Marsupial mania! Bunch of critters with pouches. From "Johnson's Household Book of Nature," published 1880. Via Biodiversity Heritage Library. 🦘📖
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@drmartinkolby.bsky.social@drmartinkolby.bsky.social@drmartinkolby.bsky.social"Gustave's Spire was a wonder to behold, though it posed a new risk for airship travel. With hundreds of World's Fair visitors clamoring for flights to see the city, the municipal air patrol's captain was sweating like a snowman in the desert."
@austinhnaturalist.bsky.socialI love historic inscriptions, and this is one of the coolest ones I've ever seen. "Frank Miller" from 1874! Photographed it under a rock bridge in Central Missouri a couple years ago.
@drmartinkolby.bsky.socialEstablished in 1848 in Richmond, Virginia, the J.G. Dill Company produced "Dill's Best," a highly popular smoking tobacco known for its quality pipe blends, often characterized as straight Virginia or "pure cigar leaf".
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@drmartinkolby.bsky.social...each beam a tender benediction...