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Veselé Vánoce přejí chobotnice / Merry Christmas from the Octopuses! (1986) dir. by Jindřich Polák.

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““No, no,” Marie interrupted, “Godfather Drosselmeier told me of a beautiful garden with a big lake, with beautiful swans swimming around wearing gold necklaces and singing pretty songs. Then a little girl comes to the lake and calls the swans, and feeds them marzipan.” “Swans don’t eat marzipan,” Fritz said scornfully.”

— The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, E.T.A. Hoffmann  

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travelling alone on a snowy christmas eve, taken in to the convent by sympathetic sisters for the night. the unadorned guest chambers are warm and the lamb of god watches over a little bed. snow outside pricks the little glass window where a half-melted taper glows in its holder. in the motherhouse, a little distance away, sisters are gathered singing christmas liturgy- and their clear, sweet voices carry into the night, past the little wind-beaten window of the room and out into the gathering snow- perhaps, one imagines while tucked into the little bed, all the way up to the heavens. the glowing candle on the sill flutters as if touched by the swell of song- with heavy eyelids and sinking head- "sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace"

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merry christmas to those who celebrate🤍

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LITTLE WOMEN (1994) dir. GILLIAN ARMSTRONG

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Bekko comb with crane and flower motif.

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Wedding Dress

c. 1892

unknown maker, American

Newfields

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Traveling suit, 1905

From the Hillwood Museum

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Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1803 ❤️

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THE BORGIAS costume appreciation: 63/∞ (costume design by Gabriella Pescucci)

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1918 A very pretty photo of a girl sitting on rocks by the ocean in Rhode Island. From Karen Starr, FB.

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“At Sea, Nicholas worked two days a week. The other five he relaxed. In the morning, he rowed ashore to take long walks through the wild Finnish forest. When the Standart moored near the country estate of a Russian or Finnish nobleman, the owner might awake to find the Tsar at his door asking politely if he might use a court for tennis. Sometimes Nicholas walked alone with his children, searching the woods for mushrooms or wandering down a beach looking for bright-colored rocks.”

Robert K. Massie, Nicholas & Alexandra

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New photo of Olga Nikolaevna

Showing some beautiful details from her dress and hair. I’ve had questions about how OTMA styled their hair - I hope this photo can help to answer it!

As always, the photo was uncovered by Ilia, LastRomanovs on Flickr. Спасибо, Илья!

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Kristina Šeniauskienė’s garden, Taikos g. 26. Vilnius, Lithuania, 2020.

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Wolf Hall + Art Anne of Cleves by Bartholomaeus Bruyn the elder

The portrait was purchased in c.1734 by the then President and major benefactor of St John’s, William Holmes, for his private collection, and then acquired for the College by his successor as President, William Derham, in 1748. The sitter was only identified in print as Anne of Cleves as late as 1855, in J. W. Burgon’s Arms of the Colleges of Oxford. The date and authorship of the painting long remained debatable. Following major conservation work on the portrait in 1989/90, the conservator Candy Kuhl and the then Keeper of Pictures at St John’s, Professor Peter Hacker, persuasively argued in the Burlington Magazine for the date in the 1530s at the court of Cleves, before Anne came to England to marry Henry. (source)

link (wolf hall + art series)

thanks to @english-history-trip to point it out.

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Dale Bailey, American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction

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"I find [François Arnaud] quite easy to act with, actually, because we seem instinctively to be in the same moment together. It’s quite lovely, actually, because we’re not scared to chance failure together. With some actors, it’s, ‘Don’t do that! Don’t do that; do this.’" — HOLLIDAY GRAINGER