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Images from Scaf le Phoque (Scaf the Seal, 1936) by Rojan, aka Russian illustrator Feodor Rojankovsky (1891–1970)

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Loft In The Woods by @sarahrhabib

Get Inspired, visit www.myhouseidea.com

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Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) dir. Dan Gilroy

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'Starlit street at night', c. 1990s, by Fukuōji Kazuhiko (福王寺 一彦; born 1953), a contemporary Nihonga (Japanese-style) painter from Mitaka, Tokyo.

(Jaded in Japan)

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in which it’s summer and I do what I want

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Warszawa, Rybna

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Stradów, Poland by Patryk Biegański

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bestie i hope you remember that  you do not have to be good. you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. remember that. goodnight. love u

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THE TROUBADOUR’S SONGBOOK || [8TRACKS] [PLAYMOSS]

A collection of secular music from the High and Late Middle Ages (1000-1400). The mix features songs in vernacular from many different areas of Western Europe, as well as a few songs from the Byzantine and Islamic Empires.

De Fortune me doi Plaindre et Loer | Guillaume de Mauchaut (1300-1377) Ach Owe, daz Nach Liebe Ergat | Meister Alexander (1247-1288) Mîzân Qá'im Wa-nisf | from the Nuba Ushshaq, (13th c. Arabo-Andalusian Anon) Worldes Blis ne Last no Throwe | English Anon. (ca.1265) Bailemos Nós já Todas | Airas Nunes de Santiago (1230-1289)  Adiu, Adiu Dous Dame | Francesco Landini (1325-1397) Ey Dervişler | Yunnus Emre (1238-1320) A Chantar M'er de So Qu'eu no Volria | Beatriz de Dia (1140-1212) Ecco la Primavera | Francesco Landini (1325-1397) Bache, Bene Venies | from the Carmina Burana, (11-13th c. Anon) Cel que no Volh Auzir Chanssos��| Raimon de Miraval (1165 - 1229) The Nightingales of the East (Ta Aidónia tis Anatolís) | Byzantine Anon. (14th century) Tant M’Abelis | Berenguer de Palou (1160-1209) Willekomen si der Sumer Schoene | Brunwart von Augheim (1250-1300) Esperance | Guillaume de Mauchaut (1300-1377) Laude Novella | from the Laurdario di Cortona, (13th c. Italian Anon)

Photo: Illumination of a Christian and Muslim playing ouds, from The Cantigas de Santa Maria (13th century Spain)

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www.dontdoxscottalexander.com/

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In case you haven't seen it yet, our local LGBTQ organization used a drone to put a pride flag on the sword of the 102m-tall Motherland monument in Kyiv.

They shared the video with the hash tag #momwillunderstandandsupport.

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‘Wianki’ (’Wreaths’) by Zofia Stryjeńska (Polish, 1891-1976), oil on board, created between 1919-1939.

Floating wreaths down the rivers is a part of Slavic celebrations of summer solstice called Kupala Night (in Polish: Kupalnocka or Noc Kupały). Read more about the meaning of wreaths here.

Image via krakow.pl.

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Санкт-Петербург (Saint Petersburg)

Instagram Twitter Prints

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Things that should be included in the academia aesthetic (an indian’s perspective)

Learning Sanskrit

Reading the Mahabharata (if you love the Iliad, you’ll love this)

Incense

South Asian empires

India before colonization (really any place before colonization)

Scientific (esp. medicinal) advances in Islamic kingdoms

Rani of Jhansi

Nature conservation

Old timey Bollywood movies

Researching the space agencies of various countries

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Odessa, Ukraine.

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“The Queen of Spades” A. Pushkin illustrations by A. Kravchenko (1930)

“Пиковая дама” А.Пушкин иллюстрации А.Кравченко (1930)