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Suspended Floral Installations by Rebecca Louise Law

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J. M. W. Turner (detail)

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mars surface sedimentary rock via Mars Hand Lens Imager

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Kyoto, Japan. © | richard evea (Do not remove credits)

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live and breathe by ajpscs no rules, no limitations, no boundaries it’s like an art http://flic.kr/p/2SR1Xe

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yellow-buds-of-may: Jūnihitoe, antique kimono, the so called twelve-layer robe from the Heian era, Japan.

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Unryu-in temple, Kyoto, Japan via αcafe | My Sony Club

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Small Sword and Scabbard

Dated: 1750 - 1820

Maker: Rundell Bridge & Rundell (jeweller)

Culture: British and German

Medium and techniques: steel, gold, diamonds, rubies/chiselled, cast

Provenance: purchased by George IV circa 1820 - “… placed in the Windsor Armoury by command of His Majesty King Edward VII in August, 1901”. According to Laking it had formerly been kept among the Coronation Regalia of George IV, having been worn by him.“

The hilt of the sword is of cast and chased gold. The pommel is in the form of a barred helmet surmounted by a recumbent lion. The grip and guards are studded with numerous diamonds set in the form of bands of foliage. These elements are probably by a German goldsmith, active circa 1750. After the sword had been acquired by George IV around 1820 it was embellished with additional diamonds by the royal goldsmiths Rundell, Bridge and Rundell. The scabbard has two large brilliant stones that were also supplied by Rundells.

Source: Copyright © 2015 Royal Collection Trust/Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

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 Vase of Flowers, 1722 by Jan van Huysum

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A 17th-Century Drinking Game

This glass was designed to drench the drinker in alcohol, and put on an entertaining display for onlookers. What is better than that? 

“Joke glasses” challenged drinkers to figure out how to get the alcohol out with minimal spillage. If they spilled? The glass then refilled. This one is the world’s only intact example resembling a man.

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Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center 2013 (by SheltieBoy)