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Gold ring, Merovingian France, 6th-7th century AD

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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missed this by a day whoops

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by giorgio_filippini_photographer

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Man Ray. Group portrait with Leonor Fini, c. 1930

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In fact, Cleopatra and her eldest child had an unusually close relationship, unique in Ptolemaic history (her father had killed his eldest child), with not only the vigorous promotion of Caesar’s parentage but numerous representations of him in art and citation of him on inscriptions, even suggesting a parallel with the divine single mother Isis and her child.

Cleopatra: A Biography -  Duane W. Roller

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—Did you know that Juneteenth is also celebrated in a part of Mexico? Nacimiento Mexico was once home to thousands who escaped slavery in the US. As many as 10,000 slaves followed a clandestine Southern Underground Railroad to Mexico. —To date, many Black Mexicans from the Texas area retrace a portion of the same route their African American ancestors followed in 1850 when they escaped slavery. —Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions in the village of Nacimiento. —Slave hunters would patrol the southern border for escapees, led by the Texas Rangers but the Mexican army would be there waiting for them (the slave hunters) to turn them away.

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Detail from the “unswept floor” mosaic made by Heraclitus, showing a mouse eating a walnut. 2nd century CE, now on display at the Vatican Museums.

Imagine trying to clean this floor–or even walk across it–and constantly wondering, “Wait. Is that one REAL?”

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being in academia is kind of like where you're on everest and you see the frozen bodies of the other people who've tried it strewn about everywhere and you think "okay, but that's them and i'm me"

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Letting some 80 year old rapist sell off our cherished PUBLIC LANDS is why you should never vote for Republicans.

During his very active presidency, Theodore Roosevelt established approximately 230 million acres of public lands between 1901 and 1909, including 150 national forests, the first 55 federal bird reservation and game preserves, 5 national parks, and the first 18 national monuments.

I wonder if Trump knows Teddy was a republican.

Leaving the planet/country much, much worse off is MAGA101.

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"This Nation will not cease to irritate and torment you, both with Flattery and Reproach till they force you out, that they may have the pleasure of insulting and abusing you. If you were capable of eternal Taciturnity in Publick, and incessant confidential Correspondence and Secret Intrigue in private, you might Arrive to the height of Reputation of Washington or Franklin, but what is all that worth?"

-- John Adams, to John Quincy Adams, February 19, 1812

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"To me there is something fine in the American theory that a private citizen can be chosen by the people to occupy a position as great as that of the mightiest monarch, and to exercise a power which may for the time being surpass that of Czar, Kaiser, or Pope, and that then, after having filled this position, the man shall leave it as an unpensioned private citizen, who goes back into the ranks of his fellow citizens with entire self-respect, claiming nothing save what on his own individual merits he is entitled to receive.

But it is not in the least fine, it is vulgar and foolish, for the President or ex-President to make believe, and, of all things in the world, to feel pleased if other people make believe, that he is a kind of second-rate or imitation king...The effort to combine incompatibles merely makes a man look foolish. The positions of President and King are totally different in kind and degree, and it is silly, and worse than silly, to forget this. It is not of much consequence whether other people accept the American theory of the Presidency; but it is of very much consequence that the American people, including especially any American who has held the office, shall accept the theory and live up to it."

-- Former President Theodore Roosevelt, letter to G.O. Trevelyan, October 1, 1911.

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the real reason of the duel

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Imagine your favorite historical figure being able to see how sad their family is when they died.

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sportsmen in a tavern - justus juncker (1735)

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Day and Night (1851-1914) by Edward Robert Hughes