from reddit /TIL: #TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries
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https://www.harrisnecklandtrust.org/amelia-s-song
Amelia's Song | Harris Neck Land Trust
The Language You Cry In is the award winning film that traces the connections between the Moran family and the people of Harris Neck with those of Senehun Ngola.
Fascinating world of ancient #glass: an amazing #Roman yellow pitcher. The handle is terminating in an appliqué decorated with a head of a Bacchant, a follower of Bacchus, the god of wine. Such an appliqué is appropriate decoration for a pitcher used to pour wine.
https://www.cmog.org/artwork/pitcher-applique-bacchant
#RomanArchaeology #archaeology
Collection Search | Corning Museum of Glass
Attacks on women's and transgender rights have the same goals: to re-establish the dominance of men in public life and inscribe into law a binary hierarchy of gender: "that people are either men or women and that men are better."
@moiradonegan@bird.makeup @moiradonegan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/24/rightwing-abortion-transgender-care-gender-hierarchyConservative attacks on US abortion and trans healthcare come from the same place
Both are part of a project to roll back the victories of the feminist and gay rights movements and inscribe in law a firm definition and hierarchy of gender
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Why associate a treatise on Cosmetics with women in science? Because Galen tells us that rich women asked for cosmetics and hair treatments from their doctors. This explains why Cleopatra’s medical treatises included such recipes.
Cleopatra II was an alchemist, whose one surviving work is a diagram called “The Chrysopoeia” (Gold Manufacture). It refers to the alchemical process & gives an illustration of an apparatus for condensing metals into alloys that could be passed off as pure gold and silver.
The first Cleopatra wrote a work called Cosmetics with advice on the preparation & application of remedies for alopecia & baldness, dandruff, curling & dyeing the hair, & even a perfumed soap. She also gave an extensive account of weights and measures.
In practical terms, we all have Maria to thank for the invention of the double boiler, which the French call a bain-marie.
There are also two "Cleopatras" who are part of this tradition--the names may be pseudonymous to refer to the famous queen of Egypt.
In an extant treatise, Maria describes different types of equipment for heating & distilling metals, especially alloys (like one of gold & copper and others of copper, tin, lead, & zinc). Though scientific, her work is drenched in mystical language about the "one" substance.
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