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1y

Assata: An Autobiography

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Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Anders Celsius died #OTD in 1744.

In 1742, Celsius introduced the temperature scale that bears his name. His original scale was actually the reverse of what we use today: it set the boiling point of water at 0 degrees & the freezing point at 100 degrees. However, shortly after his death, the scale was reversed by Carl Linnaeus, resulting in the 0 degrees for freezing & 100 degrees for boiling that we are familiar with.

#books #science #physics

"Observationer om twänne beständiga grader på en thermometer" [Observations about two stable degrees on a thermometer]. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar (Proceedings of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences) (in Swedish). 3: 171–180. 1742.

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Italian inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi was born #OTD in 1874.

He is best known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. He is often credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun for their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy.

Books about Guglielmo Marconi at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Guglielmo+Marconi&submit_search=Go%21

#books #technology

Guglielmo Marconi, portrait, head and shoulders, facing left.

A vintage black and white portrait of Guglielmo Marconi wearing a dark suit, white dress shirt, and a light-colored necktie. The individual's attire suggests a formal context. The photo appears aged with some textural wear, indicative of its historical nature.

A black and white photograph of an early 20th-century telegraph communication setup with a paper sheet hung on the wall, a telegraph key, and a receiving device on a wooden table connected by wires.

Marconi's first transmitter incorporating a monopole antenna. It consisted of an elevated copper sheet (top) connected to a Righi spark gap (left) powered by an induction coil (center) with a telegraph key (right) to switch it on and off to spell out text messages in Morse code.

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English poet William Cowper died #OTD in 1800.

His first volume of poetry, "Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq." was published in 1782. This volume included some of his most famous poems, such as "Table Talk" and other shorter pieces that reflected his views on nature, spirituality, and humanity. His most famous work is "The Task" (1785), a six-book poem in blank verse, which was inspired by a friend who challenged him to write a poem about a sofa.

#books #literature #poetry

Portrait of William Cowper (1731-1800).

A portrait of William Cowper dressed in 18th-century attire, with a black coat, yellow waistcoat, and matching breeches, seated beside a red upholstered chair with one arm resting on a table. The individual holds a quill in their right hand, and an open book lies on the table. The background is a plain dark color, providing a contrast to the lighter tones of the clothing and furniture.

Page of The Task, and Other Poems by William Cowper.

An old book cover titled "The Task and Other Poems" by Cowper, with a floral design around the central circle which reads "Cassell's National Library" and edited by Professor Henry Morley.

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1y

Who is that, so insistently tapping at my chamber door?

Something suitably spooky is coming to https://inquisitivebiologist.com this #Halloween... For now, here is a quick progress shot while you all wait for the next #BookReview to drop. I'm about halfway in.

#Literature #Biography #Gothic #Horror #Scicomm #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of a book standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor. The book is pictured showing its face, the pages heavily annotated with numerous Post-it notes. The cover and spine are purposefully not visible. The book is standing on top of another hardback book, lying down: The Knickerbocker Classics version of The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. The spine is golden cloth with a fancy black repeating floral pattern on it, such as you might find on old wallpaper.

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This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought second-hand copies of
- From Crust to Core: A Chronicle of Deep Carbon Science, published by Cambridge University Press;
- Confronting Consumption, published by @themitpress (this copy was in the holdings of the library of The American University of Paris);
- Cohabiting Earth: Seeking a Bright Future for All Life, published the State University of New York Press (I was really impressed by Eileen Crist's most recent book).

#Consumerism #Geology #EarthSciences #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books, a red curtain covering the door, and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.

On the left, standing up, From Crust to Core, showing a colour photo of a volcanic eruption of Etna at night. It is a long-exposure photo with numerous fiery streaks erupting from the crater.

In the middle, lying down, Confronting Consumption, showing a hardback without its dustjacket, bound in black cloth. The title and author names are printed on the spine in gold lettering, but the cover is plain black cloth.

On the right, standing up, Cohabiting Earth, showing a colour photo of a bird perched on top of a ceramic water fountain with a small column of water gently rising up out of the fountain. The background is out of focus. The bird is looking at the camera rather than drinking. I don't know what species it is, but it is predominantly an orangy-yellow with a black face and breast, and dark iridescent wing and tail feathers.

