#19thcentury — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #19thcentury, aggregated by home.social.
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🚂💥📜 Oh no! The mighty, irresistible force of 19th-century railways obliterated a quaint medieval law like a squirrel on the tracks. Who knew progress could be so... legally destructive? Surely, JSTOR's deep dive into this "cabinet of curiosities" is the intellectual content everyone was craving. 🤔🔍
https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-railways-killed-a-medieval-law/ #railwayhistory #legalchanges #progressintellect #JSTOR #curiosities #19thcentury #HackerNews #ngated -
🚂💥📜 Oh no! The mighty, irresistible force of 19th-century railways obliterated a quaint medieval law like a squirrel on the tracks. Who knew progress could be so... legally destructive? Surely, JSTOR's deep dive into this "cabinet of curiosities" is the intellectual content everyone was craving. 🤔🔍
https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-railways-killed-a-medieval-law/ #railwayhistory #legalchanges #progressintellect #JSTOR #curiosities #19thcentury #HackerNews #ngated -
🚂💥📜 Oh no! The mighty, irresistible force of 19th-century railways obliterated a quaint medieval law like a squirrel on the tracks. Who knew progress could be so... legally destructive? Surely, JSTOR's deep dive into this "cabinet of curiosities" is the intellectual content everyone was craving. 🤔🔍
https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-railways-killed-a-medieval-law/ #railwayhistory #legalchanges #progressintellect #JSTOR #curiosities #19thcentury #HackerNews #ngated -
🚂💥📜 Oh no! The mighty, irresistible force of 19th-century railways obliterated a quaint medieval law like a squirrel on the tracks. Who knew progress could be so... legally destructive? Surely, JSTOR's deep dive into this "cabinet of curiosities" is the intellectual content everyone was craving. 🤔🔍
https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-railways-killed-a-medieval-law/ #railwayhistory #legalchanges #progressintellect #JSTOR #curiosities #19thcentury #HackerNews #ngated -
🚂💥📜 Oh no! The mighty, irresistible force of 19th-century railways obliterated a quaint medieval law like a squirrel on the tracks. Who knew progress could be so... legally destructive? Surely, JSTOR's deep dive into this "cabinet of curiosities" is the intellectual content everyone was craving. 🤔🔍
https://daily.jstor.org/how-the-railways-killed-a-medieval-law/ #railwayhistory #legalchanges #progressintellect #JSTOR #curiosities #19thcentury #HackerNews #ngated -
“If there is sich a thing as a Author, I’m his favourite chara’ter. He does me fathoms better’n he does you—fathoms, he does. And he likes doing me. He keeps me on deck mostly all the time, crutch and all”
—Long John Silver sticks up for himself, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s FABLES – available as a free ebook from our website 🏴☠️🦜
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/fables/
#Scottish #literature #TalkLikeAPirateDay #RobertLouisStevenson #TreasureIsland #metafiction #19thcentury #VIctorian
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“If there is sich a thing as a Author, I’m his favourite chara’ter. He does me fathoms better’n he does you—fathoms, he does. And he likes doing me. He keeps me on deck mostly all the time, crutch and all”
—Long John Silver sticks up for himself, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s FABLES – available as a free ebook from our website 🏴☠️🦜
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/fables/
#Scottish #literature #TalkLikeAPirateDay #RobertLouisStevenson #TreasureIsland #metafiction #19thcentury #VIctorian
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“If there is sich a thing as a Author, I’m his favourite chara’ter. He does me fathoms better’n he does you—fathoms, he does. And he likes doing me. He keeps me on deck mostly all the time, crutch and all”
—Long John Silver sticks up for himself, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s FABLES – available as a free ebook from our website 🏴☠️🦜
2/2
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/fables/
#Scottish #literature #TalkLikeAPirateDay #RobertLouisStevenson #TreasureIsland #metafiction #19thcentury #VIctorian
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“If there is sich a thing as a Author, I’m his favourite chara’ter. He does me fathoms better’n he does you—fathoms, he does. And he likes doing me. He keeps me on deck mostly all the time, crutch and all”
—Long John Silver sticks up for himself, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s FABLES – available as a free ebook from our website 🏴☠️🦜
2/2
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/fables/
#Scottish #literature #TalkLikeAPirateDay #RobertLouisStevenson #TreasureIsland #metafiction #19thcentury #VIctorian
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“If there is sich a thing as a Author, I’m his favourite chara’ter. He does me fathoms better’n he does you—fathoms, he does. And he likes doing me. He keeps me on deck mostly all the time, crutch and all”
—Long John Silver sticks up for himself, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s FABLES – available as a free ebook from our website 🏴☠️🦜
2/2
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/fables/
#Scottish #literature #TalkLikeAPirateDay #RobertLouisStevenson #TreasureIsland #metafiction #19thcentury #VIctorian
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Leonard Cohen & Lord Byron: “Go No More A-Roving”
on DEAR HEATHER, Columbia Records 2004Good night, Geordie.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYodS0HGy0
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury #LeonardCohen
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Leonard Cohen & Lord Byron: “Go No More A-Roving”
on DEAR HEATHER, Columbia Records 2004Good night, Geordie.
