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Join the race to transcribe and annotate documents from @Europeanaeu. #SachsenAtWork #citizenscience #crowdsourcing @europeana1914 @europeana1989 @ffhistorians

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Hyacinths, poppies and a double-flowered variety — all in a German herbal from 1590. 🌿

Explore it in the Europeana Science Run:
https://t.co/PjdK5gBAUc

#BotanicalHistory #CitizenScience #Europeana

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Europeana Science Run: who was Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer? A naturalist, chemist, and teacher whose handwritten notes are now available to explore. 👉 https://t.co/ajNsISHVfG

#HistoryOfScience #CitizenScience #OpenScience #DigitalHumanities #HandwrittenHistory

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In 1865, Gounod had to choose between three rival sopranos. He wrote about it by hand.

That letter is now on Transcribathon. Still not fully transcribed. Who did he choose?

Finish the letter to find out → https://t.co/7nzGM6QFCM

#DigitalHeritage #InfinityEccch

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Day 2 of the INFINITY ECCCH project meeting — networking and planning under the sun of Barcelona.
Our CROWD Use Case is taking shape. The crowdsourcing work our volunteers do every day feeds into a 22-project Horizon Europe infrastructure. More to come.
#INFINITYProject

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"Je n'ai pas le sol." (I don’t have the means.)
Sophie Arnould. October 1778. The most celebrated soprano in France. She created the role of Iphigénie in Gluck's opera. This letter is on Transcribathon. https://t.co/JJz2Oqbvsd
#CitizenScience #Europeana #InfinityEccch

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"Je sais par votre chère Marianne que votre Claudie était chez vous pour environ un mois." Gounod to Viardot, 1875. Unread for 150 years.
433 letters (Berlioz, Liszt, George Sand…) on Transcribathon. #Transcribathon #MusicHistory #Europeana #InfinityEccch https://t.co/DYaDnN3oTp

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May 1, 1945. Hitler was dead. Berlin was burning.

Agnes Unger kept writing — searching for her son missing since 1944. One came back: "Zurück." The man had vanished too.
43 letters. 0% transcribed.

Read one → https://t.co/QVoDUPVCnM

#Berlin1945 #InfinityEccch #WWII #Europeana

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Workers' Memorial Day.

In 1881, Germany documented every factory in Saxony to write its first worker protection law.

145 years later, 68% of that document is still unread. Still unsearchable.

Help transcribe it → https://t.co/iXpDggGRzD

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https://t.co/PdMU8Ztdg5

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A sculptor went to war.

On 6 March 1916, he carved a female figure out of snow for his fellow soldiers at the front.

His notebooks are now on Transcribathon — waiting to be transcribed.

This World Heritage Day: help preserve what survived the war.

Link in comments

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Can you read this? 🖋️

Paris. 1778. 18th-century French cursive.

Written by the most famous opera soprano in France.

Thousands more documents like this on Transcribathon.
Can you read old scripts?
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https://t.co/JJz2Oqbvsd

#Transcribathon #Europeana #InfinityEcch

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Flowers, poems, and handwritten memories 🌸

These pages from Emilie Gerlitz's Poesiealbum (1912–1913) are filled with dedications in old German cursive (Kurrent).

Now volunteers are transcribing them on Transcribathon.

→ https://t.co/OVea6KF1cB
#Europeana #Infinity #Kurrent

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The Women's History Month Run 2026 results are in!
🥇 Wolfgang Dekeyser
🥈 Stefanie Wolter
🥉 Sophie Jouglard
Every character transcribed is a woman's voice that can finally be read and searched. Thank you to everyone who took part in #WomensHistoryMonth Run on @transcribathon

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Last day of Women's History Month.

Laure Cinti-Damoreau was Rossini's go-to soprano.
Star of the Paris Opera.
Then she wrote a vocal method still in print 175 years later.

Her documents are on Transcribathon.
One page. Today.

👉 https://t.co/mrCprbOwqI

#europeana #infinity

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She translated Benito Pérez Galdós into German.
She corresponded with him directly.
#History forgot her.
Ellen Goldenberg — translator, late 19th century.
Her #letters are on #Transcribathon this Women's History Month. Transcribe one. Restore her name.

https://t.co/mrCprbOwqI

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She was a Grand Duchess.
She co-founded a women's association.
In 1859.
Grand Duchess Luise of Baden didn't wait for change — she built it.

Her letters are on Transcribathon this Women's History Month.
Transcribe one. Keep her work alive.
👉https://t.co/mrCprbOwqI

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Her name is almost unknown. She edited a 30,000-entry Byzantine encyclopedia. The Nazis dismissed her from the university.

Ada Adler (1878–1946). Transcribe one page for her →
https://t.co/sZif8T2BYA

#WomensHistoryMonth #CitizenScience #Transcribathon

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She performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She supported Czech independence during WWI. They placed her under house arrest for it.
Her name was Ema Destinnová (1878–1930). Transcribe her story and join the run. Link in bio #WomensHistoryMonth #Europeana

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She is the standard by which all other sopranos of her era were measured. Her documents are on Transcribathon — waiting for a volunteer. Transcribe one page for her this Women's History Month. 20 minutes. Her story becomes permanently searchable.
👉 https://t.co/sZif8T2BYA

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She led the Paris Opera for 13 years. Created roles for Verdi, Wagner & Saint-Saëns. Her name was Gabrielle Krauss — and most people have never heard it.

Full story in the comments 👇 #WomensHistoryMonth #CitizenScience