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St. Wenceslaus Chorale - "Svatováclavský chorál"

And finally, for those who gravitate toward a "stirring" rendition for large chorus and orchestra www.youtube.com/watc... Whatever your musical tastes: Wishing a very happy St. Wenceslas Day & #Czech Statehood Day to all who celebrate! 9/9

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Chorale of Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia of Přemyslid dynasty is considered as Anthem of the Czech Statehood since 12th century.

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Svatý Václave – Schola Gregoriana Pragensis/Anonymous III

The words Kníže naš, pros za nás: Our Prince, Pray For Us At the bottom of the print of Saint Wenceslas by Karel Němec are from the Wenceslas Chorale (Svatováclavský chorál) Here is a lean version by Schola Gregoriana Pragensis/Anonymous III www.youtube.com/watc... 7/9

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“Svatý Václave”, the medieval song performed by Schola Gregoriana Pragensis and Anonymous III. The recording was made during the SoundMe concert in Prague (St Peter and Paul Basilica at Vyšehrad), on 11 April 2018. The song “Svatý Václave” (Saint Wenceslas), which is the oldest preserved piece of

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David Černý, the bad boy of contemporary #Czech art, produced a great spoof (1999) of the Myslbek Wenceslas statue. It hangs from the ceiling of the atrium in the Lucerna Palace. 6/9

the king sits astride an upside-down dead horse

St. Wenceslas — David Černý Tour
https://www.david-cerny-tour.com/en/st-wenceslas

Saint Wenceslas - David Černý
https://davidcerny.cz/198/saint-wenceslas/

Statue of King Wenceslas Riding an Upside-Down Dead Horse - Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/statue-of-king-wenceslas-riding-an-upsidedown-dead-horse

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The 1000th anniversary of the death of Wenceslas (according to the then prevailing dating) in 1929 provided an opportunity to celebrate #Czechoslovak history--inadvertently highlighting the extent to which the official culture of the Republic was far more #Czech than #Slovak 5/9

4 of the series of 5 postage stamps commemorating the 1000th anniversary of the death of Saint Wenceslas in 1929. Designed by Mikulaš Aleș, they were issued on May 29

1. green, 50 haléřů: frontal view of the saint on horseback

2. ditto, blue-gray, 60 haléřů

3. blue, 2 Koruny: the founding of St Vitus Cathedral Prague. A saint in center speaks to masons in front of a block of stone at left. In the rear, the Romanesque towers and front of nearby St. George's Basilica.

4. brown, 3 Koruny: martyrdom of Wenceslas: the saint sinks to the ground in front of a church door, as his brother thrusts a spear into his back. Another foe with raised sword appears around the corner

5 (not depicted here) = the same scene in magenta, 5 Koruny

Nos. 1,2, 4, and 5 present the subject in a circular frame with dates (929 and 1929) at the outside the top corners and the denomination in both lower corners

for the 1929 Prague stamp in the topographical scenes in the set of Czech definitives, the scene depicts the Myslbek statue of St. Wenceslas in front of the National Museum (viewed from the front and slightly to the left)

deep blue, 2.50 Koruny

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As part of the patriotic creation of a visible #Czech identity, Wenceslas Square was graced with a new edifice for the National #Museum (1818) at the top of the hill in 1891. So impressive was the building that Soviet troops attacked it in 1968 muzeum3000.nm.cz/nat... 3/9

early black-and-white postcard with an artist's depiction of the museum: a neo-Renaissance building with a classically pedimented and columned center flanked by two wings. Small towers with cupola above each wing, much larger one over the center

Caption in Czech: Prague. Royal Czech Museum

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The increasing prominence of St. Wenceslas (Václav) in the modern era reflected the #Czech attempt to assert a national identity in opposition to the #German one. Thus, the old "Horse Market" dating back to the medieval "New Town" was renamed St. Wenceslas Square in 1848 2/9

map of Prague from Meyer's Lexikon, mid-C19

One sees the castle-cathedral complex on the hill at left, and the Old Town and New Town across the river at right.

The Stone Bridge (or: Prague Bridge) is marked in red. Beginning around 1870, it came to be referred to as the Charles Bridge (which name it has borne ever since), in another patriotic renaming: in this case after the great medieval emperor under whose reign it was constructed

detail of previous map: oday's Wenceslas Square, then still known as the Horse Market, circled in yellow as the long, narrow, diagonal space in the New Town

German-language Czech postcard depicting the long boulevard that forms the "square," running up to the museum building at the top of the hill. Visible are not just the building façades on both sides, but also a tram line (begun in 1884) and pedestrians

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💛Magda Teter🟦📖 @mteter-historian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

28 September: Saint Wenceslas (Václav) Day and #Czech Statehood Day (since 2000). The patron saint of Bohemia, he is said to have been assassinated OTD in 935 by his brother. english.radio.cz/cze... Here, an early 20th-century depiction by Karel Nēmec (1879-1960) 1/9

large elongated (250 x 110 mm) color print: the Duke in a white tunic with accents of blue and gold over what looks like scale armor. A golden halo shines from behind an archaic crown with pendant chains. In his right hand he holds a spear or lance with a pennant attached (gold cross on white ground), while the left hand rests on top of a narrow shield with a light blue eagle on a white ground.
A decorated wreath-like design in shades of blue with gold accents takes up the upper half of the background, from his waist to the top of the frame. In the right half and below it, the background consists of deep blue stripes against a light background.
The Saint stands on a vertical semicircular frame inscribed with the famous motto asking him pray for us.
Behind are the white walls and towers of a fortification.

