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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 13/20: "The Martian" by Andy Weir #BookSky #bookchallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚

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Judith with the Head of Holofernes c. 1530 Lucas Cranach the Elder (Met Museum)

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Venetian prostitute, the wife of a Venetian Doge, a Venetian noblewoman, and a Venetian girl. Abraham de Bruyn, 1580, from Omnium pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae atque Americae Gentium Habitus (Met Museum)

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15 Feb 1564: b. Galileo Galilei, in #Pisa, astronomer, scientist, courtier #otd #heliocentric

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 12/20: "Beast" by Donna Jo Napoli #BookSky #bookchallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚

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Adopt a healthy lifestyle to show your heart, your body and your mind some extra special love ♥️ ❕Eat healthy food ❕Be active ❕Keep up with regular health screenings ❕Prioritize your mental health ❗️Ditch tobacco ❗️Reduce alcohol consumption ❗️Don’t doom-scroll #ValentinesDay

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

The Dance of the Rats, ca. 1690 Attributed to Ferdinand van Kessel (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)

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With measles cases surging in a few states, this valentine is a timely reminder! Stay healthy this and every #ValentinesDay by keeping up with vaccinations. They're safe, effective and can save the life of someone you love. aphagetready.org/resources/fa...

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 13 days ago • 1247 comments

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

submitted 22 days ago • 95 comments

Since RFK Jr just got confirmed today, I am taking this chance to share this wonderful @sciam.bsky.social piece on The Staggering Success of Vaccines www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

I find it strangely hopeful to discover a 744-page book published in Venice during the plague year of 1630 called "Today, or the world isn't worse or more calamitous than in the past"

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The Carnival is a photographer's dream, offering a vibrant tapestry of colours, intricate masks, and rich traditions. This iconic festival transforms Venice into a living canvas, providing unparalleled opportunities to capture its essence through your lens. #venice #carnival www.msecchi.com/jour...

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📚 An Ottoman Document Showing that Isa Efendi, a Book Enthusiast, Mortgaged His House in Exchange for Books he Purchased from a Woman Named Âlem Hâtun, 17th Century #BookStore #BookLover #Library

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 11/20: "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley #BookSky #bookchallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚

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An unexpected map on reddit, and a lovely discussion about languages and dialects. Venetian is not recognized as an official language in Italy (the latest attempt to give it this status fell through in 2016), but IS recognized in parts of Brazil, coz immigration! www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/co...

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Ghetto - A Venetian word The now almost extinct Venetian language was once widely spoken around Europe, and some Venetian words have survived.

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The Dizionario del Dialetto Veneziano by Giuseppe Boerio from 1829 is the essential dictionary of the late Venetian language for anybody trying to read old Venetian texts. #Venezia #Venice historywalksvenice.com/article/the-...

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The Lace Museum on Burano #Venice. Quite a place.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

More foggy mornings in Venice. I love how I can look at one of the photos I’ve taken and it instantly transports me back to that moment. Walking around #Venice in the early morning hours was one of the truly magical feelings I’ve had in life. #fineart #photography #street #streetphotography #italy

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Flowers in Venice (May 2024). #venice #italy #flowers #architecture

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Blue space at blue hour. #twilight #murano #veneto #bluehour #rio #lghts #reflection

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Roman mosaic floor discovered under a vineyard in Negrar di Valpolicella, Veneto, Italy

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 10/20: "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck #ChineseCulture #BookSky #bookchallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 9/20: "ASPCA Petcare Guide for Kids: Birds" #birdnerd #BookSky #bookchallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚

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I love the interesting leaf arrangements in Aloe. They are typically spirally arranged & none shows it better than A. polyphylla (📷: John Dransfield). Occasionally they’re distichous, as in A. suprafoliata. #Aloe #Asphodelaceae #TropicalBotany #botany 🌾🧪🌱

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

11 Feb 1225: Third reissue of Magna Carta #otd (BL)

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Porcelain Canivale masks. Venice, Italy. July 2021

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The hardest part about public health is that when we succeed, there's no crisis, no epidemic. People carry on with daily life, unaware of a near-miss. We may never know how bad it could have been - because our public health workforce is always taking action to avoid, prevent, and control threats.

submitted 16 days ago • 30 comments

#MosaicMonday a rather unlikely lion, presumably of St Mark from the mosaic ceilings of Basilica San Marco in #Venice. I rather like his perplexed expression....

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 8/20: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe #Horror #BookSky #bookchallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚

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"The Belle Da Costa Greene Award of $2,000 will be granted annually to a medievalist of color for research and travel. The award may be used to visit archives, attend conferences, or to facilitate writing and research." DUE 15 FEB More on award & Greene: www.medievalacademy.org/page/GreeneA...

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Renaissance Map Room in Florence Restored After Three-Year Conservation Effort https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/renaissance-map-room-in-florence-restored-after-three-year-conservation-effort/ #Florence #PalazzoVecchio

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Books and a Candle 1625 Sebastian Stoskopff, b. 13 July 1597, d. 10 feb 1657 (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, via WGA)

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Teaching on the Ghent Altarpiece (1432) and it is a painting full of books, words and literary associations - which is perhaps one of the reasons why I, and so many others, can never get enough of it! There is always something new to investigate! 📚

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 7/20: "Ficciones" by Jorge Luis Borges #MagicalRealism #BookSky #bookchallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚

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Back by popular demand – another #sunset in #Venice, facing west from San Lazzaro

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Since 1670, Jacques Herbin has crafted exquisite glass pens, once popular in 17th-century Venice. Today, these beautiful pens serve as both functional writing tools and elegant desk ornaments, perfect for writing, drawing, and decorating. #writing #calligraphy #glasspen #drawing

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I adore this little chap at his writing desk, hiding in his initial Q for a little over five centuries. In a missal printed by Peter Liechtenstein at #Venice in 1520. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Norton.a.35.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Doors of Venice (1 of 2). Oct. 5 2017. Nikon D5100, ISO400, 18mm, f/4.5, 1/80s. #Venice #Italy #TravelPhotography #StreetPhotography #Photography

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8 Feb 1577: b. Robert Burton, anatomiser of Melancholy #otd in Leicestershire (BM/CCO)

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers! 6/20: "DK Spanish/English Bilingual Visual Dictionary" #LingSky #BookSky #bookchallenge #20BookChallenge 💙📚

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The reclamation of such macabre imagery says a lot about the nature of the celebration in Venice and around the world. #Carnival is much more than a debauch where we forget our stress and escape from sorrow. It is a perennial act of defiance, a determination to be joyful in the midst of pain.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

The Carnival of Venice (Carnevale di Venezia) is a festival in Venice, Italy that's known for its elaborate masks and costume, The festival takes place in the two weeks leading up to Lent, and ends on Shrove Tuesday, also known as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras. 2020 #photography #venice #carnevale

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I had a vision. #plaguedoctor #plaguecore #halloween

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Toxic positivity is pressuring people to look on the bright side. They have to suppress anxiety, anger, sadness, and grief. Healthy support is shielding people from the dark side. You invite them to express their pain, and show them they're not alone and won't feel it forever.

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

Toiletries box, 1550, Venetian (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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St Francis supported by an Angel Orazio Gentileschi, c. 1607 The artist, father of the artist Artemisia, d. #otd 7 Feb 1639 (Museo Nacional del Prado)

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Aight. Headaches have slightly calmed down so here are some rainbow Plague doctor scribbles #plaguedoctor #art #doodles #ibispaint

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