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When you collaborate in a #DarkFantasy #HorrorAnthology #NewRelease 👇

https://mybook.to/Fallen1

And letting your newsletter know other books your partners have....

https://books.bookfunnel.com/fallen-vol-1-stories-from-the-shadows/s1y8kdk552

And realize you want some of those new-to-you books yourself! 📚

Even better?! 😁 They're on Bookshop.org!

Buy friend books, help local bookstores, share 20% off! 😎

https://refer.bookshop.org/e7zcfkk9

#Books @bookstadon @bookstodon @bookstodon@fedigroups.social @fantasy @horror @romancelandia @lgbtqbookstodon

Bookshop.org screenshot showing Crimson Chains by Sienna Rae and Gero by YD La Mar available for sale, plus the note of how much the total order will send to support local bookstores ($8.80).

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American author, Howard R. Garis, best known for a series of books that featured the character of Uncle Wiggily Longears, was born #OTD in 1873.

Besides the Uncle Wiggily series, Howard R. Garis also wrote for several other children's series, including Tom Swift under the pseudonym Victor Appleton, The Bobbsey Twins under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope, and books in the Baseball Joe series as Lester Chadwick.

Books by Howard R. Garis at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/808

#books #literature

Publicity photograph of author Howard R. Garis. Original caption: "Howard M.[sic] Garis, Author and Originator of the Uncle Wiggily Stories"

Howard R. Garis in a dark suit and tie is sitting at a desk, writing on a piece of paper with a fountain pen.

The Curlytops on Star Island; Or, Camping out with Grandpa by Howard Roger Garis.

Vintage book cover of "The Curlytops on Star Island" by Howard R. Garis, featuring two children fishing by a stream, with the girl standing and holding a fishing rod, and the boy sitting on a rock and examining something in his hands.

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"Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea."

Dylan Thomas was a difficult person. But ‘Fern Hill’ is a perfect poem.

by Jayme Stayer

https://www.americamagazine.org/ideas/2026/03/06/dylan-thomas-was-a-difficult-person-but-fern-hill-is-a-perfect-poem/

#books #literature #literarycriticism #poetry

Dylan and Caitlin at Brown’s Hotel, Laugharne in 1938. Taken by their Blashford family friend, the photographer and artist Nora Summers.

Dylan and Caitlin are seated at a small, ornate cast-iron pub table. On the table are visible a pint of dark beer, glasses, an ashtray, and what appears to be cigarettes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas#/media/File:Dylan_Thomas_and_Caitlin_Macnamara_at_Brown%E2%80%99s_Hotel,_Laugharne,_South_Wales_in_1938.png

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French novelist, poet, short story writer, and literary critic Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly died #OTD in 1889.

His work depicts the ravages of passion, whether carnal (Une vieille maîtresse, 1851), filial (Un prêtre marié, 1865), political (Le Chevalier des Touches, 1864) or mystical (L'Ensorcelée, 1855). In particular, Les Diaboliques in which the unusual and the transgressive plunge the reader into an ambiguous universe, earned the author accusations of immoralism.

#books #literature

Photography of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly by Félix Nadar

A black and white vintage photograph of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly dressed in a formal double-breasted coat with detailed embroidery on the sleeves, standing while holding a pocket watch in one hand.

Manuscript page from Les Diaboliques: Le bonheur dans le crime folio 54 by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1889).

Previously published in 1871.

Dr. Torty and the narrator are strolling through the Jardin des Plantes. In front of the panther's cage, a couple catches the narrator's eye. They are Count Serlon de Savigny and his wife Hauteclaire Stassin. Dr. Torty recounts their story, which he has followed as their doctor and friend.

The young woman, Mlle Hauteclaire Stassin, of great quality (ravishing and an expert fencer), and the Count fall in love. They hatch a diabolical scheme to get rid of the Count's wife and stay together. After that, the couple live happily ever after, guilt-free.

Full text available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13848

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German physicist Max Planck was born #OTD in 1858.

