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Holidays & Days of Note for April 25th, 2013

*   Robigalia (Ancient Rome) Day the Romans prayed to either Robigalla the god, or Robigo the goddess, (information I have found varies,) of mildew and grain rust to ask him or her to spare their homes and crops

…… Don’t look at me that way, I’m not kidding!

No one makes a fuss about Vulcanalia in August when they prayed to Vulcan for protection from volcanoes & home fires, and while Vulcan is better known and still gets “the big props,” can you think of one Roman city destroyed by mildew? Yet there were some biggies where Vulcan let them down!

*   World malaria day (U.N.)

*   DNA Day (I don’t know… labs there and there perhaps?) commemorating the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues published papers in the journal Nature on the structure of DNA. Also in 2003 it was declared that the Human Genome Project was almost complete.

*   A partial lunar eclipse will take place on April 25, 2013, the first of three lunar eclipses in 2013. Only a tiny sliver of the Moon will be covered by the Earth’s umbral shadow at maximum eclipse, but the entire northern half of the Moon will be darkened from being inside the penumbral shadow.  It will be highly visible to observers in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia; the eclipse however will not be visible from North America.

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Discobolus, Vatican Museums

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As soon as the boy is released from his curse, we are going to these auctions. He gets no say in the matter whatsoever.

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Just picked this up in an auction. Ancient Roman provincial coin of Alexandria, Egypt, Hadrian on the obverse and Isis Pharia holding a sale facing the ancient lighthouse of Alexandria, the Pharos, one of the ancient wonders of the world. Absolutely awesome to own a piece of history like this. Just think…once the Ptolemies, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony once stood at this once impressive monument. 

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That snow better back the fuck off. #aintnobodygottimeforthat

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nothing like the smell of nectarine & honey

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Flores: acalmam, alegram, perfumam… 

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~~ Floral Bokeh ~~ Flowers Garden Love

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Le doigt de Dieu (by bertrand kulik)

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Lamb’s Ear. Stachys byzantina. (x).

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Roman Graffiti.

“Whoever loves, come near. I want to break Venus’ ribs and cripple the goddess’ hips with clubs.
If she can break my heart so tender, why can’t I break her head and end her?”

—Actual graffiti left by a Roman citizen in Pompeii

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"Greetings, madam. To what do I owe this pleasure?"

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Baby blue Hydrangea. Hydrangea macrophylla.

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Spring

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last night a boom of thunder woke me. i sat upright kind of nervous a tornado was about to take me away. you pulled me back into your arms and laid my head on your chest. i instantly fell back asleep. i love you.