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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When you suddenly connect the dots between a TAU shaped ivory authentic medieval crozier exhibited in Koln Dom and a snake guy called Tulsa Doom who made the life of a Cimmerian difficult @jem-duducu.bsky.social

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All you need is an 'econome'. works on apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, carrots, courgettes etc lasts a life time and some more

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Werewolves are well-known to be prime caregivers to their brood along being attentive to the children of their packs. Bringing the shame to notorious monkey/fruit picker slackers!

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

@locktowndog.bsky.social Midwinterblot. Found it via a Netflix Sweden TV series. Called Blood Sacrifice. Midvinterblot (" Midwinter Blót/Sacrifice"), oil painting by Carl Larsson in Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm. Wikipedia shares an interesting page about it.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Versailles was very smelly as reported by Alexandre Dumas from a discussion he held with an old marchioness. People going about behind curtains! And this was the aristocracy. Or followed by servants crawling under paniers, dresses holding this. Called a bourdalou boo-r-da(russian da)-loo.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

1819: Victoria is born. Little girls start wearing pantaloons. As they grow up, the mood is in favour of adults wearing pantaloons. But hidden under the petticoat unlike the children who show it. This being said, girls/women not only have menses but like men urinate & else. ⬇️ @fakehistoryhunter.net

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

in France through Canada. I use the word English as in the 17thC, the 1707 Act of Union is not yet enacted. English beaver hats are likely from American trade>1613, French hats are likely from Canada. If I misunderstood your question feel free to correct me. BTW Spain carried this fashion to 1635.🔚

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Monday cartoon for The Times. I suspect Reform leadership has embezzled more than £5m @scotchmist31.bsky.social

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Rewatching Le Roi Danse / The King Is Dancing. I like very much the Versailles Building Scene In reality, it was a 44-45yo Louis who would enter the palace. Before it is mostly a palace-in-progress. Before there are the Louvre, Saint Germain en Laye, Fontainebleau, Compiegne ... among others.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The last time I went fancy costumed (not cosplay) though... when the whole town pretends to be living in 1450, maybe it is cosplay, I was dressed with this hat and this kind of robe. (Supposedly rich merchant), I loved my belt with hanging aumoniere and dagger. These were the days.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Before I diverge on Chilperic & his 4 m o heir, I offer you this Merovingian fishing implement, diverting the river flow to a side pool (almost 1 metre high) whenever there need be. Through a on/off gate lock. Chelles saw Chilperic assassination as he returned from hunting. Baby would live on⬇️

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Unbelievable yet true article. @norsemythology.bsky.social @locktowndog.bsky.social A long time ago our 7yo son had a guinea pig called Cleo. Should we call this warrior Lagertha?

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Now when it comes to shoes, Saint Germain en Laye museum has a pair of shoes also Merovingian but I cannot remember for the life of me its timeline. Looking to @archeodgarcia.bsky.social has been the curator of this museum for a good many years, he may remember the pair AND the important timeline?😇

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Apologies. Wrong shoe. Saint Germanus but from Moutier-Grandval abbey today in Delemont museum. France. Certified leather. Saint Germanus of Granfelden (hence grandval) circa 612-675 liturgical shoes. Chelles shoes would be about same era as Eligius was a pal of King Dagobert c588-660.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yes leather. Here is the Saint Germanus/Germain from Agaune. You are in luck as my 1st introduction to the shoe was a black and white picture.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I think there is also a pair in Agaune treasure.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I add these were taken without camera flash in dimmed rooms as to forget the items from sun rays. Nobody to blame here.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

While there is no debate regarding the Vikings erupting the classic Silk road through a 'northern' door, we must not forget China trade routes were never fully cut off. And that the Viking route was rather a temporary one. Venice-Byzantium-Baghdad-Samarkand axis would serve Carolingian fashionistas.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

His children are put under Charlemagne guardianship. Suddenly they disappear. A bit(a lot) like Edward IV sons after Uncle Richard took care of them. The princes in the Tower were never to be seen again while Richard became king. Carloman sons disappeared & Grosse Karl went on killing some more.🔚

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What comes to me when I think about the ungentleman

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

@locktowndog.bsky.social Because regardless of politics, happy 250th with LaFayette hugging Gorge W.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Clovis sister marries Theodoric, Athanagild daughters marry 2 grandsons of Clovis while their niece becomes Kent Queen. Diplomats are travel bugs all over Europe while Chinese silk reaches in Paris Queen Balthildis (possibly from East Anglia) & Ceylonese garnets adorn Mercian pommels. People moved.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Show me a picture that captures your essence:

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ferocious invaders not forgotten by the terrified local people. Who constructed a wolf-bear-pelt-monster? My photos artefacts displayed at @museedulouvre.bsky.social at Carolingian period. France is not rich in Scandinavian items. Including at Rouen museum. Were Ulfhednar the 1st & lost werewolves?🔚

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula. Carmilla by Sheridan LeFanu. Illustration by Pat Mills from his Requiem, Vampire Knight comics series. Warning: for Adults.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Something tells me Bibi is wrong in believing he is the only one holding the files. Trump is now stuck between the Devil, the Deep Blue Sea, the Kraken, Moby Dick and a few Megalodons for good measure. Reckoning is coming to the Ballroom man. And Israel is going to learn beggars can't be choosers.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This from the BBC website headlines. Yes, werewolves with Captain America shield morphing into US soldiers as of today Tehran. @michellefranklin.bsky.social @marvelofficial.bsky.social From an historical PoV werewolves were used for post WW2 Nazi underground rebels. I do not remember these people./.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A lot of treasures which had survived through time were melt to pay for ammunitions as Europe kings united against the French Republic. Anyhow in Aachen, you still can feast on this supposed to be part of his funeral apparatus. Whereas his supposed lucky charm is nested in Reims cathedral. ⬇️

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This is all which survived from Charles the Bald, Karl grandson jewel box. The top of the jewel box known as "Escrain de Charlemagne", aquamarine (apologies not a sapphire) intaglio of Flavia Julia Titi (d. 91 CE) (unengraved side), sapphires& pearls in gold, 9th c. (3rd quarter?), CdM Chab. 2089 ⬇️

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

@locktowndog.bsky.social @norsemythology.bsky.social Charlie Boy had more than a chessboard. He had an 'escrain' written as 'ecrin'nowadays. A jewel(s) containing box. It seems Karl der Grosse liked stones, big stones. Today with Reims Cathedral pendant (another saphir) 25%of my palm, this sapphire⬇️

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Today we carefully join origin of find, when, wgere, how, if other items were also found. Anyhow I end it here with my own photos of the chessboard of Charlemagne. One ne prete qu'aux riches. French, only rich people get free loans. Meanwhile my pieton watches metal nose bridge reaching his shield

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

or when his son, the Sun King married his cousin Maria-Theresa of Spain. Donot ask why her would mary his very first cousin. Anyhow, Cabinet des Medailles keeps amazing historical stuff. Grave goods found in the burial site of King Childeric, the father of our 1st king & Charlemagne chessboard. ./.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

When the first object you meet is King Dagobert throne dod c639 (probably likely King Pippin the Short) & the last is Boabdil surrender sword when the Alhambra fell to the ery Catholic kings in 1495. I wonder if the sword reached Paris through a wedding. Between Louis XIII and nna of Austria ..

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This Lewis pawn is part of what remains from 'Charlemagne chessboard'. Name going back in time. TBF nobody really knows who started the handle. Today it is for sure part of France collection known as 'Cabinet des Medailles'. What was left of France kings collection. Most .. @locktowndog.bsky.social

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Our guys! Please share with Sunny.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

(I am partial to Norman Rockwell). Rachel, the universiteer!

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day @jem-duducu.bsky.social for all the mothers who have crossed your path. Queen Chlothildis, the first Christian Queen of the Frankish realm who gave at least 4 sons to her husband to Anna of Austria who gave heir & spare to her royal spouse. Without them, there are no dynasties..

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

@jem-duducu.bsky.social is more than elephant as transport. We all go bananas. So many berries. I certainly was not imagining the fruit as one. This said I knew banana plantain is used like some potato in French Antilles cuisine. Adding Banania a children chocolate&banana drink. Now there's a catch

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Then we have Boudica or Boadicea. In the 60s, her bronze statue was gracing our English monthly magazine. I remember (fondly) asking why Queen Victoria was on a Roman chariot! To be a warrior lady riding an elephant was not limited to Tru'ng sisters as about 100 ys later Lady Trieu did same ./.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

One of the many interesting things @jem-duducu.bsky.social shares with us was about Dendrochronology aka Determining how old is an item made of wood. Tree ring dating. His History's hidden gems lead me often to look for more answers about fossil oak trees of petrified Miocene petrified forest. ./.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What better male in distress than France dauphin saved by heroic Jehanne d'Arc. Then we have Queen Hildegard who saved her husband life during an horseback hunt of a wild bull, as in Charlemagne! Yes. Emperors can also be in distress! Just like pretenders as Flora McDonald to Bonnie Prince Charlie

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Likewise we have hardy settlers bereft of female companionship in a time where photography did not exist. Imagine portraits crossing the Ocean. Not. So Louis sent girls handed a royal dowry to set sail to Canada. 2/3 of all 2026 French Canadians can trace their lineage to one of the King's wards.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Listening to more @jem-duducu.bsky.social via @rest_less_uk Mail order brides! French smirk here. Anyone can order between New York and San Francisco but ... order between Quebec and Paris? Yet between 1663 to 1673, Louis XIV played Cupid to French Canada settlers as his messieurs were alone ./.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Drop your crime fighting Catholics Jehan de Malestroit, Nantes Bishop who had to deal with the very real serial killer Gilles de Rais (or Retz). @jem-duducu.bsky.social We have visited Tiffauges & Pouzauges 2 of his castle. During the 17thC, his dunjeon was destroyed via mines. ./.

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

@benfranklinskite.bsky.social 350years ago a man had this built then destroyed for a grander pavilion, mini-palace? Who cares about the name as it was never Louis who paid. Royal hubris. Today in DC a would be King is to inflict an eye sore with the same financial carelessness. Is it progress?

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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Listening to @jem-duducu.bsky.social #CondensedHistories podcast via @acast curated by dear @gregandfelicity.bsky.social about #JackTheRipper You guys are brilliant as I did not expect this. Neither did she from her surprised face. Bless you guys. Cartland fighting the Ripper. She'd win! Go girl!

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