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Silver plate depicting David slaying a lion, Byzantine, circa 630 AD

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Glass goblet with kufic inscription "Drink! Blessings from God to the owner of the goblet", Iraq or Syria, 8th-9th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Carnelian bust of Galena, Roman, 1st century AD

from The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

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Ghost Glass Frog (Sachatamia ilex), family Centrolenidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Igor Sarmientos Melgar

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Herodes Atticus

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Arch of Germanicus.

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I present to you the absolute critter: the honeycomb catfish

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Day 1212 of posting pictures of elephants.

Source: Phuket Elephant Sanctuary

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Orange-eyed Leaf Frog aka Blue-sided Leaf Frog (Agalychnis annae), family Hylidae, Costa Rica

photograph by Angi Wallace

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New Taxa Added: Malayan Tapirs

And yes, this photoset includes the public debut of the internet's beloved plum princess, Ume.

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Sometimes I think about how hard it must have been for Asha after the rebellion: two older brothers dead for ultimately nothing gained, pointlessly gone to an early grave. Her younger brother taken hundreds of miles away, who knows if he'll ever return. A mother growing more mad by the day, filling the hole in her heart with adopted children and the fading memory of sons she's lost. Suddenly thrust into the spotlight of Balon's attention, Balon who if Asha's "I thought their ghosts only haunted father" line, is grieving in his own way, building misguided hope for the old way through the only child left to him.

Theon may be the ghost of Winterfell, but Asha spent spent the entirety of her childhood among the ghosts of Pyke, living and dead, and I can't imagine that was much easier than Theon's lot even if Asha ultimately made the best of things 🥲

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House Webber, Houses Bracken/Ryswell, House Baratheon, House Beesbury, House Lyberr, Houses Lynderly/Paege, the Wild Hares, Houses Blackwood/Corbray/Morrigen, House Bulwer, House Swann, House Florent, and House Mertyns

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Did Medieval People Discover Dinosaurs? Rethinking Fossils in the Middle Ages

Could medieval people have found dinosaur bones? This article explores how fossils may have shaped medieval legends, religious relics, and monstrous beasts long before science named them.

Read here

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Coronated or Spiny-headed Tree Frogs (Triprion spinosus), family Hylidae, Costa Rica

Top 3- Water filled tree hole where the eggs were laid, eggs, tadpoles. (The mother returns periodically to lay infertile eggs, which the young will eat.)

M- Metamorph.

B - Adult.

photographs by Emanuele Biggi 

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“I Shall Tell You of Fair Grace”: John Page and the Siege of Rouen

The harrowing events of the 1418 Siege of Rouen, as depicted in a medieval eyewitness poem, serve as the inspiration for the Soldier of Fortune novels, where John Page becomes a soldier, outlaw, and reluctant hero.

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Roman bronze coin (26 mm, 13.41 g) of the ill-fated emperor P. Septimius Geta (r. 209-211 CE), younger son of Septimius Severus and brother of Caracalla, by whom he was murdered. The coin is notable because the reverse features the famous temple of Petra in the Nabataean kingdom (present-day Jordan). Within the temple facade is a statue of the personified Tyche (Fortune) of Petra.

Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported