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shimyereh · 20 hours
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Polish spring. Vintage postcards with artwork by Józef Rapacki, 1920s. 
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shimyereh · 2 days
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I like the expression new-fangled. I don't know what it means for something to be fangled, but I sure as hell know it was recent
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Artists Susan Herbert (1945-2014) Gilbert & Sullivan cat painting "family portrait", So go to him, The sun and I
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'A Midsummer Night's Dream' illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1919
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shimyereh · 2 days
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Speaking of books it's been a while since I've seen one of these posts going around & I'm curious so everyone could you tell me what you are reading rn in the tags please
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“Bord de Rivière au Printemps” (Riverside in Spring), 1900. Designed by Maison Courteix.
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shimyereh · 3 days
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I figured the Jolene loving site needed to see this
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shimyereh · 4 days
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Helmer Osslund (Swedish, 1866–1938) - Spring raft behind Kiruna
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shimyereh · 5 days
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Gustav Wentzel - In the farmyard (1890)
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shimyereh · 6 days
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Mt. Rainier, WA by Joe Dodd
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shimyereh · 6 days
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Procrastination sonnet
Hurrah! Spring break, we meet again, at last! (Believe me, you were feeling overdue.) The first half of my spring semester’s past, But there’s still loads of stuff I need to do. I pledge to be productive over break: No time to waste — I’ll get to work today Completing things for April; and I’ll make Good progress on the projects due in May. Then, if there’s time, perhaps I’ll knit, or talk With friends, or read some books, or sate my thirst For gorgeous springtime landscapes with a walk ‘Midst rolling hills. But homework must come first. I won’t procrastinate, I swear! I’m ON IT! Day 1: I mostly slept, and wrote this sonnet.
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shimyereh · 7 days
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-Early spring-
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shimyereh · 7 days
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I just learned that the Polish word for “teacup”, filiżanka, has an etymology spanning several languages and featuring some shifts in the kind of vessel and what sort of liquid it holds.
Polish filiżanka [teacup] comes from Romanian filigean [coffee cup] plus the Polish diminutive suffix -ka. (The Romanian Wiktionary entry for felegean (preferred form of filigean?) seems to specifically define it as a (Turkish) cup for black coffee: ceașcă (turcească) de cafea neagră.)
That Romanian word comes from Ottoman Turkish fincan [cup], which in turn comes from Persian pengân [cup, bowl; water clock, clepsydra].
One theory re: the etymology of that Persian word is that it could be a borrowing from Middle Chinese, possibly from 平安 [bjaeng’an -> compare modern Mandarin: píng’ān], “peace and tranquility”, a phrase often printed on houseware such as vases.
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And all of a sudden it’s like this outside! Pictures from a walk.
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Another selection of some of the better names I've come across in Regency era newspapers recently.
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