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being paranoid is funny bc like well what if i'm right
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Carved ivory casket with depictions of Cupid, Byzantine, 10th century
from The Walters Art Museum
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The Enchanted Cave is the largest amethyst cave in the world | source
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Richard Wagner - Parsifal
3. Akt - Gurnemanz und Parsifal.
Gurnemanz: "Heil dir, mein Gast!
Bist du verirrt, und soll ich dich weisen?"
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Venice, Queen of the Adriatic, Crowning the Lion of St. Mark, Domenico Tintoretto, ca. 1595-9
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Indian Roller (Coracias benghalensis), family Coraciidae, order Coraciiformes, Karnataka, India
photograph by Kmb Prasad
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"I Fought the Sea Killer"
Adventure, August 1956
Cover by Mort Künstler
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Boy Reading Adventure Story (1923) Norman Rockwell (American painter and illustrator, lived 1894–1978).
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obsessed with the april fools day joke from the another crab's treasure devs
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Serpent Column of Delphi
Delphi, Greece
478 BC
8 m.
The Serpent Column, also known as the Serpentine Column, Plataean Tripod or Delphi Tripod, is an ancient bronze column. It is part of an ancient Greek sacrificial tripod, originally in Delphi and relocated to Constantinople by Constantine I the Great in 324. It was built to commemorate the Greeks who fought and defeated the Persian Empire at the Battle of Plataea (479 BC). The serpent heads of the 8-metre high column remained intact until the end of the 17th century.
Together with its original golden tripod and bowl (both long missing), it constituted a trophy, or offering, dedicated to Apollo at Delphi. This offering was made in the spring of 478 BC, several months after the defeat of the Persian army in the Battle of Plataea (August 479 BC) by those Greek city-states in alliance against the Persian invasion of mainland Greece.
Pictured are two reconstruction proposals and pictures of the actual column.
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As I gaze at the structural column in Copley Station, cracked nearly in two and held together with zip ties that have been carefully painted over to match the column underneath, I feel my soul intertwined with that of a small Italian boy of days gone by, who also stopped to look up at a large, groaning, newly painted tank full of molasses
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