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This 100 million-year-old cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is a birthplace for billions of stars. Surrounding the cluster is diffuse dust and gas theorized to come from supernova blasts within. go.nasa.gov/3SrZeLU
#NASAExoplanets

Hubble Captures Dual Views of an Unusual Star Cluster

While these two images may look dazzlingly different, they are actually pictures of the same cosmic object: NGC 1850.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
#NASAExoplanets

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A fragment of the Homestead Meteorite that fell on February 12, 1875 in Iowa, USA.

Photographer: Rodney Start. Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)

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A fragment of the Homestead Meteorite that fell on February 12, 1875 in Iowa, USA. Photographer: Rodney Start. Copyright Museums Victoria

Homestead meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
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This is the position that we in this house call "cat pants" as demonstrated by #JuliaKitten If we were in the UK we'd have to call it "cat trousers" I guess. 😀

#caturday+1

A torbie cat lying along outstretched legs. The host legs are wearing jeans. The cat, Julia, has her front legs stretched out far and wrists overlapped.
#Caturday #JuliaKitten
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How app changelogs should be vs. how app changelogs usually are.
a screenshot of two iOS app updates, one for Mastodon with a very detailed and bulleted release notes compared to Google Calendar which just says "Bug fixes and performance improvements" and that's it.

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Megalodon dominated the world’s ocean for over 13 million years.

Modern humans have only been around for a few hundred thousand years. nhm.ac.uk/discover/megalodon--… #nature #science #SharedPlanet

Size comparison of Megalodon at 60ft, a great white shark at 21ft and a human at 6ft. Image: The Sun

Megalodon: the truth about the largest shark that ever lived

Just how big was megalodon and could this giant predator still be lurking in the dark depths of the ocean?
www.nhm.ac.uk
#nature #science #sharedplanet
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I have a friend who is a marine biologist who specializes in sharks.

She would love your post.

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Listen to the four @SpaceX #Crew6 members on "Houston We Have a Podcast," before they lift off at 1:45am ET on Monday to begn a six-month space research mission on the station.
#ISS
#iss #Crew6

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The first Saturn 1B rocket (AS-201), developed at @NASAMarshall, lifted off on an unpiloted, suborbital flight #OTD in 1966. In all, 9 Saturn IB flights were made, ending with the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in July 1975. More about this test flight: go.nasa.gov/3IOhM5T
#NASAhistory

55 Years Ago: Apollo AS-201 Test Flight

The first uncrewed spaceflight test of a production Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM), and the first launch of a Saturn-IB rocket, took place on Feb. 26, 1966.
Kelli Mars (NASA)
#otd #NASAhistory

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Feb 23
DWeb New York Meetup February 2023
Thu 6:00 PM - Fri 1:00 AM
DWeb New York

The DWeb New York node recently launched! DWeb connects the people, projects and protocols essential to building a decentralized web. A web that is more private, reliable, secure and open. A web with many winners—returning to the original vision of the World Wide Web and internet. Come hang out & join in open discussions with friendly internet friends. More info here: getdweb.net/

Koodos Labs

515 Greenwich St, Unit 504

New York NY 10013

#dweb
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@esmail I coded a URL shortener in Node.js (< 3 KB). Feel free to host it on your server if you want. 😀
I understand if you don't want to since it can be used for malicious activity, but it'll probably be fine. It was inspired by 0x0 in the way that it's very minimal only works over cURL.

gothub.esmail5pdn24shtvieloeed…

@Esmail EL BoB :dinosaur:
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Revvy 🇨🇦
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I found a bunch on this sketchy website, but you just can't find most of these TLDs. The official registrar website for .mw doesn't even have HTTPS. 1-single-letter-domains.com/#x…

Maybe ask pompompurin, he has two domains like this.

World's Shortest Internet Domains on SALE: 1-letter short!

1sld.com - for worlds shortest domain names
1sld.com
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Esmail EL BoB :dinosaur:
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lol no 😂 my problem with money to buy more domains not in name 😛 and ask who?
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A big welcome to all our new followers from recent days.

