Angelina @Ricardian

She/Her. Staunch Yorkist. Admirer and Supporter of Gaius Julius Caesar. Japanese / English / Chinese OK.

[ニコニコ公式 @nico_nico_info]

『クワガタチョップ』が15年の時を経てリメイク！

#GUMI誕生祭2026

[Parisian Aesthetics @Parisianaes1]

Wrapped in emerald ivy and summer light, this hidden courtyard at Plaza Athénée is the best escape from the Parisian heat 🥵

Heaven found between stone walls 🌿☀️

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Bran Castle, the iconic Romanian hilltop fortress near Brașov!

It’s also known as “Dracula’s Castle”

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

What do cats eat on a hot day?
Mice cream.

[VocaSong Bdays 🩵 ボカ曲記念日 @vocabdays]

🌏 2012/06/26 @ 19:01 JST 💌

Happy 14th birthday to Chikyuu Saigo no Kokuhaku o (The Last Confession on Earth) by kemu! kemu様の「地球最後の告白を」14周年おめでとう！

VOX: GUMI
YT: https://t.co/ImnUxDDurQ
NND: https://t.co/aWPyC89HMq

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

I feel a sense of awe and wonder knowing I am among the first human beings in 2,000 years to read the contents of a scroll charred in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

For centuries, its contents were unreadable. The scrolls were damaged beyond repair. Ancient wisdom was in our hands, but cruelly inaccessible.

Until now.

Thanks to modern science and the brilliant work of the Vesuvius Challenge team, the contents of one of these ancient scrolls are available for us to read.

The text is fragmentary, partly due to previous attempts to open the scroll by hand. But enough has been recovered to identify it as a philosophical treatise, most likely Stoic.

Modern technology is allowing us to recover ancient wisdom for the first time in two millennia.

What a time to be alive.

One recovered fragment seems to capture the wonder of the accomplishment itself:

“Having certainly strained ourselves to the utmost through research and learning, we will no longer be inferior to them in any respect.”

You can read about the Vesuvius Challenge and download the recovered contents at the link below.

[ArtNouveauDeco @NouveauDeco]

Art Nouveau decorative tray from c. 1900 by French sculptor and artist Georges Flamand.

[ArtNouveauDeco @NouveauDeco]

Four Art Nouveau postcards from 1898 by the great Alfonse Mucha.

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

Aurelian accomplished more in his brief 5 years as Roman emperor than nearly every emperor who reigned longer.

He took a fractured empire and stitched it back together, battle by battle.

The fact that he was cut down by his own men is one of Roman history's greatest tragedies.

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

Who loves Roman history?

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

The French certainly know how to chateau!

[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

Secret magic play for one?

[ArtNouveauDeco @NouveauDeco]

Pair of Art Deco passion flower chandeliers from 1924 by René Lalique (1860–1945), France.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Six months today it's Christmas; hope Burnham's started shopping for my presents already.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

If you want to stop something before it gets worse you 'nip it in the bud.'

You figuratively pinch off the bud before it opens into a leaf or flower.

You don't 'nip it in the butt' but we're not here to shame.

[Medieval History Buff @Medievalhtybuff]

A 17th century depiction of the coronation of Henry I

[Anime Vibes @finalformlab]

Artworks by CLAMP

[Daily Roman Updates @UpdatingOnRome]

The History of Byzantium podcast has released its last episode.

@byzantiumcast is the best Roman history podcast and to be honest it’s not even close, surpassing the history of Rome years ago.

Can’t wait to see what Robin does next. He once said he considered going back to the start of Rome and I hope he does.

[Encyclopaedia Britannica @Britannica]

‘Forty’ is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.