Eagle brooches: 1,500-year-old pins filled with dazzling gems and glass — and worn by powerful Visigoth women

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https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/eagle-brooches-1-500-year-old-pins-filled-with-dazzling-gems-and-glass-and-worn-by-powerful-visigoth-women

Eagle brooches: 1,500-year-old pins filled with dazzling gems and glass — and worn by powerful Visigoth women

Visigoth women may have worn eagle-shaped pins as a symbol of power.

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Black Metal Legends Interview

Harald was interviewed by Dev Gohil for his Black Metal Legends series on YouTube. While the focus of the interview was the early days of Stigma Diabolicum and Thorns, they also got to talk a bit about Imbalance, how things are, and what we’re up to next.

Dev was kind enough to let us also mirror the video on our own PeerTube channel so you can watch it without feeding the surveillance machine. You can watch the interview below.

You can also find the original on YouTube, of course.

Thanks a lot to Dev for a nice long chat, and the trip down memory lane.

#hostory #imbalance #interviews #metal #stigmaDiabolicum #thorns #thrashMetal

https://imbalance.no/2025/06/black-metal-legends-interview/

Ormiclate Castle: A Chateau and a Canal

The crumbling shell of Caisteal Ormaceit — Ormiclate Castle — sits quietly in a farm steading now, unmarked by the brown tourist signs, its past more dramatic than its present suggests. Once a grand new seat for Allan Macdonald of Clanranald, it burned to ruin on the same day he was fatally wounded at the Battle of Sher ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2025/06/02/ormiclate-castle-a-chateau-and-a-canal/

#OuterHebrides #Scotland #18thcentury #Hostory

May 29: Connecticut’s Daring Leader in Two Wars, and Peacetime Hero.

  Today in Connecticut history, Revolutionary War general and French & Indian War veteran Israel Putnam passed away on his farmstead in Brooklyn, Connecticut. Best known for his participat…

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