Once a week we do a thread about geo stuff, this week we turn our attention to one of the most geographically strange countries of them all: France 🇫🇷

Join us for this week's #geoweirdness thread

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Map of Metropolitan France
#geoweirdness

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I know its in Arabic but the bank offers savings certificates for 22.5% annual return and infilation is 25.8% so I wait a full year but I still lose the value of my money?? 😂😂

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This flower wishes to fade, 1939 #paulklee #abstractart wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/hamam…

This flower wishes to fade, 1939 - Paul Klee - WikiArt.org

‘This flower wishes to fade’ was created in 1939 by Paul Klee in Abstract Art style. Find more prominent pieces of abstract at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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The Netherlands is doing a pilot program to supply #fediverse accounts for all Dutch university students! <img class=" title=":fediverse:"/>
surf.nl/en/about-the-mastodon-…
via @n1ckfg

About the Mastodon pilot

Why participate in the pilot as an institution. What does it benefit us as a sector? And what are the preconditions?
SURF.nl
#Fediverse @Nick Fox-Gieg
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the #openweb is really going back to #mainstreaming a good thing 😀
#openweb #mainstreaming
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Grab your machete because we're getting into the weeds.

The "counter-hack" by Jump Crypto and Oasis just provided a remarkable demonstration of the centralization of defi. Read more: newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/oa…


The Oasis "counter-hack" and the centralization of defi

Wormhole, Jump Crypto, and Oasis demonstrate the centralization threat introduced by multisig-controlled upgradable smart contracts.
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I run into this a lot in crypto. People decide to use a blockchain and incur huge speed/$/scalability costs, then themselves undermine all the things the blockchain is supposed to do, ending up with a version of existing products that's just slow, expensive, and doesn't scale.
In order to create a trustless, censorship-resistant system, blockchain developers had to make a lot of tradeoffs. Broadly speaking, blockchains are slow. They don’t scale well. They’re expensive. There is no “undo” button. Blockchains are not this way because they are just poorly coded or because their developers don’t wish for them to be fast and inexpensive — there are certainly plenty of excellent developers working on blockchains. Blockchains are this way because they have to be in order to try to achieve that trustless, censorship-resistant ideological goal. But now we’ve just seen a very clear illustration of how multisig-controlled upgradeable contracts, which have proliferated throughout crypto, undermine trustlessness and censorship-resistance. If a crypto project has accepted the huge costs that come with building on a blockchain as worthwhile tradeoffs to achieve trustlessness and censorship-resistance, but then undermines its own trustlessness and censorship-resistance by using multisig-controlled upgradeable contracts, well, what was even the point?

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New preprint, by Victor Rossier with the group of Christophe Dessimoz (#UNIL and #SIB), introducing #Matreex, a new dynamic tool to scale-up the visualisation of gene families, and its application to showing loss of intraflagellar transport in a myxozoan
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#phylogeny #phylogenomics #bioinformatics #BigData #visualization #vizbi #myxozoan @dee_unil
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Figure describing the layout of visualization by Matreex: a gene tree on the left, a species tree on top, and a matrix of phylogenetic profiles in the center. On both gene and species tree, some clades are collapsed and are indicated by thick branches. In the phylogenetic profile, a gradient of red intensity indicates gene copy number.

Matreex: compact and interactive visualisation of large gene families provides evidence for loss of intraflagellar transport in a myxozoan

Studying gene family evolution strongly benefits from insightful visualisations. However, the ever-growing number of sequenced genomes is leading to increasingly larger gene families, which challenges existing gene tree visualisations.
bioRxiv
#bioinformatics #visualization #UNIL #SIB #matreex #Phylogeny #Phylogenomics #bigdata #vizbi #myxozoan @DEE UNIL

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ICYMI: Fanatical have another Play On The Go bundle for Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/fana… #SteamDeck
Play On The Go bundle for Steam Deck

Fanatical have another Play On The Go bundle for Steam Deck

Need more games for your Steam Deck or Linux Desktop? Fanatical have launched another Play On The Go bundle.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#SteamDeck

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Saturn's Iapetus: Moon with a Strange Surface apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230226.ht… #APOD

APOD: 2023 February 26 – Saturns Iapetus: Moon with a Strange Surface

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD
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any thoughts about what looks like a seam at the equator?
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the equatorial seam makes it appear to be a child’s toy

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These fluffy feathery guys have taken over my street. They were fluffier a month ago, but harder to photograph. Now look at their punk attitude!

