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Unique, colorful Sphinx Hill was built in 1999 by architect John Outram in Oxfordshire, in the village of Moulsford, England and it has frontage on the River Thames. It’s a post-modern home done in Egyptian style that features bold colors and geometrics.
It isn’t just the exterior that’s colorful, it’s the interior, also. At first I thought that the kitchen was part of the living room, but it’s actually an art display area.
The furnishings also have Egyptian style.
Colorfully painted cabinetry in the kitchen.
The main bedroom has a deck, and most of the rooms have access to a patio.
Nice home office- look at the round windows in the door.
A guest bedroom.
And, check out the bath.
The indoor pool is so luxurious.
Gardens are stunning. Sphinx statues guard the waterway on the property.
Close proximity to the river. For $2.5M, it’s not a bad price.
https://thespaces.com/sphynx-house-oxfordshire-john-outram/2/
#sphinx hill house#neo classical architecture#egyptian revival architecture#dreamweaver home#long post
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HELLFIRE & ICE masterlist
life in hawkins, indiana is bittersweet for an eighteen year old like you. up to this point you've enjoyed your reign as the resident rich bitch ice queen of hawkins high. you glide above the student body with an impenetrable grace— until the IRS comes knocking and your family loses everything that makes you you; the money, the super-trendy clothes, the people you called friends. you're forced to trade your plush suburban life for a double wide in forest hills trailer park— directly across the lot from resident hellfire king and noted freak, eddie munson. you've got plenty of reasons to hate him, but number one with a bullet? his daddy put your daddy in jail.
pairing: eddie munson x f!oc, mentions of unrequited steve harrington x f!oc and unrequited jonathan byers x f!oc, platonic!nancy wheeler x f!oc, platonic!ronnie ecker x f!oc
tags: NSFW / MINORS TURN BACK NOW! f!oc is written in the immersive second person; she does have a name and a background, but no physical description is mentioned in the text. enemies to star-crossed lovers on a slow burn setting, angst, misunderstanding, yearning, swearing, smoking, drinking, era-typical classism/sexism/homophobia/sexual harassment, smut including but not limited to voyeurism, masturbation, public sex, discussion of crime that i pull out of my ass kind of, really mean jokes, eventual fluff (i promise). extremely canon divergent with references to flight of icarus.
ready to light this place up?
❦ - SERIES
❦ - chapter one: THE POISE, LUCK and INTEGRITY OF A KENNEDY
❦ - chapter two: VIOLENT DELIGHTS at HARRINGTON'S HOUSE
❦ - chapter three: EDDIE MUNSON COMMITS TREASON (BREAKS UP a CAT FIGHT)
❦ - chapter four: HOT SKIN and a HALL PASS
❦ - chapter five: CHEERLEADERS MAKE BAD NEIGHBORS
❦ - chapter six: IN MY ORBIT
❦ - chapter seven: WELCOME to the REAL WORLD, JACKASS
❦ - chapter eight: SEWN UP
❦ - chapter nine: EDDIE the OBVIOUS and the LADY SPHINX
❦ - chapter ten: THE NEW FACE OF FAILURE
❦ - chapter eleven: ALL TOMORROW'S KEGGERS
❦ - chapter twelve:
❦ - chapter thirteen:
❦ - chapter fourteen:
❦ - chapter fifteen:
❦ - chapter sixteen:
❦ - epilogue
❦ - BLURBS N SHIT
in-universe requests are open for business
flashback - LACY'S DAD GETS ARRESTED
flashback - EDDIE MUNSON STAMPS NICOLE SUMMERS' V-CARD (NOT A BOARD WAXER, NOT IN MAUI)
what if - EDDIE FOUND LACY'S JOURNAL
what if - LACY FOUND EDDIE'S WEIRD SERIAL KILLER WRITING SCRAPS
lore - ALL ABOUT THE BOOKSTORE
blurb - EDDIE HEARS LACY HAVING A SEX DREAM AND...
blurb - EDDIE TELLS LACY HOW HIS PARENTS MET
blurb - LACY VISITS HER DAD IN PRISON
blurb - FOUR TIMES YOU WERE STRUCK INCAPABLE OF IMAGINING YOUR LIFE WITHOUT EDDIE MUNSON
blurb - YES, NURSE RATCHED
blurb - THE BANDANA
blurb - EDDIE FS CASS FINNIGAN IN THE A
blurb - THE LACY AND JONATHAN OF IT ALL
❦ - FUN STUFF
soundtrack - VOLUME ONE
#hellfire & ice#published by powder#eddie munson x reader#eddie munson x you#eddie munson x f!reader#eddie munson fic#eddie munson x oc#eddie munson smut#stranger things fic#e. munson by powder#masterlist
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i made a list of folk songs the mechs used in their music and now you can have it too
have you ever been listening to a folk playlist and thought, 'hey, i think i've heard this one on a mechs album!'? well, you probably have! the mechs' songs, especially their early stuff like once upon a time in space, often contained tunes from popular folk songs!
