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And we haven't even finished January yet 😬

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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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In love with this little guy and its toot-toot snoot 🥰

Peccary-form Ocarina Greater Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, 300 BCE - 500 CE Marbella incised modeled clay with slip H 4 5/8 in, 11.75 cm; W: 2 3/4 in, 6.99 cm; D: 6 in, 15.24 cm Denver Art Museum 1995.787

UPDATE:

It has a cousin at Harvard Peabody Museum!

“Ceramic ocarina, zoomorphic, quadruped w/ tail, incised & engraved body, 4 playing holes”

(It’s another peccary)

10.8x12.5x6.1 cm (4 1/4 x 4 15/16 x 2 3/8 in)

Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

17-3-20/C8064

BTW, it’s interesting that they’re both oriented towards the player…these animal ocarinas were usually oriented to face outwards when played so that it looked like the animal was singing…but with these peccaries you had to blow into their snoots to make them toot 😂

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Statuette of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris, Ptolemaic Egypt, 332-30 BC

from The Art Institute of Chicago

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Dog figurine—Nimrud, Assyria, 9th to 8th century BCE

According to the Met: "Cast in bronze, this figurine represents a dog with head thrust forward in a posture of alertness, pointed ears pricked up, and curled tail. The dog stands solidly on all four feet, suggesting it is keeping watch rather than in motion. The legs are relatively short and the body compact, suggesting a dog smaller than the mastiffs sometimes represented as guard dogs in Mesopotamian art, such as the large terracotta sculpture on display in the museum (1989.233). This small bronze was found in a well in the Northwest Palace at Nimrud along with other bronze dogs, finely carved ivory furniture elements, and other palace furnishings. It is likely that these objects were thrown in the well by the conquering armies who looted the palace during the final defeat of Assyria by a coalition of Babylonians and Iranian peoples in 612 B.C.

Dogs were associated with several Mesopotamian gods, especially the healing goddess Gula. Clay or bronze dog figurines were frequently placed under the floors of buildings to guard the structures from evil during the late second and early first millennium B.C., a magical act that recalls the use of actual dogs as watchful guardians. Five clay dogs were excavated under a doorway in a later Assyrian palace at Nineveh and are now in the collection of the British Museum. The dogs were painted vivid colors and inscribed with short phrases describing their functions, such as: "Expeller of evil," "Catcher of the enemy," and "Don’t think, bite!" The bronze dog likely had a similar protective function."

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Polish Dress

c. 1780-1785

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

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Woman's dress with attached Stomacher

c.1760-1770

Maker unknown, French

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*sigh* I fucking hate the US government.

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Quick reminder that it's always morally correct to punch nazis.

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Don't you just love America?

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darkest timeline

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we dumped tea into the harbor for less

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Carnelian frog amulet, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, 1540-1296 BC

from The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Photograph of Orion Nebula, taken by Joseph Turner with the Great Melbourne Telescope on 26 Feb 1883, with an exposure of 4 minutes.

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It's aways "Scooby-Dooby-Doo, where are you? and never "Scooby-Dooby-Doo, how are you?"