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A Carpet of Green

@acarpetofgreen.bsky.social
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Folklore, Books, Nature, Sebald, Birding, Art, History, Graphic Design. Classically trained musician. Mildly obsessed by warblers. Yorkshire!

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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
As an academic I use this platform to post positive aspects of human existence, rather than the divisive ones!
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Today is the beginning of the "dog days". "In August 1992, when the dog days were drawing to an end, I set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have completed a long stint of work..." W G Sebald
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fayg...
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Rare Mozart manuscript discovered by French curator • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Little Ringed Plover
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Alfred Edward Housman
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
When the first two letters came up I thought my starter word was coming. Wordle 1,757 3/6 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I was reminded of Toni Arthur the other day. A wonderful presenter on kids TV in the 70s-80s who was also a folklore expert and added many wonderful observations during her presenting role. She was a fine musician and won a scholarship to the Royal College at the age of nine. She is 85.
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
In a world of madness, some good news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nightjars make 'remarkable comeback' to South Downs National Park
An ecological survey has found 109 nightjar territories in the lowland heaths of east Hampshire.
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Wow! www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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The moment the earliest known man-made fire was uncovered - BBC News
Archaeologists in the UK have discovered the world's oldest evidence of humans lighting fires
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Eduard Fridrikhovich Kalnyn (Eduard Voldemar Kalnynsh) (1904-1988) Fishing in the North Atlantic, 1967
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Not sone a wordle in months: Wordle 1,613 3/6 🟨⬛🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Survivors and shocked residents of Hiroshima gather in the street ten minutes after the atomic bomb, 1945.
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Semiplumbeous Hawk (Leucopternis semiplumbeus)
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Sophus Jacobsen-Winter Wilderness Farm
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
In 1948, a man donned 13-pound, three-toed cast-iron shoes and walked along a Florida beach at night. The footprints led people to believe a 4.5-meter-tall penguin was roaming their lands. It continued its mischief for 10 years, visiting various beaches. The hoax was only exposed 40 years later
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Not tried Wordle for months. Wordle 1,559 3/6 🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Ferdinando Carulli (1770–1841) was an outstanding Italian guitarist, composer, and teacher. He is one of the most significant figures in the history of the classical guitar. He was born into an aristocratic family, first learning to play the cello.
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A depiction of flying objects in a German alchemical text from the 17th century. The objects are large square stone blocks. Some of them are lying on the riverbed to the right, some on a hill to the left, and a pile on the road. Apparently, these are blocks from some ruined structure.
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Swift's Great Mystery: Phobos, Deimos, and Time Travel. In the third part of "Gulliver's Travels" the flying island of Laputa is described. The book contains the following quote: "They also discovered two small stars or satellites revolving around Mars.
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates furcatus)
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
tejneger's Scoter (Melanitta stejnegeri)
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Strange events in the skies over France in 1670. An interesting engraving dating from 1670. Title: "Representation of the terrible phenomenon observed in Touraine from August 5 to 15, 1670."
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Perhaps one of the most famous paintings of the 20th century "A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed" (1903), C. M. Coolidge.
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A small limestone tablet with carvings of two quails. In the upper left corner is a sketch of a third quail. Egypt, 400-30 BC. Stored in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Yellow-billed Duck (Anas undulata)
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Salvador Dali, "Face of Mae West, which could be used as a surrealist apartment", 1934–35 Gouache, with graphite, on paper from a trade magazine.
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates monorhis)
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Italian artist Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844–1905) "Monks walking to the mountain monastery of Athos"
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
John Faed - "The Expulsion of Adam and Eve"
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I'm not the religious type but this painting is wonderful. IGNACIO ZULOAGA (1870 — 1945) BLEEDING CHRIST (CRUCIFIXION) 1911. Canvas, oil. Madrid, Queen Sofia Museum.
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich - "Misty Morning in Italy"
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Andromeda Galaxy is hurtling toward us at about 110 kilometers per second. In 4.5 billion years, it will collide with our Milky Way galaxy.
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This makes me smile. A guy making noodles is the beat for a young throat singer.
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Take the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), for example, which is located between 6,500 and 10,000 light years away. If we were to place our solar system in this nebula, it would simply be lost among these huge clouds of gas and dust.
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Trethevy Quoit is a well-preserved megalithic structure between St Clair and Dariet in Cornwall, England. Locals call it the "Giant's House".
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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A Carpet of Green @acarpetofgreen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I know little to nothing about football but as a Scotland Rugby supporter I do know about Scott McTominay. What an amazing season he has had and is now a winner of Serie A with Napoli.
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