It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱
No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️🌈🐤 
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Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.
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In 1373, a woman had her own funeral sung while she was still alive, then walked into a hundred-square-foot stone room and let the door be sealed behind her. She never left. Julian of Norwich — the first woman known to have authored a book in English — wrote from inside a wall.
I included the maze, and the electromechanical mouse Theseus (named after the Ancient Greek hero who found his way out of the labyrinth)! With his wife Betty, he built this learning machine in 1950. Theseus was built to search through the adjustable maze for a target, then successfully re-find the target is placed at any position in the maze. This whimsically named mouse was the first artificial learning device.
He rode a caiman like a horse. He climbed St. Peter's Basilica to leave a glove on top, then climbed back up to fetch it when the Pope demanded its removal. He dangled his bare foot from a hammock so vampire bats could feed on his toes. Charles Waterton: the barefoot squire who taught the man who taught Darwin.
She burned down a convent, defeated three duels at a single party, and earned two royal pardons before anyone thought to check the law. A composer eventually built an entirely new vocal category around her voice. Her name was Julie d'Aubigny — the woman who rewrote opera with a sword at her hip.
Diffraction was first investigated and described by the Jesuit astronomer, mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi, who was born 2 April 1618 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/refraction-refrangibility-diffraction-or-inflexion/
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