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vodun day, 2020 benin. julio sacristan

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Door Knocker

European 15th–16th century

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Livre Des Merveilles (BNF Fr2810): Fol. 55v (1410)

Sourced from Wikimedia Commons

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Jukumari masker, Bolivia, by maskedtraditions

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Fish Necklace by vacialanevera

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Roman ring, 1st century. Silver two-headed snake with gold eyes.

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A ring like this one was found in Pompeii, but made entirely of gold. Apparently this type of ring was fashionable in the first century of the Roman imperial era.

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Built into a hillside overlooking the Urubamba River and located on the Inca trail, Winay Wayna likely served as a rest stop for weary travellers on their way to Machu Picchu.

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I wouldn't want to come across these in the middle of the night, they would scare my pants off. Phoenicians/Carthaginians apparently thought so too because they placed these menacingly grinning masks inside their tombs to scare off evil spirits and guard against evil. These particular exemplars come from Tunisia, Spain, and Sardinia respectively.

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Demonic Pigs Attack. Vincent of Beauvais, Le Mirouer historial (French translation of Speculum historiale), Paris 1463. BnF, Français 50, fol. 256v.⁣

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L'anse Aux Meadows. The only completely authenticated European site in North America, a Norse settlement dating back to around 1000 AD. Discovered on Newfoundland in 1961. Studies of ancient Icelandic sagas indicate that this was the land known as Vinland to the Vikings. Leif Erikson, the son of Erik the Red, is credited with first landing in Vinland.

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Griffins and Unicorns, from Andrew Lang's The Red Book of Animal Stories by Henry Justice Ford (1899)

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Vision (1879) by Odilon Redon

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Roman mosaic floor discovered under a vineyard in Negrar di Valpolicella, Veneto.

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Prodigiorvm ac ostentorvm chronicon, 1557

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The artist Paweł Ponichtera seems to have inexplicably dedicated a massive amount of time and effort to hyper-detailed and hyper-accurate illustrations of chinchillas engaged in historical fencing, many with clear and specific reference to particular historical treatises. So, I give you:

Hans Talhoffer Chinchillas

Harnisfechten Chinchillas

Joachim Meyer Longsword Chinchillas

Fantastical Snail Marginalia Chinchillas

Olympic Epee Chinchillas

Salvator Fabris Rapier-in-the-Nude Chinchillas

Napoleonic Saber Chinchillas

Arabic Shamshir Chinchillas

18th Century Smallsword Chinchillas

I.33 Sword and Buckler Chinchillas

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Fukushima,  Japan | by everchanginghorizon

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Waiting for spring. Photo by Igor Gnevashev, USSR, 1980s.