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In 2005, women in Georgia averaged just 1.4 babies each—among the lowest in the world. However, they managed to raise this to 2.1 by 2014. That’s a 50% increase in under a decade. They are the only nation to successfully reverse declining birthrates. Here’s how they did it: 🧵

This story deserves to be better known outside of China. The 18 signatories of the Xiaogang document were unsung heroes of legalism - freeing themselves from oppression not by violent revolt but by designing a new system of incentives to which to subject themselves. (1/n)

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Roman banded agate intaglio with a depiction of the faun Pan, seated on a rock and gazing at a theatrical mask. c.1st century BC, Albion Art Institute.

Copper mask from Ife, Nigeria, in approximately the 14th century. It was likely meant to serve as a mask for the king.

Noah Nonsense A very scruffy looking abandoned kitten was hiding under a car on the house we rent. Took us hours to coax her out. She did not want to be held at first, which is why she was in the box. We now have a kitten🥰

An early daguerreotype showing the city of Stockholm, Sweden in 1846.

Lethal Cambodia-Thailand border clash linked to cyber-scam slave camps dlvr.it/TMCVkd

“Baghdad, City of Caliphs,” photo published in 1925.

Have you visited the iconic York Minster yet?

In July, new translations from Abū Maʿshar, Dorotheus, Rhetorius, and Theophilus were produced.

Kolossi is one of the best-preserved Crusader castles on Cyprus. Pretty simple—just a square keep and the remains of the sugar works—but some murals also survive.

Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿 I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮

Dur-Sharrukin (Fortress of Sargon), Iraq

King Louis Philippe I of France, the first monarch to be photographed, 1841.

Today is Lammas, an Anglo-Saxon harvest festival celebrated on 1 August. The name comes from the Old English word 'hlafmæsse', 'loaf-mass', so it's a festival of bread - perhaps a day for blessing loaves of bread made from the first wheat of the harvest. patreon.com/posts/weaving-…

Landowners from all over England gathered at Old Sarum, Wiltshire, #OTD in 1086. They swore fealty to King William I, and in return he shared with them the draft results of the Domesday Survey. This provided the visitors security of tenure after years of tumult. 📸Visit Wiltshire

On #YorkshireDay, enjoy this lovely railway poster of the Yorkshire Dales by Ladybird artist Ronald Lampitt