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Cricket wants enchiladas. #CatsOfMastodon #cats #cat #BlackCat #Caturday
Cricket in her begging pose, sitting on the dining chair and leaning backwards so her head is upside down on the table. Her mouth is open like she’s shouting.
My black cat Cricket in the same begging pose with an agonized grimace.
#cats #cat #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #BlackCat

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Saturn's Iapetus: Moon with a Strange Surface

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team

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An unusual two-toned ball is pictured. The ball, Saturn's moon Iapetus, has many craters and an unusual ridge running along its equator that makes it look like a walnut.

APOD: 2023 February 26 – Saturns Iapetus: Moon with a Strange Surface

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD

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The Muse Urania in Kändler's collection "Apollo and the Muses of Parnassus," Meissen, ~1750, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt am Main.

Johann Joachim Kändler, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Muse Urania in Kändler's collection "Apollo and the Muses of Parnassus," Meissen, ~1750, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt am Main.
Kändler's collection "Apollo and the Muses of Parnassus," Meissen, ~1750, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt am Main.

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The Bjurböle Meteorite fell on March 12, 1899 into the frozen Baltic Sea. It created a hole in the ice about 50 kilometers from Helsinki. It was recovered from the sea.

Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr at flic.kr/p/2kFyekG

#meteorite

The Bjurbole Meteorite fell on March 12, 1899 into the frozen Baltic Sea. It created a hole in the ice about 50 kilometers from Helsinki. It was recovered from the sea. Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr

Baltic Sea Splash by the Bjurböle Meteorite of 1899

The Deep Impact auction this week had an incredible collection of space rocks. When I saw this historical stone that landed in the Baltic Sea near my homeland, I was intrigued! The fireball was seen all around Baltic Sea and approached Helsinki form…
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Detailed view of an unlabelled Pallasite from the Aukland Museum Geology Collection.

Accession Number: GE157. Auckland Museum 2019. Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) flic.kr/p/2heyGiQ

#pallasite

Detailed view of an unlabelled Pallasite from the Aukland Museum Geology Collection. Accession Number: GE157. Auckland Museum 2019. Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/2heyGiQ

Meteorite

Name : Meteorite Accession Number : GE157 Part of the Geology collection For more details visit www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections Images released under a CC-BY licence. Auckland Museum 2019
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#pallasite

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LIVE: An update on the status of the upcoming launch of #Crew6, set to lift off to the @Space_Station at 1:45am ET (0645 UTC) on Feb. 27. youtube.com/live/R3PjNneujMY?f…
#NASA

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Launch Readiness Review Media Teleconference

NASA hosted a media teleconference on Feb. 25, 2023, to discuss the results of the agency’s Launch Readiness Review for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission. Briefin...
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#NASA #Crew6

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Three different images showing a relief of the pediment of the Temple of Cybele (Matris Deum) on Palatine Hill. I spy a difference in the third...
Three different images showing a relief of the pediment of the Temple of Cybele (Matris Deum) on Palatine Hill. I spy a difference in the third...
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@SwindlerOfInsanity that's right, it seems to be the representation of the black meteorite stone known to have been in the temple
@SwindlerOfInsanity

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The Albareto Meteorite fell in July 1766 in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Massimo Barbieri, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#meteorite

The Albareto Meteorite fell in July 1766 in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Massimo Barbieri, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
#meteorite

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The Soyuz MS-23, the new ride home for NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, docked to the space station at 7:58pm ET as the station flew 260 miles above northern Mongolia. Read more.. go.nasa.gov/3Z3a3GK
#ISS

Uncrewed Replacement Soyuz Docks to the Space Station

The uncrewed Soyuz arrived at the International Space Station’s Poisk module at 7:58 p.m. EST.
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#iss

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Comet seen from Geesterpoort in Alkmaar, Netherlands. January 1681. Drawing by Lambert Doomer.

Public Domain via the Rijks Museum item RP-T-00-341. Gift of the Rijksmuseum Foundation.

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#comet

Comet seen from Geesterpoort in Alkmaar, Netherlands. January 1681. Drawing by Lambert Doomer. Public Domain via the Rijks Museum item RP-T-00-341. Gift of the Rijksmuseum Foundation.

Staartster boven Alkmaar, 1681, Lambert Doomer, 1681 - Rijksmuseum

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#Comet

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Painted porcelain figure of the Muse Urania. (~1748-1750)

"The figure was originally part of a show mirror, which Johann Joachim Kändler modeled in Meissen between 1745 and 1750. Kändler himself brought this mirror to Paris as a gift from August 3rd to Louis 15th."