disclaimer: i got a lot of this information from either the genius lyrics page for the song or the lyric video from TheVoidSings, who of course has lyric videos for (i believe) all the mechs songs out there. so, shoutout to them for doing the research! i just compiled it. also, this is an incomplete list; it's just all the ones i could find.
the queens court - the deserter
tim goes crazy - battle hymn of the republic
the recruiters song - pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag
gassed last night - bombed last night
the toy soldiers song - over the hills and far away
blood and whiskey - o were I on Parnassus hill
pump shanty - pump shanty
cinders song - haul away joe
rose red - rose red
old king cole - old king cole
laid in blood - fifteen men on a dead man's chest
our boy jack - bella ciao
sleeping beauty - let all mortal flesh keep silence (picardy)
broken horses - skibbereen
sirens - gently johnny
riddle of the sphinx - greensleeves
favoured son - the rocky road to dublin
underworld blues - last kind words blues
ties that bind - blue in green
elysian fields - i am a poor wayfaring stranger
one eyed jacks - the house of the rising sun/when jonny comes marching home
iphis - house carpenter
pellinore and the beast - barbara allen
gunfight at the dolorous guard - my funny valentine
empty trail - when the levee breaks
the hanged man rusts - lannigan's ball
hellfire - dem bones (💀💀💀)
skin and bone - the raggle taggle gypsies
holder of the grail - the rising of the moon
peacemaker - sinnerman
once and future king - the snow it melts the soonest
thor - drowsy maggie
ragnarok I runaway - crazy train
drop dead - matty groves
lost in the cosmos - bonny grovewoodside
chop of their heads - mouse round (mending song)
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A LEGENDARY/MYTHOLOGICAL/SUPERNATURAL CREATURE LIST FOR WRITERS:
(Please note that while I have included a variety of creatures, there are many many others that I haven’t been able to mention here. Had I listed every legendary/mythological/supernatural creature, I’d probably still be writing this post because let’s face it, there are thousands of badass mythological beings. Please also note that there are quite a few creatures that overlap in various categories. I hope that you all enjoy reading and that this helps with your writing!)
Animals:
birds (bird people, caladrius, griffon, harpy, hippogriff, luan, phoenix, roc, sirin, strix, thunderbird.)
canines (amarok, cadejo, cerberus, fenrir, hellhound, werewolf.)
felines (demon cat, griffin, merlion, sphinx, tigris, underwater panther, white tiger.)
fish (hippocamp, undine, water spirit.)
primates (bigfoot, yeti, yowie.)
reptiles/serpents (basalisk, dragon, feathered serpent, hydra, loch ness monster, rainbow serpent, sea serpent, wyvern.)
Elements:
aether (angel, demon, devil, elemental, elf, fairy, nymph, spirit.)
darkness (black dog, bogeyman, ghost, grim reaper, hellhound, vampire, werewolf, wild hunt.)
earth/subterranean (dwarf, earth dragon, gargoyle, giant, gnome, goblin, hobbit, ogre, troll.)
fire (dragon, hellhound, phoenix.)
light/rainbow (light elf, rainbow serpent.)
metal/gold (griffin, gnome, leprechaun.)
thunder/lightning (chinese dragon, cyclops, thunderbird, valkyrie.)
water (chinese dragon, drindylow, loch ness monster, mermaid/merman, nymph, pisces, water dragon, water spirit.)
Habitat:
cave/underground (dwarf, european dragon, gnome, goblin, troll.)
celestial/heaven (angel, feathered serpent, pegasus, grim reaper, swan maiden, valkyrie.)
desert (amphisbaena, chupacabra, cockatrice, ghoul, oliphaunt, sphinx.)
woodland (bigfoot, elf, unicorn.)
lake/river (chinese dragon, hydra, kraken, nixie, lake monster, ondine, rainbow serpent, warlock.)
mountain/hill (dwarf, griffin, hippogriff, hobbit, mountain giant, yeti.)
sea (dragon king, fish people, leviathan, mermaid/merman, sea monster, sea serpent, shen, siren, water dragon.)
polar/ice/winter (abominable snowman, jotun, yeti.)
urban/house (banshee, boggart, jinn, vampire.)
underworld/hell (cerberus, cyclops, demon, devil, earth dragon.)
