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Ancient word of the day: Hedgehog

The ancient word for today is hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus. In the Middle Ages, writers didn’t make reference to hedgehogs, but to urchins. This term for the spiky diminuitive animal is still favoured in some English dialects. We still have the lingering remnants of this etymology in the form of sea urchin, which is literally a sea hedgehog.

The word urchin came to England with the Norman invasion and was derived from the Latin word ericius. Before the Norman conquest, the animal was known by the Anglo-Saxon name Igl.

Other names

Furze-pig – Devon

Hotchi-witchi – Romani

Hodmedods – Norfolk

Ouriço cacheiro – crafty pig
or porco espinho’ – spiky pig in Portuguese

”Thorns shall grow in their palaces, nettles & thistles in their strongholds … there shall the hedgehog build, dig, be there at home and bring forth his young ones.” Taverner’s Isiah 34, 1539.

The hedgehog was a symbol of Christian humility

The Speculum sapientiae, or Mirror of Wisdom is an ancient tale of beasts in Latin. In one tale, a passing goat sees its reflection in a pond and declares himself very handsome indeed. A hedgehog trundles along afterwards and reproaches the goat telling him that profound humility, not vain boasting are what makes animals truly noble.

Read more: The British Library Digitised Manusripts

Content Catnip

Uninvited, released in 1993
Released for: PC (Microsoft Windows)
Point-and-click; Puzzle; Adventure
Horror

From the Internet Games Database
https://www.igdb.com/games/uninvited--5

#games #adventures #pointnclick #adventuregames #old #history #retrocomputing #retrogaming #retro #image #screenshots #1990s #90s #win #horror

Who's that talking in the library?
Who's that talking in my library? Is that you?
No, I won't put you out
'Cause what would this place be without my muse?
Nothing special

(Frank Ocean - Dust)

What a library, what a room. Baroque enormous space for books. And those colors.

#photo #photography #library #history #monastery #Altenburg #Austria #cloister #architecture #baroque

Camera: Leica Q2
Edit: brilliance, highlights, brightness

Who's that talking in the library?
Who's that talking in my library? Is that you?
No, I won't put you out
'Cause what would this place be without my muse?
Nothing special

(Frank Ocean - Dust)

What a library, what a room. Baroque enormous space for books. And those colors.

#photo #photography #library #history #monastery #Altenburg #Austria #cloister #architecture #baroque

Camera: Leica Q2
Edit: brilliance, highlights, brightness

Who's that talking in the library?
Who's that talking in my library? Is that you?
No, I won't put you out
'Cause what would this place be without my muse?
Nothing special

(Frank Ocean - Dust)

What a library, what a room. Baroque enormous space for books. And those colors.

#photo #photography #library #history #monastery #Altenburg #Austria #cloister #architecture #baroque

Camera: Leica Q2
Edit: brilliance, highlights, brightness

Who's that talking in the library?
Who's that talking in my library? Is that you?
No, I won't put you out
'Cause what would this place be without my muse?
Nothing special

(Frank Ocean - Dust)

What a library, what a room. Baroque enormous space for books. And those colors.

#photo #photography #library #history #monastery #Altenburg #Austria #cloister #architecture #baroque

Camera: Leica Q2
Edit: brilliance, highlights, brightness

Who's that talking in the library?
Who's that talking in my library? Is that you?
No, I won't put you out
'Cause what would this place be without my muse?
Nothing special

(Frank Ocean - Dust)

What a library, what a room. Baroque enormous space for books. And those colors.

#photo #photography #library #history #monastery #Altenburg #Austria #cloister #architecture #baroque

Camera: Leica Q2
Edit: brilliance, highlights, brightness

An enormous monument was built to honor a dead king. It was once listed among the wonders of the world. But then an order of warrior monks destroyed the monument to build their castle. #travel #history https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/turkey/halicarnassus/?s=mc

Bronze Age bowl barrow on Upper Hollesley Common, Suffolk. These are the most numerous type of round barrow and up to 10,000 recorded nationally and no doubt many more lost. This area is rich in archaeological remains, with the famous Sutton Hoo nearby and several other bowl barrows. Not to mention the UFO’s in Rendlesham Forest. #history #bronzeage #archeology

View of street in West Hollywoodphotos
Dwellings-California-West Hollywood.; Architecture, Domestic-California-West Hollywood-Spanish influences.; Architecture, Domestic-California-West Hollywood-Mediterranean influences.; Neoclassicism (Architecture)-California-West Hollywood.; Streets-California-West Hollywood.; West Hollywood (Calif.).
Security Pacific National Bank Collection

From Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library
https://tessa2.lapl.org/digital/collection/photos/…

