Rare image of an elk grazing in a beautiful meadow and stepping on a lego.
Image: Bull elk bugling at mammoth Hot Springs @YellowstoneNPS /Neal Herbert
#FindYourPark
After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.
The archive treats continue in our 75th birthday party - here's the legendary Igor Stravinsky conducting us in a performance of his own The Firebird at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall back in 1965 😮
X...is for his mark. It is not uncommon in archives to find a document marked X. An X acted as a signature for those unable to write their own name due to illiteracy or disability. Here's an example from a soldier's will for a soldier from Belfast who died in 1916 #ArchiveZ
#OnThisDay 1801, Joseph Plateu was born.
Joseph Plateu was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image and invented the phenakistoscope, which is pictured here.
The upper floors of @britishmuseum (where all the best galleries are) may be shut at the moment but there is no reason why you shouldn't get to enjoy some of their treats - todays snapshot comes from Gallery 39 (Clocks and Watches*)
*and Marine Chronometers.
Our latest newsletter is out! This week's topic: wildfires. It features links from @PopMech, @WisHistory, @HISTORY, @novapbs, and 805 Goats.
Check it out here: https://t.co/zU0hcZq978
Illustrations showing movement of air through various rooms, from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds.
Available, with others in the series, as a print here: https://t.co/iY4alhKgCg
It’s National Coffee Day! Where is your favorite place to enjoy a cup of coffee?
(OHS photo of farmers taking a coffee break in 1937) #Coffee#CoffeeDay#NationalCoffeeDay
Lately we've been putting together #newsletters that gather links from around the web that discuss a particular topic that is relevant to the #news.
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In 1910, a wildfire in the Northern Rockies burned an area the size of Connecticut, and killed at least 78 firefighters in just 36 hours. Called the "Big Burn," the fire shaped how the nation fights fires.