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Twitter twin account. Archaeology-History-Art-Sience-Lover, Archaeologist of the Heart. 🔥🏛️🛕⛩️🪔⚔️🏺🌋#AncientBlueSky

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BOUDICCA @bou-dicca.bsky.social · 8h
m.youtube.com/shorts/hXr8w... 😂😂👍👍👍
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AfD-Wähler verstehen #Shorts #extra3
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 12h
Polizeiangaben zufolge handelt es sich aber offenbar nicht um einen auf die Stätte selbst zielenden Akt von Vandalismus, „vielmehr wurde der abgeschiedene und windgeschützte Platz von Dieben genutzt, die durch den Brand gestohlene Kabel abisolierten." www.mz.de/lokal/merseb... via mz.de 🔐💶
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Feuer an der Dolmengöttin: Warum Kupferdiebe das abgelegene Grab nutzten
Kabeldiebstahl und Gier nach Buntmetall waren wohl der Grund für die Zerstörung des Steinkammergrabs der Dolmengöttin von Langeneichstädt durch ein Feuer. Was die Polizei und Denkmalpfleger zu der Tat...
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 12h
Offenbar bereits vor zwei Wochen ist das sog. #Dolmengöttin​-Steinkammergrab in #Langeneichstädt, Sachsen-Anhalt, durch ein absichtlich herbeigeführtes Feuer schwer beschädigt worden: www.mz.de/lokal/merseb... via mz.de 🔐💶
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Brandanschlag auf das 5.000 Jahre alte Dolmengöttin-Grab von Langeneichstädt
Das 1987 entdeckte Steinkammergrab mit der Dolmengöttin von Langeneichstädt ist bei einem mutwillig gelegten Feuer schwer beschädigt worden. Nicht nur die Mitglieder des Wartevereins, die sich mit vie...
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Kay4BlueTexas @kay4bluetexas.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The dictatorship’s authority relies on the interplay between its components. For example, the dictator (endo-ideal) needs public recognition and support (reflectors), a unifying identity, and an exceptional myth to justify their rule. georgiebc.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/n...
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New book! How to Dismantle a Dictatorship is here!
How to Dismantle a Dictatorship is a guide to dismantling a dictatorship (surprising, I know) from the perspective of Binding Chaos theory. Because dictatorships are power structures, and all power…
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BOUDICCA @bou-dicca.bsky.social · 12h
Leider ist die Petition gestoppt worden da die Stadt an der Stilllegung festhält. Jetzt müssen Investoren her. Es fehlen 2,5 Mio. Euro. Der Schluff in Krefeld muss weiterfahren! ist mir wichtig! ✍️ Bitte unterschreibe auch: openpetition.de/yjbyk
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Schluss mit der Stilllegung – Der Schluff in Krefeld muss weiterfahren! - Online-Petition
Keine Stilllegung aus Kostengründen – Der Schluff gehört auf die Schiene, nicht ins Museum! Die Entscheidung, den Schluff nach dieser Saison stillzulegen, ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht für viele Bürgerin...
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Christie Golden @christiegolden.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Paul is a treasure. Any time you want to clear your head, breathe, return to a slower and simpler era of friendly conversation, and look at and learn about delicious and also curious food, take a peek at his thread and give him a follow!
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The Regency Cook @theregencycook.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I wish to travel to Lewes, East Sussex in 1759 and feast upon Apple-fritters a la Bavarre as found in William Verral's book A Complete System of Cookery. Will you join me?
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The Regency Cook @theregencycook.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A place to ponder. It’s my allotment just 7 minutes from my home. Could you see yourself sitting here under a blossoming damson tree?
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The Regency Cook @theregencycook.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Scones. Fresh from my oven. Are you a scone lover too?
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Brittunculus @brittunculus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A triton or giant certainly seems most likely. In line with the odd African influence on British mosaics, the beast hunt scenes at Villa del Casale, Sicily, seem a key point of reference. Interestingly, there are anguipede giants there among all the animals. 😮 1/2
Leopard bringing down a gazelle.
Villa del Casale, Great Hunt mosaic, detail, CCA-SA 3.0 by Jerzy StrzeleckiMan transporting an ostrich up a gangplank to a waiting ship. Neck and wingtip highlighted by me.