Humanoids:
human skinned (brownie, dwarf, elf, fairy, giant, gnome, gremlin, jinn, leprechaun, nix, nymph, pixie, siren, valkyrie, vampire, vetter.)
monster skinned (banshee, boggart, centaur, demon, ent, goblin, imp, manticore, mermaid/merman, orc, siren, sphinx, troll.)
monstrous (baba yaga, boogeyman, cyclops, gargoyle, ghoul, giant/giantess, goblin, hag, jotun, mummy, ogre, oni, orc, titan, troll, yeti, zombie.)
Hybrids:
part human (angel, centaur, fairy, faun, gorgon, harpy, horus, meduza, mandrake, manticore, mermaid/merman, minotaur, siren, sphinx, tenju, triton, winged genie, werecat, werewolf.)
non-human (basilisk, capricorn, cerberus, chimera, griffin, hippogriff, merlion, pegasus, typhon, wyvren.)
Shapeshifters: (animagus, demon, kelpie, merpeople, nix, werecat, werehyena, werejaguar, werewolf.)
Undead: (banshee, ghost, ghoul, frankenstein, headless horseman, mummy, poltergeist, skeleton, spirit, vampire, wraith, zombie.)
#writing prompt#writing ideas#writing tips#creative writing#writers of tumblr#writers block#writing things#writers#writing advice#creatures#mythological creature#legendary creature#fantasy creature#high fantasy#myth#mythical creatures#mythical beings#mythical beasts#mythical animals#monsters#supernatural
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Nine people I'd like to get to know better
I've been tagged by @shamevillain thank you, dear <3
Last Song: Parabola by Tool
Favorite Color: Black (but I do like blue too)
Currently Watching: I had the Haunting of Hill House on in the
background yesterday, if that counts
Last Movie/Show: last movie was Shawshank Redemption last show was The Fall of the House of Usher
Spicy/Savory/Sweet: I can't do spicy (not really) because my body will malfunction. Savory and Sweet.
Last Thing You Googled: 'Sphinx Moths'
I'm low-pressure tagging
@songforeddiemunson @pastel-pillows @the-unforgivenn @mrsjellymunson @hellfirehottie420 @trashmouth-richie @munson-blurbs @mantorokk-writes @thornsnvultures
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Audrey Hepburn's cover story for Illustrated's 2 June 1951 issue.
Carefree, off and on duty.
Audrey — The Other Hepburn
Photography by Joseph McKeown
Story by Charles Hammlett
After four years of theatres, cabarets, and films, a young dancer takes a day off from career building
The Sphinx of Hollywood, otherwise Katharine Hepburn, actress and movie performer, recently spent a few days in this country wrapped in rain and mystery, and wearing an old pair of eye-catching, publicity-snatching slacks. As one of the country’s legends, Miss Hepburn has earned the right to flinch at the rustle of a reporter’s notebook, or to duck at the sound of a photographer’s footfall.
Even as pressmen determinedly pounded the Hepburn beat, a few miles away at Ealing Studios another Hepburn was quietly performing in front of the camera—as yet blissfully unaware of the hysterical mobs and frustrated fanatics who often make the lives of Hepburns, Stanwycks, Gables, or Turners unendurable.
This other Hepburn was Audrey—Britain’s answer to every filmgoer’s hungry dreams. Twenty-two, brainy, beautiful, tantalizing, and talented, she is a girl of simple tastes to travel to Ealing by Underground from Marble Arch, takes Sunday afternoon strolls in Hyde Park, and stops to listen to the geniuses of Orator’s Corner.
Restful spirit at Rottingdean . . .
Over a gate for home . . .
She rides on buses or browses in the Charing Cross Road bookshops. Visits to cinemas and theatres are still fun for her. Given a day off, she will rush to the coast and join countless other holidaymakers. Audrey Hepburn is also a hard and fast worker. Just over two years ago, Jack Hylton selected her from 2,000 other girls to dance in High Button Shoes. After this “break,” Audrey tripped into the chorus of Sauce Tartare. There she caugh the eye of producer Cecil Landeaus sufficiently to be given a solo part in his sequel Sauce Piquante. This, in turn, caught the attention of the theatre critics and the public.