Planck made many substantial contributions to theoretical physics, specially as the originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized understanding of atomic and subatomic processes. He is known for Planck's constant, which is of foundational importance for quantum physics, and which he used to derive a set of units (Planck units) expressed only in terms of fundamental physical constants.

#books #physics

Vorlesungen über die Theorie der Wärmestrahlung, 1906

Cover page of a book titled "Vorlesungen über die Theorie der Wärmestrahlung" by Dr. Max Planck, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Berlin, published in Leipzig, 1906 by Johann Ambrosius Barth with 6 illustrations and featuring the seal of R. Universita Instituto di Fisica Pavia.

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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three works of #fiction.
- I bought the 40th anniversary edition of Richard Adams's Shardik at a charity event at work
- Have been enjoying Silo, so couldn't pass up buying the collector's edition of the second book, Shift by @hughhowey.
- Bought the slipcased collector's edition of #Warhammer The End Times: Thanquol at an eBay auction at a very fair price. #Skaven remain my favourite faction...

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books, part of the beech-coloured laminate floor, and a red curtain covering the door.

On the left, standing up, Shardik, showing a side silhouette of a snarling wolf's head in transparent red against a background of pale wooden planks making up a wall. Its upper teeth have been replaced by icons of evergreen trees, its lower teeth by icons of houses and church spires.

In the middle, lying down, Shift, showing hardback with a black dust jacket with a pattern of radial lines in gold fanning out from the title Shift in the centre. The book's edges have been sprayed blue.

On the right, standing up, Warhammer The End Times: Thanquol, showing a slipcase with two books partially pulled out. The slipcase pictures a green-tinged drawing of two monstrous humanoid rat figures. One shows Boneripper, a cross between an ogre and a ratman, one arm surgically augmented with armour and ending in a cannon. He is wearing a hood over his snout that leaves his eyes and snarling mouth exposed. On his back is the figure of Thanquol, a cloaked ratman with two pairs of horns sprouting from his head. In one hand, he is wielding a staff; in the other, reins connected to a harness on Boneripper.

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📚 The Wilderness by: Angela Flournoy

Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of...

https://bookblabla.com/book/the-wilderness

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #womenfiction #literaryfiction #friendshipfiction #psychologicalfiction

Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia are in their early twenties and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood—overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences—swoops in and stays.

Desiree and Danielle, sisters whose shared history has done little to prevent their estrangement, nurse bitter family wounds in different ways. January’s got a relationship with a “good” man she feels ambivalent about, even after her surprise pregnancy. Monique, a librarian and aspiring blogger, finds unexpected online fame after calling out the university where she works for its plans to whitewash fraught history. And Nakia is trying to get her restaurant off the ground, without relying on the largesse of her upper middle-class family who wonder aloud if she should be doing something better with her life.

As these friends move from the late 2000’s into the late 2020’s, from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another—amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern American life.

The Wilderness is Angela Flournoy’s masterful and kaleidoscopic follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut The Turner House. A generational talent, she captures with disarming wit and el

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2y

English poet Rupert Brooke died #OTD in 1915.

He is known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". Rupert Brooke’s promising literary career was cut short when he died in April 1915 from sepsis resulting from an infected mosquito bite while he was part of the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.

Books by Rupert Brooke at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/148

#books #literature #poetry

Image of Rupert Brooke (frontispiece) from For remembrance: soldier poets who have fallen in the war

Arthur St. John Adcock - https://archive.org/details/forremembranceso00adco

Vintage sepia-toned photograph of Rupert Brooke with neatly combed hair wearing a light-colored shirt with arms crossed; one of the sleeves appears to be rolled up slightly.

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American mathematical physicist J. Willard Gibbs died #OTD in 1903.

Gibbs' most celebrated contributions were in the field of thermodynamics, particularly concerning the phase rule, chemical potential, and Gibbs free energy—a concept named after him. The Gibbs free energy is particularly critical in predicting the direction of chemical reactions and phase changes. His book, "Elementary Principles in Statistical Mechanics," laid the foundation for modern statistical mechanics.