Villa del Casale, Great Hunt, detail - public domain, wikimedia.orgTwo hunters with a netted wild board slung from a pole, accompanied by their dog.
Villa del Casale, Little Hunt, detail, CCA-SA 3.0 by Jerzy StrzeleckiFive anguipede giants injured by arrows.
Villa del Casale, Giant mosaic, Wikimedia public domain
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PolizeiGrün e.V. @polizeigruen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Soll man lachen oder weinen? Lachen darüber wie man so blöd sein kann in Chats seine verkommene Haltung zu dokumentieren oder weinen, dass es immer wieder zu Tage tritt, dass innerhalb der #Polizei noch solche Probleme vorhanden sind. #Einzelfälle sind es nicht. www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...
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SEK: Beamte haben offenbar diskriminierende und sexistische Texte und Fotos in Chats geteilt
Eine Chatgruppe sorgt für Aufsehen: Elitepolizisten sollen brisante Inhalte verbreitet haben. Das hat nun Konsequenzen.
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Thanatos Bestattung @thanatos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asie...
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Türkei: "Gesellschaft soll Angst vor queeren Menschen bekommen"
In der Türkei gehen die Behörden derzeit verstärkt gegen die LGBTQI-Community vor. Menschenrechtler sprechen von einer Kampagne der Kriminalisierung, Betroffene haben Angst vor noch mehr Stigmatisieru...
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🏛️ Roma Aeterna 🏛️ @romaaeterna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Grand masque tragique présenté dans l’exposition « SPECTACULAIRE ! Le divertissement chez les Romains » au musée Lugdunum à Lyon en 2023. Cet acrotère (calcaire, IIe s.) appartient aux collections du musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Vienne. @lugdunummtr
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Paul Dobraszczyk @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A glorious wander amongst the Woolpacks, a weathered gritstone outcrop on Kinder Scout that's full of creaturely rocks
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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For #MosaicMonday enthusiasts, the scene at lower left is closely paralleled (save for prey animal) in the East Coker mosaic serendipitously posted today by @forestcollectiv.bsky.social
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PolizeiGrün e.V. @polizeigruen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Und an den gelangweilten Bundespolizeipensionär auf X, der nichts anderes mit seinem Ruhestand anzufangen weiß, als Accounts zu beobachten (stalken), die nicht seiner Meinung sind: Es gibt die Probleme. Man muss sie nur sehen(wollen). Haltung vorausgesetzt.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New discovery: Tableware found in 2,100-year-old shipwreck located off coats of Adrasan, Türkiye It's believed that the cargo contained luxury tableware produced in Rhosus, modern-day Arsuz, and was intended for markets such as Rome. www.dailysabah.com/life/history...
Underwater photo of numerous pottery vessels across the sandy seabed, including bowlss and plate. A measuring scale is visible in the background.
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Pete Savin @petesavin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A look at Burnswark Hill fort in the Scottish Borders the site of two Roman siege camps at its base youtu.be/CQts-nXSlHg?...
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Burnswark Roman Siege camps
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BOUDICCA @bou-dicca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
innn.it/stolpersteine
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Petition · Die Stolpersteine in Heidenau müssen erhalten bleiben! · innn.it
Jetzt innn.it-Petition unterschreiben & VVN-BdA unterstützen!
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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
2 x #SaxonSunday from Essex 🏺 Paglesham great square headed brooch is bronze, once gilded, c. 550 AD: v ornate type typically worn by wealthy females, w faces on head, arms + foot. Smaller, simpler but chunky gold Prittlewell buckle likely made for burial of the 'prince' c. 580-605. Southend Museums
Paglesham brooch w cruciform top section, decorated with faces at head and arms, and at foot overlapping rectangular base section. Base has four heads with eyes/noses along the bottom. Proliffic scrolled, intertwining and animal decoration throughout.Simple but heavy gold buckle, shown with buckle at top on short side of triangular fitting below. Three domed circular features decorate the triangle with a rather shield shaped fitting for the buckle at the top. Said to be the most spectacular of items buried at Prittlewell.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can’t believe my ancestors are badmouthed as hicks for making moonshine in bathtubs but it’s all *totally cool* if Romans do it.
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A Roman Bathhouse Was Secretly Turned Into a Wine and Olive Oil Factory in Late Antiquity at Antiochia ad Cragum
A modest Roman bathhouse on Turkey's southern coast spent its retirement very differently from how it began. Constructed in the late 2nd or early 3rd century CE, it stopped functioning as a bath somet...
