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headline of day Christa Pike Live Updates: Her Lawyers Say She Is Angry and Confused After Failed Execution - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/live...

Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

What lurks behind the surface of quaint western Massachusetts, you ask? Hadley Man Pleads Guilty to Illegally Importing & Selling Plutonium From Russia, mailing hazardous materials, unlawfully possessing ammunition, explosives, child sexual abuse material www.justice.gov/usao...

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I found this deeply ✨ inspiring ✨

🚨URGENT APPEAL

Sorry to bother you, Chris, but we're just ten donors short of our goal of having you make [redacted]'s lunch tonight. I have been reviewing our records which show that you didn't consider adding a little treat for her, maybe some chocolate chips. I'm reaching out to you personally, Chris, to ask whether you added a few chocolate chips to her lunch.

- Team [redacted]'s Lunch

Text STOP to unsubscribe

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 07/10/2026

😢So sorry to hear that--wishing you all the best and good results!

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This is complex — and likely a bit fragile — but very cool. Actually less interested in the ostensible end goal (Pangram for Ideas) and more in the problems you have to solve to get there (separating ideas from style, and learning to recognize more/less predictable ideas).

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The correct time of 4:30 is listed at the URL, but it's another reminder that one needs to proofread the announcement text before posting :)

i need to do this in our garage: the cats are always hanging out around and behind the wood pile anyway

Andrea Löw @andrealoew.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know these are desperate times, but seems a bit early, don't you think?

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"Gedenkstättenzeug" und "Nazi-Zombies" - kleine Erinnerung, wer da gerade zum ersten Stellvertreter des Landtagspräsidenten in Sachsen-Anhalt gewählt wurde, mit einer Panorama-Sendung aus dem Frühjahr von @bongen.bsky.social

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Holocaust: Polemik statt Gedenken

Attacken gegen das Holocaust-Gedenken haben zugenommen. In Sachsen-Anhalt hat die AfD ein Regierungsprogramm vorgelegt, das zentrale Elemente der bisherigen Erinnerungskultur ausspart.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In my younger years, I once joined I might learn something. I learned all the participants were tin-foil-hat-wearing deranged obsessives. A pleasure to be able to recommend a far better choice

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Over on VoynichNinja (an excellent discussion board with lots of solid linguistic & cryptological work), someone posted this new resource based on my (credited!) work that lets you visualize structure & rearrange quires, bifolia, and pages! It's incredibly cool and really valuable. voynichviewer.com

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because the Voynich Manuscript is in the news again, I am pleased to re-up this, on @lisafdavis.bsky.social and her pioneering work (we have been honored to have her as a speaker at our Five College History of the Book symposia at the @umassamherst.bsky.social Center for Renaissance Studies)

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And just by chance, I came across this today, which reviews various theories and of course mentions Lisa The Voynich Manuscript Was Reanalyzed by AI - Nobody Expected the Findings - YouTube

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Stockhausen: Zyklus · Florent Jodelet Stockhausen: Zyklus - Refrain - Kontakte ℗ 1993 Decca Records France Released on: 1993-11-16 Producer, Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Alain Joubert Composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen Auto-generated by YouTub

The damned squirrels are once again making noise in the roof over my office and driving me crazy Two can play at this game Stockhausen will teach them a lesson youtu.be/H04_sMjdcwU... And I've got Antheil's Ballet mécanique and Schlemmer's Triadisches Ballett in reserve

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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The Save Our Signs project highlighted this change in a report on censorship of NPS signs in DC. Support their work by submitting pics of signs at your local NPS site if they're not already in their database.

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SOS Censorship Report: How History is Being Erased in D.C.

On June 17th, 2026, Joy Beasley, the Associate Director for Cultural Resources, Partnerships and Science for the National Park Service (NPS), released a spreadsheet enumerating the National Parks Site...

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one possibility being investigated: Azerbaijan (or all places) www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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Thanks! The list keeps growing.

Great addition to the list! And a nice addition to his many other impressive intellectual interests (+ of course a far greater musician than Phil Collins, too)

Andrea Löw @andrealoew.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Zur Terra X History-Sendung "Aufbruchsjahre – Deutschland nach dem Krieg" durfte ich auch ein paar Gedanken beisteuern. Lief heute Abend im ZDF, gibt es auch in der Mediathek. presseportal.zdf.de/pressemappe/...

Screenshot aus Terra X History-Sendung mit mir als Interviewpartnerin, rede gerade, trage Blazer und helles Shirt.

