That annoying speck in the corner of your eye
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Online Course: Tolkien and his Medieval Sources - starting next month! Sign up at medievalstudies.thinkific.co… #LOTR
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NOSFERATU is close to the Greek word 'nosforos', meaning ‘plague bearer’. In the film the #vampire has his teeth set at the front of his mouth like the plague rats he brings in his wake. Vampirism & plague are symbolically combined in the metaphor of vermin characterised by RATS, themes in the ‘Pied Piper’ and Stoker’s Dracula #31DaysOfHalloween
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Pleased with my Nosferatu carving, but unsettled by how hungrily it’s gazing at me. #Halloween 🎃
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Around 1500, Hieronymus Bosch painted sheet music on a sinner's bare butt in hell. 500 years later, someone transcribed and performed it. Now you can hear the original butt song from hell.
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These are my great-grandfather Dr. Sam Aykroyd’s transcripts from the Seances he hosted in the Old Farmhouse. It was the spirit of his work passed down through the generations that inspired my interests. He’s the original Ghostbuster.
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La visita virtual del Museo del Prado permite ver gratuitamente la colección desde cualquier lugar del mundo. Incluye imágenes en alta resolución de obras maestras como "El Descendimiento" de Van der Weyden museodelprado.es/visita-virt… #NextGenerationEU #PlandeRecuperación
ALT "El Descendimiento" de Van der Weyden en la visita virtual al Museo del Prado
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🔥 A medieval Hell designed to be rotated! Four demons torment the damned in this extraordinary 12th-century miniature from the Silos Beatus, preserved at the British Library.
Discover its remarkable Romanesque iconography.
#MoleiroEditor #MedievalArt #SilosBeatus
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Daily Mirror, England, January 22, 1909 Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.
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Well, well, well... look who I found... Trading books with Michael Douglas. Devil on My Shoulder & One Helluva Ride now available in bookstores everywhere!!
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Quite a thought that a fin de siecle Glasgow artist inadvertently inspired Alien.
HR Giger greatly admired Art Nouveau. Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh was a pioneer of its fusion of human forms with abstract shapes.
(1964-1933)
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A video of Japanese conservators carefully removing papers that were recently discovered inside of a Buddhist statue dating back to the late Kamakura period (1280's-1330's).
A fascinating discovery inside a late-Kamakura-period Buddhist statue:
During the restoration of the Jūichimen Kannon 十一面観世音菩薩 at Shōjuin 正寿院 in Ujitawara, Kyoto Prefecture, conservators found 95 sheets of paper within the image. 94 of which bore stamped images of Kannon and one containing a handwritten text in ink.
The statue, approximately 60 cm tall, is the temple’s principal image and is normally kept concealed as a hibutsu 秘仏 ("secret Buddha"). In announcing the discovery, the temple described the Kannon images' function to magically protect the written document.
The contents and date of the document have yet to be established. It will be fascinating to learn what it reveals about the statue’s history and the people who placed these materials inside it.
Images below, and a short Japanese news report here:
asahi.co.jp/webnews/pages/ab…
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After their steamer West Point burned and sank in 1910, 16 sailors and the kitten Flap were left adrift in an open lifeboat. For six grueling days and nights, the men took turns holding the kitten close to their bodies to keep it warm and dry. Upon their rescue, Flap became a celebrity and was sold for £30 ($6,000 in 2026) to raise funds for the shipwrecked sailors.
#cat #cats #catlovers #caturday
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As great as Alien was, it didn't have a song and dance number, and Mel Brooks fixed that.
(📽️Spaceballs, 1987)
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After abandoning the S.S. Texel under orders of a German U-boat captain who was preparing to sink their ship, the crew realized they had left their kitten Mickey behind. The crew pleaded with the German captain to allow them to return to their ship to save Mickey. The captain agreed to delay sinking the ship until Mickey was found and safely placed in a lifeboat with the rest of the men.
#cat #cats #catlovers #catlore
