Andrew Ledford Views

I enjoy doing Community Television and video. My On The Road With Andrew is about local people, history, and events. We are going back into production and will also be doing YouTube videos. Some of my interests include behavior, history, art, geology, archaeology, and nature.

[emmaklee]

Ototo Senbei, Japanese crackers decorated with actual sea creatures

[this-old-stomping-ground]

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

Smallest apt. ever, in Sweden. Where does the shower drain, in the toilet, maybe?

[cair--paravel]

‘Peacock’ corsage ornament by René Lalique. Gold, enamel, opals and diamonds, c. 1898-1900.

[verysupersilly]

Don't trust collectors who say that nasal turbinates don't matter.

The inside of an animal’s nasal cavity tells us lots of information about the environment it lived in and the family it belongs to. Aggressive treatments such as boiling damage them: anyone who uses those methods to “clean” bones is not a true enthusiast.

In the photo: harp seal, wolverine, striped hyena, cheetah.

[memories-of-ancients]

Rhyton in the shape of a dog's head, Greece, circa 480 BC

from The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

[tridentandtales]

Etruscan hand mirror engraved with the goddess Eos carrying the body of her son Memnon

470 - 450 BCE

The Art Institute of Chicago 1984.1341

[filmcourage]

Karmic Winds: Reflections from the "Smartest Guy in Hollywood" - Peter M. Hoffman [FULL INTERVIEW]

Watch the video interview on YouTube here.

[amnhnyc]

It’s Trilobite Tuesday! Pictured above is a Ceratonurus trilobite from Oklahoma. Strikingly similar examples of this genus have been found some 4,970 mi (8,000 km) away in Morocco, such as the one pictured below. This serves as an example of evidence of plate tectonics, which explains how continents move ever-so-slowly over the course of hundreds-of-millions of years.

[ancient-rome-au]

Some of my favorite YouTubers collaborated to drop videos at the same time on the influence of Neoplatonism on Christianity

[deborah22]

[lionofchaeronea]

Flint handaxe, dated to between 500,000 and 180,000 years ago (Lower Paleolithic). The axe belongs to the Acheulean lithic culture, associated with early hominins such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis. Acheulean handaxes have been found at sites such as Boxgrove in southern England, as well as roughly contemporary sites in Africa; they were ultimately supplanted by the more sophisticated Levallois stone tools of the Mousterian culture associated with the Neanderthals.

This handaxe was found in Hampshire, England, UK. It is now in the British Museum.

Photo credit: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum | Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

[blueiscoool]

TIFFANY STUDIOS 'Nautilus' Desk Lamp

Leaded glass, gilt bronze. Base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 634. Circa 1915.

[myhouseofartifacts]

Clay Figurine ("Dogū") with Goggle-Like Eyes. Jōmon period, 1000–400 BC. Terra-cotta(Fired clay). .

[armthearmour]

A fantastic grotesque Sallet in the form of a dragon, attributed to Lorenz and Kolman Helmschmid,

Length: 18.2 in/46.2 cm

Width: 10 in/25.5 cm

Height: 8.7 in/22.1 cm

Weight: 5.6 lbs/2520 g

Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1490-1500, housed at the Real Armería, Madrid.

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze incense burner in the form of a dragon, Japan, circa 1800-1870

from The Cernuschi Museum, Paris

[boop428-deactivated20260202]

The Nebra Sky Disc - the oldest depiction of the cosmos in the world; showing the sun, moon and several other celestial constellations.

Found in a burial in Saxony - Germany, associated with the Bronze Age Únětice Culture

Dated to 1600 BC