Among the regulars who went to see Audrey’s performance was film producer Mario Zampi. He went fourteen times. Like many pretty showgirls, Audrey had frequently been told she ought to be in films. Zampi not only said it, he gave her a small part in Alastair Sim’s Laughter in Paradise. Other “meatier” parts followed in The Lavender Hill Mob and Young Wives’ Tale. She obtained a contract with Associated British Pictures and a leading part in Ealing’s The Secret People—before her first three pictures were released. During the next few months, filmgoers will be able to make up their own minds about Audrey. They will see a lithe, dark-hair, large-eyed girl who slightly resembles Jean Simmons. Unlike Jean, however, Audrey has a cosmopolitan and somber background.
Secret performances for members of Dutch Resistance were some of Audrey’s experiences during the war. Now, at twenty-two, she takes the part of a refugee dancer in the film The Secret People.
A mixture of Scots, Belgian, and Dutch, she was in Belgium at the outbreak of war. After the Belgian capitulation, the family moved to Arnhem. Their house there was shelled during the airborne landing.
It was at Arnhem that she made her first public appearance as an entertainer. Black, or secret, concerts were given in private houses by performers who had refused to join the German sponsored “Chamber of Culture.” Audrey, then fifteen, was invited to appear at one of these concerts. Her mother helped her to make costumes from old curtains and chair covers. Later, conditions became so bad that cothes and jewellery were sold to provide food for the family.
Looked at from the Mayfair flat where she now lives with her mother, these days seem unreal. Though she entered show business as a dancer, Audrey is rapidly developing as an actress. Unusually tall for films—she is 5'7"—she has passed the stage where producers can brush her off by telling her she is “too lofty for camera work.” A girl with her potential star value can be as tall as a giraffe and still get by.
Audrey Hepburn could gracefully occupy a star’s chair in Britain’s studios. She might even attract some of the international attention now lavished on “Katie” Hepburn, and enable that much harassed star to pursue her life far from the madding crowd.
#audrey hepburn#vintage#classic#style#photography#fashion#old hollywood#old hollywood glamour#1950s#1951#readings#audrey hepburn readings#magazines#vintage magazines
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Hera as nurse, mother and employer of monsters
Hera is connected with quite a few monsters in Greek mythology, especially with serpents and serpentine creatures. This aspect of her doesn't seem to get much attention, but it is certainly interesting.
She was nurse to the Lernaean Hydra, the many-headed, venomous water snake which Herakles had to subdue: "Her [Echidna's] third child was the loathsome Hydra of Lerna, and she was nurtured by white-armed Hera whose wrath at mighty Herakles was implacable." (Hesiod, Theogony)
She raised the Nemean Lion, apparently for no reason other than causing trouble for mortals: "the Lion of Nemea, who was reared by Hera, the glorious wife of Zeus, and settled on the hills of Nemea as a scourge to mankind." (Hesiod, Theogony)
She gave birth to Typhon, father of most monsters, in an attempt to produce a child more powerful than Zeus: "And once from golden-throned Hera she received and reared dreadful and baneful Typhaon, a scourge to mortals. Hera gave birth to him in anger at father Zeus, when the son of Kronos gave birth to glorious Athena from his head;" (Homeric Hymn 3. To Apollon)
Hera sent the Sphinx to terrorise the Thebans: "While he [Kreon] was king, quite a scourge held Thebes in suppression, for Hera sent upon them the Sphinx, whose parents were Echidna and Typhon. (Apollodoros, Bibliotheke)
She appointed the hundred-headed serpent son of Typhon as guardian over her tree of golden apples: "This is the large serpent, the one that lies between the two Bears. They say that it is the one that guarded the golden apples and was killed by Heracles; it was placed among the constellations by Hera, who had appointed it to guard the apples in the land of the Hesperides. For according to Pherecydes, ... because the daughters of Atlas constantly stole the fruit, she stationed this enormous snake there as a guard." (Hyginus, Astronomy)
She sent two serpents to attack Herakles: "... then sent the wily Hera two dire monsters of serpents, bridling and bristling and with azure coils, to go upon the broad threshold of the hollow doorway of the house, with intent they should devour the child Heracles." (Theokritos, Idyll 24).
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If you liked [inside no 9 episode] watch [film] : a guide. Part 2
If you liked ‘Wuthering Heist’, consider:
- Mon Oncle (1958). Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs.
- A Night in the Show (1915). A man tries to find a seat for a show, while another man harasses both patrons and performers.
- Carry on Spying (1964). The dastardly organisation STENCH (Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans) is in possession of the secret Formula X, and its clear that the British secret service must do something.
- The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). Henry Holland is a fussy supervisor who oversees gold bullion deliveries to the bank in which he works. Secretly, he is plotting to steal a load of bullion and retire early, but he cannot figure out a way to smuggle it out of the country.
