#Amber Room

[ancientorigins]

The Amber Room, once acclaimed as the 'Eighth Wonder of the World,' was a magnificent chamber adorned with amber, gold, and precious stones. The mystery surrounding its disappearance during WWII has sparked ongoing quests to recover this legendary treasure.

A gem of Russian artistry, the Amber Room has a tumultuous history. Originally gracing Charlottenburg Palace, this dazzling creation survived wars only to mysteriously vanish during WWII. Recent discoveries near Hitler's former military command center continue to fuel speculation, as experts diligently follow the trail of clues that may lead to the recovery of this fabled treasure."

[archivist-crow]

Odds and Ends:

THE AMBER ROOM

In April 1717, the Amber Room, "Eighth Wonder of the World," was packed up in crates and shipped by horse and cart from Berlin to St. Petersburg, Russia, as a gift to Tzar Peter I from Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm. Twelve years in the making, though incomplete, the room consisted of over 100,000 pieces of carved amber—golden prehistoric tree resin—placed in panels. It was a puzzle to Russian craftsmen when it arrived and stayed in the crates for fifteen years. Eventually Tzarina Elisabeth requested that it be completed and mounted. Another fifteen years later, the room was open to the public for the first time in 1746.

Ten years after that, Catherine the Great had the treasure moved to the imperial summer residence in Tsarskoye Selo, where it stayed until the outbreak of World War II. In 1941, when German troops advanced into the area, the room was given a quick camouflage of paper and gauze; however, Nazi soldiers discovered the panels, packed them into twenty-seven crates, and moved them to Königsberg. A few years later, they were recrated to protect them from bombing, but when the Soviet army regained the city in 1945, the Amber Room had vanished.

Covering fifty-five square meters of wall, the amber panels were interspersed with eight mirrored pilasters and mosaics of semiprecious gems depicting the five senses. An exquisitely painted ceiling, rare wood mosaic floor, and bottom panels of carved amber lined with gold foil completed the room. Rumors suggest that the panels were hidden in a silver mine or buried by the shores of a murky lagoon, which have since been swallowed by water. In 1997, the son of a Nazi officer who was involved with the crating was arrested trying to sell a piece of mosaic, but no one knew where the piece came from.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

[southcarolinawoman]

Amber Room

[afrenchladyinnc]

[delicious-friend]

The Amber Room was pretty mid and tacky tbh.

[jonathanmorse]

Via submersible to Kaliningrad

[longelk]

some more Inscryptions drawn as Flight Risings :)

part 1

[norue67]

Draw me like one of your Fontaine girls

[shesmokes-inbed]

Oh to have a room like Chloe's

[thankstothe]

MMM YEAH.

many interesting questions right here!

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 46: Early Modernish and Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[lifeisstrange-incorrectquotes]

Chloe, pretending to joke: So when are you going to go out with me?

Rachel: I don't know. When are you going to ask me to?

(Later)

Max: And then you just ran away?!

Chloe: I didn't expect her to flirt back!! 

[agawilder]

FINALLY i overcame my depression and imiedietly went to create this lil comic ( chatacters here are 18 yo )

THIS IS TRUE 100% hehe

[southcarolinawoman]

"Touch and Smell" mosaic from The Amber Room

[fullmetal-angelgrace]

wilson tries the entire episode (8x02) to hate house, wilson's patient talks negatively about her ex boyfriend and how he was a bad influence.

wilson gets advice from house to stop accepting the patient's wishes to die - to try harder - by doing something no normal doctor would: he calls her ex boyfriend who enables her alcoholism, who convinces her to do the painful but life extending treatment, and she gets back together with her ex boyfriend, so she's alive but back in a relationship that might ultimately be bad for her.

then wilson allows house back into his life so they can continue to be each other's enablers and bad influences, feeling alive again.... but also back in a relationship that might ultimately be bad for him 🫠

[v1tfrma]