#LosAngeles #LA #California #CA #US #USA #history #image #historical #photo #photos

Gelnica (Slovakia), 1954
Gelnica: ROH Youth Rehabilitation Center
Czech and Slovak Heritage, Cottages, Recreational Facilities, Forests
Graphic, Geographical Postcards, Local Postcards
Shape

From Digital Library and Digital Archive of Slovak National Library
https://dikda.snk.sk/view/uuid:fc29dfd6-5fb8-46cc-…

#Slovakia #Slovensko #SVK #SK #history #image #photography #photo #postcards #postcard #map #maps #retro #photos

Gelnica (Slovakia), 1954
Gelnica: ROH Youth Rehabilitation Center
Czech and Slovak Heritage, Cottages, Recreational Facilities, Forests
Graphic, Geographical Postcards, Local Postcards
Shape

From Digital Library and Digital Archive of Slovak National Library
https://dikda.snk.sk/view/uuid:fc29dfd6-5fb8-46cc-…

#Slovakia #Slovensko #SVK #SK #history #image #photography #photo #postcards #postcard #map #maps #retro #photos

Gelnica (Slovakia), 1954
Gelnica: ROH Youth Rehabilitation Center
Czech and Slovak Heritage, Cottages, Recreational Facilities, Forests
Graphic, Geographical Postcards, Local Postcards
Shape

From Digital Library and Digital Archive of Slovak National Library
https://dikda.snk.sk/view/uuid:fc29dfd6-5fb8-46cc-…

#Slovakia #Slovensko #SVK #SK #history #image #photography #photo #postcards #postcard #map #maps #retro #photos

Gelnica (Slovakia), 1954
Gelnica: ROH Youth Rehabilitation Center
Czech and Slovak Heritage, Cottages, Recreational Facilities, Forests
Graphic, Geographical Postcards, Local Postcards
Shape

From Digital Library and Digital Archive of Slovak National Library
https://dikda.snk.sk/view/uuid:fc29dfd6-5fb8-46cc-…

#Slovakia #Slovensko #SVK #SK #history #image #photography #photo #postcards #postcard #map #maps #retro #photos

#PhotoOfTheDay is what appears to be a homemade historical marker at the Gold Hill Hotel on the south side of Virginia City in Nevada. We stayed there while 4x4 trip back a bit after Y2K. For an old funky desert hotel they had a great restaurant.

#photo #photography #nevada #desert #RoadTrip #history #overland

#PhotoOfTheDay is what appears to be a homemade historical marker at the Gold Hill Hotel on the south side of Virginia City in Nevada. We stayed there while 4x4 trip back a bit after Y2K. For an old funky desert hotel they had a great restaurant.

#photo #photography #nevada #desert #RoadTrip #history #overland

#PhotoOfTheDay is what appears to be a homemade historical marker at the Gold Hill Hotel on the south side of Virginia City in Nevada. We stayed there while 4x4 trip back a bit after Y2K. For an old funky desert hotel they had a great restaurant.

#photo #photography #nevada #desert #RoadTrip #history #overland

#PhotoOfTheDay is what appears to be a homemade historical marker at the Gold Hill Hotel on the south side of Virginia City in Nevada. We stayed there while 4x4 trip back a bit after Y2K. For an old funky desert hotel they had a great restaurant.

#photo #photography #nevada #desert #RoadTrip #history #overland

#PhotoOfTheDay is what appears to be a homemade historical marker at the Gold Hill Hotel on the south side of Virginia City in Nevada. We stayed there while 4x4 trip back a bit after Y2K. For an old funky desert hotel they had a great restaurant.

#photo #photography #nevada #desert #RoadTrip #history #overland

#Development #Collections
Antiquated HTML snippets and artefacts · Forgotten markup that outlived its purpose https://ilo.im/16fyr1

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#HTML #Legacy #Compatibility #Vendors #OSes #History #Browsers #Websites #WebDev #Frontend

#Development #Collections
Antiquated HTML snippets and artefacts · Forgotten markup that outlived its purpose https://ilo.im/16fyr1

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#HTML #Legacy #Compatibility #Vendors #OSes #History #Browsers #Websites #WebDev #Frontend

#Development #Collections
Antiquated HTML snippets and artefacts · Forgotten markup that outlived its purpose https://ilo.im/16fyr1

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#HTML #Legacy #Compatibility #Vendors #OSes #History #Browsers #Websites #WebDev #Frontend

#Development #Collections
Antiquated HTML snippets and artefacts · Forgotten markup that outlived its purpose https://ilo.im/16fyr1

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#HTML #Legacy #Compatibility #Vendors #OSes #History #Browsers #Websites #WebDev #Frontend