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Phil Collins Collection | The Alamo

One could do a much longer thread on the historical & other intellectual interests of celebrities? Did you know, for example, that musician Phil Collins was the leading collector of memorabilia associated with the Alamo? Phil Collins Collection | The Alamo

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Phil Collins generously donated his priceless collection of Alamo and Texana artifacts to the Texas General Land Office, guardian of the Alamo on behalf of the people of Texas.

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

We are pleased to announce that Richard Bell is the 2026 George Washington Prize winner for his book, The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. This award is presented in partnership with Mount Vernon and Washington College. Learn more: ow.ly/Q6Lk50ZTbkh Riverhead Books

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Nearly four decades before she published her famous exposé of the Southern plantation system, English actress (& train aficionado) Fanny Kemble visited & wrote about the nation’s first commercial train, the Massachusetts Granite Railway. That & much more in today’s post! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Have you seen Emily? 👀 Amherst Community – we need your help! Emily Dickinson's metal silhouette, a part of the sculpture "Poetic Dialogue," has gone missing from her home at the intersection of...

Have you seen Emily? 👀 Emily Dickinson's metal silhouette, a part of the sculpture "Poetic Dialogue," has gone missing.. - Town of Amherst, MA www.facebook.com/Tow... aesthetically no loss (I have always despised the infantilized Dickinson), but even bad public art has rights

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Town of Amherst, MA

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I, too, find the tradition of Venture Smith Day very moving. I was aware of it, but the book provided the perfect context.Much of what fascinated me had to do with your discussion of genetic knowledge in relation to identity. Thus also enjoyed & showed your little video where you depict your parents

you're welcome--very kind of you! I found it a fascinating book, which I was able to work into an intro class on historical method, to show students that, where we lack written sources--e.g. slavery or the Holocaust, we can turn to other forms of evidence, from oral traditions to DNA

Andrea Löw @andrealoew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Cambridge! Drei Wochen lang bin ich hier als Fellow zu Gast und darf in der University Library arbeiten. Auch viele Treffen mit Kolleg:innen sind geplant, ich freue mich sehr! Das Bild ist heute auf dem Rückweg von der Library entstanden, der halbstündige Spaziergang dorthin ist einfach wunderbar.

Wiese, Bäume im Vordergrund und am Bildrand, altes Gebäude im Hintergrund, blauer Himmel mit Wolken.

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30th Annual Venture Smith Day September 12th in East Haddam

Fascinating. East Haddam CT has been celebrating the life of this resident for 30 years. hk-now.com/2026/08/20/3... He also features prominently in @alondra.bsky.social The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome, which I've taught www.beacon.org/The-Social-L...

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Submitted by Susan R. Waide (August 20, 2026) — The 30th Annual Venture Smith Day Connecticut Freedom Trail Celebration will be held on September 12, 2026 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. a…

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 05/10/2026

If you're in Vermont, come out to hear me and some great Holocaust scholars put yet another nail in the coffin of the Clean Wehrmacht. 18 October: The German Army and the Holocaust at the Miller Center for Holocaust Studies Burlington, VT events.uvm.edu/event/the-ge....

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The German Army and the Holocaust

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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This week's #ShortlistSpotlight series for the 2026 #WolfsonHistoryPrize focuses on Lyndal Roper and her book 'Summer of Fire and Blood'. Congratulations to Lyndal Roper and @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social 🎊

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Talk to your local engraver and get going!

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#OTD 5 October 1917, Frank Hurley took this photograph during the Third Battle of Ypres. Soldiers of the 1st Australian Division near Hooge follow a duckboard track to relieve comrades whose attack on 4th took Broodseinde Ridge. The next objective was Passchendaele. www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Black and white photo soldiers silhouetted on the skyline and reflected in water.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And now, my challenge: design one for your own lectures! (only restriction: no AI !)

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Bring back engraved invitation tickets to university lectures! Look at this beauty from 1798: an invitation to a lecture on "Dramatic Literature" at the School of Eloquence on 3rd May 1798. #academicchatter

a paper invitation ticket to Professor Nogo's Lecture on Dramatic Literature. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1983-U-1926

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 05/10/2026

Totally. Saw the movie visiting relatives on Long Island--and the next day, my cousin, an enthusiast for sailing and all things maritime (as were all the relatives, in fact) took us out to show us how to use scuba gear. A psychologically and emotionally, er, interesting experience

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Um, I think you mean “Super News”

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Why is it important for journalists, librarians and community members to collaborate on local information and storytelling initiatives? What becomes possible when librarians and community members practice journalism together rather than simply consume it?"

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Stronger Together: A Webinar Series for Librarians and Journalists

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Note also the proper Baroque bow shape (and bowing techniques) and lack of chinrests on the violins.