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norse pagan prideposting

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Evening dress, c. 1910-1915

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extremely funny kylix of athena saving jason from the serpent protecting the golden fleece where jason is just flopping out of the serpent's mouth. like hey girl. what am i up to? oh just hanging out. yeah i got eaten by the snake. it happens. mind giving a brother a hand. cute owl btw

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Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc

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Byzantine mosaics, assorted locations

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my phone thinks I’m dating emperor augustus

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Unknown Photographer. Anonymous Roller race. England. 1930

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☀️Happy Summer Solstice☀️

(on this side!)

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NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter.

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The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab was an educational toy for kids containing, among other things a Geiger-counter… and live Uranium!

It was sold in the USA in the 1950′s and was advertised as being, “Exciting! Safe!”

In the early 1970′s, my parents bought me chemistry and electronic labs, which were sold in the UK as educational toys. I had my own laboratory in a shed at the bottom of the garden. I quickly discovered that by mixing the chemicals supplied with the toy with certain other substances… I could make some really big bangs. 

I shudder to think what might have happened if I’d had access to radioactive elements as well!

Thank you to @skippyv20 for the information.

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The Icelandic word ljótur is believed to be originally derived from the same root as the English word light and German Licht. This meaning likely survives in the masculine name Ljótur and its derivatives, which probably originally meant someone with a fair complexion or blond hair.

One way or another, however, semantic drift over more than a thousand years has resulted in the word ljótur paradoxically coming to mean ugly in modern Icelandic. Its meaning is somewhat broader than in English: it’s most literally used for something or someone aesthetically unappealing, but it’s also used to refer to something that is morally questionable, wrong or evil.

Therefore, the appropriate Icelandic title for the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is Ljótur, ljótur og ljótur. Thank you for coming to my TED talk

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1522 Hans Krell - Portrait of Georg der Fromme von Brandenburg

(Hungarian National Museum)

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Self-portrait of Louis XIII, painted by him at the age of 6.France, 1607

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No tech CEO or NYT bestselling novelist will ever match the creativity of a humble French postman who decided on a whim to spend thirty-three years building a surreal, majestic palace with the bricks and mortar of his dreams.

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LAND OF GIANTS by Choi+Shine transforms mundane electrical pylons into statues on the Icelandic landscape.