The latest linkspage is on padlocks.

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Some new linkspages for you to sink your teeth into: bakers & ovens, bakers’ molds, and wafer irons.

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Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption opened today at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and will run there through June 22.

Arms and Armor from Imperial Austria opened today at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and will run there through June 1.

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And the new topics to announce today: apothecaries & apothecary-jars, hourglasses & sandglasses, potters & potters’ wheels; and shoemakers & cordwainers.

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The tiny Channel Island of Sark will meet on Thursday to discuss plans to bring Europe’s last feudal state in line with western democracies.

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The remains, which bear the hallmarks of having been hanged, drawn and quartered, are thought to be those of Sir Hugh Despenser the Younger, who was executed as a traitor in 1326.

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American tycoon Donald Trump is being investigated over the use of a coat of arms to promote his planned £1bn Scottish golf resort.
An inquiry was launched by the official heraldic authority for Scotland in case he has breached ancient laws.

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The Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder is holding its annual conference, “From Buddha’s Belly to St. Bridget’s Head: Sacred and Devotional Objects, East-West,” on Thursday, Feb. 14, and Friday, Feb. 15.

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Now at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles — Rare Finds: Ten Years of Collecting Manuscripts, featuring selected manuscript acquisitions since the Getty Center opened in 1997.

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… and this one’s on girdle books.

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