If you liked ‘Last Night of the Proms’, consider:
- Eat the Rich (1987). Terrorists and a rude waiter attack a politician and take over an exclusive London club.
- The Last Supper (1995). A group of students meet every Sunday and invite a guest to discuss various topics. When one of them ends up killing a guest because of his views, they decide to rid society of such people.
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1987). A gang leader's wife starts an affair with a bookseller who regularly visits her husband's restaurant. However, things complicate when she, her lover, a thief and a cook come together.
- In The Loop (2009). During an interview, British Cabinet Minister Simon Foster delivers an off-the-cuff remark Profane political spin doctor Malcolm Tucker tries to cover up Foster's faux pas, but the ill-conceived comment is picked up by a warmongering American official.
If you liked ‘The Riddle of the Sphinx’ consider:
- Pygmalion (1938). When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet.
- The Game (1997). Nicholas Van Orton is a successful banker who keeps mostly to himself. When his estranged brother Conrad returns on his birthday with an odd gift - participation in a personalized, real-life game - Nicholas reluctantly accepts.
If you liked ‘Séance time’, consider:
- Ghostwatch (1992). The BBC gives over a whole evening to an 'investigation into the supernatural'
- Talk to Me (2023). When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits with an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill and high-stakes party game - until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
- Hereditary (2018). When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter and grandchildren begin to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry, trying to outrun the sinister fate they have inherited.
- Ghost Stories (2017). Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases.
- Borley Rectory (2017). In 1937, leading paranormal investigator Harry Price is given an opportunity to investigate the most haunted house in England, the infamous Borley Rectory, where he hopes to discover the truth behind the hauntings that have plagued the property.
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i would love if you'd shared everything that might be in aelin's list in a world away, all the dream places she wants to go or already went 🤧🥺
First of all - I am so sorry it’s taken me so long to answer this ask 😭
Second - this list is in no way complete. I could probably double it if I gave it some more time (and maybe I’ll edit this post and add some later) but I wanted to answer this ask.
Third - some things listed are cities, some are attractions, some are landmarks or monuments…it’s really a mix of everything. And some major landmarks that cover more than one country are only listed once.
A World Away
So, without further ado, please enjoy
Aelin’s Incomplete and Ever-Adapting World Travel List ✈️
Antarctica
Argentina
Iguazú Falls // Patagonia // Rainbow Mountains // Buenos Aires
Australia
Melbourne // Sydney // Gold Coast // Great Barrier Reef // Adelaide
Austria
Vienna // Salzburg // Hallstatt
the Bahamas
Belgium
Bruges // Brussels
Belize
the Great Blue Hole
Bhutan
the Himalayas
Bolivia
Salar de Uyuni
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Stari Most Bridge // Mostar
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro // Christ the Redeemer // Amazon Rainforest // Lençóis Maranhenses National Park // Sao Paolo
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Angkor Wat
Canada
Niagra Falls // Vancouver // Banff // Toronto
Chile
Easter Island // Torres del Paine National Park // Marble Caves
China
Great Wall of China // Beijing // Shanghai // the Summer Palace // Potala Palace // Tianmen Mountain // Reed Flute Caves // Zhanye Danxia
Costa Rica
San Jose
Croatia
Dalmatian Coast // Diocletian's Palace // Krka waterfall park // Plitvice Lakes // Zagreb
Cuba
Havana
Czech Republic
Prague
Denmark
Copenhagan
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Quito // Galapagos Islands
Egypt
Cairo // The Great Pyramids & Sphinx // Nile River // Valley of the Kings // Luxor // Aswan
England
London // Thames River // Stonehenge
Estonia
Tallinn
Fiji
Finland
Helsinki
France
Mont-Saint-Michel // Louvre // Eiffel Tower // Alsace Lorraine // Paris // Notre Dame // Sacre Coeur // Versailles // Nice
French Polynesia
Bora Bora // Tahiti
Germany
Munich // Berlin // Black Forest // Oktoberfest // Neuschwanstein Castle
Greece
Santorini // Athens // Parthenon // Roman Agora // Acropolis // Mykonos // Oia // Fira // Corfu // Meteora
Greenland
Hong Kong
Tsim Sha Tsui
Hungary
Budapest // Capitol Hill // Bath Houses
