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24 Nov 1993095685411893613

A dumb-bell at Knole - a rope around the drum once ascended through a hole in the ceiling of the Leicester Gallery where it was attached to weights. The fellow exercising below would turn the contraption to lift the hidden weights. Rather like a bell-rope but dumb: a dumb-bell

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20 Nov 1991484980212691153

What, in heaven's name, is a 'Research Integrity Facilitator'? It sounds a bit like an Intimacy Co-ordinator for the Senior Common Room. Spare us!

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10 Nov 1988013725115445410

Has anyone written well about e.
m. cats? This one has been called an old English Blue, 'breed' said to have been displaced by Cyprus (tabby) cats of which the first supposedly imported by Lady Roe from Constantinople and given to Abp Laud. None of this can actually be true ...

Has anyone written well about e.
m. cats? This one has been called an old English Blue, 'breed' said to have been displaced by Cyprus (tabby) cats of which the first supposedly imported by Lady Roe from Constantinople and given to Abp Laud. None of this can actually be true ...
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty

10 Nov 1624: d. Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of #Southampton #otd

Here seen with his early modern #cat.

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7 Nov 1986761791603425681

The real crown jewel of the Louvre?

The real crown jewel of the Louvre?
The Byzantine Legacy @ByzantineLegacy

Pendant of Empress Maria (c. 400) at the Louvre

Maria was the wife of Emperor Honorius, daughter of the patrician Stilicho and of Serena, niece of Theodosius I, and sister of Eucherius and Thermantia
Latin inscription on the cameo reads: "Stelicho, Serena, Honori, Maria,…

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