The monastery at Gyruum (Jarrow), where Bede was to live and work, was dedicated to St Paul #OTD in 685. Among those present at the ceremony was Ecgfrith, king of the Northumbrians, a little under four weeks before his death at the Battle of Dunnichen.

The St Leonard’s Place Hoard was discovered by workers digging a drain in the York street #OTD in 1842. It comprised around 10,000 Northumbrian coins, known as stycas. 📸York Museums Trust

St. George offering aid in Old Uyghur

CHARLIE BROWN: Yes mistress, you're right, mistress, I'm a blockhead! a hopeless blockhead! DOMINATRIX: wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Bars in Washington, DC had been struggling since Covid. So why are the city’s Democrats so eager to get rid of Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, and Jeanine Pirro?

Thank God!

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 8,1971

Spring knight - color version

Medieval floor tile from Gloucester Cathedral. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #GloucesterCathedral

Yes, the Grink was there. I'm getting to that. He was on that island with me. And I wouldn't be alive to tell my story without him.

I don't know who this @kasulke.co guy is, but it sounds like he's a very good friend who gives very good advice lithub.com/one-great-po...

Hold on

Hold on

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

Sunset in duckling eye 🪶 🐣

Francis Loyola is the most jesuit name in existence. Where is his SJ

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🚨🚨 Announcing: SUMMA 🚨🚨 Simple spreadsheet software for calculating with Early Modern English currency. gjhilton.github.io/Summa/

March - lot of meh reads excepting one book, which may be one of my favorites

Spring

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

gotta share The Tweet again

MICHAEL SOROKA IMMACULATE INNING 4th in D-backs history

Dante Alighieri and Francis of Assisi, by the Polish Capuchin artist Friar Ephrem from Kcynia (Stanisław Klawitter), 1935.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Chatelaine and the Bird Alchemists #drawing #birdalchemists #penandpencil #joncarling

How anyone has ever played guitar is beyond me

Such an easy mark in music when it comes to leitmotifs. (Finally) Listening to Circle of Na by Saintseneca (very good everyone listen) and every time the circle hymn plays I can feel the neurons activating

Iowa did something that had never been done before, it repealed duly enacted civil rights protections for a protected class for the first time in history. There is no precedent for that at all.

While this would be an unusual outcome for a civil fraud trial, I believe he should be given the death penalty

The Marble Polisher, 1882-1887 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Who let Edmund Burke write a musical

Daily bunny no.3254 sees something off the starboard bow

So have I seen a bird with clipped wing making affrighted broken circles in the air, vainly striving to escape the piratical hawks.

Church of St Andrew, Plymouth, Devon Detail of the ox of St Luke from a stained glass window, designed by John Piper & made by Patrick Reyntiens (1958) #StainedGlassSunday #JohnPiper #PatrickReyntiens

They should invent a way out that isn't through

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

What’s your favorite book? 📕

A 17th century pillow cover from the Northern Sporades Islands - Skíros (Art Institute Chicago) #Greece

March to Camlot 2026, prompt 1: reign #illustration #arthurian

A Pictish cross-slab was found by Anne MacInnes of North of Scotland Archaeological Society near Conon Bridge, Ross-shire, #OTD in 2019. Part of the Conan Stone had been reused as an 18thC grave marker. It is notable for the massive beasts that flank and surmount the cross. 📸HES #medievalsky

what if i finished this silly thing

⭕ #LOTR #Frodo #lotrfanart #illustration

A detainee died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said, marking at least the seventh death in 2026 in federal immigration custody reut.rs/4aY1wgH

lent and ramadan kicking off on the same day