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06 Feb 2023 22:12

French illumination from the 13th century representing the three orders of medieval society: oratores (ecclesiastics), bellatores (knights) and laboratores (peasants).

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06 Feb 2023 09:15

Bridge over the River Conwy at Caernarfon, Wales

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03 Feb 2023 00:23

A Roman rock-crystal icosahedron (20-sided dice).

Used in fortune-telling. Each face has a Latin letter on it, and also the corresponding Roman numeral. The ten lateral faces bear the letters A to K, and the numerals 1 to 10. The upper five triangles bear the letters L to P and the numbers 11 to 15. The lower five triangles bear the letters Q to V, and the numbers 16-20.

This item is by no means unique. A considerable number of polyhedral dice have been recovered from all over the Roman empire. The majority are inscribed with Greek or Latin numbers or letters.


📸 Louvre Museum

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02 Feb 2023 11:34

“Control your emotions or be consumed by them”

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31 Jan 2023 20:50

“While so other magnificent works have disappeared, Homer’s works, even though they were no longer supported by any Church or institution, have come to us intact across the centuries and as many upheavals, never ceasing to fascinate and inspire minds, great and small, generation after generation.

Because these sacred poems are the Greek expression of an heritage common to all our European (or Boreans) ancestors, be they Celtic, Germanic, Slavic or Latin”.

— Dominique Venner.

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29 Jan 2023 21:53

"King Arthur" — Charles Ernest Butler, 1903

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27 Jan 2023 19:46

Università di Genova, Italia

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25 Jan 2023 11:28

The Elliptical staircase of the Palace Mannajuolo, Naples, Campania, Italy

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25 Jan 2023 08:57

“Think Thousand times before taking a decision But - After taking decison never turn back even if you get Thousand difficulties!”

― Adolf Hitler

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23 Jan 2023 12:36

"The Rape of Polyxena" in the Loggia dei Lanzi of Florence, Italy

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21 Jan 2023 11:52

Undine, Arthur Rackham (1909)

In european mythology, the ondines are water sprites who could be mortal if she married a human, but if her husband was unfaithful, she had to go back to the sea.

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29 Jan 2021 22:06

Château de Pierrefonds, France

Erected in the late 14th century by Duke Louis of Orléans, the château was taken down in the 17th century and was in ruins when Napoleon III decided to commission architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to rebuild it. He applied his architectural designs to create the ideal château, such as would have existed in the Middle Ages.

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29 Jan 2021 21:51

Pazo de Trasariz, A Coruña, Spain

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27 Jan 2021 23:27

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵.”

— 𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐳 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐚

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27 Jan 2021 23:23

Puente de Tavascan, Lérida, Spain

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06 Feb 2023 16:30

Kumna Hoard Artifacts from Oeselians, 13th century BC, found in Estonia.

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05 Feb 2023 13:39

"Terpsichore" — Antonio Canova (1757-1822)

📸 The Cleveland Museum of Art

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02 Feb 2023 15:15

Ölberg-Kapelle in Ehrenstetten, Germany

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01 Feb 2023 16:19

Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze, Italia

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31 Jan 2023 12:36

Orson Welles in front of the walls of Ávila, Spain on the set of Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight), 1964.

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28 Jan 2023 19:13

Bamberg, Germany

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26 Jan 2023 08:30

"Der König überall / The King Everywhere". 1886, Robert Müller.

One of the more bizarre claims to fame attributed to the first King of Prussia is that the man who would go down in history known as Frederick the Great introduced the potato to Germany during his reign back in the 1700s. This starchy root vegetable has undoubtedly become a staple part of German cuisine - an essential addition to any plate of Schnitzel, Schweinshaxn, and Königsberger Klopse - however, whether Frederick the Great is truly deserving of the additional moniker, Der Kartoffelkönig (the potato king).

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25 Jan 2023 08:58

"The Hutsul Madonna triptych" — Kazimierz Sichulski, 1909.

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24 Jan 2023 08:28

German infantrymen in a trench with gas masks, Flanders, Belgium. Late 1915

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22 Jan 2023 16:58

Fionn mac Cumhaill fighting Aillen, illustration by Beatrice Elvery in Violet Russell’s Heroes of the Dawn (1914)

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20 Jan 2023 13:29

“Fear not death for the hour of your doom is set and none may escape it.“ ~ Völsunga Saga

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29 Jan 2021 21:57

Waterhouse, Lamia, 1905

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27 Jan 2021 23:30

Uniform of the French 8th Cuirassier Regiment as would be worn going into WWI. Virtually identical to that worn during Napoleon’s days.

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27 Jan 2021 23:24

On this day: January 27, 98 CE

Trajan succeeds Nerva as Roman Emperor without incident.

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27 Jan 2021 12:33

Propylaea, Munich

Constructed in Doric order, and completed by Leo von Klenze in 1862, evokes the monumental entrance of the Propylaea for the Athenian Acropolis.

The gate was created as a memorial for the accession to the throne of Otto of Greece, a son of the principal King Ludwig I of Bavaria.