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Common Moorhen enjoying the lagoon. These adaptable birds are omnivores. They'll feast on everything from insects and small fish to seeds and aquatic vegetation. 🐔🌿🌾 #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #photography #Australia #birding #birdwatching

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The female Superb Fairy Wren took centre stage for this photo, despite the male's bright blue plumage. 📸🐦😍 #birds #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #birding #birdwatching #birdwatchers #Canon #R5 #Australia

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Morning Melbourne ☔️ sound on Gang-gang version of bobbing for apples. #wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #ganggangcockatoo #birdsinbackyards #busyroad #parrot

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Welcome Swallow at Eden this morning. #birds #WildOz

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3rd June, 1972: "Doctor Who: The Time Monster" episode three. #DoctorWho

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3rd June, 1967: "Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks" episode three. #DoctorWho

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"What are you staring at?" The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) gets a cold reception from Taron (Bernard Horsfall) and Vaber (Prentis Hancock)... "Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks" episode 1 (1973). #DoctorWho

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"Only YOU can help the Doctor prevent the destruction of the entire Solar System!" "FIND YOUR FATE... DOCTOR WHO: CRISIS IN SPACE" by Michael Holt (1986). Cover art by Romas Kukalis. #DrWho #DoctorWho #scifi #1980s #sciencefiction #scifibooks

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Tom Baker during "Horror of Fang Rock". #TomBaker #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

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"...a delightfully whimsical science-fiction fantasy aimed at a younger audience." "Dr.Who & The Daleks" c/o "MONSTERS OF THE MOVIES" No.8 (1975). #DoctorWho #DrWho #scifi #sciencefiction

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OTD in 1973. Dr Who (the one with the maggots), Dick Emery and Ironside are on BBC1. There's bedroom farce with Ooh La La! on BBC2 with Thriller on ITV.

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Theatre 625 - Nineteen Eighty Four (28th November 1965). Remake of Nigel Kneale's 1954 adaptation, starring David Buck, Joseph O'Conor and Jane Merrow. youtu.be/vw8finsCwZ0?...

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Goodnight Melbourne. He’s so vane. #wildoz #ozbirds 🦉📷 #birds #ganggangcockatoo #birdsinbackyards #parrot

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The Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) from near Fitzroy Falls, New South Wales, Australia last night. It put on quite a show! #landscape #Australia #Astrophotography #Nightphotography #Aurora #AuroraAustralis #SouthernLights

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We are delighted to announce dates for our next exhibition at The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures in Tucson, AZ! ‘Ray Harryhausen- Miniature Models of the Silver Screen’ opens on Sept 30th. Special opening reception with Vanessa Harryhausen on Oct 3rd: theminitimemachine.org/event/exhibi...

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#MountainMonday

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Today also marks the start of Pride month globally. So, the aurora show is perfect - paint the sky rainbow! Happy Pride from Sydney, folks! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 📸 Sydney Mardi Gras

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"This year's National Reconciliation Week theme, Bridging Now to Next, invites us to honour the past, act in the present, and build a better future. It's a call to continue the journey-drawing on the lessons of history to guide the way forward." reconciliation.events.canberra.com.au

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Winter has just started in the southern hemisphere (a very foggy morning here in Sydney). So for #mosaicmonday I wanted to highlight the Winter panel of the Four Seasons mosaic at the House of Dionysos, Paphos, Cyprus. Winter personified as an old man with amphora. #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

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Don't say you weren't warned.

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White-eared honeyeater. Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.

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The Sword In The Stone - an illustration by Jeffrey Alan from the novel by T H White. #MythologyMonday #THWhite #booksky #BookChatWeekly #KingArthur #Arthurian #legend #illustration

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#MosaicMonday - A heavily restored central medallion of a Roman mosaic depicting Bellerophon mounted on Pegasus slaying the Chimera. This large medallion was the emblema of a 110 m² mosaic and decorated the reception hall of an aristocratic residence in Augustodunum. Musée Rolin, Autun, France.

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Tom Baker as Doctor Who! 😀 #TomBaker #DoctorWho #FourthDoctor

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"You're putting the waste into that pipe? You'll kill them!" "Doctor Who: The Green Death" episode 3 (1973). #DoctorWho

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2nd June, 1973: "Doctor Who: The Green Death" episode three. #DoctorWho

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A Gilbert's whistler at Gluepot on the weekend.

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Look behind you! 😄 A brown-headed honeyeater sneaking up behind a yellow-plumed honeyeater. Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.