1721 West Summerdale Avenue, Chicago, Illinois

From Digital Collections of the Chicago Public Library
https://cdm16818.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collec…

#Chicago #Illinois #US #USA #history #image #historical #photo #photos

At the core of this ancient city is the Mosque at the End of the World, a daily festival packed with snake-charmers, sooth-sayers, dubious healers, story tellers, mendicants, and merchants. #travel #history https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/morocco/marrakech/?s=mc

Bread crumbs were the standard pencil eraser until 1770, when a chemist grabbed a rubber ball by accident and noticed it worked better. Called the material rubber for exactly that reason. Nobody's bothered renaming it since. #history #stationery #trivia

🚀 EXPLOSIVE DISCOVERY: What Happened in Eden? Alternative Translation Tells a Very Different Story
📈 Trending with 100K+ readers! The past holds incredible secrets! 🔐
https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/garden-of-eden-021833
#AncientOrigins #History #Archaeology #Artifacts #Archaeological #HumanOrigins #Evolution #Incredible #MustRead #Past

Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, born OTD in 1814, was a specialist in Mesoamerican studies https://toilet-guru.com/blog/20.html?s=mb #archaeology #history

#CivilWar #History news #OTD - Confederate pirates (or privateers, depending on your point of view) active in the Atlantic, but none encountered by this patrol.

#NavalHistory

https://www.reporting-history.com/2026/09/08/no-sign-of-rebel-pirates/

Map of New York City south of 132d St. (New York City, New York)

From Digital Collections of New York Public Library
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6f979030-…

#NewYork #NewYorkCity #NYC #NYPL #US #USA #history #image #photo #maps #cartography

English astrologer, occultist, Qabalist, and #Rosicrucian apologist Robert Fludd, who died OTD in 1637, had a celebrated debate with Johannes Kepler concerning the scientific and hermetic approaches to knowledge https://toilet-guru.com/blog/36.html?s=mb #astronomy #history

TO WELL. To divide unfairly. To conceal part. A cant phrase used by thieves, where one of the party conceals some of the booty, instead of dividing it fairly amongst his confederates.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

@classicalmusic
J. S. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808

L. van Beethoven: "Eroica" Variations in E-flat Major, Op. 35

Friedrich Gulda
Live rec. Bonn (D), 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-RNHPAY5XA

#music #classic #piano #history

@classicalmusic
J. S. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808

L. van Beethoven: "Eroica" Variations in E-flat Major, Op. 35

Friedrich Gulda
Live rec. Bonn (D), 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-RNHPAY5XA

#music #classic #piano #history

@classicalmusic
J. S. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808

L. van Beethoven: "Eroica" Variations in E-flat Major, Op. 35

Friedrich Gulda
Live rec. Bonn (D), 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-RNHPAY5XA

#music #classic #piano #history

@classicalmusic
J. S. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808

L. van Beethoven: "Eroica" Variations in E-flat Major, Op. 35

Friedrich Gulda
Live rec. Bonn (D), 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-RNHPAY5XA

#music #classic #piano #history

@classicalmusic
J. S. Bach: English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808

L. van Beethoven: "Eroica" Variations in E-flat Major, Op. 35

Friedrich Gulda
Live rec. Bonn (D), 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-RNHPAY5XA

#music #classic #piano #history

Venture further along the coast of this Hyperborean warrior nation, traveling beneath brooding volcanoes and fog-shrouded glaciers. But be wary of the sand storms. #travel #history https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/iceland/vik-hali/?s=mc

en hier is de ophaalbrug in beeld, Lees hier over de geschiedenis van de brug: https://euria.infomaniak.com/shared/01a0813a-fa14-72af-a622-6b73735f011e
#architecture #geschiedenis #history #ophaalbrug #toerisme #tourism #travel #fotografie #streetphotography #enkhuizen #NL #drommedaris #acdseephotostudio

🗿 NEW: Comic artist @Ullilust spent years reading #iceage #archaeology before #drawing it.

Her "Early Man Was a Woman," the first comic to win #Germany’s top #nonfiction prize, argues the #StoneAge was more egalitarian than the familiar male-hunter image. #Paleolithic #art favors female figures, she notes, yet male researcher bias long dismissed them.

👉 https://www.science.org/content/article/comic-drawing-women-prehistory

#prehistory #comics #history #venus #arthistory #feminism #graphicnovel #science #gender #caveart

🗿 NEW: Comic artist @Ullilust spent years reading #iceage #archaeology before #drawing it.

Her "Early Man Was a Woman," the first comic to win #Germany’s top #nonfiction prize, argues the #StoneAge was more egalitarian than the familiar male-hunter image. #Paleolithic #art favors female figures, she notes, yet male researcher bias long dismissed them.

