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Girls don’t want boys, girls want a facsimile edition of the “Birds’ Head Haggadah” (Southern Germany, c. 1300)

Image from the Israel Museum: https://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/199815-0

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Recently on Unhelpful File Labels in the Archives:

On-Going Project. Folders were empty.

Well Written Articles, 1999. There were no articles in this folder. There were a lot of budget reports though.

Stuff. You are killing me smalls.

Section 569-055 Knowingly burning or exploding. This was just papers shoved between files, I have a lot of questions and zero answers.

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Gray Catbird by Kristy Brig, ML609429271

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An embroidered lawn robe à l'Anglaise, circa 1770-80, 

Delicately embroidered in chain stitch with stripes and sprigs of pinks, convolvulus, dog roses, honeysuckle, tied with pink bows, closed-front bodice panels with drawstring to neck, the sleeves with shaped elbows adorned with ruffles; together with a pink taffeta petticoat, 18th century 

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i am beginning o suspect life is actually all about lying in cold creeks with your friends

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I didn’t think Toto bathing could get any funnier but apparently it can

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Family group portrait by Martin van Meytens the Younger, 1730-31 Sweden

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Dare I ask what kind of hot drinks people were making in 1906 that required the use of concentrated asparagus syrup

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Rosy-faced Lovebirds on a cactus in Paradise Valley, Arizona. 

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1494 Vittore Carpaccio - Miracle of the Holy Cross at Rialto

(Gallerie dell'Accademia)

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"Oops" Chair; Jake Cress, 1991 I saw this chair today, and I am absolutely enthralled by it. It is playful, it is fun, and when I looked into the artist, he has a whole series of what he calls "animated furniture."

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Names of shades and when in Regency England they were most popular.

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Adélie penguines By: Michael C. T. Smith From: The Fascinating Secrets of Oceans & Islands 1972

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Medieval manuscript Mothman