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A little bit of the Minnesota State Capitol today

The tippy top of a dome behind trees in autumn foliage.

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Showing off on that reopened bridge

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Thanks buddy, for the cat hair in my coffee.

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E.C.Reetz @ecreetz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“A Eunuch’s Dream” by Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ (1874), inspired by Charles Montesquieu's Persian Letters (1721).

A man asleep while visions dance above. At the Cleveland Museum of Art: “This painting, inspired by Charles Montesquieu's Persian Letters (published in 1721), depicts a eunuch who wanted to marry a harem slave. He experienced a vision of her while smoking his opium pipe, but her little companion holding a knife dripping with blood reminds us that the eunuch's anatomy precludes the fulfillment of his dream. The outline of a hand next to the signature is a khamsa, a symbol used to ward off evil.”

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Section 106 in this bill would only apply to federal undertakings on federal lands. #Iowa has no state-level protections for cultural resources aside from ancient burials, leaving the vast majority of archaeological sites in Iowa unprotected from development and destruction.

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David @archaeomather.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tribal sovereignty in the United States and the National Historic Preservation Act are under attack from proposed federal regulation changes, and the permitting bill currently in the Senate. This system has worked well for 60 years. Please contact your elected representatives.

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Details (former On Leong Merchants Association Building edition) Architects: Michaelsen & Rognstad, 1928

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Lars S. Sørensen @handansken.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Things we say in #Archaeology: "That is a nice section of a ditch!"

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Bear rider. Les Grandes Heures du duc de Berry, Paris 1409. BnF, Latin 919, fol. 75r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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About to see Psycho on the big screen! I was smart and took a shower *before* the movie.

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Our #Caturday boy has grown weary of reading the 2005 issue of The Minnesota Archaeologist.

A fuzzy cat about to fall asleep on the couch next to an archaeology journal.

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Oddly, I’m not sure that I remember Skeleton in The Shining. They’ve really got range.

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Although I’m pretty sure Skeleton has been in more than three films. Perhaps they used a stage name for the other performances.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m glad to see this acting credit on Letterboxd, and with “House on Haunted Hill” I’ve now viewed their complete oeuvre.

Acting credit saying that Skeleton played Skeleton in this movie.

Three movie posters: The Shining, Army of Darkness, and House on Haunted Hill.

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Portrait of the Cat Armellino With a Sonnet, Giovanni Reder, c.1750. #Caturday

White cat with black patches sat on a red cushion, green drape in back with gold sash and a sonnet pinned to it, painting.

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Both of us in Marc Chagall’s 1911 painting “Half-Past Three (The Poet)”

Cubist painting that includes the green cat and man, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: “This monumental painting, made shortly after Marc Chagall's arrival in Paris from Saint Petersburg, Russia, reveals the head-spinning impact of Cubism. The work began as a portrait of a Russian poet named Mazin but progressed to this delightfully tumultuous image of poetic inspiration that —as the painting's title suggests —hits in the middle of the night. The poet's illogically upturned head is a visual expression of the Yiddish idiom fardreiter kop (turned head), which denotes a state of giddiness or disorientation.”

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ready to host my new talk show.

A ventriloquist’s dummy with plastic hair and very red lips wearing an orange sweater that says WILLIE TALK.

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Fascinating world of ancient #glass! #Roman dove-shaped vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside and the tip of the tail or the beak had to be broken to remove the perfume. This particular example, discovered in a first-century burial at Rovasenda, Italy, is...🧵1/2 🏺

A close-up of an undamaged, translucent glass vessel shaped like a dove. The vessel contains a clear liquid with a reddish sediment visible at the bottom.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you! I’ll look for that.

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Sometimes you see an artefact where myth, magic & reality all seem to converge… Behold, the Iron Age Torrs Pony Cap; pulled from a Scottish bog in the 19thC & dating to the 3rdC BC, the horns were still attached when found. Chariot ponies knew they were cool. National Museum Scotland #FindsFriday

Decorated bronze pony cap with long, slender curving horns

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Inscription inside the front cover: “Helen D. Kiefer. Aug. 9, 1955. Purchased in Sault St. Marie, Mich., on the above date during the Soo’s Centennial.”

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Went out for lunch and ended up buying a book ⭐️

Book cover of The Mighty Soo: Five Hundred Years at Sault Ste. Marie by Clara Ingram Judson (1955), with an image of a Great Lakes ship in the lock with people waving.

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