#books #physics

Portrait of American mathematical physicist J. Willard Gibbs, taken about 1895

Photograph taken around 1895. According to his student Lynde Wheeler, of the existing portraits, this is the most faithful to Gibbs's kindly habitual expression.

Unknown author - Scanned from the frontispiece for Raymond J. Seeger, Men of Physics: J. Willard Gibbs, American Mathematical Physicist par excellence, (Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, 1974). Used also as the frontispiece for Lynde P. Wheeler, Josiah Willard Gibbs, The History of a Great Mind, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951). No copyright notice or attribution is given in either book.

Maxwell's sketch of the lines of constant temperature and pressure, made in preparation for his construction of a solid model based on Gibbs's definition of a thermodynamic surface for water (see Maxwell's thermodynamic surface)

James Clerk Maxwell (1831 – 1879) - P. M. Harman (ed.), The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, vol. 3, 1874-1879, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002), p. 232, plate IV.

J. C. Maxwell's sketch of the thermodynamic surface for a water-like substance, based on a theoretical construct proposed by J. W. Gibbs. The curves are "isothermals and isopiestics drawn by help of the Sun."

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1y

New on my YouTube channel: 'Fulfillment: an Under 5 Review."
https://youtu.be/DpanUg3jcH0?si=UB3mLHLdlz8RUtDO

#Under5Reviews where I tell you about a book and help you decide if you want to read it or not in under 5 minutes.

#books #reading #ItinerantLibrarian #vlog #BookReview #review #BadEconomy #business #ThisIsAmerica #exploitation #corruption #video 💙📚

@bookstodon
@bookstodon@fedigroups.social

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2y

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
Essays: First Series

American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson died #OTD in 1882. He led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century, such as in "Nature". He is best known for his essays, which were initially delivered as lectures. "Self-Reliance" and "The American Scholar" are among his most influential.

Books by Ralph Waldo Emerson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1071

#books #literature

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1880 albumen print copied by J.J. Hawes from an 1857 daguerreotype by J.J. Hawes.

A vintage sepia-toned photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson wearing a formal suit with a bow tie. The suit jacket has broad lapels and the white shirt underneath is visible. The person stands against a dark backdrop, and only the clothing and hairstyle are discernible.

Cover of a book titled "Miscellanies" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, with a drawing of a pine tree, published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge in Boston and New York.

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📚 What We Can Know by: Ian McEwan

2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, ‘A Corona for Vivien’. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the cand...

https://bookblabla.com/book/what-we-can-know

#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #dystopianfiction #literary

2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, ‘A Corona for Vivien’. Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit table know that for generations to come people will speculate about the message of this poem, a copy of which has never been found, and which remains an enduring mystery.

2119: Just over one hundred years in the future, much of the western world has been submerged by rising seas following a catastrophic nuclear accident. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. In the water-logged south of what used to be England, Thomas Metcalfe, a lonely scholar and researcher, longs for the early twenty-first century as he chases the ghost of one poem, ‘A Corona for Vivian’. How wild and full of risk their lives were, thinks Thomas, as he pores over the archives of that distant era, captivated by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its zenith. When he stumbles across a clue that may lead to the elusive poem’s discovery, a story is revealed of entangled loves and a brutal crime that destroy his assumptions about people he thought he knew intimately well.

What We Can Know is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force, a love story about both people and the words they leave behind, a literary detective story which reclaims the present

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There is one week to go till my new poetry collection "Dracula in the Colonies" is launched! You and your favourite friends (or even your random acquaintances) are warmly invited to the launch at Unity Books Wellington on Wednesday 1 October, starting 6pm.

Full details including a couple of lovely book endorsements: https://www.timjonesbooks.co.nz/blog/
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1159319136008748/

#Books #Poetry #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Aotearoa

Front cover of Tim Jones' new poetry collection "Dracula in the Colonies", showing a map of Aotearoa / New Zealand in a 19th-century style against a yellow background with the title of the collection and author name in red.

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2y

Austrian Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was born #OTD in 1899.

In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he attempted to delineate the limits of language. The book is structured around a series of numbered propositions and sub-propositions, which build on each other to create a dense, almost mathematical argument. In Philosophical Investigations, he introduced the concept of how words take their meanings from their function in various forms of life and activities.

