Joanna Vadenbring

Remembering the victims of the russian genocide in Mariupol. "Mom! I'm wounded, in the hospital No1. Doctors left. My leg is broken and my face torn. Vitalik died. Nadia is in the hospital basement. Help!" This was the last plea from Mariupol resident Kateryna. On March 29, 2022, russian invaders shelled their home, killing her husband. Someone brought her to the hospital, but russians targeted it too, causing a big fire. Everyone feared she perished there on April 2. She survived and managed to pass that note to her mother through an unknown man. The mom arrived and spent the next two days with Kateryna, holding her hand when her daughter succumbed to her serious wounds on April 4. How can a human endure such horrors? There are so many similar stories that the world will likely never hear since no one survived to testify the truth. Letting russians get away with crimes like this will only embolden them for more genocides. Photos: Museum of Civilian Voices

@FyranEndersong @Fascinate_Hist She was a prisoner herself. Sent off to marry a stranger at fifteen, never saw her home and family again because she wasn't allowed to travel. She had no power...

@Fascinate_Hist "Let them eat cake" she said, the peasants were dying from poverty and hunger on the streets.

This is where Marie-Antoinette fell asleep at night.

@SaiRariko @ickyflixx Indeed. He and his cousin duelled because they couldn't agree which one of them was the best at maths...

@ickyflixx isn't Tycho Brahe that one danish astronomer that lost his nose in a sword fight

Senpai noticed me what does this mean

The Spring Equinox is here and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century. BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r @BLMedieval

@AComprime @PeterM68338 @carlbildt I know, and if you'd read my comment properly you'd see that I mentioned I was aware. I still think it's unfair.

@sanninav15 @PeterM68338 @carlbildt Scania has no delegation in the Nordic Council since it's just one of Sweden's 21 regions. Åland, the Faroes, and Greenland have a certain degree of autonomy; therefore, they have delegations to the Nordic Council. norden.org/en/information…

News new 🇪🇪 stamp illustrating the common roots of all the Nordic and Baltic countries.

@ColinParryPeace So sorry that you lost him that way. So unfair. So terrible. I was on my way to Warrington railway station when it happened, won't ever forget that day.

Today is the 33rd anniversary of the day the IRA bombed Warrington town centre and killed my son Tim and 3 yr old Johnathan Ball. Words can never describe how losing a child leaves a huge hole in your heart and your family. Eternal love Tim ❤️❤️

@Kris839p @PeterM68338 @carlbildt Tak! Den var ju Skånes också en gång. 💛❤️😊🇩🇰

@PeterM68338 @carlbildt Fordi Danmark🇩🇰 allerede er der

@AComprime @PeterM68338 @carlbildt It's an official flag though. Can't see why they'd include Bland and not Scania.❤️💛

@PeterM68338 @carlbildt Because it's not an autonomous region or territory.

We are slowly but surely making our way through this early 15th-century manuscript and I am so happy you all are enjoying these whimsical illustrations ✨ A few gems for your Monday Bodleian Library MS Douce 62 Book of Hours, France ca 1400-1410

Happy International Women’s Day! A photo of Armenian fedayi women who took up arms during the Hamidian massacres of Armenians in Zeytoun, 1890s.

@DirtydozenEira To all of us!

Happy women’s day to all the ladies following their dreams and achieving their goals! Being a woman is beautiful, powerful and amazing!

@allinmixx Hi Stepan! 😺

say hi to stepan or have a terrible march

@CarlBovisNature Breakfast at my place every morning since 2019. Best friends.

To some, an adorable Squirrel... To others, an invasive bushy tailed tree rat. Where do you sit? 🤔

@CarlBovisNature Many times. They're so beautiful!

If you see this photo, please leave a comment. 🙏🐦 This is a Great Spotted Woodpecker in my Somerset garden. 😍 Have you ever had a Woodpecker visit your garden? Maybe you've never seen a Woodpecker? 😊🐦

@DirtydozenEira Congrats! Wonderful news 💐❤️👶

Meister Bertram von Minden’s “Madonna Knitting” depicts the Virgin Mary making the young Christ’s red tunic, by knitting “in the round”, using 4 needles, to produce a seamless garment (early 15C) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Knit…

Yesterday marked the 191st anniversary of the creation of a remarkable Bronte document. On that day in 1834 Emily and Anne Bronte wrote their first diary paper, giving a glimpse into life in the Bronte parsonage in Haworth. Emily also drew Anne's hair running down the page!

@RomeInTheEast In the Nordic countries the Renaissance meant distancing yourself from the past and connecting with new, European, realities. 'Renaissance' had many meanings.

The Eastern Romans didn’t need a renaissance: “It never experienced any loss of contact with its ancient literary patrimony, or rupture in its political or social continuity such that it had to rediscover the past later through a process of cultural awakening” -Anthony Kaldellis

@RomeInTheEast Well, the Nordic countries were never part of the Roman Empire but there was a 'Renaissance' anyway. Having lost touch with ancient patrimony/political continuity wasn't a requirement for being part of the Renaissance.

Some medieval manuscript marginalia to close out the weekend @MorganLibrary MS M. 358 Provence, France, ca. 1440-1450