Abbie W.

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.

*stares in historian*

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oh nooooooo! Maybe it's just getting it out of the way early and will come back up and stay up? I hope you have the means to stay warm until it does!

I assume you've slogged through all of the ESTC listings? :(

that absolutely needs to enter my lexicon 😂

For me the money quote is: “I think they took as a starting point: ‘Why would he?’ And we took as a starting point: ‘Why wouldn’t he?’ And that simple semantic difference can lead you to wildly different conclusions,” said the official.

A reminder, before a certain movie probably makes a big thing of it again:

A young Irish couple did not provide the critical data that made Stagg tell Ike to delay D-Day.

The most critical data came from HMS Hoste, alone out in the Atlantic.

The Blacksod story is nice. But it's not true. /1

she had so much /fun/ with that! 😄

Game of scones - scone wars cards (Jon Sner kners nuthin) he is in the back being North/Devon saying cream first while the Khaleesi (who shares my name) advocates for the CORRECT WAY - JAM FIRST

Ba ha ha! YES

The scroll eventually came into possession of the New-York Historical Society (now known as the New York Historical) and in 1948 came into the hands of the Brooklyn Museum. Flash forward to the 2000s, where a three-year effort, led by the superstar conservator Ahmed Tarek and museum conservators Lisa Bruno, Sara Bone, and Josephine Jenks, worked to separate the papyrus from the acidic backing that it had been mounted on, and find a way to stabilize it for generations to come. "It's kind of like if you took shredded wheat and had it flattened, it's just really brittle," said Bruno. The team used gels to deliver water to the scroll in a controlled manner, and they were able to painstakingly separate the moistened papyrus from the backing. They then mounted it again on special superfine, kozo-fiber Japanese paper, which can be a little as 0.02mm in thickness per sheet.

When reading any story about the painstaking restoration of a work of art by conservators (here, a gilded papyrus of the Egyptian Book of the Dead), I wait for the part where conservators describe how they had to undo the destructive work done by previous conservators, and it never fails to arrive.

#mood #PhdProblems

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

to quote a friend, they need a priest and a zamboni

yikes! 😬 this ice is really fighting back today.

I think this is the best comparative I've seen. Absolutely agree.

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

our interpretation is that you need it to sign up but can then cancel? that's what we're going to try anyway 🤷‍♀️

Sometimes I absolutely love social media.

but enjoy :D

I'm just utterly perplexed about where/when I first saw it, then 😂

I'm sorry, WHAT?! Ummmm how the hell have you never seen it? And if you never saw it, who the fuck did I see it with?! 😂

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue” 'The three volumes of Green's Dictionary of Slang demonstrate the sheer scope of a lifetime of research by Jonathon Green, the leading slang lexicographer of our time. A remarkable collection of this ...

The Largest Historical Dictionary of English Slang Now Free Online: Covers 500 Years of the “Vulgar Tongue”

Academics on staff profile photo day

gorgeous!!!!

This is fucking brilliant

a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

Smart thread from a smart person.

How I imagine the sophistication of my research.

How I present my research.