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Americans have lost any moral core there may have been. It's a shallow society focused on prices. Mass Deportations of Mexican workers? Fine. More expensive food from Mexico? That's a different story. -2% for mass deportations is too close for comfort.

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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

27 September 1942: Richard Lichtheim of the Geneva office of the Jewish Agency for Palestine cables his London counterpart Joseph Linton, confirming Nazi extermination plans & arguing that Allied pressure can still save the Jews of Romania, Bulgaria, & Hungary

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photograph of telegram sent from
Richard Lichtheim in Geneva to Jewish Agency official Joseph Linton in London

body all in blue caps on half-sheet of paper

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I sympathize. It really sucks when people just grab up your work without credit or payment and use it as a shortcut to make a product that might put you out of business.

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New from Ryan Lavelle: to be published in November. Bet this'll be excellent! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A few less formal pics from the ANFB presentation of the #Chevalierd’Argent & ravivage at the #ArcDuTriomphe. (Mainly courtesy of my lovely sister :) I still can’t quite believe this happened, but utterly delighted that women’s service during the #SecondWorldWar is gaining more attention!

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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Next in the #ShortlistSpotlight leading up to the #WolfsonHistoryPrize is 'Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction' by @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Congratulations to Sadiah Qureshi and Allen Lane 🎊

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So this week 446 years ago, Sir Francis Drake arrived in Plymouth after having been the second captain ever to circumnavigate the globe. I talked about it on ABC Radio National, and sang a little bit of a ballad about him! Have a listen here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... @ouranu.bsky.social

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old wildlife illustrations @wildlife.nathan.fun · 28/09/2026

The animal kingdom, arranged according to its organization, serving as a foundation for the natural history of animals. v.1 plates. London: G. Henderson, 1834-1837. (source: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89…) #nature #illustration #art

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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Among the most interesting (tho not surprising) findings of the Hampshire rezoning workshops were the aesthetic preferences, which seemed to lean strongly traditional as concerns both scale & style: some fear of tall structures (though some of us pressed strongly) & modern design

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Science is great. So are dogs. Humans? Not so sure Dogs use a surprising method to understand human language, new study suggests. In a brain activity study, dogs seemed to listen for consonants to figure out when one word ends and another begins wapo.st/4xLT0K2

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"John Chapman, born in Leominster, MA, on September 26, 1774, came to be known as 'Johnny Appleseed'...b/c he planted nurseries & individual apple trees across 100K m2 of midwestern wilderness & prairie—resulting in settlers’ planting their own orchards" www.loc.gov/item/tod...

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I hope it has a happy ending

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Stori3d Past @stori3dpast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've seen photos & film of some severe storms and flooding from the Carolinas to northern New England--on and near coast--but here the greatly feared Nor'easter has turned out to be pretty much a nothingburger: almost no rain, just some high-ish winds Saw this damage near UMass

A tree has fallen and broken the guard rail at left, lies over road. A police car helps direct the two lanes of traffic around it. Towers of UMass Southwest dorms in background

same scene but with a closer view of tree and police car

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Copyediting matters.

an eBay listing for Shakespeare's Merchant of Venus

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Other Hampshire closing news: in grocery store, ran into retired University of Connecticut colleague who said she had been spending a lot of time thinking about us, not least b/c her brother studied here. I was able to reassure her our graduating students are well taken care of

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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whereas Tuesday's Hampshire College zoning workshop was devoted to listening, Thursday's was more hands-on: participants visited four of five possible stations where they could express their preferences with maps, models, and markers.

all text: descriptions of the five stations

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And yet another @arthist-net.bsky.social post worthy of attention: Baths, Spas and Health Resorts between the 15th and the 18th Centuries Call for papers with deadline 15 November 2026. arthist.net/archive/54418 #earlymodern #architecture #CFP

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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@jzk55.bsky.social Glad to know that you, too, are a Ježek fan!

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250 Garbage Gobblers were placed all over British Columbia in the 1950s. Only a few originals, like this one, are left, and they have historical markers. Many of the originals were removed, as this piece notes, because they weren’t bear-proof. infotel.ca/inwheels/one...

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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"men fucked up. Are women to blame?"

An article titled "twice as many men are single than married today. Are women to blame?"

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Great insight. Also: Love is different in that it has no middle (or last) name. Fun fact: Robert L. Frost was named Robert *Lee* Frost for: guess who? Not his fault, of course, but I could not resist

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks, Manisha! I cannot keep up. Busy day, so I had no idea furries were a threat to the national character and security. --tho I was on top of the bestiality thing bsky.app/profile/citi...

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Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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I talk about this (OK, used to :( ) in my classes: to the extent that professional historians and other scholars cease writing for a broader public, we risk ceding the ground to bad popularizers and charlatans. Witness Tucker Carlson platforming batshit crazy Nazi-stanning fake historians

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

$1 Billion Donation to University of Oregon Makes History. The gift from Phil Knight, the Nike co-founder, is the largest known donation to a flagship university. It will fund a new engineering college. www.nytimes.com/2026...

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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And let us celebrate the birthday of Jaroslav Ježek (25 September 1906), a far too little-known Czech composer: visually impaired, avant-garde artist, antifascist en.wikipedia.org/wik... Bugatti Step is one of his better-known compositions youtu.be/G0o5hfP8i2k...

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maybe 50 years ago. I remember fellow students debating about what to do if offered an alcoholic drink at an interview meeting: carefully decline? go with the regional cultural vibe: bourbon and branch water, if you please

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