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Au milieu des cyclamens sauvages…

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kachō-ga 花鳥画  - “珍花図譜 Chinka Zuhu” (tableau de fleurs rares),1903, de

Yamana Yuseki  山名友石

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Sandro Botticelli, Spring (Detail), late 1470′s

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Circular lacquer box carved with dragons in clouds - China, circa 1790.

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17th century astronomical art of Maria Clara Eimmart; celestial splendor from a forgotten woman who broke the bounds of her time.

(brainpickings.org)

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via Internet Archive Book Images on Flickr

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“My dear Jacky: It has been nine weeks exactly since I last heard from you and I thought I had better remind you that I am alive and like letters as well as ever.”

- Rachel to Jack, May 23, 1898.

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If you want to make your day a little more surreal, you could do worse than read up on the Pre-Raphaelites and their obsession with wombats.

Here's a small sample of the madness.

"The wombat is a joy, a triumph, a delight, a madness." - Dante Gabriel Rosetti

"One like a wombat prowled obtuse and furry" - Christina Rosetti

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I really ya what, having to buy together an entire living history kit from scratch for an era that you don't really know the material or reenacting culture of that well is exhausting, particularly when you are doing it with a unit that is kinda serious about stuff.

Of course a lot of this is just me not wanting to bother people but asking too many questions and being cheap.

#venting #why is ww2 aaf stuff so weird #i picked the wrong hobby for my spendimg habits

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Gunner of the Royal Field Artillery painting the wheel of a limber with camouflage. On the limber is the sign of the 35th Division. Near Albert, 14 May 1918.

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These two images live next to eachother on my phone and I thought yall would enjoy them together as i do

First image created by @ghostlygraphist via this post

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Oil painting, ca. 1800-1805, Spanish.

Painted by Francisco Goya.

Portraying a woman in a black dress and white lace mantilla.

National Gallery of Art.

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An American horse-drawn field artillery battery on the move.

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One of my favourite WWI anecdotes was one British soldier recalling the start of the war when the first trenches had only just been dug—back when barbed wire wasn’t laid and steel helmets hadn’t even been issued yet—and said he and his comrades watched the Royal Engineers pull up unannounced with a reel of barbed wire and proceed to lay what looked to be a “clothesline” in front of the trench so tall a “giraffe could walk under it” and I could not stop laughing imagining the RE just standing back after proudly laying their Single Line of barbed wire to defend against the Entire German army like

#ubique

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© IWM (Q 6462) Men of the 5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment hanging camouflage netting across a street in Cambrin, 26 January 1918.

#things I have done at reenactments

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Waistcoat (textile by Anna Maria Garthwaite), 1747

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art