RT @AJamesMcCarthy: I pretty much never go on Facebook, but every so often I go on there to update my business page. Without fail, every…

This is a really useful tool by @thelights0123 for creating unicode-compliant fraction symbols that can be pasted into Word documents

Source: Archivio di stato di Genova, Notai antichi 889, Tommaso Duracino, filza 2, series II, nr. 291), contract dated 15 November 1456.

@RockNRoLL_85 Eddie Hazel... for the amazing 10-minute guitar solo on Maggot Brain...

@araujohistorian Which always reminds me of the beautiful closing lines in Joyce's Dubliners...

@tomaashby I sometime takes pictures of cielings accidentally when photographing archival material and am always glad for my mistake!

If you are interested in learning more about the Casa di San Giorgio, I would highly recommend the open-access book "The Making of the Modern Corporation: The Casa di San Giorgio and its Legacy (1446–1720)" by my colleague Carlo Taviani.

@araujohistorian I haven't read his book on Brazil, but I know some people have criticized it for being naive. But was it naïveté or a desperate wish for some hope in a broken world?

@araujohistorian Zweig was always so prescient... unfortunately the nadir of world civilization in 1942 beared too heavily for such a humane individual.

@20th_Centurygal Coltrane! Coltrane! (to quote Monk)

@MargaretAtwood @penguinrandom @PenguinRandomCA @PenguinRandomUK You had me at semi-colons 😉😉... and I hope there's something about Al Purdy in there!

RT @arxiuregne: 📢Ja es poden consultar a l'Arxiu del Regne de Mallorca els protocols notarials de més de 100 anys d’antiguitat gràcies a la…

RT @anitaleirfall: Dozens of Gaelic manuscripts have been found and returned to the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh after being…

RT @jdmccafferty: 1669 token for Strange's Coffee House, St Anne's Lane, Aldersgate Street #London (British Museum)