From Kennebunkport, ME town records: ... 17th of Febr 1787 1ly voted to put a final stop to the spreading of the Small Pox in sd town immediately - voted that anny Person that shall set up anny Pest house in arundel for Innockultion shall Pay a fine to sd town of Fifty Pounds

Bas-de-page image was drawn by a professional but illiterate woman, Jean de Montbaston. xefer.com/2013/03/phallu…

@PIE_Languages The argument seems reasonable to the layman. Is there a good counter-argument available? - in English :)

@PIE_Languages are the details publicly available yet?

One of several newly attested Gothic words from "Gothica Bononiensia" xefer.com/2013/07/gothica

After a while staring at this foundling coin it has just occurred to me that the symbols spell out "I want relief"

Earliest globe depicting the new world from 1504 etched on two halves of an ostrich egg: washmapsociety.org/Earliest-Globe…

Annular eclipse by Phobos as seen by the Curiosity rover on Mars; August 17, 2013. I made video from images at NASA youtube.com/watch?v=LHMiiC…

Marianne Faithful is the great grand nice of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch author of "Venus in Furs" dailymail.co.uk/femail/article…

Iceland settled before 870? Support Sutherlands claim of Norse on Baffin Island? icelandreview.com/icelandreview/… Park's doubts thefreelibrary.com/Contact+betwee…

I entered a block of 13th century Anglo-Norman text into Google Translate and it auto-detected it as Esperanto.

How did Sp. "arriba" come to mean "up"? Both "arriba" and "arribar" (to arrive) ~ from Vulg. L: "arripare" (reach shore); L: "ad+ripa"

The preposition "till" predates "until" by >400 years. 1st attested, 8th century Ruthwell Cross. Elder Futhark runes

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