500-Year-Old Body of Man Wearing Thigh-High Boots Found in London Sewer Construction

katy-perrythe-platypus:

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During the construction of London’s massive “super sewer,” archaeologists discovered something unusual in the mud: a 500-year-old skeleton of a man still wearing his thigh-high leather boots.

The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) announced this week that the skeleton was unearthed on the shores of the Thames, near a bend in the river downstream from the Tower of London.

“By studying the boots, we’ve been able to gain a fascinating glimpse into the daily life of a man who lived as many as 500 years ago,” said Beth Richardson, a finds specialist who analyzes artifacts at MOLA Headland, a consortium of archaeologists. “They have helped us to better understand how he may have made his living in hazardous and difficult conditions, but also how he may have died. It has been a privilege to be able to study something so rare and so personal.” Read more.

Archaeologists:

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Originally posted by bob-belcher

500-year old skeleton:

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lumnch:

lumnch:

lumnch:

My nips: *get really pokey out of nowhere*

Me: what is it girls? what do you see?

In honor of this post reaching 100,000 notes my nips are now banned from Tumblr

This is what they saw, all that time ago, like a cat before a storm

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smithsonianlibraries:

Colorful bird paintings from The Avicultural Magazine. From the top left: a Splendid Starling from vol. 88 no. 4, Gouldian Finches from fourth series vol. X no. 5, an Amherst Pheasant from vol. 55 no. 6 and A Golden Pheasant from vol. 53 no. 4.

Full title here

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chrxs-art:

sunastreo:

acegender:

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

a small solace within a life of pain and exploitation

gender machine broke come back tomorrow

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rebeccamock:
“ “Midnight Garden”
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I made some personal animated work for the first time in ages! This is my real-life midnight garden, on a shelf in my bedroom. Featuring some of my manga and other books, my...

rebeccamock:

“Midnight Garden”
full version (square version on twitter)

I made some personal animated work for the first time in ages! This is my real-life midnight garden, on a shelf in my bedroom. Featuring some of my manga and other books, my cat PJ, and some catnip and dill seedlings. 

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PSA: If your blog is stuck in explicit mode

archonix:

You can edit the settings page to change it.

This is my naughty blog right now. Notice how the icon is that snazzy default thing?

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That’s because it’s set to explicit, a setting that was locked after the great purge:

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BUT

If you right-click on that toggle and click “inspect element”, you can change that.

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Notice how the input tag has a disabled attribute? Just remove that whole attribute - specifically disabled=“disabled”:

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The toggle is now active

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And toggleable

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And now, after a quick refresh, my old (crap, but real) icon and header image are back, and the blog is no longer treated as hidden or explicit.

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The goggle also disappears after the refresh, but it’s worth noting that you can also edit the toggle back into the settings panel and change your blog back to explicit if you so desire.

This is a perfect example of the laziness of tumblr’s devs. They haven’t removed the functionality, they’ve just kinda-sorta hidden it a bit; the end-point that the explicit toggle hits is still there.

Let’s hope the @staff won’t find this trick soon…

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