Rhode Island's should just be a 2"x4" silk square, coffee colored, with a plate of calamari on it.
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"The right of some to free enterprise or market freedom cannot supersede the rights of peoples and the dignity of the poor, or, for that matter, respect for the natural environment."
Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti
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and that's just those who test
UK: Covid cases climb to highest level this year with thousands testing positive.
"Almost 1,500 people tested positive for the coronavirus last week, up by 20% on the week before, new data from the UK Health Security Agency has revealed."
Source: archive.md/RkUjl
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on Friday reaffirmed support for Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy, becoming the second major professional medical association to break from...
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If you had to imagine one of the most beautiful coins of antiquity, you might be dreaming of this beauty - a silver decadrachm from Syracuse, Sicily. On the reverse, the nymph Arethusa, patron of the city, is surrounded by (nice) dolphins; on the obverse, a victorious quadriga. 🏺 1/
📸 me
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Let's take a quick peek inside. A statue of the town's patron, Our Lady of Mt Carmel (La Madonna del Carmelo) stands on the stucco and plaster-work high altar.
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In the old center of the town at Piazza Casolini where we find Sersale's cathedral dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel
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View of the Acropolis from the Library of Hadrian in #Athens. In the foreground are columns from a tetraconch church that was inserted into the complex in #LateAntiquity.
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#photography #archaeology #Byzantine #travel
The Acropolis seen from the Library of Hadrian (Athens, Greece)
View of the Acropolis from the tetraconch church in the courtyard of Hadrian's Library
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do you get the sense that these media and political elites fuming over Cracker Barrel have probably never set foot in one, let alone ate there?
![The reverse of this silver decadrachm depicts the profile of Arethusa, a nymph (or nereid) who was transformed into a freshwater spring on the tiny island of Ortygia adjacent to Syracuse, Sicily.
As the patron figure of Syracuse, Arethusa is shown with her hair in a beautiful net (golden hairnets were a luxury of the elite) and surrounded by swimming dolphins. An inscription above and to the side of her head reads: ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩ[Ν], or Syrakosion - Syracuse.
Greek, minted in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy (part of Magna Graecia, Great Greece - the Greek colonies in Italy), ca. 405-400 BCE. Silver.
Diameter: 37.8 mm (1.488 in.)
Weight: 43.11 g
Getty Villa Museum, on loan from the American Numismatic Society (1964.79.21)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4gvknr7shvnikz4ymbtf7wye/bafkreiaddvmlwotvbol7rgbdm4qcp2ggbvxlw2xvmg47kfkuvnzmqghkka@jpeg)
