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Today is dedicated to the LongFroglets and RoundFroglets who have now all gone to their forever homes! Some who left today have gone to be pets and others are going to live in a primary school classroom!

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Why do you think Vargo Hoat and Ser Amory Lorch hated each other so much? Amory seems like the kind of guy the Bloody Mummers would typically recruit?

Amory Lorch would never countenance to work for the Bloody Mummers. While he is a brutal, psychotic thug, Lorch looks down on mercenary work as lesser. The Bloody Mummers, in particular, have a reputation for brutality to the point of pointlessness. Amory Lorch considers himself much more sophisticated - a noble of "better blood" meant to bring glory and success to Tywin, his feudal overlord.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

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Dionysus mosaic

220-230 CE

Romano-Germanic Museum, Cologne

Cologne, November 2017

ps. Just noticed, that this is my 400th - tagged - bird post :-) . Other 399 birds are here

#peacock #ancient rome #mosaics

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Tawny Eagle

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Today these RoundFroglets and LongFroglets are working on Frog-Pile!

#frogs #pets

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Going through photo folders to find images for the references project, and I came upon a couple photos of the juvenile gorillas at Woodland Park I'd forgotten I'd taken. They've got two littles in this family group, close to the same age: Kitoko, a male, and Juna, his younger half-sister. I don't know them well enough to tell them apart so I can't ID these photos, but regardless, they were a lovely surprise to find in my files and I wanted to share.

(Shameless plug for more of my photography on Instagram)

#gorillas #baby animals #zoo animals

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Day 802 of posting pictures of elephants.

Source: Saha Avijan

#elephants #asian elephant #baby elephant #moms

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This .gif comes from a September 2011 video of sea otters Milo and Tanu from the Vancouver Aquarium:

#sea otter #otters #aquarium #zoo animals #Youtube

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This isn’t commonly known but one of the rings of hell is actually being in a fandom wherein the popular bloggers have the worst opinions known to man that everyone else parrots

#fandom critical

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Brown Butter Raspberry Chocolate Chip Cookies

#cookies #dessert

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Western or Great Plains Narrowmouth Frog (Gastrophryne olivacea), female, family Microhylidae, West TX, USA

photograph by Roadtripmonster

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‘Incredible’ Mosaics Were Found in an Ancient Luxury Home in Rome

Italy’s Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano has called the works “an authentic treasure.”

Researchers working in the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum in Rome have shared their discovery of luxurious mosaic-tiled rooms found in an ancient home on the site, which they believe may have belonged to a Roman senator. Created from shells, glass, white marble, and Egyptian blue tiles, the mosaics have been described by Italy’s Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano as “an authentic treasure”.

The “rustic” mosaics, found on the grounds surrounding the Colosseum in the heart of the city, date to the late Republican Age, in the last decades of the second century B.C.E., and show a series of figurative scenes. They once decorated a townhouse, or domus, owned by an upper class citizen. Italy’s Ministry of Culture have said that “due to the complexity of the scenes depicted” and their age, the mosaics are “without comparison.”

One mosaic depicts a coastal city with towers and porticos, with three large ships floating by on the ocean waves. The culture ministry believes this could be a reference to naval victories achieved by the owner of the home, which is believed to have been a Roman senator. This is supported by historical sources describing the area as having been occupied by such high-ranking members of society.

The decorated walls were likely located in the home’s dining rooms, where luxurious banquets would be hosted, and guests at these events were likely wowed with “spectacular water games,” according to the culture ministry, based on the presence of lead pipes set into the walls.

In the reception room, an extremely well preserved decorated stucco featuring landscapes and figures was also discovered. Other designs include vines and lotus leaves flowing from vases, musical instruments, and tridents.

The mosaic walls were first discovered near the Colosseum in 2018, but excavation at the site will continue into 2024, and more rooms could be discovered. Alfonsina Russo, the Director of the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum, has said that once the domus is full uncovered, “we will work intensely to make this place, among the most evocative of ancient Rome, accessible to the public as soon as possible.”

By Verity Babbs.

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Stater, minted 380/379 BCE at Tarsus in Cilicia, of Pharnabazus II, former satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia under the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia and a major figure in the internecine conflicts of the Greek city-states during the late 5th/early 4th centuries. The coin shows the complex intermingling of Greek and Near Eastern cultures characteristic of Anatolia under Achaemenid rule. On the obverse, Ba'al of Tarsus is shown seated, holding a lotus-tipped scepter and wearing the Greek chlamys. On the reverse, a bearded man wears a helmet in Attic style. Both sides are inscribed in Aramaic, which served as the lingua franca of the Near East under the Achaemenids. Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

#coins #ancient greece #persia