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A tiny ruby throated hummingbird. 

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The Last Call - Destiny 2 Teaser

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Soldier and Death. By Austrian painter Hans Larwin, 1917.

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EQUANIMITY

[noun]

mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain; calmness; equilibrium.

Etymology: Latin aequanimitās, equivalent to aequ(us), “even, plain, equal” + anim(us), “mind, spirit, feelings”.

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Bind Runes. A Bind Rune (Icelandic: bandrún) is created by combining two or more ancient Viking Runes into a single symbol. What this combination is believed to do is create a more powerful Rune, than the individual Runes used to make it. How the Bind Rune is created is very important. Bind Runes should be kept as simple as possible so that each Rune is clearly distinguishable. Using more than five is usually not advisable. When a bind rune is too complex it will be less powerful than a simpler symbol. Bind Runes were rare in Viking days; there are not many examples of the ancient Norse writing them. They became more common among the Scandinavian people later in the Middle Ages.

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Hermit crab using a skull for a shell

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the worlds most under appreciated meme is John Kenn pictures with captions

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DESTINY - UNRELEASED VEX CINEMATIC.

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What is going through people's minds???!

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Norwegian Fog.

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TL;DR : Watch this incredible story in video

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[Grant Snider]

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Legendary artist Georgia O'Keeffe was born 129 years ago today, December 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, WI. She is pictured here on her roof, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico in 1967. (John Loengard—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #1960s #GeorgiaOKeeffe

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SCYTHICON: THE GANGRENE AND TETANUS INDUCING TOXIN USED BY THE SCYTHIANS

This is an excerpt from my post: THE SCYTHIANS: INFAMOUS NOMADS OF THE STEPPE.

The Scythians were so famed for poison arrows that their toxic formula was named after them, scythicon, the word toxin itself comes from the Greek Toxikon from toxon (“arrow”).  The Scythians would capture and kill venomous vipers (adders) and allow their bodies to decompose, mixed human blood with dung into a vessel (leather bag) that was then buried underground until it putrefied. This combination of ingredients added with the fact that the arrows used had either barbs or hooks which would ensure that the removal of the arrowheads would be difficult and painful (Scythian arrows were also known to have penetrated deep enough to dig into bones). If you survived the wound then within a matter of minutes the snake venom would cause respiratory paralysis, in a day gangrene would set in and the wound would fill with puss, and finally in a week tetanus would develop.

^ Osprey –‘Men-At-Arms’ series, issue 137 – The Scythians 700-300 BC by E.V Cernenko (Author), Angus McBride (Illustrator). Plate F - 5th-4th cent. BC.

Take a peek at what the effects of ‘gangrene’ are, but do so at your own risk.

If there are any errors please privately inbox me so I can update it. As always, if you’d like to read or learn about any specific historical subjects just let me know what they are and I will take note of them.

See Also:

For information on their mythological origins, weaponry, armor and their culture of skinning, scalping, beheading, skull-cups, blood-oaths and tattoos – CLICK HERE [THE SCYTHIANS: INFAMOUS NOMADS OF THE STEPPE].

For information on Scythian conflicts against the Assyrian and Median Empires while also defeating the famed Persian Empire (the largest Empire that had existed up to that time) under the reigns of both Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great – CLICK HERE [THE SCYTHIANS: MILITARY HISTORY 7TH CENT. BCE–513 BCE].

For information on the Scythian conflicts against Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Mithridates the Great of Pontus, the Bosporan Kingdom, their fall as well as the Scythian Invasion of India – CLICK HERE [THE SCYTHIANS: MILITARY HISTORY 339 BCE–C.400 CE].

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Scotland

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Kilian Schönberger is a photographer from Germany, but his childhood was full of those misty landscapes which later inspired him to make a Brothers Grimm’s Homeland series. In this series, he captures all the spooky ambient of the time. 

Moreover, his capturing of Grimm fairytale-landscapes brings to life the general spooky, sinister, dark ambient of the time, showing that not just children, but the adults too experience shivers and goosebumps when seeing the homeland of the Brothers. So, it’s not really surprising that they wrote such terrifying tales. (Source)