gaicadf.bsky.social
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@gaicadf.bsky.socialBluesky's dopamine hit is so weak I may as well go back to writing academic articles.
Show PostCyclists were often called “scorchers.” In the 1890's, “A new menace appeared in the streets: the ‘scorcher’ or bicycle speed fiend, ‘that idiot with head sunk between bent handle bars,’ body thrown forward and pedaling at top speed,” wrote Peter Salwen, author of (New York's) Upper West Side Story.
Show PostHand-coloured plum trees from a 16th century herbal #NationalTreeDay
Show PostA doodle (possibly drawn from life?) in a 17th-century book of Virgil's poetry
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