Ellen Verveer

art history | garden history | textiles | costume history | artist | 🎨Salomon Verveer, Riverlandscape 1841

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Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'
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Textile fragments, attached to the front and back of two scoop brooches, have been discovered in a Viking woman’s 8th-century tomb at the Skonager site in Western Jutland.
Photo credit Arkæologi Vestjylland, Agnes Geijer.
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A c. 6,500 year old monumental structure has been uncovered in the central Czech Republic

Photo credit University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.
https://t.co/7Ys7hPyqPJ

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Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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The Arctic fox wears one of the warmest coats in the entire animal kingdom so perfectly insulating it doesn’t even begin to shiver until temperatures plunge below –70°C. A living masterpiece of cold-weather design.

📸 Konsta Punkka

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Divers have located the Altalena, a cargo ship bringing arms to the Irgun militia during the 1948 War of Independence that was hit on the orders of then-prime minister David Ben-Gurion and sunk off Israel’s coast
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Bone fragments excavated at Ferriter’s Cove on the Dingle Peninsula ( late Mesolithic period, 8000–4000 BCE) were believed to belong to domesticated cattle. Protein testing reveals the fragments aren't cows at all, but actually belong to an ancient bear and a wild boar
#Ireland

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A bridge too far? Why link to Sicily is still a dream despite 2,000 years of plans
Roman dream of building structure over strait of Messina has been revived by officials, despite claims it is unworkable and protests from locals

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Montmartre, France 🇫🇷

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US authorities charged a woman who allegedly supported the Islamic State jihadist group with a terrorism offense on Thursday after she told an FBI informant she “wanted to destroy” the New York State Capitol buildings, court filings showed.
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Savez-vous que la plus petite chapelle consacrée du monde est sur l'île anglo-normande de Guernesey ?
Datant de 1914, il s'agissait initialement d'une réplique en miniature de la Grotte et de la Basilique de Lourdes.
Un bijou décoré de porcelaines ! 🤩
(🎥Carys Browne/IG)

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Researchers documented around 120 Latin inscriptions on the walls and ceiling of Cova Dones, an underground cave in southeastern Spain. The cave is thought to have been a Roman cult sanctuary used primarily by women for ritual practices.
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A police officer (UK) has been fired after a misconduct trial found he spent months posting and engaging with antisemitic content, celebrating the deaths of Israelis and describing the 7 October 2023 as an “act of resistance”.
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🔴 𝗨𝗡 𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗢𝗥 🫶 | À #Fontainebleau, la galerie François Ier se mérite ! Le Roi en gardait lui-même la clé autour du cou et n’y faisait entrer que ses hôtes les plus prestigieux.

Aujourd’hui, vous avez la chance de pouvoir la découvrir ! 𝗦𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘇-𝗹𝗮 ! 🤩

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Archaeologists discovered several burials dating back to the second and third centuries CE alongside a ceremonial horse harness from the Early Iron Age at the Kartal hillfort site, near the village of Orlivka, Odesa Province, Ukraine.
📷Suspilne Odesa
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Danish town plans for underground parking garage, finds long-lost medieval convent

The 13th-century remnants of St. Clare’s are hidden beneath a soccer field in Roskilde.

Photo NIKU
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Areas with cold water pools (frigidaria) and a changing room (apodyterium) have been unearthed at the 1,700-year-old Western Bath at the sanctuary of Apollo Smintheus, near the coast of northwestern Türkiye.
https://t.co/btt9DcK055

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Three millennia of lizard and snake consumption by Natufian foragers
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Kiel University https://t.co/2dfMy8HgaN

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Analysis of 20 occupation layers dated from 15,000 to 12,000 years ago at the 'el-Wad Terrace site on Mount Carmel, Israel, provides evidence that the people of the Natufian period actively hunted and consumed reptiles, making snakes and lizards a crucial part of their diet.