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Archaeologist, Oma, and Author of “Finding Ruth: A Personal Story Hitler’s Secret Euthanasia Program Aktion T4” 📚💙 Finding Ruth blog: https://www.findingruth.com/ 🪬
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🌟 Archaeology Book Club is back! 🌟 We're kicking off 2025 with an archaeological journey spanning 3.5 million years of human history. Join DV Founder and Co-CEO, Brendon Wilkins, with author and archaeologist Jim Leary to he discuss his superb new book 🤓 📅 28 February 2025, 13:00 GMT 🎟️ Register:

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Baltimore County friends! My book is in circulation at the library! #booksky #baltimore #bcpl #localauthor #aktionT4 #findingruth

Prohibition in the USA was repealed #OnThisDay in AD 1933. Alcohol consumption has often been associated with 'criminality and restlessness', such as at the 20th-century working-class community of Vaakunakylä, Finland, where alcohol bottle tops are the most common find. 1/2

This blog post is getting a number of hits lately. Learn more about the Ancient Graffiti Project--a team that seeks to record, interpret and share the graffiti posted throughout #Pompeii & #Herculaneum. 🧪 mostlymammoths.wordpress.com/2016/05/08/a...

Disposable Humanity makes its debut at Slamdance this weekend! My review on this incredible documentary film is on my blog. @disposablehumanity.bsky.social www.findingruth.com/post/disposa...

We can't learn from history if we don't know it. Shout out to #DisposableHumanity, @csmdop.bsky.social's doc about 300,000+ #Disabled victims of Nazi persecution on #HolocaustRemembranceDay. #ReelAbilities, #LoreenArbus Fdn & #AMC partnered support the film at the 2024 fest disposablehumanity.com

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

Check in on yourself.

It's #HillfortsWednesday - huzzah! Here's the glorious 3ha multivallate Iron Age enclosure of Pilsdon Pen #Dorset looking NW 🤩 Entrances at the N, SE and SW and with a medieval rabbit warren at the centre 📷 © David Hymans citizen science project #Airchaeology www.airchaeology.org/2018/08/31/p...

Aren't all wars rich man's wars? #antiquesroadshow

#AntiquesRoadshow these two talking about this toy is so joyful!

🏺 📜 Really important article about repatriation that all archaeology and museum folks should read.

Human innovation and creativity - as a species we've long been good at solving problems. We have to allow the talents and energies of all humans to flourish. #EducationForLife #Equality www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

The Baliscate Standing Stones, near Tobermory on the Isle of Mull. The standing stones are one of several prehistoric stone rows on the island. 📸 My own. #StandingStoneSunday #Prehistory #Mull #Archaeology

Propaganda against people with disabilities in Nazi Germany. *It’s always about the money* Translation: This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community 60,000 RM during his lifetime. Fellow German, that is your money, too. #aktionT4

Heavenly metal for the commoners: Meteoritic irons from the Early Iron Age cemeteries in Częstochowa (Poland) phys.org/news/2025-02... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#OTD Feb. 16, 1893: Emerick Hansell was buried at Congressional Cemetery. Hansell was a State Department messenger present at Sec. Seward’s house when Lewis Powell attacked the household. Hansell was stabbed deeply in the back but survived: lincolnconspirators.com/2015/09/04/e... #skystorians 🗃

Flew to #Baltimore on #Southwest airlines from Tampa yesterday afternoon. My DIL had gate checked stroller. We waited for the stroller to appear with 4 yo crying and 8 month baby being held by mom. No one helped us. The captain FOR THE NEXT FLIGHT shows up and retrieves our stroller!! 🥰 THANK YOU!!

“This is nice behaviour, that I write to you again and again, and you pay no attention to me.” This almost 4,000-year-old Babylonian letter in clay is proof that we have been finding ways to say “per my last email” for some time

Strawberry 🍓 picking with the grands. Speaking as a country girl, and a former #usda employee, it’s so important for children to see how and where our food comes from. And to appreciate our farmers. #food #teach #usfarmers

The foundations of a medieval tower that stood on the 13th century ramparts have been discovered in Breda in The Netherlands.

Only manatee I got to see at the Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach Florida. They had better things to do. #savethemanatees

Soft sandstone shaped into a net weight or loom weight by Coles Creek (ca. 800-1200 CE) people. It was recovered on the edge of a looter pit where it had been discarded at Site 16BE61 in Beauregard Parish, LA, while I was recording damaged & looted sites. #Archaeology #artifacts

This! Please please please include as much info as you can when labeling your photos. Full name + date is great; location is also helpful. We have so many photos with limited use because they are unlabeled.

How was your plane ride to Florida?? Flying with the Littles. #omatravels

#Baltimore brick in Ybor City! Did a lovely 2 hour *deluxe* golf cart tour of Tampa! Highly recommend!! Learned so much of the history I did not know including the influence of cigar factories in Ybor City neighborhood. #florida #history

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.