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The #FridaKahlo at #BendigoArtGallery Victoria, Australia, is superb. Poignant. A wonderful collection of photos, dresses, artifacts, self portraits and items that portray this remarkable woman. On until 13 July. Possible in a day trip by train from #Melbourne.

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Ancient Greek clay aryballos (perfume flask) in the shape of an owl, c. 640 BC 🦉❤️ The Louvre, Paris 📷 by me #OwlishMonday #Archaeology

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“People are seeking more kindness, more empathy…” - @jacindaardern.bsky.social

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meow #CatsOfBluesky

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So what happens when you start a long exposure astro shot going and you forget to lock down the tripod properly? Well ... this happens 😄

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Pacific workers face 'appalling' housing, fear deportation if they seek medical care. An inquiry into modern slavery has heard harrowing tales of migrant workers living in overcrowded & "unliveable" accommodation, & of injured workers too afraid of deportation to seek medical care. #auspol

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Greta Thunberg joins aid ship sailng to Gaza aimd at breakng Israel’s blockade “We r doing this bec no matter what odds we r against, we have to keep tryng,” she said, bursting into tears during her speech. “Because the moment we stop trying is when we lose our humanity.." apnews.com/article/gret...

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A #MosaicMonday peacock in honour of Juno and the month named for her. She was the goddess of marriage, childbirth and fertility. Peacocks were sacred to her and drew her chariot. Peacock, Detail of Mosaic - 4th century CE., Bardo Museum, Tunis #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky

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Roman mosaic fragment of a cockerel from Italy. Dating to around 100 BC, the fragment is part of the collections at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday

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#MosaicMonday Wroxeter - Fragment of mosaic floor from the townhouse excavations in 1914. 📷 My own. #Roman #Archaeology #History

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In 1856, workers digging the grave of Martha Brown, the last woman to be sentenced to death in Dorset, discovered a Roman mosaic. Two years later it was lifted and laid into the floor of the chapel in the towns prison, but it can now be seen @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social. #MosaicMonday

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@romanpalace.bsky.social: Check out our fantastical sea creature in a semicircle of twisted cord design and beneath a line of floral tendrils with a bird sitting on one. @colmuseums.bsky.social: Hold our beer.... (😘 to ‪@oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social‬, who posted the 🤩😎 pic last #MosaicMonday)

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#MosaicMonday - From Antioch-on-the-Orontes, ca. Later 1st Century AD, comes a damaged-yet-still-delightful scene of the 'Judgement of Paris'. Hermes prods Paris makes his fateful choice. #Myth #Archaeology 🏺 Image: Louvre Collections (Ma 3443). Link - collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/c...

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#MosaicMonday 🏺 Welcome to the gym.... Two bare handed athletes in the entry hall offer a taste of what's to come in the Gymnasium of the Iuvenes in Pompeii. Frescos within the large #Roman men's thermal bath complex beyond feature wrestling, jumping, weights and other exercises.

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#MosaicMonday with the geometric mosaic floor of the triclinium of the House of the Lararium of Achilles at Pompeii (Regio 1.6.4). Predominantly black and white tesserae, the guilloches are in colour, as are a few other details. #AncientBlueSky🏺

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#MosaicMonday - Euterpe, the Muse of music & lyric poetry, offers instruction to a figure identified as Hyagnis. Detail from the Muses mosaic from Arellano, ca. 3rd Century AD. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Madrid (3619). Link - ceres.mcu.es/pages/Main?i...

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For this #MosaicMonday, something simple, effective - and, perhaps surprisingly, very unusual. A leafy detail from the mosaic found in Olga Road, Dorchester, now in the Victorian Hall of the excellent @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social. #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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#MosaicMonday - Hare Mosaic This virtually complete mosaic was found in a #Roman townhouse at The Beeches, Cirencester. It dates to the 4th century AD. Not long after it was laid it was covered over by a hypocaust system. 📸 My own. #AncientBlueSky🏺 #Archaeology #History #artwork

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It's Monday, Latin dies Lunae - day of Luna, goddess of the #Moon. Therefore, for #MosaicMonday a detail of a mosaic from the #Roman villa at Orbe-Boscéaz, Yverdon-les-Bains region, Switzerland, depicting Luna in a two-horse chariot. Happy Monday to all of you! 🏺 #archaeology

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The Gladiator Mosaic The stunning detail of the Gladiator Mosaic was uncovered in 1834 on the Via Casilina outside Rome and are now held in the Villa Borghese. #MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky🏺

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