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Model of a full-rigged ship, made of bone and human hair by a French prisoner-of-war, late 18th -early 19th century

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Limestone sculpture of a woman uncovered near Elche, Spain, 5th-4th century BC

from The National Archaeological Museum, Madrid

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My other car is a rainbow trout

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Influence machine (Wimhurst machine)

Early 20. Century

Metal, painted, with 2 Leidener bottles; used to make electricity visible

IM Kinsky

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when did we as a society start allowing a sandwich to cost sixteen dollars? eighteen? I know I've paid twenty-one dollars for a sandwich at this point. is this just the world now? sandwich prices don't come down like gas prices. they go up & up & up. good luck to us all

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(Head of Orpheus - a Sketch, c.1899-1900 (oil on board))

John William Waterhouse

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you cant even begin poems with "i will sodomise and facef uck you" anymore. because of woke .

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Stowaway Jim - Ship's Cat of HMS Prince Regent, early 20th century

Came on board at Halifax N.S. November 1914 and passed for O.C. He has since been promoted, and is now C. in.C. of the P.R. Cats. He is an old wardog and bears his battle honours " Dogger Banks" and "Jutland" unostentatiously. O.C. = Ordinary Cat

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Aristotle and Phyllis, 1523 by Meister von Ottobeuren

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The gorgeous Bird Mosaic from the so-called House of the Birds in Italica, Spain, features 35 different species of birds.

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Victorian sterling silver and agate anchor brooch, maybe used as a sailor's love token, Scotland, 19th century

Source

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Avec Christine, on a fêté nos 40 ans d'amitié en faisant un voyage de 15 jours en Sicile. Nous voilà à Palermo (Palerme).

Non loin, voici Monreale et sa superbe cathédrale arabo-normande.

Ici, à un angle de la cathédrale, changement d'ambiance avec l'ultra-baroque Chapelle Roano, véritable dentelle de marbres.

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CRANACH, Wilhelm Lucas von Brooch with butterfly and octopus 1900 Gold, precious stones Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim

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saw a pic of a maria martinez vase on the dash and had to physically hold myself back from reblogging it to tell everyone abt her burnishing technique

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Tom Lehrer outlives Tr*mp like to charge reblog to cast

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As gen-AI becomes more normalized (Chappell Roan encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use gen-AI because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by tech companies. I draw not because I want a drawing but because I love the process of drawing. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

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Based on traits from real pigeon breeds. Lower values = smaller part, or in the case of frillback normal feathers rather than curly ones