Cynthia Geisler

Poet

[Cynthia Geisler @balconescountry]

@8NinjaPlumber8 @AXSTV If I recall even of he sold the house, it would barely pay their debt,

[Cynthia Geisler @balconescountry]

@NoContextHumans He has a demon!!! She had a guardian

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Do you recognise our remarkable female Nobel Prize laureates?

Take a look at some of them when they were young – they would grow up to become women who changed the world.

In the family photo, Marie Skłodowska Curie is pictured with her two daughters Eve and Irène. When she was older, Irène discovered artificial radioactivity and was awarded a Nobel Prize like her mother.

May-Britt Moser is photographed in a red dress when she was six. She would later discover the brain's positioning system.

Gertrude Elion is a happy five-year-old in the last picture. She went on to save millions of lives with her pioneering drug treatment.

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT]

MIT engineers have developed a flexible drug-delivery patch that can be placed on the heart after a heart attack to help promote healing and regeneration of cardiac tissue. https://t.co/wmMRpLmHE2

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“I felt really alone and isolated at school. This “outsider” feeling drove me to take risks and prove doubters wrong, and later influenced my choices as a scientist.”

- chemistry laureate Jennifer Doudna.

Read her story: https://t.co/PaTtAL6MQY

[Cynthia Geisler @balconescountry]

I just bought Gen X Unfiltered a Coffee on Ko-fi! ❤️ https://t.co/7TQkNR0YLF

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

The Ethiopian Bible, used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, is one of the oldest and most complete biblical canons in the world. It contains 81 books. The Protestant Bible contains 66 books. The Ethiopian Bible includes 46 books in the Old Testament and 35 books in the New Testament. It's written in Ge'ez, an ancient Semitic language no longer spoken but still used in Ethiopian liturgy.

The Ethiopian Bible includes several books that are not found in Western biblical canons. These include the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, 1 Meqabyan, 2 Meqabyan, 3 Meqabyan, the Book of the Covenant, and portions of Baruch, the Letter of Jeremiah, and 4 Baruch.

The three Books of Meqabyan are sometimes called the Ethiopian Maccabees, but they are completely different from the Books of Maccabees found in Catholic Bibles. The Book of Enoch is particularly significant. It's an ancient Jewish text attributed to the biblical figure Enoch, containing apocalyptic visions and teachings. The Book of Jubilees provides a retelling of biblical history from creation to the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai.

Christianity came to Ethiopia very early. Tradition traces it back to the Ethiopian eunuch's conversion in Acts 8:26-39. Ethiopia became one of the first Christian nations in the world when King Ezana made Christianity the state religion in the 4th century. Because Ethiopia's Christian tradition developed separately from the Roman Empire and Western Christianity, it preserved certain Jewish and Christian texts that were not widely accepted elsewhere. The Ethiopian canon was influenced by early Jewish and Christian traditions in the region and developed independently from the biblical canons that were eventually adopted in Rome and the West.

The oldest surviving Ethiopian biblical manuscripts are called the Garima Gospels, named after the monk Abba Garima, who reportedly wrote them after arriving in Ethiopia from Constantinople around 494 AD. The Garima Gospels consist of two volumes, Garima 1 and Garima 2. Each volume is about 10 inches thick and contains approximately 400 pages.

Garima 1 has a copper cover, and Garima 2 has a silver cover. These manuscripts are written on parchment made from animal skins and are preserved in monastic libraries. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has maintained its biblical canon for over 1,500 years, preserving texts that were lost or rejected in other Christian traditions.

#archaeohistories

[Cynthia Geisler @balconescountry]

@MacGyver2304 @archeohistories Me

[Cynthia Geisler @balconescountry]

@bur56332660 @archeohistories Sounds awful

[Cynthia Geisler @balconescountry]

@Strinja1000 @archeohistories I agree my favorite part...

[Knatten&Jag @Islablonde]

@archeohistories A tradition of the Bana people in the Omo Valley in #Ethiopia

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In late 1800s, a quiet man with a camera wandered the windswept plains of southwestern France. His name was Félix Arnaudin, and what he captured was a way of life already fading into memory.

Among his most haunting images were the shepherds of the Landes, perched on towering wooden stilts known as échasses. Dressed in thick wool cloaks and wide-brimmed hats, these men weren’t performers or curiosities—they were survivors of the bog. Their stilts lifted them above the wet, uneven ground, allowing them to watch their flocks and travel long distances across the sodden heather.

Through Arnaudin’s lens, these shepherds appear as tall, ghostly silhouettes on the flat horizon—figures shaped by wind, mud, and patience. Their solitude is almost sacred. Their balance, a quiet defiance against the elements.

But progress was coming. Wetlands were drained. Pine forests were planted. Roads were paved. The stilts were lowered, then lost.

Arnaudin knew what was slipping away. He devoted his life to preserving the faces, stories, and songs of his homeland. His photographs, now preserved in museums, aren’t just records—they are elegies.

Thanks to him, the stilt-walking shepherds of Gascony are not forgotten. They remain—tall and still—etched in silver and light, standing guard over a past too proud to disappear completely.

© Reddit

#archaeohistories

[Cynthia Geisler @balconescountry]

@LUIS3186334077 @NobelPrize Can you explain? I am not up on this aspect? I only read his work as extremely exciting great movies in my mind.

[Cynthia Geisler @balconescountry]

@HannitySkip @NobelPrize How so? Explain! I love his books!!! Isn't this about literature and not politics. They can be separated. Except in biographical Books, and History Books.

[Cynthia Geisler @balconescountry]

@NobelPrize I ❤️ his work!! I didn't set a single book down until I was finished!! Go in blind like I did!! I like my books like 9.0 rotten tomato ratings, I go in blind, I do not read about a book or movie. You will not be disappointed! Buy them, dive into his books, and be surprised!!

[Cynthia Geisler @balconescountry]

@NobelPrize I have read his books!!! And I recommend them all to Everyone!! Page Turners!!! I sit and read melancholy resistance until the last page, with only short breaks.
Fabulous! I mailed my son a Philosopher from Columbia University Grad school the books.

[Rock'n Roll of All @rocknrollofall]

A 5-year old kid who constantly listens to David Bowie requested a song from him and David Bowie didn't disappoint him❤️

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

This work by Pieter Buegel is probably the very first painting of a White Christmas. The pregnant, blue-cloaked Mary rides a donkey led by Joseph, but they are inconspicuous as part of the throng (The Census at Bethlehem, 1566) https://t.co/WHkxvrEmzq

[Cynthia Geisler @balconescountry]

@histories_arch Sounds perfect!! I have 10 favorite recommendations if anyone is interested.

[Cynthia Geisler @balconescountry]

@Sauce04240603 @histories_arch I agree fully, different species