"The First Dinosaur" by Ian Lendler. Coming out Fall 2019. The story of Megalosaurus and the history of dinosaur-discovery. William Buckland fan.
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This is life in my California backyard right now. Today's forecast was for sunny skies. Instead, there's ash covering everything. There are a dozen separate fires burning.
California is a postcard from the future.
#ClimateChange #ClimateActionNow #medfordfires
William Smith was born #onthisday in 1769. The son of a blacksmith, he became 1 of England's best engineers during the era of canal-building.
However, his greatest accomplishment was single-handedly creating the 1st geological map of the UK which now resides in @geolsoc.
In 1786, Charles Wilson Peale opened America's 1st museum in his home in Philadelphia. It was dedicated to all things American.
In 1793, yellow fever struck. Peale barricaded his family inside the museum, and they lived by eating the display animals- a live bald eagle and a bear
The @UniofOxford’s 1st Prof of Geology, William Buckland was born #Onthiday in 1784.
He discovered the 1st dinosaur
Ate a king’s heart (seriously)
Owned a pet hyena
& a pet bear
& helped discover the history of our planet.
@morethanadodo @visitaxminster @geolsoc @NHM_london
Mary Anning died #onthisday in 1847. She was 1 of history's great paleontologists but lived in constant poverty. This pic from the @geolsoc was made to raise money for her. It's the 1st representation of a pre-historic ecosystem and shows many of her discoveries.
@lymeregismuseum
This story has slowly been forgotten, and with it, the idea that some of these fables were slave narratives, with advice for how to survive in a world that is sometimes cruel.
If you'd like to learn more, please check out my book coming out March 10th. Pre-order now.
#Classical historians called this story of Aesop's life "one of the only truly popular stories handed down from antiquity."
It was passed thru generations for a thousand years until the invention of the printing press, when it became the 1st illustrated book ever printed...
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But the #fable was a highly prized story-form in Ancient Greece. Aesop's ability to create new fables was so great (as in the The Lion and the Mouse, pictured below), and his advice so wise....
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