDA website slams the "Radical Left Democrat shutdown" in what may be the biggest Hatch Act violation in history.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s hoping he woos republicans.

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EdinburghGary @photoscotland.bsky.social · 1d

The Crossing.

#Photography #Nikon

Wooden bridge disappearing into lush woodland.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 13h

That is the only true thing I’ve heard him say.

He IS in heaven! The most powerful person on planet, owns a country and its military and courts and Congress. Heaven!

Where CAN he go from here?

And…answer is: if he’s NOT President, he’s toast.
So yeah, this is his heaven on earth.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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EdinburghGary @photoscotland.bsky.social · 1d

The Giant.

#Photography #Nikon

Massive tree with a line of much smaller trees in background...

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 13h

Please don’t let this be a dylan roof thing. Please.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 13h

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on St. Helena Island has left four people dead and at least 20 injured, officials say. https://to.pbs.org/4oelMym

Mass shooting at South Carolina bar leaves 4 people dead, more than 20 injured

Officials from the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office say the shooting occurred early Sunday morning at a crowded bar on the idyllic South Carolina island of St. Helena.

www.pbs.org

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 17h

This beer-related exhibit in Chicago sounds amazing. From the Beer Culture Center there.

Design on Draft — Beer Culture Center

www.beerculturecenter.org

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 17h

Love it.

Quintin Lake @quintinlake.bsky.social · 17h

Wanderer Above the Sea Fog (after Caspar David Friedrich). The flanks of Aran Fawddwy #442Mountains

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 17h

This

T. J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 17h

What worries me even more than the dictatorship and the deliberate, open targeting of Trump’s enemies are the administration’s efforts to prevent Democrats from winning elections. When grievance runs high with no legitimate outlet, that’s a formula for violence. Political violence hurts us all.

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 17h

Shoot me an address. I’ll send you a copy.

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks. This has been quite a haul. And now I can get back to the Schell book.

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 17h

As you probably guessed, Carrie designed it.

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 22h

I’m looking forward to not thinking about it. AND to getting back to the Schell book.

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 22h

Oh!

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 1d

📕#BookReview

Hannah Chazin's 'Live stock and dead things' reconsiders the idea that domestic herd animals were passive economic resources in the past, investigating how living and working with animals shaped society, economy, ritual and politics 1/2

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Cover of the book reviewed with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.

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Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 22h

I was VERY happy you could use it. And VERY sad I had to miss. Glad you got to see John, one of my favorite people.

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 22h

I don’t think I’ve seen that! I forgot how many movies she was in. I haven’t seen most of them.

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 22h

Right!

Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social · 22h

It’s missing the subtitle (A History of Meat in America)
Because I forgot to include it in the specs.

Otherwise, ta dah!

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · Aug 26

I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.

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