The first Canadian to fly to the Moon and back. 🥹🌙 We are so proud of you, Jeremy­! 📷: NASA

Excellent meeting with Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney in Ottawa. We discussed Arctic issues as well as strengthening bilateral trade and economic cooperation. Canada is a key strategic partner for Finland. We agreed to further deepen cooperation in the fields of

"New research points to the importance of cemeteries as habitat for ground-nesting bees—an 'exceptionally important' pollinator" Worth a read! scientificamerican.com/article/scient…

Alan Shipp is Britain’s only Hyacinth Grower and is also the Custodian of the National Collection of Hyacinths. He has the world’s largest collection of varieties and knows more about this intriguing plant than anyone else alive. spitalfieldslife.com/2026/04/15/ala…

nytimes.com/2026/04/14/wor… via @NYTimes

The tower where Montaigne did his writing. The third image is an artist’s rendering of what his library shelves would have looked like.

The oldest paved road you can walk in Europe is the Minoan Royal Road in Crete, Greece, which is over 3.500 years old. A 50km roadway connecting the ancient sites of Knossos, Gortyn & Lebena. If you go to Knossos, you will step exactly where the Minoans walked 3.500 years ago.

April in Paris 🌷

One of my better decisions in life was planting these Malus "John Downie" crab apple trees — easy to grow, helpful to pollinators, and so beautiful in the springtime and autumn in particular.

After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.

Noah’s Ark from the medieval manuscript Somme le Roi, produced around 1294.

I just went to look at my bee house and look at the little face I saw looking back at me!

Hummingbird sightings in Stratford and Guelph strongly indicate hummingbirds have reached the north and south shores of Lake Erie.🌊

This just floored me. Scientists discovered 5.6 million ground-nesting bees living under a single cemetery in Ithaca, New York. That’s one of the largest and oldest bee aggregations ever recorded. These aren’t hive bees. About 70% of native bee species in the U.S. nest in the

Prime Minister Mark Carney has been named one of TIME Magazine's “Top 100 Most Influential People of 2026”

A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William Shakespeare’s London home for the first time. cnn.it/4dPyGkL

Who knew an orange peel could hold so much history? 🍊✨ ​In the 18th century, these were known as "Bergamot Boxes"—dainty, hand-crafted trinket holders used in Italy and France to store jewelry, perfumes, and cosmetics. They were prized for their natural citrus scent that

"In Baghdad, every corner is like a thousand-year-old story waiting to be told." 🇮🇶 Agatha Christie enjoying tea on the balcony of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, Baghdad, 1950s

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This is where “uppercase” and “lowercase” came from. In the early days of printing, capital letters were kept in the upper compartments of the type case, while the smaller letters were placed below for easier access.