#Curling and #onehourreads! Great combo Starting with a #onehourread of @moudhy.bsky.social #BetweenTwoRivers and we are trading about a very cool #kudurru!

Do not burn the books @chapps.bsky.social Or if you do, hit like the horror section first

A Corinthian delight: three examples of ancient caricatures. The pyxis at the top shows a child-like Herakles drawing water from a fountain. On the lower left, a kylix depicting a woman playing the usually all-male drinking game kottabos. On the lower right, Artemis and her curious dog. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

#OnThisDay - 4 February - in AD 211 Septimius Severus died at York. His advice to his sons Geta and Caracalla: “Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn all other men” (Dio 77.15.3). #History 🏺 Image: RIC IV Sept.Sev. 255; Münzkabinett Berlin (18278266). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

Happy Birthday to the US Forest Service: “In the administration of the forest reserves it must be clearly borne in mind that all land is to be devoted to its most productive use for the permanent good of the whole people, and not for the temporary benefit of individuals or companies.”

So, it's a beautifully made film, bittersweet throughout out. Was great to see the PNW and share our beauty with the #HATM fam. #HATM let's us join together, see something we might pass by, learn in the process, and find joy in the experience. Keep at it in the week ahead - do good where you can

Also, here's NPS' summary of the Spruce Production Division www.nps.gov/articles/spr... #HATM

My grandfather was a USFS Ranger - in the 1950s, he and grams would take supplies to the rangers stationed up on the lookouts. They packed ice cream - that was the first thing eaten when they got to the lookout. So, it wouldn't melt out before it could be eaten. #HATM

Found this on chainsaws and their history...timeline in this movie is a bit odd. #HATM www.waldwissen.net/en/learning-...

Post fire - Rain storms then cause massive movement of ash, silt, and landslides. #HATM

Forest Fires are frightening on so many levels. Here's a bit on the 1910 fires This he just went through would be much later... #HATM museumofidaho.org/the-big-blow...

Does seem that we are closer to the Pacific with that twin set of trees. #HATM

Interesting exchange on sustainability. In most of the PNW, huge percentages of the overall forest land base managed by federal, state, and tribal governments have set aside as much as 50% of the acreage for ecological requirements. #HATM

History of the Spruce Production Division, US Army is one that if you come across a copy of it...well worth the read. The Curtiss pictures in it alone are worth a small mint. Here's a good article on that WWI production effort in the following comment #HATM

Welcome to rainy part of the nation. That's just a good rain, not a real downpour. #HATM

Whoah you're right! #hatm The director of photography is Brazilian, Adolpho Veloso. There is a whole article on it here (have not read yet) - www.motionpictures.org/2025/11/trai...

1. Wow, that's hard. Mt Baker-Snoqualmie, Wallowa-Whitman, Olympic National Forest, or Umatilla... 2. A chicken bake that is smelling amazing as we get close to it being done. #HATM

In theory, he was able to send money home via the railroad, as well as letters, so she would at least know that he was alive. Many times, however, the logging camps wouldn't give notice someone had died.Rather, they would publish who was sick in camp which was their way of saying someone died. #HATM

Joining tonight and welcome to the #PacificNorthwest being shown here in the film locations. Never seen this, so interested to see what it covers. #HATM

Realizing now that I did not post this week's Historians At The Movies film on Blue Sky. So join us on Netflix this Sunday, February 1 at 8pm eastern to talk about the West in the early 20th century with TRAIN DREAMS. Keep #HATM growing by sharing! See you tomorrow! youtu.be/_Nk8TrBHOrA?...

On this day in 1965, Dr. King led over 250 activists to the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma, Alabama, to register to vote. All of them were arrested during the peaceful demonstration and charged with parading without a permit.

Huh. How about that.

