Ok, we found something amazing and we demand you to come on a journey with us:

A lot of our offices are like this.

The usual depressing office furniture, the utilitarian bookshelves, the archive trolleys which we *definitely* don’t ride down the corridors and…
…boxes with eighteenth century diaries from Kent.

Just normal archive stuff.
Except this isn’t your normal farm diary.

It's not even a diary.

It’s a Mathematics book owned by someone called Richard Beale, from a farm in Biddenden, Kent.
(As an aside, though, we got this book thanks to a generous donor because it’s connected to some of our farm diaries, which are a lot like normal diaries but with more cows.

We wrote a blog back in 2016 when we first got this family’s diaries: https://t.co/47wOhs1GlT)
Every generation of the Beale family had a Richard, and we think the one who owned this book was 13 years old in 1784.

He used the book for writing out mathematical equations and problems.
(they also had a boy named Seaman in every generation, which is just unfortunate, and a story for another time)
If Richard was indeed the 13 year old, he had a beautiful hand. His mathematics are laid out like a dream.

But, like every teenager, mathematics couldn’t fill the void of Richard's heart.
Richard doodled.
We think his family owned this dog, which pops up all over the place.
Here it is possessed.
Here it is chasing a rabbit with a friend.
This dog has seen some shit.
Richard also starts incorporating his doodles into his mathematics, with beautiful ships, lighthouses, street scenes and trees.
But there’s one thing we didn’t expect to see.
Richard put an 18th century chicken in some trousers.
https://t.co/d6UChyQDXB
Richard Beale is just one of many doodlers throughout history, but it’s through these drawings that people from the past are brought to life and made flesh and blood.

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From today, we will memorize the names of 27 Nakshatras in Vedic Jyotish to never forget in life.

I will write 4 names. Repeat them in SAME sequence twice in morning, noon, evening. Each day, revise new names + recall all previously learnt names.

Pls RT if you are in.

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Today's Nakshatras are:-

1. Ashwini - अश्विनी

2. Bharani - भरणी

3. Krittika - कृत्तिका

4. Rohini - रोहिणी

Ashwini - अश्विनी is the FIRST Nakshatra.

Repeat these names TWICE now, tomorrow morning, noon and evening. Like this tweet if you have revised 8 times as told.

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Today's Nakshatras are:-

5. Mrigashira - मृगशिरा

6. Ardra - आर्द्रा

7. Punarvasu - पुनर्वसु

8. Pushya - पुष्य

First recall previously learnt Nakshatras twice. Then recite these TWICE now, tomorrow morning, noon & evening in SAME order. Like this tweet only after doing so.

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Today's Nakshatras are:-

9. Ashlesha - अश्लेषा

10. Magha - मघा

11. Purvaphalguni - पूर्वाफाल्गुनी

12. Uttaraphalguni - उत्तराफाल्गुनी

Purva means that comes before (P se Purva, P se pehele), and Uttara comes later.

Read next tweet too.

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Purva, Uttara prefixes come in other Nakshatras too. Purva= pehele wala. Remember.

First recall previously learnt 8 Nakshatras twice. Then recite those in Tweet #4 TWICE now, tomorrow morning, noon & evening in SAME order. Like this tweet if you have read Tweets #4 & 5, both.