Iceland
Reykjavik // Northern Lights // Egilsstaðir //Ring Road // Blue Lagoon // Vatnajökull National Park // Kirkjufell // Húsavík // Akureyri // Thingvellir National Park
Italy
Roman Colosseum // Amalfi Coast // Florence Duomo // Venice at Carnival // Piazzale Michelangelo // Cinque Terre // Pisa // Venice // Pompeii // Milan
India
Taj Mahal // Varanasi & Ganges River // Golden Temple // Agra // Mumbai // New Delhi
Indonesia
Bali // Komodo Island // Blue Flames at Ijen Volcano // Jarkarta
Iran
Hall of Diamonds
Ireland & Northern Ireland
Cliffs of Moher // Giants Causeway // Galway // Blarney Stone // Trinity College // O'Neills // Belfast // Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge // Cobh
Isreal
Dead Sea // Jerusalem
Jamaica
Japan
Tokyo // Mount Fuji // Wisteria Gardens // Osaka // Kyoto
Jordan
Petra // Amman
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Maasai Mara National Park // Lake Victoria
Kyrgyzstan
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Avenue of the Baobabs
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur // Batu Caves
the Maldives
Male
Malta
Valletta
Mexico
Cabo // Teotihuacán // Chichen Itza // Cabo // Yucatan Peninsula // Mexico City
Mongolia
Gobi Desert
Morocco
Casablanca // Hassan II Mosque // Marrakesh // Chefchaouen // Sahara Desert
Myanmar
Bagan's Temples
Namibia
Nepal
Mount Everest // Kathmandu
the Netherlands
Amsterdam // Van Gogh Museum // Tulip Festival
New Zealand
Auckland // Queenstown // Kawarau Suspension Bridge // Milford Sound // Tongariro National Park // Hobbitton // Dark Sky Sanctuary // Waitomo Caves
Nigeria
Lagos
Norway
Oslo
Panama
Panama City
Peru
Machu Picchu & Huayna Picchu // Lima // Aguas Calientes // Andes Mountains // Huacachina
Philippines
Palawan // Manila
Poland
Krakow
Portugal
Lisbon
Romania
Russia
Moscow // St Petersburg
Rwanda
Volcanoes National Park
Saint Lucia
Samoa
Saudi Arabia
Al-Masjid an-Nabawi
Scotland
Edinburgh // Loch Ness // Inverness // Glasgow // Scottish Highlands
Singapore
Marian Bay Sands
Slovenia
Lake Bled
South Africa
Capetown // Johanessburg // Isle of Elephants
South Korea
Seoul // Jeju Island
Spain
Barcelona // Madrid // Sagrada Familia // Mosque of Cordoba
Sweden
Stockholm // Sweddish Lapland
Switzerland
the Alps // Bern // St Moritz
Tanzania
Mount Kilimanjaro // Serengeti
Thailand
Bangkok // the Grand Palace // Phuket
republic of Türkiye
Cappadocia // Istanbul // Hagia Sophia // Pamukkale
Turkmenistan
Darvaza gas crater
Turks & Caicos
United Arab Emirates
Dubai // Burj Khalifa
United States
Grand Canyon // San Fransisco // Honolulu // Kauai // New Orleans // New York City // Seattle // Portland // Los Angeles // Antelope Canyon // MOMA // Las Vegas
Vanuatu
the Vatican
St. Peter's Basilica // The Vatican Museum // Sistine Chapel
Vietnam
Ha Long Bay // Hoi An // Hanoi
Zambia
Victoria Falls
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Mu-Lost City of the Lemurians
On the western edge of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, not too far from the beach houses of Malibu, lies what one researcher believers may be the most spectacular hidden archaeological site in North American.
Robert Stanley, a journalist and publisher of UNICUS magazine, has traveled around the world in search of ancient mysterious and lost ruins. But he never suspected that he’d find remnants of a lost world literally (almost) in his own backyard, on the slopes of these chaparral-covered mountains that bisect the Lost Angeles basin.
In 1985, Stanley was hiking through the Santa Monicas when he began to notice odd and unnatural-looking formations around Los Angeles-Ventura county line. He noted gulches that looked like sculpted ramparts, stone walls on rocky hills never occupied by house or livestock, and floorlike flat surfaces at the tops of windswept peaks. There were also a huge rock outcropping that resembled the outline of a human face staring out to the pacific, which Stanley dubbed the Sphinx.
Researching the history and lore of the area, Stanley found a local Chumash Indian legend of a “First People” who had lived in the mountains long before the Chumash arrived in around 3,000 B.C. The Chumash said that these mystery people were long gone, but some of their artifacts-crystalline sculptures of strange animals and the like-could be found in certain mountain caves. As with the Anasai ruins of the Southwest, the First People’s remnants were avoided by the local Indians.
What was most intriguing about the Chumash legend was the story of the First People’s demise. The Chumash claimed that the civilization had been called Mu and had been wiped out in a catastrophic flood. This exactly paralleled the legend of Lemuria, the Lost Continent of the Pacific.
