Spotted this amazing Sikki & Munj grass multi tiered rural display at the Patna museum. A stunning tribute to Mithila's age old grass weaving craft dating back to vedic period!

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The real story of Robin Hood, and how to hide in a forest https://youtu.be/1BdbTW7Tc3s?si=BHVJVdZmLDMZ8TDv

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Was on an archaeological walk in western India last week, I stepped into a 12th century temple and looked up. A perfect circular opening to the sky, encircled by intricately carved basalt columns all shaped by hand. 🤚🫶

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Fukuyama was not wrong, he was just early https://x.com/kepano/status/1600175584616669184?s=20

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Saw these at a museum exhibition of dolls and toys. Teddy bears have two early origin threads, Germany and the US. In Germany, Margarete Steiff and Richard Steiff developed one of the first modern jointed plush bears in the early 1900s. In the US, the name “teddy bear” took off after a 1902 story about Theodore Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear that had been tied to a tree for him during a hunt. A cartoon spread, and a New York shop owner, Morris Michtom, made a toy bear inspired by it and sold it as “Teddy’s bear” 🧸

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This reminds of sama's line that "a kid born today will never be smarter than AI" The concept of 'robotic' as something mechanical, clunky, suboptimal or funny won't exist ~5 years from now; a little farther into the future, the general concept of 'artificial' won't mean much either. A little like how 'digital' already doesn't make much sense today Once such categories dissolve, will the past become easier or harder to read? Will it be legible at all?

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wake up babe 1729 AD just dropped https://x.com/johannesmkx/status/2024776653902053713?s=20

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How Nazi Germany was stopped with fake coal https://youtu.be/xdkkR4SCXL4?si=L6ArPw3RzQq3LXRz

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Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads Itiner-e aims to host the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. The data creation is a collaborative ongoing project edited by a scholarly community. Itiner-e allows you to view, query and download roads. https://itiner-e.org/

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Long before steel, turbines, and machines, early Asian civilisations were already designing hydraulic masterpieces. These 5 oldest ancient dams reveal how the earliest societies understood water, flood control, agriculture, and urban growth with surprising sophistication.

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Kailasa Temple: 8th century CE Carved from a single rock the entire temple wasn’t built…It was excavated from the top down, as if someone literally scooped a temple out of a mountain. 200,000 Tons of stone removed and all of it done without machines, cranes, drills, or explosives. Just chisels, hammers, and unbelievable precision.

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Watched episode 1 of Ken Burns’ The American Revolution and liking it so far. I’ve been waiting forever for this one, the period of history I find most interesting. First episode really focused on Massachusetts so giving me all the feels. I grew up in a town about 30 minutes from Boston that was founded 51 years before the Declaration of Independence. We always celebrated Patriots Day and had all of these revolutionary battlefields close by. While in law school on Beacon Hill, I worked in the courthouse in the law library which was also the Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society. One of my favorite exhibits we assisted with was about the Boston Massacre, which was exhibited close by at the Old State House (site of the massacre). I always appreciated that John Adams defended the British soldiers out of respect for the rule of law and the concept that everyone should have defense counsel, a right later enshrined in the bill of rights. Evacuation Day — the day the British left — is still a holiday in the City of Boston. (Yes, coincidentally also St Patrick’s Day) Grateful to have all this context as I watch this. https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-revolution

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Many of Hampi’s temples, walls, and gateways were built using interlocking granite blocks no cement or binding material at all. The stones fit together so precisely that they’ve survived over 700 years of weather and earthquakes. # Hampi was capital of mighty Vijayanagara empire in south India

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