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYodS0HGy0
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury #LeonardCohen
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Leonard Cohen & Lord Byron: “Go No More A-Roving”
on DEAR HEATHER, Columbia Records 2004Good night, Geordie.
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYodS0HGy0
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury #LeonardCohen
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Leonard Cohen & Lord Byron: “Go No More A-Roving”
on DEAR HEATHER, Columbia Records 2004Good night, Geordie.
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYodS0HGy0
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury #LeonardCohen
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Leonard Cohen & Lord Byron: “Go No More A-Roving”
on DEAR HEATHER, Columbia Records 2004Good night, Geordie.
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYodS0HGy0
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury #LeonardCohen
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Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died #OTD, 19 April, 1824
Byron included this #poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury
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Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died #OTD, 19 April, 1824
Byron included this #poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury
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Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died #OTD, 19 April, 1824
Byron included this #poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury
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Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died #OTD, 19 April, 1824
Byron included this #poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…
1/4
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury
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Quintessential Romantic Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died #OTD, 19 April, 1824
Byron included this #poem in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…
1/4
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving
#Scottish #literature #Byron #LordByron #romanticism #poem #poetry #19thCentury
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Not any old rubbish: Edinburgh’s Mound was built to order from rubble, pipes and oyster shells https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/13/edinburgh-mound-excavation-recycling-centre-scotland #Edinburgh #OldTown #NewTown #TownPlanning #UrbanHistory #Scotland #ScottishHistory #HistoricalGeography #18thCentury #19thCentury #EighteenthCentury #NineteenthCentury #Archaeology
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Not any old rubbish: Edinburgh’s Mound was built to order from rubble, pipes and oyster shells https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/13/edinburgh-mound-excavation-recycling-centre-scotland #Edinburgh #OldTown #NewTown #TownPlanning #UrbanHistory #Scotland #ScottishHistory #HistoricalGeography #18thCentury #19thCentury #EighteenthCentury #NineteenthCentury #Archaeology
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Not any old rubbish: Edinburgh’s Mound was built to order from rubble, pipes and oyster shells https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/13/edinburgh-mound-excavation-recycling-centre-scotland #Edinburgh #OldTown #NewTown #TownPlanning #UrbanHistory #Scotland #ScottishHistory #HistoricalGeography #18thCentury #19thCentury #EighteenthCentury #NineteenthCentury #Archaeology
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Not any old rubbish: Edinburgh’s Mound was built to order from rubble, pipes and oyster shells https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/13/edinburgh-mound-excavation-recycling-centre-scotland #Edinburgh #OldTown #NewTown #TownPlanning #UrbanHistory #Scotland #ScottishHistory #HistoricalGeography #18thCentury #19thCentury #EighteenthCentury #NineteenthCentury #Archaeology
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Not any old rubbish: Edinburgh’s Mound was built to order from rubble, pipes and oyster shells https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/13/edinburgh-mound-excavation-recycling-centre-scotland #Edinburgh #OldTown #NewTown #TownPlanning #UrbanHistory #Scotland #ScottishHistory #HistoricalGeography #18thCentury #19thCentury #EighteenthCentury #NineteenthCentury #Archaeology