👉 https://www.science.org/content/article/comic-drawing-women-prehistory

#prehistory #comics #history #venus #arthistory #feminism #graphicnovel #science #gender #caveart

🗿 NEW: Comic artist @Ullilust spent years reading #iceage #archaeology before #drawing it.

Her "Early Man Was a Woman," the first comic to win #Germany’s top #nonfiction prize, argues the #StoneAge was more egalitarian than the familiar male-hunter image. #Paleolithic #art favors female figures, she notes, yet male researcher bias long dismissed them.

👉 https://www.science.org/content/article/comic-drawing-women-prehistory

#prehistory #comics #history #venus #arthistory #feminism #graphicnovel #science #gender #caveart

🗿 NEW: Comic artist @Ullilust spent years reading #iceage #archaeology before #drawing it.

Her "Early Man Was a Woman," the first comic to win #Germany’s top #nonfiction prize, argues the #StoneAge was more egalitarian than the familiar male-hunter image. #Paleolithic #art favors female figures, she notes, yet male researcher bias long dismissed them.

👉 https://www.science.org/content/article/comic-drawing-women-prehistory

#prehistory #comics #history #venus #arthistory #feminism #graphicnovel #science #gender #caveart

Autumn Grants Update for Eligible Industrial Heritage Museums & Sites

This autumn’s round of heritage grants include three available for industrial heritage museums (accredited or working towards accreditation) and other industrial sites.

Museum Learning and Engagement Grants

Museum Development is delivering  the ‘Museum Learning and Engagement Grants’ on behalf of Arts Council England, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and the Department for Education. This is a one-off, rapid-response small grant programme designed to give an opportunity for museums to undertake innovative pilot project projects to improve access to cultural learning opportunities for children and young people, particularly in underserved communities and areas of low engagement. The programme has been designed to provide continuity and maintain momentum to Museums and Schools objectives, while future museum education investment is developed. Those eligible are:

• ACE National Portfolio Organisations, Accredited and Working Towards Accreditation museums
• Museum partners who are current recipients of The Museums and Schools Programme grant 

The deadline is 29 September. Follow this link for more information: Museum Learning and Engagement grants

Museum Transformation Fund Now Open

Another Arts Council England fund is the Museum Transformation Programme  which is designed to enable Accredited Museums to address the longer-term challenges they face. It is also intended to support them to undertake the fundamental shift in their operational models required to stabilise their finances and continue to deliver for their audiences and communities. Grants of £50k to £1 million are available. Deadline is 30 September. Follow this link for further details: Museum Transformation Programme.

Garfield Weston Foundation

Finally, the Garfield Weston Foundation support a wide range of charities that make a positive difference, working in different sectors in the UK. These include welfare, youth, community, environment, education, health, arts, heritage, and faith. Their grants range from £1,000 to several million pounds, depending on each charity’s size and scope of work. Applications are open all year round. Follow this link for more details: Garfield Weston Foundation

Autumn Grants Update for Eligible Industrial Heritage Museums & Sites

This autumn’s round of heritage grants include three available for industrial heritage museums (accredited or working towards accreditation) and other industrial sites.

Museum Learning and Engagement Grants

Museum Development is delivering  the ‘Museum Learning and Engagement Grants’ on behalf of Arts Council England, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and the Department for Education. This is a one-off, rapid-response small grant programme designed to give an opportunity for museums to undertake innovative pilot project projects to improve access to cultural learning opportunities for children and young people, particularly in underserved communities and areas of low engagement. The programme has been designed to provide continuity and maintain momentum to Museums and Schools objectives, while future museum education investment is developed. Those eligible are:

• ACE National Portfolio Organisations, Accredited and Working Towards Accreditation museums
• Museum partners who are current recipients of The Museums and Schools Programme grant 

The deadline is 29 September. Follow this link for more information: Museum Learning and Engagement grants

Museum Transformation Fund Now Open

Another Arts Council England fund is the Museum Transformation Programme  which is designed to enable Accredited Museums to address the longer-term challenges they face. It is also intended to support them to undertake the fundamental shift in their operational models required to stabilise their finances and continue to deliver for their audiences and communities. Grants of £50k to £1 million are available. Deadline is 30 September. Follow this link for further details: Museum Transformation Programme.

Garfield Weston Foundation

Finally, the Garfield Weston Foundation support a wide range of charities that make a positive difference, working in different sectors in the UK. These include welfare, youth, community, environment, education, health, arts, heritage, and faith. Their grants range from £1,000 to several million pounds, depending on each charity’s size and scope of work. Applications are open all year round. Follow this link for more details: Garfield Weston Foundation