[Sawdring]

[Sirius Lee]

That’s Johnny “Many Fingers” Provenzano. He’s a bit of a rake.

[Charles Henrickson]

As a student of ancient linguistics, I think I can deciper those letters. Let's see . . . Yep, got it:

BESURETODRINK
YOUROVALTINE

[bgill]

Ooooh, the drawing of him with a sword and killing someone will get him expelled from school!!!!!

[rlmorel]

There are some things that are just universal:

If they weren't daydreaming, they would have been texting!

[Palio di Siena]

impressive that a 7 year old medieval youngster could write. illiteracy was the norm. although it doesn’t appear that he was writing in cursive.

[The Toll]

Why did they Photoshop out the Kalashnikovs?

[PROCON]

Those are Aliens!

I KNEW I wasn't the only one to see them!

[Flick Lives]

But as it turns out, this historically significant settlement of northern Russia is also home to around thousand personal ‘tomes’ that are inscribed on bark of birch trees and are almost preserved in perfect condition. In fact, historians hypothesize that there are 20,000 similar specimens still waiting to be salvaged from the conducive anaerobic clay soil layers of the city environs.

What a wonderful treasure trove waiting to be uncovered. It is also unusual to have documents like these scribbling from a young boy. Often, the only thing that survives from the past, perhaps because paper or writing medium in the past was generally precious, are official documents. It would be like having the IRS tax code survive the next 1,000 years, and nothing else. How dreary would that be for a future historian!

[Ted Grant]

And by “universality,” they don’t mean the whole universe.

[bravo whiskey]

Cool. Alexander Nevsky fighting the German knights made into a film in 1938 by Eisenstein. Can use it in my Leningrad and Army Group North class in the fall

[PCPOET7]

a 15000 years from now they will be marveling at the crayon drawings found preserved some where.

[JoeProBono]

Medieval handmade pitchfork

[Rebelbase]

Some sort of alien radiation accident left members of the tribe with 8 fingers on one hand.

[Old Yeller]

Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't he deserve better?

[flaglady47]

It’s Edward Scissorhands.

[GOPJ]

Large head - thinks he’s smart... no body to speak of...

My guess - - child labor - working and training as a scribe...

[Ciexyz]

That’s his teacher. Learn your letters or else, kid.

[bert]

Seven year olds really got around