Big day at Crystal Palace Park today, as @BobNicholls unveils the restored Palaeotherium magnum (apparently to the accompaniment of poetry and brass instruments), and we have walking tours looking at parts of the site "Beyond the Dinosaurs."

Stay tuned for photos of the excitement!

(and of course come down to the park if you're in travelling distance - activities start at 14:00 on Tertiary island)

🆕 The #RAILWAY1936 project began today. Directed by archaeologist Xurxo Ayán, has as its main objective the location of the grave and exhumation of railway worker António Ribeiro, assassinated by the Franco regime in 1936 in Castrelo do Val (Galicia).
🧐 Who was António Ribeiro?
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/xurxo-ayan-project-antonio-ribeiro/

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✨ On Friday May 19, you can attend a (free) hybrid conference titled "Historical Fragments: Making, Breaking and Remaking" hosted by The Material and Visual Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries Research Cluster, University of Edinburgh.

The conference "considers the materiality and shifting conditions of global objects and collections (focusing on the time period 1500-1800) as they are broken, fragmented, remade, or assembled. Seeking to investigate the ‘brokenness’ of such material culture objects and collections, the conference will de-centre conservation and restoration which often dominate discourse on the subject. The Research Cluster aims to provide a space to foster interdisciplinary discussion on the material approaches to fragmented objects through material culture."

✨ Registration and programme: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/historical-fragments-making-breaking-and-remaking-online-attendance-tickets-620156904997

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#OnThisDay in #history - in 1889, Zulma Carraud died at age 93. Born in #France in 1796, Zulma went to boarding school as a girl and there met Laure de Balzac and became friends with her and her brother, Honore.
After getting married, Zulma volunteered as a doctor and teacher. Quickly realizing that children in rural areas didn't have needed textbooks, she began to write her own. She published La Petite Jeanne ou le devoir in 1852 and its companion in 1853.

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Baked Millet Porridge (c. 1450)

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19 If you would make a good porridge of millet (prein), boil the millet in a pan with milk and salt it lightly. Then pass it through with eggs like peas. Put fat into a pan and put the millet in it, and thus let it boil gently. Cover the pan and lay fresh coals (read kolen for holer) on it, thus it turns out like a cake. Then serve it on a serving bowl etc.

See more: https://www.culina-vetus.de/2023/04/24/baked-millet-porridge/

Bill Murray at Elvis’ funeral in 1977.

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