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op's source is a post on VK, large social media platform in Russia and formerly USSR; caption info is translated from original post.

KhMAO-Yugra refers to Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, one of Russia's western Siberian federal subjects.

[I cannot find more about the photographer or much about the museum mentioned in the post, probably because of the language barrier.]

Khanty girls from village of Russkinskaya, Surgutsky District of KhMAO-Yugra, 1990s.

Photography by Alexey Bessmertnykh, from Russkinskaya Museum of Nature and Man named after Aleksandr Pavlovich Yadroshnikov.

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(x) original tweet from Yolanda de Lucchi (2022), professor at University of Málaga

(x) original blog post by Museum Fatigue (2020), image taken in Jiangnan Imperial Examination Museum in Nanjing (江南贡院)

Confiscated pens containing cheat notes intricately carved by a student at the University of Malaga, Spain. (2022)

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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy driving a needle exchange van in San Francisco during the HIV/AIDS Crisis, 1980s

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When the Soviet Union achieved success in the Space Race, it commemorated that achievement with a postage stamp. Many of these stamps were beautifully designed, promising an exciting technological future.

These stamps tell the story not only of the Soviet space program but of the USSR itself as it went from the triumphs of the 1960s to more mundane accomplishments by the 1980s.

This week, a look at these little pieces of Soviet space propaganda — along with some of the failures that never ended up on a stamp as the USSR erased them from public memory.

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description by owning kemper art museum in st. louis, missouri (x)

A leading figure of the European avant-garde after World War I, the German Dada and Surrealist artist Max Ernst painted this hallucinatory landscape while in exile in the United States during World War II. Ernst incorporated into the composition of his artworks elements of chance to liberate the unconscious. In this work he used the technique of decalcomania, in which a layer of paint is applied to a smooth surface, such as a piece of glass, and then transferred onto another surface. Here the impression onto canvas left arbitrary patterns and textures, some of which Ernst reworked to resemble exotic land formations, plants, architectural fragments, and the uncanny “eyes of silence” referenced in the title. Together these elements evoke a Europe in ruins and the artist’s own experiences of violence, internment, and dislocation.

max ernst : the eye of silence (1943)

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Please enable the desktop version of your blog! <3 (so your url will be terranautica.tumblr.com) This will give you an archive which is a really nice and easy way to find/look at things on your blog. You can also get cool custom themes for your blog's desktop version. Just search for themes here on tumblr. :)

whoops I have no idea when you asked this! you were below about 50 spam asks that I just cleared 😭 I tested it and I do think I have the desktop version enabled? I am generally a mobile user so I could be wrong, let me know!

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Sʟᴏᴠᴇɴᴇ Fᴏʟᴋ ᴀɴᴅ Fᴀɪʀʏ Tᴀʟᴇs

3•∞  Hvaležni medved

The Thankful Bear

     Up there somewhere in the mountains, no one knows where anymore, a housewife was sewing in a shadow under a tree and rocking a baby in a cradle.      Suddenly—for she had not noticed anything before—a bear lumbered up to her and held out its paw, into which a big fat thorn was stuck. The woman was terrified, yet the bear did nothing but grumble meekly and pitifully. So the woman mustered up her courage and drew the thorn out of its paw. But the foul beast knocked over the cradle, picked it up and disappeared.      A while later it returned with the cradle, filled with the sweetest pears.

Illustration by Ančka Gošnik Godec, Slovene original below.

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thats the thing thats missing from america-centric discussion of fascism: this shit is global. every country in “the west” is seeing the same rise of fascism in real time, all of it focused on murdering migrants. like giorgia meloni is campaigning to deport people to “migrant camps” in albania. last year the greek coast guard outright drowned a boat of 500 asylum seekers. and as that last post said im not dismissing the suffering of people within the US, i’m just saying its so supremely frustrating that every conversation is about the minutiae of american domestic policy and not the horrifying ultranationalist global trend scapegoating arabs and africans.

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I consider increased interaction between American and Chinese people to be extremely valuable for two reasons: 1) it helps to indirectly reduce tensions between the US and Chinese governments, and 2) it threatens the nationalist agendas of both the US and Chinese governments by giving each of their populations a window into the other side of the world, which allows them to note their similarities with people in other nations and also to observe some of the various ways in which the other population has it better than theirs does. Nothing diminishes nationalism like a little bit of mutual "the grass is greener on the other side"

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original IG post here

An arctic fox leaps a river in Hornstrandir National Park, Iceland, 2011 - by Erlend Haarberg, Norwegian

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New year in india

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Leh Ladakh 2024

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collection scope and contents: "During his trip to Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Elisofon took the Congo River steamer at Kisangani en route to Kinshasa. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for American Broadcasting Company and traveled to Africa from early December 1966 to early February 1967."

via Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, through Smithsonian Institution.

Hairstyle: “nwani/nyoni” Kisangani, Congo by Eliot Elisofon

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A map of different archeological regions in 5th century Britain

by ChromedDragon/reddit

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source: sergey puponin in Russian Traveler magazine, July 2022

RT-64 radio telescope - Kalyazin, Russia

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It is with a heavy heart that I announce that american gym bros have discovered sauna and they wear clothes in it