She’s been a hero of mine for years. Not scientific or mathematically minded but her sheer determination in a time when women were perceived as ‘less’ always stuck with me
ChilliGal
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Most frequent state is dazed and confused. A teenager trapped in an ageing body. Hate the state of the UK courtesy of whoever you want to blame. Working on a personal project of mapping the Venetian Empire with zero web skills but it's fun. Fully trained pastry chef who bakes when I can. Loves photography, writing, altered art, bookmaking and general arty stuff. Most of my time spent as the Lion of Ancoats when I'm not tramping the hills of the Peak District
Dr Lindsey FitzharrisMarie Curie's notebooks, which are radioactive and must be stored in a lead-lined box in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Curie’s corpse is also radioactive. Her coffin is lined in an inch of lead. Both will remain radioactive for 1,500+ years.
#HistSci #ScienceMastodon #MedMastodon #science #scientist #HistoryOfScience #HistMed #WomenInStem #TIL #TheMoreYouKnow #WeirdHistory
Deborah ParkinA tea toned cyanotype print of a curlew (an endangered bird that migrates to the moor by our house in the spring) on Japanese paper.
MM Anderson Art 🎨Day 5 #ArtAdventCalendar This drawing in charcoal pencil on a light brown textured paper depicts a reindeer in profile. I was going for a rustic look with this type of paper. #MastoArt #drawing #reindeer #Christmas
Chapps#MosaicMonday Found at the corner of Via Portuense and Via della Magliana in 1885, a mosaic depicting the rape of Persephone. Pluto is taking the kidnapped girl to the underworld in his quadriga. Associated with rebirth and death, the theme includes busts of the seasons. 1/
Nina WillburgerA very stylish #Roman woman's shoe with a decorative pattern punched into the leather.
Found in 1907 in a well in the civilian settlement of the Saalburg fort, dating first half of the 2nd century AD.
Photo: Römerkastell Saalburg
Angela O'Brien🏛 The Roman Odeion (Odeum), Ancient Corinth, Peloponnese, Greece, dates back to the 1st century CE. It was used for musical and rhetorical contests and has an estimated capacity of 3,000 spectators. More info here: https://corinth-museum.gr/en/archaeological-site/roman-odeion/ 📷 My own.
Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: a painted wooden toy #horse on wheels. The head is pierced at the eye for a pull-string. I can still remember my pull along dog and how I used to take him for walks in the yard.
From Karanis, #Egypt, Roman period, 1st to 4th century AD.
Photo: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Pete WalkdenThis sunset view was captured from the back of a boat we were sailing on, and is of the Isle Of Staffa, part of the Treshnish Isles.
During the summer, a tour operator called Turus Mara provides trips out to Staffa (pictured) and Lunga, to see the breeding seabirds, and visit Fingal's Cave.
The photography special trip leaves late, so allowed us to enjoy this stunning sunset over the calm waters as we sailed back to Mull.
HinterlandsAt least 2 of my "Songs of 2022" from Spotify feature duct tape.
Make of that what you will.