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[nemfrog]

"Venus appears largest when in the crescent phase." Natural History. December 1949.

Internet Archive

[princessofparfait]

[70sscifiart]

Robert Heindel's 1969 cover art for Orion Was Rising, by Rose Palmer

[ancientcharm]

Pompeii

Watercolors by Hansen, Josef Theodor (1848-1912)

House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii (1905)

Tepidarium at the Forum baths in Pompeii  (1884)

House of Sallustius, Pompeii (1886)

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Chris Becker (b. 1983), “Metropolis”

graphite on panel, 2025

[femaleastronauts]

[retropopcult]

The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

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Martin van Maële (1863–1926) - “On y ajoute des danses mauresques, vives et langoureuses”

illustration for Jules Michelet’s ‘La Sorcière’, 1911 edition

[nemfrog]

Star trail. Old French fairy tales. c.1920. Spot illustration.

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[catsofyore]

Superb mixed bean salad. 🫘 Photo from a book in my collection: The Book of Kittens, edited by Brant House, 1951.

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Franz von Bayros (1866–1924) - In the Garden of Aphrodite

source

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Sergey Solomko (1867–1928) - Walpurgis Night

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Max Thorek (1880–1960) - Despair, 1936

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Joseph Apoux (1846-1910) - Le Vampire, 1895

from 'Reveries Fantastiques' series

[nemfrog]

"Saturn photographed at the Lick Observatory." Astronomy in a nutshell. 1912.

Internet Archive

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Laurie Lipton (1953-) - The Queen of Bones

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from Marcel Schwob’s Vie Imaginaires by Georges Barbier (1929)

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L' Étoile de mer (1928) by Man Ray