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I am the author of multiple books including (but not limited to) poetry, folklore, family activity books, history, and foodie everything. There are stories everywhere, and I love discovering and sharing them! www.SusanRayWriter.com
The daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and the wife of Percy Shelley, Mary was exposed to many of the latest scientific ideas of the time, including the idea that matter might be animated into life through chemical and/or electrical means mycandles.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-...
The surfers, Bondi (1963), Jeffrey Smart
William Lazos — "Wedding" (acrylic on canvas, 2024)
March 10th 2026
Osteospermum
Stopped by on my way home from a meeting to see Small Goosegrass Galium murale in Port Solent, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Mayor Mamdani wears a headset and answers phones alongside a 311 call center representative.
The best way to serve this city is to listen to it.
@nyc311.bsky.social gets contacted 100,000 times every day.
This morning, I stopped by the call center to pick up a few calls from New Yorkers.
Anna’s hummingbird in sakura flowers
Anna’s Hummingbird on sakura at dusk
📷🌿🪶🌸
Black and white photo of Marie Curie.
#WomensHistoryMonth Day 10 - Chemist and physicist Marie Curie is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Where in the World...was she born?
Click to guess and find out on this #map: www.whereintheworldgame.com?id=51&type=q
#History #Science
Ghost sign Mitchell Lane Glasgow
#ghostsigns #Glasgow
Love a ghost sign. Diverted walk down Mitchell Lane in a subdued Glasgow city centre.
Looked up saw this
I'd never heard of Helga & Clara Estby before this week. Now that I have, I've begun reading all I can about the mother & daughter who walked across the US in 1896 to save their family farm.
spokanehistorical.org/items/show/619
"Sackville-West around 1915, from The Life of V.Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning" - wikipedia
#OTD in 1892, Vita Sackville-West is born.
"Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vita_Sa...
Books by Sackville-West at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #literature
A black-and-white historical portrait photograph of Edmée Chandon, the pioneering French astronomer (1885–1944), shown as a young woman. She has short, curly dark hair styled in a bob with soft volume, adorned with a dark headband featuring two prominent vertical barrette-like pins or clips. Her expression is calm and direct, gazing straight at the camera with a subtle, composed demeanor. She wears a dark velvet or satin dress with a high neckline accented by a white lace ruffled collar or jabot, and a small decorative brooch or button at the center. The image has a classic early 20th-century studio style with soft lighting, a plain background, and slight vignetting, evoking elegance and determination.
Astronomer Edmée Chandon died #OTD in 1944.🔭
She was the first professional female astronomer in France, working at the Paris Observatory from 1908 until her retirement in 1941.
She is one of the 72 pioneering women whose names are to be engraved on the Eiffel Tower.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy #WHM
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.
Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth
Hallie Quinn Brown | c.1880s
3/10/1850 — b. Hallie Quinn Brown, American clubwoman, educator, author, activist, orator. Leader, Af-Am women’s club mvmnt; principal organizer, Colored Women’s League of Wash, DC (1893). Dramatic elocutionist; key role in Harlem Renaissance #WomensHistoryMonth #EduSky #PolSky #WriterSky #woc #BHM
Four images featuring a work of art in wire and small pieces of colourful glass
“Unwoven Light” by Korean artist Soo Sunny Park, sculptural installations using glass, wire and light #WomensArt
This image depicts the premises of the Hull Anti-Mill Industrial Society, one of the earliest consumer co-operatives in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1795, the society was established by local people in Hull during a period of high flour prices and food adulteration caused by the war against France. The members raised funds to build their own tower windmill to ensure a supply of high-quality flour at near cost price. The society was so successful that in 1810, commercial millers took them to court, labeling the co-op a "nuisance". A jury famously ruled in favour of the society in 1811, stating they "considered poverty a still greater nuisance". (Co-operative Corn Milling: Self-help During the Grain Crises of the Napoleonic Wars: Jennifer Tann)
The grain crisis at the end of the 1790s due in part to the war against France caused real anger due to the high flour prices charged by commercial millers and also cases of food adulteration. As a result several early co-operative ventures were formed . The first Anti Mill Society, was founded
On 16 Sept 1642 Rosa O'Doherty signed this letter. Here it is for #InternationalWomensDay , 384 years later. This is possibly a unique surviving example of a 17thC signature of a #Gaelic Irishwoman. (The letter is now in @ucdarchives.bsky.social as part of the Franciscan collection)
Mary Wright Plummer standing
3/8/1856 — b. Mary Wright Plummer, American librarian, children’s author. Library science pioneer; set-up first art reference dept + a kid-friendly children’s library. President, NY #Library Club (1896); 2nd pres, American Lib Assn(1915) #InternationalWomensDay #WHM2026 #LibrarySky #BookSky #KidLit
The hand embroidered banners of the UK women's suffrage movement designed and embroidered in communal workshops by skilled women artists #WomensArt
#WomensHistoryMonth
A cool little Mycena that I photographed in Oxapampa, Perú. Never seen one with this cool stem texture before, no idea which species it could be.
Olympus OM-1 / 90 mm macro lens / 180 images stacked, ISO 200, f/5.
#mushrooms #mycena #fungifriends #olympus
Today, Michelle and I are proud to announce that we will be hosting the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on June 18th in Chicago, and welcoming the public on June 19th.
We can’t wait for you to visit. Go to obama.org to learn more.
From a very productive time when I took every opportunity to paint directly from the subject, usually putting my bike on its stand and resting my drawing board on the handlebars. Magdalene bridge is crossing the river, punts are for hire and it wouldn't be complete without some ducks are happily swimming around.
One of my Cambridge on-the-spot watercolour drawings from nearly 30 years ago. This was done from the riverside board walk that leads to Quayside. I don't sketch in town any more - too crowded plus lack of stamina!
#watercolour #watercolor #Cambridge #enpleinair
I've been revisiting Ronny Salerno's book: Fading Ads of Cincinnati, on this soggy day. If you haven't had a chance to see Ronny's work, it is a visual day trip. And he's a really nice human being, too. I had the delight of working with him on a feature story years upon years ago.
ronnysalerno.com
A photograph of a cluster of small white flowers worth yellow centers
I found this beauty in the Estero Americano Coast Preserve above Bodega Bay, California
Fremont’s deathcamas
(Toxicoscordion fremontii)
#flowers #bloomscroll #photography #art
Rendered in #Handmade Pigments, Rupy C. Tut’s #Warriors March Toward Belonging. #art #paintings
Link for more info and photos of her paintings: www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/rupy...
Here's another one of my paintings: 'A Light Can Shine Only In Darkness', oil on MDF panel, 30x40cm in its pine frame. Another painting about distance and ideas which can grow in calm isolation.
#art #painting #oilpainting #lightbulb #walnut #surrealism
This delivery driver throws treats to all the dogs on his route to see if they can catch. Spoiler alert: some of them definitely cannot. Still 13/10 for all (TT: jezzyvi)
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I didn't think we still needed to discuss this.
World Book Day isn’t a purity test. Comics count. Annuals count. Football mags count. If a child is choosing words, stories, characters, facts-then they’re reading. Gatekeeping ‘real books’ is how you make reading feel arduous. Let them in.
Painting of room with full bookshelves, books stacked on table and floors, a woman standing looking at an open book, and a cat curled up on the quilt-covered sofa
‘Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.’
— Henry Ward Beecher
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #WorldBookDay #books #reading
One of my favorite childhood books. Like millions of others, I’ve read and reread this book countless times, finding it delightful every time.
