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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thanks for the info!

ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Jul 11

Given what's going on in the lagoon, no wonder this #turtle looks a little alarmed ... #paleoart #fossilfriday
#bookhistory

Large version of the big turtle, which looks even more alarmed than it did in the complete picture.

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Jul 11

It truly is a plesiosaur-eat-pterosaur (& everybody-eat-everybody-else) world, with a worried-loking turtle, in Elements of Geology, by Samuel St. John (1851) #paleoart #fossilfriday #bookhistory

In a large lagoon, a plesiosaur drags a pterosaur from the sky. Behind it, an ichthyosaur eats a large fish, and behind IT, a small plesiosaur swims. Two pterosaurs swoop through the sky. On the bank, two crocodiles confront each other, while a tiny turtle bites into a plant. A larger turgle looks on the scene, its mouth gaping in what appears to be astonishment.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Jun 24

BREAKING: A 21-year-old Norwegian tourist, Mads Mikkelsen, claims he was denied entry to the United States and harassed by ICE agents after they discovered a bald JD Vance meme on his phone.

Don’t you dare share the meme that he was harassed over below:

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you! The Crossed Wings patterns are really fun to work and always come out well.

ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · May 6

5/5

Two hummingbirds of different species hover on either side of a blue delphinium.

A ruby-throated hummingbird hovers near a stalk of white flowers. On the other side is a nasturtium plant with a green caterpillar on it.

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · May 6

4/5

A monarch butterfly perches on a white daisy, which is part of a bunch. Behind it is a nasturtium plant.

A yellow, blue, red, and black butterfly perches on a pink flower.

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · May 6

3/5

A honeybee works a white daisy, which is part of a bunch. Below it, a green-backed hummingbird with a white belly and purple throat works a blue and white columbine.

A ruby-throated hummingbird pursues a small blue butterfly.

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · May 6

2/5

A small black and orange buttefly flutters near a daisy. A tiny red ladybug sits on a leaf near columbines.

An orange, black, and white butterfly perches on a pink day lily. Behind it are blue and white columbines. Below it a honeybee works a white daisy.

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · May 6

1/5 Flowers for May: the magnificent "Flower Power," by Paula Minkebige (Crossed Wing #28), which I still haven't framed #xstitch #crossstitch #flowers #hummingbirds #butterflies

A cross-stitched panel including day lilies, foxgloves, daisies, columbine, and nasturtiums. Nine hummingbirds perch or fly among them, along with four butterflies.

Two species of hummingbirds, with foxgloves. One bird is shades of blue and green; the other is shades of red and brown.

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Apr 21

I have this! So delightful to learn about someone who read it as a child. (And the bell tinkles so sweetly.) I'm glad she could find a copy for you; I cherish a copy of the book my father looooved when he was young.

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Apr 2

Happy International Children's Book Day! Read 'em and reap!

The book that changed my life, read about age 10. What book changed your life?

Cover of The Diamond in the Window. Cover shows two red-headed children sitting on the stairs leading to the porch of an enormous 19th-century house with a turret. Near the turret is a small window showing a light. (It's the diamond stuck in the window of a mysterious room.) The sky behind the house is printed in bright orange; the house is printed in black, with snow on the roof and the ground.

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 22

And isn't that the remains of a bloom in the bottom?

ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 20

2/2 How to make a spring whistle: cut a length of poplar or green willow. Tap the bark all over to loosen it & slip off the bark in 1 piece. Shape the whistle; slide the bark back on. Whistle plays as long as it stays moist.

ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 20

1/2 #Spring was the time for making spring whistles in the #19thcentury, as #MaryAnnHallock shows us in #OurYoungFolks; 1870 #clothinghistory #1870s #womanartist #WomensHistoryMonth #womenartists #bookhistory

Three white boys lounge on a porch. Two are blowing long wooden whistles. The third is slipping the bark off a length of willow.

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 18

Looks like fun! I look forward to trying it!

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 11

Bought it!

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 6

Been there; done that. Absolutely love Dinosaurs Without Bones.

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 6

I bet you know where & why THIS book was controversial in the U.S.; originally published 1958 #bannedbooks #bookhistory

the cover of a book for children titled "The Rabbits' Wedding," written and illustrated by Garth Williams. Two very fuzzy rabbits stand beside a small stream. The black rabbit holds yellow flowers and helps the white rabbit put one in the white rabbit's ears.

ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 3

Thanks for posting these! At least in the 21st century, computers mean that even male academics I knew did their own typing. (Blast it: I now have multiple Ask a Manager tabs open; that site sucks me in.)

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 3

Skylark Bookshop and Yellow Dog Bookshop, both in Columbia, Missouri (a university town). Good luck!

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 3

Where we were in 1852: controversial Bloomer dress, which made women look like ruffly pumpkins. from children's magazine Woodworth's Youth's Cabinet (Woodworth didn't completely approve) #AmericanHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #19thcentury #fashionhistory

Two young white women stand conversing in a room. They wear a LOT of clothing: long-sleeved dresses that end mid-calf, worn over loose trousers. Over the dresses are short-sleeved jackets about knee-length. One woman has a long scarf tied around her waist. The other wears a hat with a brim. Both wear flat shoes. Caption: The Bloomer Costume.

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 3

4/4 The bond would be $15,184 in 2024—a hefty sum. That the doctor is “respectable” probably implies that he has no sexual designs on the student and that she isn’t prostituting herself; that the doctor is arrested implies that the crime is her gaining an education in medicine with his cooperation.

ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 3

3/4 "On the strength of these suspicions, application was made to a justice for warrants to arrest the doctor and his student. These were granted, the arrests were made, the suspicions proved true and both were bound over in the sum of $500 each to appear at the March court."

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ppflieger 🇺🇦 @ppflieger.bsky.social · Mar 3

2/4 from the Wilkes-Barre Advocate 7 March 1838:
"A respectable physician, in Mercer county, Pa. was recently suspected of having a young female studying medicine in male attire.

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