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An antique 1870s Cashmere Shawl that’s also a map of Kashmir.

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3 transphobic arguments to be aware of (so you don't go down the alt right pipeline)

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Easily one of the most important videos I've seen since the election.

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did you know red snapper can live for over 100 years…. whatre they DOING down there

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Sir Terry Pratchett awakens. A skeleton stands at his bedside, wearing a long black robe. He sits up. “Well, hang on, let me get my hat,” he tells it.

The skeleton reaches into its robe. From abyssal depths it produces a heavy book bound in sheets of lead and night. It is the kind of book that gets stolen by a rugged adventurer from a temple with more spike-traps than the average house of worship contains. It is the kind of book to which the word “tome” might properly be applied. Frost forms on its pages from the lingering chill of the void. 

The skeleton coughs once and holds the book out to the man sitting on the bed.

WOULD YOU SIGN THIS? it asks. BIG FAN.

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“Belarusian was already significantly different from Russian and other Slavic languages when it was first mentioned. Historical documents in the Belarusian language first appeared after the Belarusians adopted Christianity. In 986, Icelandic missionary Thorvald Konradsson baptized the Belarusian lands. Even then, however, the Belarusians rejected the rules of the Old Church Slavonic language in favor of their own. Later, in the 13th-16th centuries, Belarus was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Europe’s largest state since the 14th century. In addition to the Belarusian lands, the principality included the territories of the modern Baltic states, as well as parts of Ukraine, Russia, and Poland.”

“A key figure in the history of the Belarusian language is Francysk Skaryna, who played a huge role in the birth of the entire East Slavic book printing. His name is mentioned on par with such famous figures of the European Renaissance as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Jan Amos Komensky. Francysk Skaryna went down in history as the “father of Eastern European book publishing” for printing the first Bible in Old Belarusian in 1517. This is how Belarusian became the first East Slavic language in which book printing began. Francysk Skaryna’s legacy numbers 520 books, many of which are in Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany.”

❖ A nation made speechless: A chronicle of the Belarusian language destruction, from the Bolsheviks to Lukashenko

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rest in fucking pieces, mr. darcy

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Jim Kirk & Spock in STAR TREK (1966–1969)

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who’s got that one gif of Captain Kirk doing this I Need it

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wow i really just followed an abled person who says shit like “differently-abled”... that hasnt happened in years. i forgot yall were like that

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my trick for getting through grad school is learning to navigate the quadrants with all their nuances

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Me, Catholic, walking into a Protestant church with no depictions of Mary: where’s my mom

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There's an obscure and criminally underrated anime based on the children's book "You're Umasou" which follows a young tyrannosaurus unwittingly adopting a newborn ankylosaurus and having to raise him. This film deserves more attention.