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caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and I've got flouride stare

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Preaching the First Crusade at Clermont, 1460, Jean Fouquet

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Liver of Piacenza - bronze model of a sheep’s liver for the practice of Haruspicy -  Etruscan - 2nd century BCE

In ancient Babylon the liver was considered the source of the blood and hence the basis of life itself. From this belief, the Babylonians thought they could discover the will of the gods by examining the livers of carefully selected sacrificial sheep. Haruspicy in ancient Italy originated with the Etruscans, but was incorporated into Roman culture. Roman haruspicy was a form of communication with the gods. This form of Roman divination allowed humans to discern the attitudes of the gods and react in a way that would maintain harmony between the human and divine worlds.  This bronze model of a sheep’s liver was found by chance by a farmer in 1877. Names of Etruscan gods are etched into the surface and organized into different sections.

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You walk up to the tournament setup and I’m wearing this

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sliced my thumb open on my toenail, didn't even know that was possible

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“Shower [a man] with all earthly blessings, drown him in happiness totally up to his head, so much so that only little bubbles leap up to the surface of this happiness, as they do on water; give him such economical satisfaction that he would have nothing at all more to do than to sleep, to eat gingerbread and to trouble himself over the ceaselessness of world history – and then, right there, this man, from ingratitude alone, from calumny alone, will do something nasty. He will even risk his gingerbread and will purposely want the most pernicious rubbish, the most uneconomical nonsense, solely in order to mix into all this positive prudence his own pernicious fantastical element. It is exactly this, his fantastic dreams, his most vulgar stupidity, that he will want to hold close to himself for the sole purpose of confirming to himself (as if it were really necessary), that people are still people and not piano keys upon which the laws of nature play with their own hands, threatening to play them so much that it will be impossible to want anything that is not according to the calendar.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

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Chalice of Emperor Romanos, Byzantine, 10th century

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Source “Cowquest 2” by Andrew Wagster (1993) [COWQUST2.ZZT] - “Beefy Booboo Burger” Play This World Online

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Mistigram: AdeptApril has used a signal lamp to transmit the theme of this #ANSIart screen appropriately, for #MorseCode Day!

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I’ve collected quite a few vintage dragons – see what treasures they’re guarding!

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you arent a real gamer until you played this

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In the early 1900s, a man couldn’t afford proper dentures, so he made his own using melted down toothbrush handles and the teeth of a dead coyote. After years of wearing them, in 1946 a local dentist was so impressed with this ingenuity that he offered to make the man a professional set in exchange for the coyote dentures. The teeth are now in the collection of the Eastern California Museum, in Independence, CA.

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Rural Americans in the mid-19th century.

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i wish i was a member of a medieval guild working on a gothic cathedral as an apprentice to a master craftsman

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>Looking for a field to expand the realm of human knowledge

>Ask the university research team if they do Science or Taxonomy

>They don’t understand

>I pull out an illustrated diagram explaining what science is and what taxonomy is

>she laughs and says “it’s a good lab sir”

>decide to do my phd there

>it’s taxonomy