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A very silly presentation on Caesarea Maritima, one of the greatest harbours in the ancient Mediterranean, inspired by @enkidusbi‘s comic sans presentation on the Uluburun!

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“As a linguist she excels the Queen, for besides Latin she has no slight knowledge of Greek, and speaks Italian more than the Queen does, taking so much pleasure in it that from vanity (per ambitione) she will never speak any other language with Italians. She is proud and haughty, as although she knows that she was born of such a mother, she nevertheless does not consider herself of inferior degree to the Queen, whom she equals in self-esteem; nor does she believe herself less legitimate than her Majesty, alleging in her own favour that her mother would never cohabit with the King unless by way of marriage, with the authority of the Church, and the intervention of the Primate of England; so that even if deceived, having as a subject acted with good faith, the fact cannot have invalidated her mother’s marriage, nor her own birth, she having been born under that same faith; and supposing her to be a bastard (e posto che fusse bastarda), she prides herself on her father and glories in him; everybody saying that she also resembles him more than the Queen does; and he therefore always liked her and had her brought up (e fatta nutrir) in the same way as the Queen, and bequeathed to each of them 10,000 scudi per annum, and, what matters more, substituted her in the stead of the Queen as successor to the Crown, should he die without male heirs.”

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Venice: May 1557, 11-15, Pages 1041-1095

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 6, 1555-1558.

(via thevets)

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Presentation sword produced by Ames Manufacturing Co. Awarded to Major (later colonel) Luther Giddings by the men of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Regiment, Mexican American War, 1847.

from Gary Hendershott Antiques

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Dracula: What is a man but a miserable little pile of secrets?

Diogenes: *holds up plucked chicken*

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Get on my level.

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Fun little thing about medieval medicine.

So there’s this old German remedy for getting rid of boils. A mix of eggshells, egg whites, and sulfur rubbed into the boil while reciting the incantation and saying five Paternosters. And according to my prof’s friend (a doctor), it’s all very sensible. The eggshells abrade the skin so the sulfur can sink in and fry the boil. The egg white forms a flexible protective barrier. The incantation and prayers are important because you need to rub it in for a certain amount of time.

It’s easy to take the magic words as superstition, but they’re important.

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*Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door*

Church: "Take it back!"

Luther: "Nah." *doubles down*

*Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church*

Holy Roman Emperor: "I ORDER you to take it back"

Luther: "nah. LOL"

HRE: "You're an outlaw."

Luther: "YoU'rE aN oUtLaW" *fart noises*

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The Kolyma (Russia) Woolly rhino (Coelodonta antiquitatis), the only complete permafrost preserved adult woolly rhino known. It lived around 39,000 years ago. © Vladimir Filipov 2012

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Box, Metropolitan Museum of Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Oak and sycamore woods, painted, silvered and yellow varnished

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/209168

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The centuries-old tradition of swans ringing the bell to be fed.  The Bishops Palace, Wells Cathedral, Somerset.

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Do you guys know how mary shelley lost her virginity

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Willy Pogany, Illustration of Medusa for The Tale of Lohengrin, 1913

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Histoire de l'art chez les anciens, 1801 

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Histoire de l'art chez les anciens, 1801

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🎃 Tis spooky season for all!!! 🎃