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MonarchLady

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Retired Park Naturalist/Educator, #MonarchButterfly #Milkweed #OldPeopleOfMastodon #pollinatorGarden #NativePlants #nature #TuxedoCats located in Ohio. White, female, straight, married 52 years, 2 sons, 1 grandson, atheist, Democrat, disabled by lumbar stenosis but still walking. Once a Girl Scout, always…..

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chiraag, to bookstodon
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I really can't recommend Gordon Doherty's Empires of Bronze series enough - it's written really well and he clearly has done his research. What's really fascinating is that the story is ultimately a sad one - the Sea Peoples essentially end up wiping out most Bronze Age civs (other than the Egyptians), but the story has a hopeful ending. The author also does a great job of separating fact from fiction.

https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/47582

MonarchLady,
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@chiraag @bookstodon Harry Turtledove (aka Harry Turteltaub) has a series (one title is Over the Wine-Dark Sea) called Hellenic Traders. The 4 books center around cousins Menedemos and Sostratos who work as seaborne traders in the years following the death of Alexander the Great (after classical Greece). The series is notable for a high degree of historical accuracy. I found them engrossing and full of nitty-gritty details about their life.

dailymedievalcats, to medievodons German
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“Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat […].And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come.”.

Ms: Cologne, Historisches Archiv, G.B. quarto, 249, f. 68r (15th c.). #medievalcat #medieval @medievodons

MonarchLady,
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@dailymedievalcats @medievodons I wonder if it still smells!

raemariz, to knitting
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I'm here for too.

I've got this seamless, top-town raglan two-color brioche child cardigan thing I masterminded this summer. It's more manageable now that I'm done with the short row shaping+raglan increases and put the sleeves on hold, but it's still A PROJECT every time I pick it up. I won't know if my math is correct until I finish it, so let's finish it!

@knitting

back of an unfinished knitting project with intricate white rivers of brioche rib

MonarchLady,
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@raemariz @Crito @knitting I learned knitting first in Girl Scouts but much prefer crochet (taught by my grandmother) for its freedom to improvise and ease of ripping out!

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