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Medieval kittens, from a 13th century English manuscript, (Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 533, fol. 13r) 

#art #cats #these were the cat videos back then

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Mufasa from Madagascar

#lions

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Little fucking guy alert!!

[ID: two photos of a porcelain triceratops from different angles. The triceratops is very small and has blue floral designs on its crown and body. Its three horns are painted with gold luster.]

#cute #dinosaur #porcelain

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Jyn & Cassian in Rogue One | 2016

#rogue one

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On the 24th of March 1603, King James VI of Scotland of the Stuart Dynasty succeeded his cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England. He was crowned King of England and Ireland on the 25th of July of that year. He reigned England and Ireland for 22 years. He was succeeded by his second son, the ill-fated Charles I. The picture you see here is the Stuart Family Tree portrait (c.1603), depicting his Tudor and Stuart ancestry, and thus from the former, his claim to the English throne that stemmed from Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII. To honor his Tudor predecessor, he transferred the bodies of Elizabeth and Mary into one tomb and had one big effigy commemorating the former. The only mention that pointed to Mary being buried there was a plaque that hoped that the two would be reunited in the afterlife and in the resurrection.

Sadly, James VI of Scotland and I of England and Ireland didn’t turn out to be a popular King (in the long run). He sponsored the arts, like William Shakespeare (as Elizabeth I had done), but his flamboyance annoyed many people and before you know it, people began looking to the past, feeling nostalgic about the ‘good old days’ when Queen Elizabeth I was their monarch.

Image: James I’s Family Tree portrait (c.1603), emphasizing his Tudor and Stuart lineage.

#house of stuart #history

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POOR THINGS (2024)

#poor things

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POOR THINGS (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

#poor things

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Some of the beautiful illustrations by S.D. Schindler from Brother Hugo and the Bear by Katy Beebe.

The book is based on two real medieval figures: Hugo, a scribe who added a self-portrait (pictured above) to the end of his copy of Jerome's Commentaries on Isaiah, and a bear who appears in a letter from the abbot of Cluny Abbey to a neighboring abbot asking to borrow a copy of The Letters of St. Augustine, "for a large part of ours has been accidentally eaten by a bear."

#brother hugo and the bear #this is adorable

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Indian Ocean An agate stone that looks like a window to the ocean

#art #water

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’The Defeat Of The Sardaukar,’ by John Schoenherr, for Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’

#dune #art

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#reading #books

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON + art (12/∞)

Gift | Marguerite Gérard Waiting | Thomas Francis Dicksee The King’s Daughter | Eduard Veith Artemisia | Rembrandt

#hotd #art #paintings

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Funceratops Clown Triceratops Plushie by cutiepiesart

#plushie #toy #dinosaur #cute

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Azonosságtudat

I have just read the values I should convey as a teacher and there were the things I suspected (left and right) like social sensitivity, democratic thinking, national identity. But one of them was "azonosságtudat" which is a really creepy sounding word to me. I have never heard it before. I would translate it to "a sense of knowing being identical". Why on Earth would anyone want to be identical? Why is it a value?

#2024 #hungary #school

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The order I get the more I apprerciate Jon snow.

#jon snow #asoiaf

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via @indiarosecrawford

𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ

#omg i love this so much #frogs #art

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I added alphabetical dividers to my vintage Modern Library shelf

#books #reading