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File Format Posters
By Corkami, “Reverse engineering & visual documentations”
The collection of images includes all kinds of formats — GIF, ZIP and WAV are all represented, but it even gets into some real esoterica — DOLphin format executables are here if you’re a total GameCube fanatic. Each poster breaks down the format into parts, such as the header, metadata and descriptor sections, and come in a variety of formats themselves — most available in SVG, PDF and PNG.
(via Hackaday)
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Just Two Friends Spending Time Together
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What You Say About Mental Illness vs What You Actually Mean.
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Theater of Aspendos
Aspendos, Pamphylia, Turkey
161-180 CE
96 m. diameter
12,000 seatings
A statue of the building’s architect, Zeno, stands in the south parodos. The inscription under the statue records the thanks of the people for the gift of the theatre and says that Zeno was given a large garden near the stadium for his work. Inscriptions in Greek and Latin on either side of the skene read that the wealthy brothers Curtius Crespinus and Curtius Auspicatus built the theatre and dedicated it to “the Gods of the Country and the Imperial House.” In the 3rd century AD a parapet was built between the orchestra and the cavea to protect the audience from gladiatorial and wild animal shows.
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Temple of Athena Nike
Athens’ Acropolis, Greece
420 BCE
Stylobate: 8.27 m x 5.64 m; height: ca. 4 m.
The Temple of Athena Nike was named after the Greek goddess, Athena Nike. The temple is the earliest fully Ionic temple on the Acropolis. It was a prominent position on a steep bastion at the south west corner of the Acropolis to the right of the entrance, the Propylaea. In contrast to the Acropolis proper, a walled sanctuary entered through the Propylaea, the Victory Sanctuary was open, entered from the Propylaea’s southwest wing and from a narrow stair on the north. The sheer walls of its bastion were protected on the north, west, and south by the Nike Parapet, named for its frieze of Nikai celebrating victory and sacrificing to their patroness, Athena Nike.
Nike means victory in Greek, and Athena was worshipped in this form, as goddess of victory in war and wisdom. The citizens worshipped the goddess in hope of a successful outcome in the long Peloponnesian War fought on land and sea against the Spartans and their allies.
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just a lil list of motivational phrases that’ll hopefully inspire you in some way ✨ (source)
“ipsa scientia potestas est” - knowledge itself is power
“dimidium facti qui coepit habet” - he who has begun has the work half done (Horace)
“ad altiora tendo” - i strive towards higher things
“vita mutatur, non tollitur” - life is changed, not taken away
“vincit qui se vincit” - he/she conquers who conquers himself/herself
“sic parvis magna” - greatness from small beginnings
“vincit qui patitur” - he conquers who endures
“tuum est” - it’s up to you
“tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis” - the times are changing, and we change in them
“astra inclinant, sed non obligant” - the stars incline us, they do not bind us
“dum spiro, spero” - while i breathe, i hope
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Temple of Hercules, Celje, Slovenia
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Pantheon Aesthetics
Greek - Egyptian - Roman - Norse
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Greek Gods, Titans and Primordial Deities
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Dunmahon Castle, County Louth, Ireland
Dunmahon Castle is a four storey tower house that was built in the 15th century and inhabited until the end of the 17th century. It was a stronghold of the Plunket family. The castle was the site of a massacre in the 1640’s. Accounts of what happened vary, although Cromwell’s troops are mentioned in the reports, with the number slain said to be about 250-300 people.
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