Geologists and oceanographers believe that at the end of the last Ice Age, the Malibu sea level was at least two thousand feet lower than today. This would have made the Channel Islands a far-western extension of the Santa Monicas and allowed for a large lowland region-the Mu of the legend-to exist in what’s now the California coastal shelf of the Pacific Ocean. That prehistoric peoples lived in this area is beyond dispute. One of North America’s oldest human remains-the 13,000-year-old Channel Islands Woman-was found on Santa Rosa Island, twenty-five miles west of Malibu.
Stanley thinks that Mu’s lowlands were wiped out by the rising post-Ice Age sea levels. The higher regions of the civilization, whose traces he says still exist in the Santa Monicas, may have been destroyed by a tsunami-a fast-moving, powerful tidal wave. Such a wave would have devastated coastal hillside settlements and left countless tons of silt and debris in its wake.
Mu may be the California equivalent of the underwater archaeological sites like Japan’s Yonaguni, Egypt’s Alexandria, or Wisconsin’s Rock Lake. Robert Stanley has became an expert on the Mu site and has involved both professionals and laypeople in explorations of the area. However, he has not revealed the exact locations of the area’s most peculiar features, fearing their destruction by vandals or curiosity hunters.
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Dungeon Appreciation Post #3 - Mt. Gulg (Final Fantasy I)
I was looking for a dungeon from a game like early Final Fantasy, and in my memory of playing it, Mt. Gulg stands out to me. It has a great soundtrack, and the volcano must stand out to other people too, because the name and music have been re-used in other Final Fantasy games as an homage.
I just love the opening room. I like when dungeons take on the shape of the thing they're supposed to represent, especially when we're talking about games that use a limited tileset on flat 2D maps to represent them. This effectively evokes the mouth of a volcano, and you have to walk through the lava to get inside the mountain. This might be reading into it too much, but I don't think there's a version of the game where you can see the end of each safe zone (the wings on the spiral) until you take a few steps in. This is clever, as it makes you take a break, but also forces you to realize after a step or two that you have to backtrack into danger to proceed.
The next floor down opens into a pretty direct hallway filled with lava, with a large treasure-filled maze off to the side, and it is quite winding. One could take multiple excursions, fighting enemies (including some in the treasure chests to wear you down) to try to get a full set of armor and some weapons and gold, but on an attempt where you want to go straight down the hall, the path to the third floor checks your party's stamina somewhat on the way down.
The 3rd, 4th, and 5th areas are long gauntlets of battles with no treasure in sight and tons of lava to filter you, just to make sure you can really take it before fighting the boss.
The 6th is a few interconnected hallways with rooms again, almost like little houses, but mostly containing gold and common items, but one storeroom out of your way contains the sword Icebrand and a Flame Shield together.
Then, the bottommost floor is built like a web of buildings, one containing Flame Armor, so it's cool to get a few fire-and-ice themed magic equipment here, and another has the boss, the Fire Fiend Marilith (or Kary).
In an RPG, it's often difficult to interpret random encounters as contributing to the story or lore, and easy to pass over the monsters as a bag of mechanics that don't have any deeper meaning, but it's fun to think about! With a design like this, you can ask questions about it like;
Why does there appear to be a city buried deep within the volcano? I mean, excluding the maze/storage on the upper level, there appear to be 14 different, unconnected small structures, which is more than a lot of the towns in the game, and they're all on the lower two floors.
Other than the more monstrous monsters (Dragons, Oozes, Worms, Elementals, etc.) that appear alone or in packs with each other, some of the mixed random encounters consist of Orge Mages and Ogre Chiefs, sometimes with Hellhounds and Hyenadons, but not other monsters, implying that the Ogres have a hierarchy and can domesticate other monsters. Do the ogres occupy the city in the volcanos depths?
Minotaurs and Hill Gigas (the other two humanoid monster types) sometimes appear with Scorpions and Lizards, respectively. Is something similar going on there?
Oh, another cool monster encounter detail! Sphinxes only appear on the top-level, implying they don't live inside the volcano at all, but only fly around the peak!
Who made the Icebrand and Fire armor/Shield? They seem useful for the denizens of the mountain to actually use (which I love for items), so who do they actually belong to?
See? Even a collection of random encounters and tiles can imply lore and worldbuilding, even if NPCs don't talk about it and you don't meet any NPC ogres in the game. It's up to your imagination, though, and I wonder how the original devs imagined Mt. Gulg.