#books #literature #philosophy

Moriz Nähr, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Portrait for the conferment of the Trinity College scholarship 1929, 1928/29

A black and white photo showing Ludwig Wittgenstein wearing a tweed jacket over a collared shirt with a lapel pin. The individual's hairstyle is not visible.

Cover of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Book cover of "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" by Ludwig Wittgenstein with abstract blue and pink geometric shapes and the words "Project Gutenberg" at the bottom.

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1y

Online event hosted by #MEAction

Discussion and Q&A with Brian Buckbee, author of We Should All Be Birds.

Wednesday, October 1st
3 pm Eastern/noon Pacific

More details here:

https://www.meaction.net/event-details/q-a-with-author-brian-buckbee

You must register in advance in order to get the Zoom link for the event.

@mecfs
@bookstodon

#Reading #Books #Memoir #Bookstodon #MEcfs #ChronicIllness

Announcement for the event with this text: "Q & A with author Brian Buckbee, Wednesday, October 1st, at 12 pm PT / 3 pm ET."
It includes the cover for his book - We Should All Be Birds: A Memoir - which includes a close-up view of a pigeon.

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German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld died #OTD in 1951.

In 1916, he introduced the idea of elliptical orbits for electrons, and he also introduced additional quantum numbers which included the azimuthal quantum number and magnetic quantum number. He also introduced a dimensionless physical constant known as the fine-structure constant. This constant characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16264

#books #physics

Sommerfeld c. 1922–1923
Bain News Service, publisher - Library of Congress Catalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2014715010.

A vintage black and white portrait of a person in a dark jacket and collared shirt with the top of the image labeled "A. SOMMERFELD" and "38777" on the right side. The edges of the photograph are irregular and worn, adding to the aged appearance.

Title page of the book "Atomic Structure and Spectral Lines" by Arnold Sommerfeld, translated by Henry L. Brose, with 125 figures, published by Methuen & Co. Ltd., London.

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“Les pensées et maximes sont un genre épuisé et un genre futile.”
Les contemporains

French critic and dramatist Jules Lemaître was born #OTD in 1853.

His literary studies were collected under the title of Les Contemporains (7 series, 1886–99), and his dramatic feuilletons as Impressions de Théàtre (10 series, 1888–98). Lemaître found Zola's naturalism to be excessively deterministic and pessimistic.

Books by Jules Lemaître at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5505

#books #literature

French critic and playwright Jules Lemaître (1853-1914) in his house in Tavers (Loiret).

Jules Lemaître in a dark suit sitting at a desk holding a book with shelves full of books in the background.

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1y

My current Halloween reread is The Lost Girls
by Sonia Hartl.

I enjoy the way it takes the 100+ year old vampire falling in love with an innocent teenage girl trope to its disturbing but logical conclusions.

We need a film version of it someday.

#Books #FilmMastodon #Fantasy #Vampire #Horror #Halloween

Book cover for The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl. Image on the cover is a drawing of a teenaged white girl dressed in 1980s fashion, including a choker, a blue and black striped blouse, and crimped black hair.

She is a vampire, and so her fangs are showing and there is a small dribble of blood dripping down the corner of her mouth.

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New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic

Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are Pictish

By Dalya Alberge

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/26/new-research-may-rewrite-origins-of-the-book-of-kells-says-academic?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#books #old_manuscripts

Book of Kells, Folio 292r, Incipit to John. In principio erat verbum.

The page opens with the large, elaborately decorated words IN PRINCIPIO. The “I” and “N” are monumental, filled with complex interlace and spiral motifs.

Each letter is not just a character but an artistic composition, heavily ornamented with Celtic knotwork, spirals, animal interlace, and stylized foliage.

Rich tones of red, yellow, green, blue, and black are used.

Within and around the letters, one can find zoomorphic designs.

After the monumental decorated opening, the rest of the text (“erat verbum”) continues in smaller, though still carefully calligraphed, script.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells#/media/File:KellsFol292rIncipJohn.jpg

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