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Polychromic antiquities
Ever so often, usually on Facebook, people “discover” that ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were colored. Which is really funny because the trend of discovering it is at least 150 (Tanagra hoard 1870) years old. https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/whats-on/exhibitions/presentation/spectacular-art-jean-leon-gerome-1824-1904
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Outlaw nuns
It really bugs me when great true stories have narratively unsatisfying endings. This is a prime example: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/belgian-outlaw-nuns
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Sci-fi in our daily lives
Yesterday I went to the Good Samaritan Miniatures Expo. Haven’t been condescended to so hard since I was a teen, but I saw some amazing things and got an impressive haul of stuff for the kind of prices that don’t wake my inner toad. I also learned that there’s a miniatures museum in Tucson where
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