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    natgeoyourshot: Top Shot: The Magic of Night Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen. The Daily Dozen is 12 photos chosen by the Your Shot editors each day from thousands of recent uploads. Our community has the chance to vote for their favorite from the selection and…

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    natgeoyourshot: Top Shot: Morning Fire Top Shot features the photo with the most votes from the previous day’s Daily Dozen. The Daily Dozen is 12 photos chosen by the Your Shot editors each day from thousands of recent uploads. Our community has the chance to vote for their favorite from the selection and the Top…

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    smithsonianlibraries: Today’s yokai is a tengu—a demon in bird-like form, even though the name means “heavenly dog.” Maybe that’s because the tengu was derived from the Chinese dog-demon tiangou? Sorry if I’m not bird dogging the history of yokai enough (ba-dum-bump). If you are looking for some insight into the collection of early 19th century…

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    smithsonianlibraries: Today’s yokai is a tengu—a demon in bird-like form, even though the name means “heavenly dog.” Maybe that’s because the tengu was derived from the Chinese dog-demon tiangou? Sorry if I’m not bird dogging the history of yokai enough (ba-dum-bump). If you are looking for some insight into the collection of early 19th century…

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    gifitup2016: GIF IT UP 2016 entry by Erin Black from Cary, North Carolina (USA). Source material from The British Library via The European Library via Europeana (@europeanacollections). Erin writes: “This GIF celebrates both #PageFrights and the #SkeletonWar with three skeletons dancing on a manuscript page. The image is an illumination from the bottom of a page…

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    archivesofamericanart: We acquired the papers of sculptor and painter Charles Searles (1937–2004) in 2012.   Searles used abstract forms and bold color to explore themes in black visual culture, dance, and music. Searles came of age in Philadelphia during the politically and culturally dynamic 1960s, and his personal papers reveal a man deeply connected to…

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