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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-19 02:54:38

The engraving depicts the waveforms of the spoken word "water" in 103 different languages
science.nasa.gov/mission/europ

Europa Clipper Vault Plate
There's a legacy of NASA spacecraft carrying inspirational messages. Europa Clipper continues that tradition with special messages on its vault plate.

@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.social
2025-12-18 06:20:37

Heute vor 68 Jahren: Am 18. Dezember 1957 speiste das erste zivile #Kernkraftwerk in #Shippingport Strom ins Netz. Zurückzuführen war das KKW auf eine Initiative von Eisenhower Kernenergie friedlich zu nutzen um der Bevölkerung, nach Hiroshima und Nagasaki, die Angst zu nehmen.

Briefmarke des US Postal Service, 1955 Autor: Bureau of Engraving and Printing - U.S. post Office Lizenz: Public domain
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-16 13:45:03
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Achilles is doing it in the Herakles position like the demigod he is in this piece of classical reception 👌
#Briseis and #Achilles, likely by Jacques Joseph Coiny, 1798 CE
#PhallusThursday

Engraving of Briseis and Achilles. Achilles carries her to a lavish bed, her arms around his neck. His hard phallus is already touching her labia with its tip. Her breasts and buttocks are bare, as are Achilles'.
@ClaireFromClare@h-net.social
2025-12-14 11:49:07

David Loggan spent 12 years sketching & engraving the town & colleges of Cambridge before publishing his book of plates in 1690 as 'Cantabrigia Illustrata'. Background: museumofcambridge.org.uk/2025/

Loggan's views of Cambridge from the east, above, and the west, below. From the east, the foreground comprises ploughed fields, a flock of sheep, and huntsmen on foot and on horseback. From the west, across the river, the harvest is under way. Landmarks like the castle, colleges and churches are numbered and named. King's College Chapel stands out, as it does today.

David Loggan’s views of Cambridge: An extraordinary visual testimony of 17th century Cambridge
By Dr N. Henry The Museum of Cambridge has on display, on the first floor, an antique print of David Loggan’s views of Cambridge from the east and the west. This print was once part of Cantabrigia …

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-12-09 13:59:25

The latest issue of the journal I edit - the Canadian Historical Review - dropped last week. It includes articles on the influence of Indigenous practices on European medicine (it'll help you understand the origins of the term "blowing smoke up your ass" too), First Nations' dispossession and the funding of settlement, early campaigns for the abolition of the death penalty, Trudeau's return to power in 1980, and the UN's World Refugee Year.
Check it out.

The cover of The Canadian Historical Review vol. 106, no. 4 (December 2025). It features an eighteenth-century engraving of two people giving a tobacco smoke enema to a third person (the title bar hides the actual procedure, though the full engraving is reproduced on the back cover, not shown here).
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-14 18:19:23
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Meet this hoarder of fannies from Nîmes, France 👌
#FannyFriday
#GreekRomanArt #ReliefWednesday

Engraving of a Roman bas relief found on a monument at Nîmes, France in 1825. It shows a crested bird creature with a penis-shaped tail with a belled. It sits upon a nest of egg-like vulvas.
@steve@s.yelvington.com
2026-01-07 21:17:04

Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre.

@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2025-12-22 20:07:04

"We are rediscovering Pennington because he made a difference during his lifetime. He changed hearts, minds, laws, and social practices through his speeches, sermons, writings, organizing, acts of civil disobedience, tireless movement work—his life in and beyond institutions. Perhaps we can too."
—YDS ethics professor Jennifer Herdt in her new article in Comment magazine, focused on James Pennington '23 M.A.H. and his lifelong struggle with institutions

An engraving of James Pennington
@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-11-27 19:58:24

Watch out for the next issue of the journal I edit, a staid, sober, scholarly publication - the front cover will feature an 18th-century engraving of someone getting (and so someone else giving - the greatest gift of all) an enema.

@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2025-10-21 12:42:31

A meditation on miracles and near-death experiences
In Yale Divinity School’s latest “Quadcast,” religious historian Carlos Eire — author of the recent “They Flew: A History of the Impossible” — discusses evolving Protestant and Catholic views on miracles and other social phenomena.

An engraving depicting a flying monk.
@brian_gettler@mas.to
2025-10-25 13:26:00

We forget at our peril the craze for drawing curly cues around chickens of the mid-18th century.
Source: archive.org/details/bim_eighte

A black-and-white engraving of a gloved, feminine hand holding a quill over two chickens, on in a dish eating and another standing just outside the dish and looking to the right. The chickens are encircled in by an elaborate curly cue.