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Chief software architect. Photography. PS gaming. Woodworking. Almost all things space and science.
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Part 131 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg dnd

Hellenistic Greek Cast Glass Pomegranate Vase, tinted with colloidal gold to achieve the burgundy shade, 2nd Century BCE
Plum like glass orb
November 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
One of the 4000-year-old well-preserved wagons unearthed in the Lchashen village in the vicinity of Lake Sevan. Made of oak, they are the oldest known wagons in the world.
Wagon made entirely of wood or wood skeleton
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
A 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic glass bowl with a dazzling swirl of colours resembling a kaleidoscope of tiny flags!

V&A Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a Roman-era ribbed mosaic glass bowl standing on a glass shelf in a display case at the V&A Museum. The bowl is hemispherical with vertical ribs and an applied pedestal foot. The glass itself is composed of various combinations of red, white, blue, green and yellow stripes which resemble ribbons or tiny flags. Height 11.5 cm, width 15.5 cm. Other colourful glass pieces are visible in the background.
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social
Gonna move back to Brussels brb, the house Saint Cyr is for sale for only 2 millie

www.christiesrealestatebelgium.be/en/property/...
A most gorgeous incredibly ornate art nouveau house with beige stone, brown wood and green metalwork
October 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
The week just started, and we already need a timeline cleanse....

A #Roman pot with ears and a funny little face (it looks like Shaun the Sheep). Found in a burial in the necropolis of Giubiasco, Switzerland 2nd century AD.

📷 Schweizerisches Nationalmuseum #archaeology 🏺
A light-brown pottery vessel decorated with a stylized face that resembles Shaun the Sheep, with a braided pattern around the rim.
September 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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wgaeast.bsky.social
Calling all Guild members, labor allies and anyone who believes in a free country —

Join us outside the entrance to ABC's offices at 7 Hudson Square (310 Hudson Street, Manhattan) TOMORROW at 12 PM ET to demand that ABC bring back Jimmy Kimmel Live!

RSVP: wgaea.st/kimmel-rally
Demand ABC Bring Back Jimmy Kimmel Live! RALLY TO PROTECT FREE SPEECH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 12pm - 1pm 310 HUDSON ST, MANHATTAN (7 Hudson Sqaure between Spring and Vandam, outside ABC Network) RSVP: WGAEA.ST/KIMMEL-RALLY
September 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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drjeball.bsky.social
A beautiful #Roman glass bowl, with four main quarters in cobalt blue, plum purple, bright yellow, & colourless, with a fused-on garland decoration in each section. Almost hard to believe that it is more than 2000 years old! AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology
August 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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misjabaas.bsky.social
Dune, 1965
August 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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drjeball.bsky.social
A #Roman glass flask, made of cobalt blue with white stripe decoration layer on top. It was made about 2000 years ago, & is a lovely example of early Imperial glassware (📷 Getty Museum) #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology AncientBlueSky
June 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Roman scent bottles made of gold-band mosaic glass.

Beautiful examples of the skill of ancient glassmakers some 2,000 years ago!

The Met 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows two Roman gold-band mosaic glass bottles on display at the Met Museum. Made of translucent cobalt blue, turquoise green, opaque white, and colorless glass encasing gold leaf. Both bottles have globular bodies and cyclindrical necks with horizontal everted rims. The larger bottle on the left measures 10.5cm in height and has a slightly concave bottom. The smaller bottle on the right measures 4.8cm in height and has a flat bottom. According to the museum label: “Gold-band cast glass was a particularly opulent type of early Roman glassware. It combines canes of brightly colored translucent and opaque glass with strips of gold leaf encased between layers of colorless glass. Only a limited number of vessel shapes were made in this way, and some of the most common are small globular or carinated bottles such as these. They were presumably used to store expensive cosmetics and perfumes”.
June 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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barpublishing.bsky.social
And to think we almost forgot about #FindsFriday today!🏺

This Iron Age duck bracelet dates from the 8th-7th century from Luristan, Iran.🦆
June 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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dallasnagata.bsky.social
So, apparently, the company that owns the Big 4 sewing pattern companies (and Perler fusible beads among other brands) just sold those assets to a liquidation company. Those are the last printers of tissue paper sewing patterns AFAIK. Kind of crazy.

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Parent Company of the Big 4 Sewing Pattern Brands Sold to a Liquidator - Craft Industry Alliance
The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator.
craftindustryalliance.org
June 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Happy Saturday everyone!