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
28 September 1931 | Norwegian Jewish girl, Manja Malke Bodd, was born in Trondheim. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection. - Children at Auschwitz Read: lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN Listen: youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
A vintage black and white portrait of a girl smiling, wearing a bow in short hair.
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org · 28/09/2026
👻 Calling all ghouls and ghosts… Haunted Museum is just two weeks away! Saturday, October 10, satisfy your thirst and sip on brews, dance the night away to monster-mashing tunes, and grab a bite of delicious sweet treats from local food trucks, all after hours at the Museum! nhm.org/hauntedmuseum
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If only there was an agency specifically made to combat organised crime
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 28/09/2026
Turned another old thread into an article for easier reading and because I just love this subject so much: Women and their favourite weapons anno 1900. You can read it here: fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/09/28/w... Or here: fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/women-and-...
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Women and their favourite weapons anno 1900
Just reading old newspapers… as one does, when I found this gem from the Chicago Sunday Tribune from 1900.It’s about the weapons of offence and defence used by women in one year in Chic…
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 28/09/2026
What an interesting tiktok channel. Who knew that the Aztecs taught the Europeans about how to do laundry, how to salt and smoke meat, how not to eat hot soup with your hands and that you shouldn't bathe in the mud...
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🧵Recovered from the infirmary hall at the Cistercian Abbey at Rievaulx Abbey, the probably late 13th-century carved stone piece vividly depicts a miller leading a packhorse/donkey laden with corn toward a four-sailed post windmill. Windmills were only
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
28 September 1888 | A Czech Jewish woman, Elsa Friedová, was born in Zábřeh. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 26 October 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber.
Vintage portrait of a woman wearing a dark blouse with a simple necklace, displaying a serious expression.
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My final couple of days in St Albans before I move north to torc-town... ... and, yes, when you don't have to move anywhere specifically, 'it's got a torc' does come into play... Isn't it magnificent? Especially since it's been cleaned by wonderful Pieta Greaves, who we all still miss terribly. 😔
A close up of the Newark torc in all it's sparkling glory.
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Malcolm Sinclair 💀✍️ @malcolmwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
West Kennet Avenue at Avebury today in the wind and then rain. Timeless as ever 💚 #StandingStoneSunday
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Modern replica of a #Roman mosaic floor set into the approach to Sudeley Castle Winchcombe #Gloucestershire The original was found in 1882 during excavations at Spoonley Wood but has since been largely destroyed 📷 Aug 2026 #MosaicMonday
Mosaic set into the floor of a terrace with stone benches looking out at a rural landscape with trees
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I encountered some excellent warning signs walking the Pembrokeshire coast path this weekend 😬🫣. Kudos to the designers of some truly terrifying graphics 😅👌
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Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Autumn mint in them hills
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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 28/09/2026
I was there 12+ years ago for @archaeologymag.bsky.social. It was quite an adventure. My tent blew down and at one point I accidentally brushed my teeth with sunscreen in the dark. I know there are more extreme places to do archaeology, but not many. archaeology.org/issues/septe...
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Letter from Norway - The Big Melt - Archaeology Magazine - September/October 2013
The race to find, and save, ancient artifacts emerging from glaciers and ice patches in a warming world
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abgeordnetenwatch @abgeordnetenwatch.de · 25/09/2026
+++ Großspenden-Ticker +++ NEU: 50.000 € an die CDU von der Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG. Die DVAG ist einer der größten Parteispender. 2023 hatte ihr Lobbyist einen 100.000 Euro-Scheck an Friedrich Merz persönlich übergeben. 👇 www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/recherchen/p...
Screenshot der aktuellen DVAG-Spende an die CDU von bundestag.de mit Angaben zur Spendenhöhe und dem Eingangsdatum 23.9.2026.
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Dr Pat Witts @wittspat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MosaicMonday
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#StandingStoneSunday A flying visit today to the stunning C9th-10th AD Nevern high cross, very likely standing on or close to its original spot on an early Christian site. One the great treasures of Pembrokeshire 🤩 📷 My own
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A 5,000 year-old arrow has emerged from melting mountain ice in Norway, offering a glimpse into prehistoric hunting in the high mountains 🏹❄️ archaeologymag.com/2026/09/5000...