Public Domain via the Rijks Museum item BK-1964-21-A. Gift of the Rijksmuseum Foundation.

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Painted porcelain figure of the Muse Urania. (~1748-1750) "The figure was originally part of a show mirror, which Johann Joachim Kändler modeled in Meissen between 1745 and 1750. Kändler himself brought this mirror to Paris as a gift from August 3rd to Louis 15th." Public Domain via the Rijks Museum item BK-1964-21-A. Gift of the Rijksmuseum Foundation.

De muze Urania, Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, ca. 1748 - ca. 1750 - Rijksmuseum

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Fish genetically engineered to glow blue, green, or red under blacklight have been a big hit among aquarium lovers for years. But the fluorescent pet is not restricted to glass displays anymore. The red- and green-glowing versions, more vivid than normal zebrafish even in natural light, have escaped fish farms in southeastern Brazil and are multiplying in creeks in the Atlantic Forest. science.org/content/article/tr…

Science | AAAS

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Conifer-killing bark beetles locate fungal symbionts by detecting volatile fungal metabolites of host tree resin monoterpenes

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#symbiosis


Conifer-killing bark beetles locate fungal symbionts by detecting volatile fungal metabolites of host tree resin monoterpenes

Outbreaks of the Eurasian spruce bark beetle have decimated millions of hectares of conifer forests in Europe in recent years.
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#symbiosis

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About two minutes ahead of schedule, Soyuz MS-23 makes the final approach to dock to the Poisk module. It is currently about 25 meters from the space station.
#ISS
#iss

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Watch live as the uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft approaches the space station. Docking is expected at 8:01pm ET. 📺nasa.gov/live go.nasa.gov/3m6vQip
#ISS

NASA TV Airs Uncrewed Replacement Soyuz Docking to Station

NASA Television, the agency’s website and the NASA app now are providing live coverage of the docking of Soyuz MS-23 to the International Space Station.
go.nasa.gov
#iss

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A @SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft are seen at Launch Complex 39A at sunset as preparations continue for launch of #Crew6 at 1:45am ET on Feb. 27. More 📷: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAt42F
#NASAhqphoto

NASA's SpaceX Crew-6

Explore this photo album by NASA HQ PHOTO on Flickr!
NASA HQ PHOTO (Flickr)
#NasaHQPhoto #Crew6

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The Great Comet of 1881 on June 25-26 at 1h. 30m. A.M. (Plate 11 from The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings 1881)

Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, Public domain, via Aleksandr Yuferev's Flickr at flic.kr/p/24fkpCU

#comet

The Great Comet of 1881 on June 25-26 at 1h. 30m. A.M. (Plate 11 from The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings 1881) Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, Public domain, via Aleksandr Yuferev's Flickr at https://flic.kr/p/24fkpCU

Great comet of 1881 (Etienne Trouvelot)`v02`2000px

Explore Shu-Yu-1958's 84 photos on Flickr!
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Australia when
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RT @OnDeck
Steam Deck started shipping exactly one year ago today. Thank you everyone for an amazing first year of all-in-one portable PC gaming!

The community support and genuine love for Steam Deck has blown the entire team away - and there's much more to come. 🥳
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The Tuxtuac Meteorite fell on October 16, 1975 in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico.

Photographer: Rodney Start. Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)

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The Tuxtuac Meteorite fell on October 16, 1975 in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico. Photographer: Rodney Start. Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)

Tuxtuac meteorite

Stony, Ordinary Chondrite
Museums Victoria Collections
#meteorite

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Now I feel bad for telling her to stop staring at me.
Cat staring at me
Cat looking down.

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"Arrival of the statue of Cybele," Ludwig Gottlieb Portman, after Jacobus Buys, 1796.

"Cornelius Scipio Nasica is chosen to meet the goddess in the harbour of Ostia, and ordered to bring her to Rome with the greatest pomp."

Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Arrival of the statue of Cybele, Ludwig Gottlieb Portman, after Jacobus Buys, 1796. Cornelius Scipio Nasica is chosen to meet the goddess in the harbour of Ostia, and ordered to bring her to Rome with the greatest pomp. Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Aankomst van het beeld van Cybele, Ludwig Gottlieb Portman, naar Jacobus Buys, 1796 - Rijksmuseum

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