Uncle Vlad
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@darylandfilms Who was feeding this lamb after George went? I worried about it
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no cause you don't understand.. i would die for this lamb
Mr. Chau@Srirachachau
Everyone I know says they cried after seeing The Sheep Detective...what's going on in that movie
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@britishlibrary @theUL Okay, okay
Enough with the cute and cuddly examples
Let’s get into the weird medieval rabbits, starting with this guy, who is honestly sort of the stuff of nightmares
Lippische Landesbibliothek, MS 70, fol. 23r
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Gather round, medieval history enthusiasts. Pull up a chair. Grab a warm drink. Sit back and relax as I humbly present to you:
🐰12 Medieval Rabbits to Help You Celebrate Spring🐰
Kicking things off with this little cutie
@britishlibrary Add. MS 11390, fol. 11v
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Of all the 20th century representations of Western masculinity, my favorite is Gary Cooper. Tremendously elegant and wore a wide range of clothes. He also had a much more slight build compared to our ideal male body today. Here he is at age 28 in the 1929 film Wolf Song
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spotter: major_harrison_mann;
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1852hrs 15/5/24
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😺Dear Spotters, which region or country are you following the Giant Cats of Dunbar from?
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@MFWitches Bloke at the local hospital used to have the job of fishing the funnel webs out of the rehab pool each morning.
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When I was a kid my school had to send a teacher out to check the playground boundary each day before we were allowed out to play as there were dozens of red-bellied black snakes in the bush next door and they liked to sun themselves in the grass on our side of the fence …
🐟@mwupfront
non-australians will never know the childhood experience of the school oval being out of bounds for a month cuz of plovers nesting and all the schoolground rumours being abt that one classmate that had to go to the hospital cuz he tried to fetch a ball and got attacked
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Sunday’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 14th century, Badische Landesbibliothek - Karlsruhe 3378, f. 77
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@MedMilMedicine Seems unclear on the difference between elephants, hippos and crocodiles as well.
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A whole family of ‘elephants done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 13th century, The Reiner Musterbuch, ÖNB, Cod. 507, f. 3v
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Beware the hare with the thousand yard stare - 14th century, British Library, Yates Thompson MS 8, f. 304r
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On the pull in the Middle Ages - 14th century, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codex Manesse, Cod. Pal. germ. 848, f. 71v
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@MedMilMedicine Artist was told about the trunk but not the big ears?
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Time for another ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, BnF Latin 9585, f. 29v
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*ARCHIVE:
spotted by local photographer @islayfisher
Winterfield golf course, Trapain Law in background
sunset 6/12/20.
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COLDEST 100: 2026 EDITION
42. Centrelink Hold Music (2025)
Brekky Boy
#coldest100 #hottest100
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