CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@globalmuseum that face doesn't even look ashamed! Brazen behaviour

The monk sat warming himself by the logs,Beside him was Blue, the very best of dogs.But Brother Edwin had a secret, known only to he,For he had a left hand where his right hand should be.14/15th century, Cambridge Library MS Ff.1.27, p. 316@MedMilMedicine #globalmuseum #humour #humor #manuscripts #medieval

@globalmuseum It's so beautiful!Do we know, is it still accurate, or have cosmic bodies shifted enough relative to us to throw it off? Could someone properly trained on a more modern device navigate with it?1000 years is a long time in human scale, but I don't know how significant it is in local astronomical terms.

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has acquired the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, as well as an early watch page of the video-sharing platform, for its collection.The video, “Me at the zoo,” was first uploaded to the site on April 23, 2005.Read more:https://artnews.com/art-news/news/victoria-albert-museum-first-youtube-video-ever-1234773923/ #globalmuseum #YouTube #museums

Many people would enlist just to collect this money, desert at the first opportunity, and then re-enlist in a different regiment in another city under a new identity. To stop this re-enlistment fraud, the military resorted to permanently marking the bodies of deserters.Branding was largely abolished as a punishment in 1829. The army instead, began tattooing letters onto their skin using special needled instruments and ink or gunpowder

@globalmuseum on my list of places I do not ever want to visit

@rodmur @globalmuseum https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/116075908980269231