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Erika Giovanna Klien (Austrian-American, 1900-1957) - Lokomotive (Locomotive), oil and tempera on canvas, 60.00 x 99.00 cm (1926)

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1997 - 2003) ⏤ 6.05, Life Serial ⏤ Amber Benson at the GalaxyCon Q&A Panel

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Thirteen Ways of Responding to the Human Predicament

The raised eyebrow The look askance The shrug The headshake The muttered imprecation The grimace The wan smile The mordant chortle The fit of hysterical laughter The fist pumped defiantly in the air The sigh The compulsive yawn An irresistible urge to curl into a ball and sleep.

-- from: Melancholia poems by Adam Horvath

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Triad of Menkaure

Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty, ca. 2613-2494 BC. Valley Temple of Menkaure at Giza. Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 46499

This sculpted triad, a three-person statue, shows King Menkaure between two ladies. The goddess Hathor is on his right and goddess (Bat) the personification of Cynopolis, the 17th nome of Upper Egypt, is on his left.

The King wears the crown of Upper Egypt and has a false beard. He wears the short pleated Shendyt kilt and holds two small cylindrical objects. The two ladies wear tight fitting dresses and have three-part wigs. They each hold in one hand the Shen sign of power and embrace the king with the other hand.

King Menkaure triad is one of 5 triads were found in the valley in 1908, three of them are exhibited in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, while the other 2 are in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

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Teresa Cerutti-Simmons

The Goddess of the Chase, etching 1934

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A parliament of owls, a murder of crows, an ostentation of peacocks... How bird groupings got their strange and wondrous names (involving a forgotten 15th-century woman and some lovely vintage illustrations by Brian Wildsmith, like the one pictured here).

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The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting for the Man

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Pictorial cloth bindings, Michael Moon’s Bookshop, Whitehaven.

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1928 c. Henrich Hoffman uranium glass pin tray "Girl in Pool". From Art Deco, FB.

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Archaeopteryx 🪶

aka “Small Wing”

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Bacchus and Ariadne by Giambattista Pittoni (1720)

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marvelous, opaque, orb. night-light for the world ☾

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Alternate poster art by Bob Peak for Excalibur (1981)