RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
There is a comforting weight to #1840s dress fabrics. This printed wool challis features swirls of Kashmiri buta against dark blue. The signs of wear around the underarm are especially poignant reminders of the life that once inhabited this garment. Sold via #AugustaAuction#FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today.
Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.
"The past two years are all the proof you need that sitting out an election because the better candidate happens to not be perfectly to your liking is completely stupid and self-destructive."
Flaming snail 🐌🔥
BL Royal MS 12 C III; Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and emblematic inscriptions; c.1507 CE; France (Paris); f.9v
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Foot-pedaled loom weaving, where warp threads are held taut while the weft is interlaced through a shed to build colorful fabric.
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A beautiful #Roman gold necklace, with large oval amethysts & square emerald chips set into the links. An absolutely lovely piece of ancient jewellery which is more than 1700 years old
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