Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #classics, aggregated by home.social.
What Readers Thought of 'Dracula' When It Was Published in 1897
'We would not, however, recommend it to nervous persons for evening reading.'
By Jane Alexander
https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/books/what-readers-thought-dracula-when-published-1897
Dracula at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345
42 years ago today, November 10, 1984, T.G. Sheppard debuted at #62 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “One Owner Heart”. It went on to peak at #4 and spent a total of 22 weeks on the chart.
It’s been my hobby to collect 45 RPM singles. I enjoyed listening to this song on the radio and went to buy it at my favorite record store and added it to my music collection.
#vinylcommunity #countrymusic #legendary #vocalist #musician #classics #vinyl #musiclegend #vinylcollection #musicislife
New on the blog: MANTO user survey
Our long-time friends and collaborators at the MANTO database of Greek myth are looking for user testers to participate in their online survey. They’re hoping to improve their user interface and accessibility for teachers and students of Greek myth and the Ancient Mediterranean. If you’re interested and can devote 15-20 minutes into learning about and taking the survey, please visit the blog post about it that Anika Campbell has just contributed to the Pleiades blog: https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/manto-user-survey
Last Two Weeks in the #PleiadesGazetteer (26 October - 9 November 2026): over the course of the last two weeks, the Pleiades editorial college published 17 new and 410 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Ilaria Cristofaro, Damian Noah Dimitrov, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Sebastian Heath, Brady Kiesling, Eleftheria Konstantinidou, Chris de Lisle, Gabriel Mckee, Eric Poehler, Joe Scholten and R. Scott Smith.
A list of all new and changed resources complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-two-weeks-in-pleiades-26-october-9-november-2026
#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #classics #DH #gazetteers #HGIS #SpatialHumanities
40 years ago today, November 8, 1986, Keith Whitley debuted at #61 *Hot Shot Debut* on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart with “Homecoming '63”. It went on to peak at #9 and spent a total of 23 weeks on the chart.
It’s been my hobby to collect 45 RPM singles. This was Keith Whitley's second Top 10 country single release. (ALT for more info)
#vinylcommunity #music #remembering #legendary #countrymusic #singer #musician #guitarist #classics #vinyl #musiclegend #vinylcollection #musicislife