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5,000-year-old arrow emerges as Norway’s melting mountain ice reveals older archaeological finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine
A 5,000-year-old arrow is among 48 prehistoric finds recovered as melting ice reveals older archaeology in Norway’s Jotunheimen mountains.
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Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand @gdwberlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Käthe Tucholla unterstützt mit ihrem Mann untergetauchte Regimegegner. Im Sommer 1942 reist sie für einen Thüringer Kommunisten nach Sachsen und wird dabei festgenommen. Die mutige Berlinerin wird am 28.9.1943 im Strafgefängnis Plötzensee ermordet. Mehr: t1p.de/16226 #FrauenImWiderstand
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
28 September 1910 | A Czech, Franz Palek, was born. A foundry man. In #Auschwitz from 14 August 1942. No. 58685 He perished in the camp on 24 November 1942. --- A podcast about registration photos: youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Lia Green🌻💚 @waldlaeuferin124.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
+++ Stichwahlen in Niedersachsen Grüne siegen in Hannover - AfD verliert gleich dreifach+++ Können wir bitte diese positiven Nachrichten viel mehr verbreiten?
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pruefpunkt.org @pruefpunkt.org · 28/09/2026
Diesen Monat tauchen wir in eine der beliebtesten Strategien zur Desinformation ein: Red Herring, sozusagen der Urahne des Ablenkungsmanövers. Übrigens: Die Herkunft des Begriffs "Red Herring" basiert selbst auf einer gezielten Täuschung. Mehr zur Strategie im Artikel: pruefpunkt.org/desinformati...
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Desinformations-Strategie #9: Red Herring - Prüfpunkt
Red Herring umfasst eine ganze Gruppe an Desinfo-Strategien, die alle auf Ablenkungsmanövern vom eigentlichen Thema basieren.
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🏛️ Roma Aeterna 🏛️ @romaaeterna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Masque retrouvé dans la région de Kertch en Crimée (terre cuite, Ier-IIe s.). Appartenant aux collections du Louvre, il a été présenté dans l’exposition « SPECTACULAIRE ! Le divertissement chez les Romains » au musée Lugdunum à Lyon en 2023.
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Butser Ancient Farm @butserancientfarm.co.uk · 28/09/2026
WIN 4 TICKETS TO EQUINOX 2027! 🎉 Want to join us at Equinox next year? We’re giving one lucky winner 4 tickets to Equinox 2027! 🔥 1. Watch our Equinox 2024 highlights video 2. Subscribe to our channel 3. Comment telling us what looks like the best part! Good luck! ✨ youtu.be/Jeb6-3rTHds?...
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Butser Ancient Farm @butserancientfarm.co.uk · 28/09/2026
We’ve loved reading these letters from the children at Cheriton Primary School, hearing about their favourite parts of Butser and what they discovered while they were here. We’re taking school trip bookings for 2027, dates go quick! More on our website - www.butserancientfarm.co.uk/learning/sch...
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The half-timbered early 16th century ‘Pitchmarket’ at Cerne Abbas in Dorset. The name derives from the market which was once held outside the house, where millers would ‘pitch’ for corn. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #CerneAbbey #Dorset
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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This marble anemoscope was used to indicate the direction of the wind. The names of the winds and their personifications in the act of blowing (hot?) air are engraved on the disc. It's thought to date from the C5th CE and can be found today in the Parco Archeologica del Celio, Rome. #AncientRome
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
28 September 1890 | An Austrian Jew, Sigfried Schiffmann, was born in Vienna. In #Auschwitz from 17 October 1941. No. 21827 He perished in the camp on 21 October 1941. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The case for this syringe has a safety pin which allowed it to be pinned to a lapel for safe transport in the field. The syringe was used by Professor A S Duncan in the Second World War.
A steel syringe case- which is pen like in shape. The syringe has been pulled out the case to show the pointed needle. There is a safety pin attached to the case.
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Roman Sites @romansites.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Autumn (with his rake) from the Four Seasons mosaic at the excellent Yorkshire Museum in York seems seasonally appropriate today. The staff positively encouraged me to walk on this - although shoes aren't allowed. 3rd or 4th century CE. 📷 my own 2026 #MosaicModay #RomanBritain #RomanSites
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