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Cherry Hill Unitarian Church)
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and maybe the oldest one alive.
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Cairo Day Tours from Alexandria Port
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Utterly dilapidated
Statue, picture, book, music, are preserved intact with reverential awe. Not but what some of them have suffered too by time, get utterly dilapidated, are in risk of perishing, have become mere fragments, or offer tempting ground for ambitious genius. The ‘ Aphrodite ’ of Melos is still a riddle: the torso of the Vatican is a very sphinx in stone, a mass of marble ever propounding enigmas, ever rejecting solutions. It is a block as it stands: head, arms, legs, and action would make it a statue. The ‘Cenacolo’ of Milan has long been a mere ghost of a fresco, faint as the last gleam of a rainbow. There are still whole choruses of Aischylus to restore; and Shakespeare is certainly not responsible for every scene in his so-called works. Literature and Art are full of works, either injured by time, or left incomplete by their authors, or such as modern research could easily purge of their anachronisms, inconsistencies, and general defects.
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It may be as old as the Pyramids, or as recent as Queen Anne. But in any case it has watched generation after generation come and go; for thousands of years men have passed under that portal; for centuries the bell has tolled from that tower. The steps of this colonnade have been worn by the feet of Pericles, Sophocles, Plato, and Socrates; under this arch passed the Antonines, Trajan, and Charlemagne; Saint Louis used to pray standing on this very floor, six centuries and a half ago; this chapter-house was for two centuries the cradle of the Mother of Parliaments throughout the world.
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Utterly dilapidated
Statue, picture, book, music, are preserved intact with reverential awe. Not but what some of them have suffered too by time, get utterly dilapidated, are in risk of perishing, have become mere fragments, or offer tempting ground for ambitious genius. The ‘ Aphrodite ’ of Melos is still a riddle: the torso of the Vatican is a very sphinx in stone, a mass of marble ever propounding enigmas, ever rejecting solutions. It is a block as it stands: head, arms, legs, and action would make it a statue. The ‘Cenacolo’ of Milan has long been a mere ghost of a fresco, faint as the last gleam of a rainbow. There are still whole choruses of Aischylus to restore; and Shakespeare is certainly not responsible for every scene in his so-called works. Literature and Art are full of works, either injured by time, or left incomplete by their authors, or such as modern research could easily purge of their anachronisms, inconsistencies, and general defects.
It is in one art only that modern research dares this outrage. Great works of architecture are not exactly on the same footing with great works of sculpture, of painting, of music, of poetry. They differ from all; and I will presently consider these differences. But great works of architecture are, like all great works of art, matchless, priceless, and sacred.
Divine Comedy
They are absolutely beyond renewal. It is easier to copy Titian’s ‘ Entombment ’ than the portal of Chartres or Notre Dame — as they once stood, and stand no more. Each great work of architecture is also unique: completely distinct from every work that ever was or ever will be. Giotto’s Campanile, the Duke’s Palace at Venice, stand alone—must we say stood alone? — like Hamlet or Lear, ‘remote, sublime, and inaccessible.’ A man who wanted to ‘ continue ’ Giotto’s Campanile, or add a new story, and enlarge the Palace at Venice, is the kind of man who would ‘continue’ the Iliad or dramatise the Divine Comedy for the Lyceum stage.
In all ways the great building is worthy of a deeper reverence, is consecrated with a profounder halo of social and historical mystery than any picture or any statue can be. Of the five great arts, that of building is the only one which adds to its charm of beauty the solemnity of the genius loci. It is the one art which is immovably fixed to place; the rest are migratory or independent of space. Poetry and music, not being arts of form, are not confined to any spot. Statues and paintings, though they can only be seen in some spot, may be carried round the world and set up in museums and galleries. But the building belongs for ever to the place where it is set up private tours istanbul. It is incorporated with the surroundings, the climate, the people, the site, where it first rose. No museum can ever hold it; it is not to be catalogued, mounted, framed, or classed like a coin or a mummy in a glass case. It stands for ever facing the same eternal hills, the same ever-flowing river, rising into the same azure or lowering sky into which it rose at first in joy or pride.
It may be as old as the Pyramids, or as recent as Queen Anne. But in any case it has watched generation after generation come and go; for thousands of years men have passed under that portal; for centuries the bell has tolled from that tower. The steps of this colonnade have been worn by the feet of Pericles, Sophocles, Plato, and Socrates; under this arch passed the Antonines, Trajan, and Charlemagne; Saint Louis used to pray standing on this very floor, six centuries and a half ago; this chapter-house was for two centuries the cradle of the Mother of Parliaments throughout the world.
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