Rare medieval seal discovered in UK is inscribed with 'Richard's secret' and bears a Roman-period gemstone | Live Science www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

The Friends of Wamphray Church, in Dumfries & Galloway, are trying to save their 192 year old building, whose architect William McGowan, incorporated an incredible early medieval carved stone dragon into its door lintel. Read more about this remarkable church here 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#OnThisDay - 1 February - Oppius Niger, the officer in command at Bremetennacum (Ribchester), writes to his brother officer, Priscinus, at Vindolanda. #AncientHistory 🏺 Image: British Museum (1980,0303.28). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Bruce Springsteen is currently number one in iTunes in 19 countries.

Overslept, so not going to get my full ##onehourread in of Dr @moudhy.bsky.social #BetweenTwoRivers. Yet, any amount of reading of this is a good way to pass the time!

Read and remember her..

A 400 year old Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) in Fredville Park, the Kingdom of Kent A standard 6’ 6’’ Oliver as a size guide

Read and remember him...

It’s amazing how changing the display of an antiquity in a museum affects how you see it. The lighting - natural or artificial - and the ability to see an item in the round or restricted to a frontal view. La Dama Fonseca, below, in two different settings. 🏺

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: One of my favourite #Roman objects made of glass is this little basket (height 6.5cm). It is not clear what it was used for, possibly to hold cosmetics. From Syria, dating 3rd century AD. On display at British Museum 📷 me 🏺#archaeology

This little #Roman silver statuette of a shepherd is displayed incorrectly at the #BritishMuseum (1st pic). Because when he's turned, you can see that he's carrying an adorable smiling lamb in a skin bag slung over his shoulder. 😍 🏺 1/ Probably 1st c. CE. 📸 me #ancientbluesky

#ReliefWednesday - A rather fabulous polychrome relief of a 'secutor' type gladiator, with wonderful colour survival: ca. 2nd Century AD. Its excavation context was only rediscovered in 2017. #Art #Gladiator 🏺 Image: Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki (MTH 28158). Link - amth.gr/en/exhibitio...

#OnThisDay - 27 January - in AD 98 Marcus Ulpius Traianus (Trajan) succeeded Nerva as Roman Emperor. His reign was marked by extensive military campaigning; he also adopted the title 'Optimus' - 'The Best'! #History 🏺 Image: RIC II Trajan 372; BnF (IMP-3401). Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....

So my wife and I have really enjoyed ##StarTrekAcademy and this is a great thread about the song #SanFrancisco. Of course, @chapps.bsky.social has a connection to this and shared that in this thread. Really adds to a song that has been part of my entire life. Thanks for sharing Chapps!

The ring below is a historical mashup. It's a chunky Anglo-Saxon gold filigree finger ring set with an ancient Roman intaglio featuring the god Bonus Eventus, aka "good outcome." He personifies the successful results of labor, particularly agriculture. 🏺 1/ 6th c. CE ring, 1st-5th c. intaglio. 📸 me

The article below adds some fascinating detail to the rule of the #Thracian king Seuthes III, whose bronze portrait head, greaves and helmet I've photographed, below. He straddled multiple cultures, as the treasures from his tomb attest. 🏺 📸 me #ancientbluesky flic.kr/s/aHBqjBSifK

Well, that is going to destroy the historic integrity and authenticity of that block in Venice...UNESCO will not be pleased. #HATM

Well, full circle, back to a construction site. #HATM

Oh, Oh, James, you got played by the lady in red... #HATM

Wait, wait, CIA for the double cross? Or was Mathis the person at the bar> #HATM

Pretty amazing save in the front seat there by the Treasury agent. #HATM

Ma'am, I don't think that the water is good for that gown. #HATM

Dear Mr. Bond, you are tending to win more wounds than bets. #HATM

The Insiders Guide to Bond's jackets #HATM www.bondsuits.com/what-does-it....

Nicely done Mr. Bond. #HATM

Ok, the FOD after-action clean-up at this airport is going to be huge. #HATM

Ok, Last Crusade homage? #HATM

The tension and suspense in the modern Bond films is truly something. #HATM