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December 6, 2013 12:51 am PST
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Medieval kids' birch-barkdoodles
Michael sez, "Apparently medieval Russian schoolroooms used birch bark for things like writing practice. Erik Kwakkel, medieval book historian at Leiden University, Netherlands, has some charming photos of stick-figure illustrations on bark by kids who, like kids everywhere, got a bit bored with the lesson and started doodling in the margins.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/qBdRGancIeU/story01.htm
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