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Can you explain about fucking up the tow ropes please?

so the canal with the corkscrew bridge used to be used by small barges that were mostly pulled by horses, so they had to make a special bridge design just for that to prevent the horse from going over the bridge and the tow rope just getting stuck up there:

this bridge is an example of number 4!

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Untitled, by Julie Mehretu, 2005.

Ethiopian-born American contemporary painter, born in 1970.

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life

send me an ask

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The Daycare

When I was a King and a Baby -- yet burdened with unskilled hands --

My works were wrought for me by giants, who harkened to my commands.

For me they drew oceans of water; for me they hewed forests of wood;

And though they were foolish and clumsy, I’m sure they did all that they could.  

But every slave is a villain, and every love betrays,

And my giants schemed to dethrone me and return to their idle days.

In the dark of the morning they seized me, without any reason or rhyme,

To carry me off to a prison where I languished for time beyond time. 

In that dismal place I grew stronger, and harder, and cunning, and bold; 

And took heart in the secrets and stories that the other prisoners told.  

For a hoary old toddler once whispered, as I lay in my gloom on the floor:

“Even this Hell will be Harrowed.  In time, you will go home once more.”

So I clutched to my hopes, and I waited; I sat at the feet of the the wise;

I sifted the lessons of power from the words of my jailers’ lies.

Then after an aeon, or twenty -- my giants appeared at the gate!

With penitent tears they embraced me, and returned me to royal estate.  

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When I was a King and a Baby, in the masterful noon of my reign,

I endured, with solemn acceptance, endless treasons in my domain.

In time They would always turn rebel; in time, They would cast me away;

And in time They would always return, to raise me up high.  Yet again.  Come what may.

I await now my durance with patience.  When it comes, I shed nary a tear --

But abide, and comfort my fellows, through all their despairing fear.  

And this above all do I teach them, as a King in that wretched corps:

“Even this Hell will be Harrowed.  In time, you will go home once more.”

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Luna full-body reference, with Celestia for comparison.

And original designs for comparison and design notes under the cut:

Tulli worked with me a bit more on Luna. We decided to have her in a regency era dress, which matches the period of time that she was banished during (the 1820s); in stark contrast is Celestia's more modern art deco dress from the 1920s. Also in contrasts: Celestia is structured and rigid with bold lines while Luna is flowing and organic with flowers and rounded laces. Regency dresses are very youthful-looking without a lot of frills and stiff parts, while still remaining very regal and elegant. Her dark fabrics have, Epiphyllum oxypetalums, or "Princesses of the Night," embroidered on them. Her color palette was given a more cool tone to match her original design's palette.

Within the story of the AU, after returning to Canterlot, Luna cuts her hair (the source of a witch's power) short to temper herself. She wears a blue veil meant to look like her show version's hair to cover Nightmare Moon's face, which is always silhouetted in the back of her hair. The blotch on her left breast is meant to reference her cutie mark. Probably a scar from her banishment.

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Argentina Cafayate, Salta, pic.twitter.com/b2UCZWnzNd

— Graffiti&UrbanArt (@konstruktivizm) May 11, 2018

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Would you rather...

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Layer by layer

May 2021

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The World Heritage Site of Lalibela is famed for its striking churches, hewn from the surrounding rock some 800 years ago, Ethiopia, 2018 - by George Steinmetz (1957), American

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Zen Iizuka aka Child0ut aka Hamu0n (Japanese, b. 2000, based Tokyo, Japan) - Untitled, Paintings: Digital Art

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Factories in Japan ph. Tetsurou Kobayashi

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Sinksty percent off

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John Salminen (American b.1945), City At Night, Watercolor on paper

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ok. because my whole like mutual group is all different interests rn. reblog and tag what interest/fandom/media you associate with prev that you've never been into, but know some about because of them