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

xefer's tweet image. 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

@IlovekiwiZhang Sure, how can I help you?


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

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

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


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


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


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


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…


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


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

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

@PIE_Languages are the details publicly available yet?


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


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

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

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