Here’s a charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD. 🐙❤️

Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a fragment from a mosaic floor of a Roman villa in Spain depicting a stylised octopus using red, yellow, and black limestone tesserae. The front facing octopus has bulging eyes and eight writhing tentacles
May 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: an amazing #Roman glass garland bowl, that represents a peak of Roman glassmaker’s skill at producing vessels. Very few ancient vessels were made of large sections or bands of different colored glass, and this is the only known example that combines...🧵1/2

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The picture shows a Roman glass bowl consisting of four large segments of colorless, purple, yellow, and blue glass. Applied to the interior of the bowl at the center of each segment a hanging garland.
May 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social
#FindsFriday An absolutely stunning bronze Roman eagle, once part of an imperial statue that stood in the basilica of Calleva (Silchester)

Found in 1866, it inspired Rosemary Sutcliff's classic novel The Eagle of the Ninth!

Now in the Reading Museum

🏺📸 Me #archaeology #archaeobirds #RomanBritain
A museum stand with a wingless bronze-cast eagle standing on clear plexiglass, in front of a display with an artists impression of a Roman town
May 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Exquisite c. 20,000 year-old laurel-leaf point.

Expertly worked and aesthetically beautiful, this Solutrean flint tool is 28 cm long, just 1 cm thick, with edges so thin they’re translucent!

From Volgu, France. Musée d'Archéologie nationale Saint-Germain-en-Laye
📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a flint tool known as a laurel-leaf point due to its symmetrical shape similar to that of a laurel leaf. It was found in a cache of 16 expertly crafted points at Volgu, a site in Rigny-sur-Arroux, Saône-et-Loire, France. Masterfully shaped from a block of pale, translucent flint, the point is 28 cm long and 1 cm thick, with edges so wafer thin they are translucent. It shows no signs of use damage. Dated to the Solutrean period of the Upper Paleolithic. On display Musée d’Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Thirteen of the laurel leaf points from the Volgu cache are part of the collections at the Musée Vivant Denon, Chalon-sur-Saône, France and there is also a Volgu point in the collections at the British Museum.
April 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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adamrothman.bsky.social
What are they puffin?
adamrothman.bsky.social Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Apr 7
Only a dodo would tariff a penguin.
adamrothman.bsky.social Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · Apr 7
Something tells me the penguin tariffs won't fly.
April 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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ricksteves.bsky.social
History speaks. Europe’s lessons from a century ago can wake up and inspire our democracy…in 2025 America.

Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
March 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Something lovely for the weekend!

About 40,000 years ago, during the #IceAge, this small figurine of a ‘big cat’ was sculpted from mammoth ivory. Thought to be a cave lion, it is one of the world’s oldest known works of figurative art.

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#Caturday
#Archaeology
My photo shows a small sculpted figurine thought to represent a cave lion. The figurine is standing in profile facing left. The head is lowered and has pointed ears. The body is covered with incised markings which include cross lines on its abdomen and a dot pattern over the back and thighs. The lower legs are not present. The figurine was carved from mammoth ivory and is a warm cream colour. It measures just under 8.8 cm in length and 3.4 cm in height. It was excavated in the 1930s, together with a number of other carved ivory animal figurines and some of the world’s earliest known musical instruments, from the Vogelherd Cave, in the Swabian Jura, Germany. Dated to the Aurignacian period. On display at Museum Ancient Cultures, Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen, Germany.
April 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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gingertotty.bsky.social
The blossom is utterly beautiful at the moment. Whenever I go out, I am utterly transported…
PINK BLOSSOM White blossom ORANGEY LELLOW BLOSSOM Blossom with BEE INCOMING
April 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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kpw1453.bsky.social
The Wandsworth Shield - an Iron Age shield dating to the 2nd century BC. It was found while dredging the River Thames at Wandsworth in South London during the first half of the 19th century. Now part of the collections at the British Museum 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #IronAge
The Wandsworth Shield - an Iron Age shield dating to the 2nd century BC.
April 4, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
The unique Trichtingen torc consists of an iron core with a silver mantel. It’s too large and too heavy for human use (6.7kg), it was rather worn by a wooden cult image.
Dating 2nd/1st c. BC.

On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg

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🏺 #archaeology
A silver torc with intricate braided and engraved patterns. The open-ended design features two sculpted bull heads, facing each other. Each head is adorned with detailed facial features and a twisted collar-like embellishment around the neck. The metallic surface has a slightly aged patina
April 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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jowolff.bsky.social
How did my Great Uncle and Great Aunt get from Frankfurt to New York in 1939? From a letter, just translated, from them, to my father and aunt who were by then in England, via the Kindertransport.
We departed from Frankfurt on the 12th September. We want to let you know that your dear parents are healthy. Today, we will board the ship to San Francisco. The crossing will take 14 days plus five days train ride to New York. The trip through Russia, Siberia, Manchuria and Japan was very exhausting but also very interesting.
April 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Proponents of genAI say it's going to be a great time saver for everyone, and also that everyone will have to be trained continuously from birth to use it and understand its implications.
March 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM