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π¦ NEW: A roadkill #armadillo found in #Ohio appears to be the first to reach the state under its own power.
Researchers have tracked the Mexican long-nosed armadillo moving north from #Texas since the mid #1800s, aided by milder winters, land use changes, and its talent for walking #underwater and floating across #rivers.
#animals #wildlife #climate #migration #species #nature #science #biology #mammals #habitat #ecosystem #research
ππ»ββοΈ TIL: πποΈ A #study from the University of #Exeter shows that as early as the 1830s, a #London #realestate firm called Brooks and Hedger used cosmoramas to sell high-end estates.
A #cosmorama was a gallery of #paintings viewed through a magnifying lens, giving the illusion of depth and depth of field. Artists hand-painted birdβs-eye views of each listing, offering buyers an early βvirtual tourβ more than a century before the #internet.
π https://www.popsci.com/technology/19th-century-real-estate-peeopshow-preview/
#history #1800s #19thcentury #tech #technology #innovation #culture #victorianera #art #science #zillow
LAPL Fashion Plate Collection
https://quokk.au/c/history/p/1084018/lapl-fashion-plate-collection
July 13, 1899 and the Football Game Ends In A Tie at Vintage Edmonton:
ππ»ββοΈ ICYMI: ποΈπ Georgian architects relied on columns, domes, and strict #symmetry to project order and permanence across #England. This animated tour explores how builders from 1714 to 1837 repeatedly borrowed classical designs from ancient #Greece and #Rome.
π Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/georgian-architecture-design-history-video
#1700s #1800s #18thcentury #19thcentury #animation #architecture #birds #corvids #design #uk #geography #ghosts #history #royalty #tksst #video
ππ»ββοΈ ICYMI: ποΈπ Georgian architects relied on columns, domes, and strict #symmetry to project order and permanence across #England. This animated tour explores how builders from 1714 to 1837 repeatedly borrowed classical designs from ancient #Greece and #Rome.
π Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/georgian-architecture-design-history-video
#1700s #1800s #18thcentury #19thcentury #animation #architecture #birds #corvids #design #uk #geography #ghosts #history #royalty #tksst #video
ππ»ββοΈ ICYMI: ποΈπ Georgian architects relied on columns, domes, and strict #symmetry to project order and permanence across #England. This animated tour explores how builders from 1714 to 1837 repeatedly borrowed classical designs from ancient #Greece and #Rome.
π Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/georgian-architecture-design-history-video
#1700s #1800s #18thcentury #19thcentury #animation #architecture #birds #corvids #design #uk #geography #ghosts #history #royalty #tksst #video
ππ»ββοΈ NEW: ποΈπ Georgian architects relied on columns, domes, and strict #symmetry to project order and permanence across #England. This animated tour explores how builders from 1714 to 1837 repeatedly borrowed classical designs from ancient #Greece and #Rome.
π Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/georgian-architecture-design-history-video
#1700s #1800s #18thcentury #19thcentury #animation #architecture #birds #corvids #design #uk #geography #ghosts #history #royalty #tksst #video
πποΈ On June 19, 1865, in #Galveston, #Texas, Union General Gordon Granger notified the last groups of enslaved people of their freedom.
Freed people organized the inaugural celebration in 1866. Today the #holiday is observed as a way to acknowledge past faults and move toward a more perfect union.
π Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/the-history-of-juneteenth
#1800s #19thcentury #1860s #1920s #americanhistory #usa #community #culture #family #history #parade #slavery #tksst #video
βπ½πΊπΈ Narrated by #LeVarBurton, the #poem Lift Every Voice and Sing powers this #animation in celebration of the anniversary of Juneteenth.
#Juneteenth marks the day when enslaved Black people in #Galveston, #Texas finally received news of their liberation in 1865.
π Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/juneteenth-animation-google-doodle-for-kids
#1800s #america #americanhistory #art #artist #civics #civilrights #community #drawing #equalrights #google #government #history #holidays #poetry #racism #slavery #tksst #video
@publicdomainrev And it has a STUNNING cover!
#oldbook #oldbooks #beautiful #bookcovers #1800s
π£ New Podcast! "21 April 1894: US miners strike" on @Spreaker #1800s #anniversaries_history #day #facts_weekly #history #history_historical #history_otd_on #history_weekly #in #lives #miners #news_everyday #stories_daily #strikes #this #usa
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/21-april-1894-us-miners-strike--71033851
Little Town on the Prairie (Little House on the Prairie Book 7)
"Laura is growing up and she goes to her first evening social"
Sale: $9.99 to $3.99
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Rating: 4.8/5 (2,740 Reviews)
#LittleHouse #HistoricalFiction #ChildrenBooks #Pioneer #LauraIngalls #1800s #BookSky
Little Town on the Prairie (Li...
The Eddystone Lighthouse by Victor Hugo
#illustration #art #lighthouse #VictorHugo #hugo #PublicDomain #1800s
"All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world." Van Helsing
Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1897.
#Books #ClassicLiterature #Gothic #GothicBooks #1800s #Vampires #Dracula #HorrorBooks
Book review: βThe Wonderβ by Emma Donoghue
There is a film adaptation, but read the book first: you wonβt be able to put this page-turner down until the very end!
An English nurse gets a curious invitation to spend several weeks in a remote Irish village. Her one and only task is to monitor an 11 year-old girl who allegedly hasnβt eaten anything in four months. Having worked under Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War, the nurse β Lib Wright β is a highly experienced and very rational person, but still unprepared for what she is about to witness. The child claims to live solely on βmannaβ from heaven, as she describes it, and thereβs nothing to disprove her supernatural claims.
Is this a genuine miracle resembling those of some of the medieval female mystics, or an elaborate hoax?
Emma Donoghueβs novel The Wonder paints the image of post-famine rural Ireland of the 1850s as a desolate, desperately poor and backward country, ruled by superstition and folk Catholicism. This serves as more than a fitting background to this psychodrama in which the wider national disaster translates into messed up family dynamics and a morbidly distorted sense of religiosity. It is not a flattering portrayal of Ireland, nor of the Catholic Church; least of all of the βtraditional familyβ as the locus of oppression and trauma.
While dealing with extremely difficult and upsetting subjects, the author doesnβt succumb to cheap thrills of overly graphic descriptions. The novel is a suspense story more than anything else: although the plot is somewhat predictable, the eerie atmosphere of the miracle girlβs home is sustained throughout.
Not having seen the film adaptation yet, I can only hope it did justice to the strong gothic vibe of the book.
βThe Wonderβ by Emma Donoghue was first published by Little, Brown and Company in September 2016; 304 pp.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Emma Donoghueβs talk about the women who inspired The Wonder
Is The Wonder based on a true story?
#1800s #19thCentury #bookReview #books #EnglishLiterature #fiction #gothicLiterature #Ireland #literature #novel #reading #RomanCatholic #rural