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European Pine Marten

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Darling lil punk pony

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Spiny Slender Toad (Ansonia spinulifer), family Bufonidae, Sarawak, Borneo (East Malaysia)

photograph by http://OrionHerpAdventure.com

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Little Owl

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Stone cooking supports used to grill skewers of meat by Minoans on Santorini, circa 3600 years old. The line of holes in the base supplied coals with oxygen. Many consider modern "souvlaki" street kebabs a direct descendant of this portable food system. Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Greece. More: https://thetravelbible.com/museum-of-artifacts/

#ancient greece #food #tools

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What does it mean when the lords or people of a village or town seek a charter from a monarch? As it was said The river kings of old refused charters which would have allowed towns like Fairmarket, Saltpans, and Harroway to expand and potentially become cities. Further, why would Kings not want to grant charters to let towns become cities and thus generate more economic growth for the realm?

Charters outline the basics between village and overlord, much the way feudal contracts outline relationships between lords and vassals. A charter would determine who is responsible for what, schedule of tax payments, market days, and everything else you'd need to determine the ins and outs of running a village.

So, when a group of people want to enact a charter, they'd send a delegation to the King to essentially ask for royal permission to found their village and have it subject to all the edicts of royal law. They'd typically send a delegation that would also say the ways it could benefit the area and the King, to help boost the chances the King approves.

Typically, burgher power was in direct contrast and fought extensively with feudal landholder power. When villages expanded, it was typically into *someone's* fief, even if the land in question was not really tended. Feudal lords reacted very negatively to that, to put it mildly. So a King might refuse to issue charters that permitted expansion to avoid pissing off the aristocracy. Given how fractured the Riverlands was, the Kings of the Trident may have believed they couldn't win a battle with the entrenched aristocratic interests and refused to issue charters as a means to keep them on side.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

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The Wonderful Journey of the Roundpoles and Longpoles!

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Today is dedicated to the LongFroglets and RoundFroglets who have now all gone to their forever homes! Some who left today have gone to be pets and others are going to live in a primary school classroom!

#frogs #pets

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Why do you think Vargo Hoat and Ser Amory Lorch hated each other so much? Amory seems like the kind of guy the Bloody Mummers would typically recruit?

Amory Lorch would never countenance to work for the Bloody Mummers. While he is a brutal, psychotic thug, Lorch looks down on mercenary work as lesser. The Bloody Mummers, in particular, have a reputation for brutality to the point of pointlessness. Amory Lorch considers himself much more sophisticated - a noble of "better blood" meant to bring glory and success to Tywin, his feudal overlord.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

#asoiaf #feudalism

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Dionysus mosaic

220-230 CE

Romano-Germanic Museum, Cologne

Cologne, November 2017

ps. Just noticed, that this is my 400th - tagged - bird post :-) . Other 399 birds are here

#peacock #ancient rome #mosaics

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Tawny Eagle

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Today these RoundFroglets and LongFroglets are working on Frog-Pile!

#frogs #pets

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Going through photo folders to find images for the references project, and I came upon a couple photos of the juvenile gorillas at Woodland Park I'd forgotten I'd taken. They've got two littles in this family group, close to the same age: Kitoko, a male, and Juna, his younger half-sister. I don't know them well enough to tell them apart so I can't ID these photos, but regardless, they were a lovely surprise to find in my files and I wanted to share.

(Shameless plug for more of my photography on Instagram)

#gorillas #baby animals #zoo animals

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Day 802 of posting pictures of elephants.

Source: Saha Avijan

#elephants #asian elephant #baby elephant #moms

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This .gif comes from a September 2011 video of sea otters Milo and Tanu from the Vancouver Aquarium:

#sea otter #otters #aquarium #zoo animals #Youtube