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I hope he’s doing well wherever he is #japan #japanmemes #japanfunny #japantrip

"A really great souvenir for tourists"

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The infamous "Jughead Crown" is actually classic old school blue collar streetwear!

Who knew? I always assumed the character was wearing old party favours because he was goofy

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Nose ornament with chubbyspiders.

Make me a museum quality replica plz

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"Renowned in Thailand for their visual power,soulful grit and matter-of-fact role in the human comedy, these weird, wonderful and hard-to-find folk art creations remain largely unknown outside Southeast Asia, yet easily rival the sequined Loa flags of Haiti or the gnawa music of Moroccan mysticism for aesthetic impact and sheer hypnotic presence."

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Good Question: how did the little red truck become a Christmas icon?

If you have a Good Question you’d like us to try to answer, send it to [email protected].

An unexspected classic

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72K views · 25K reactions | World’s Smallest Miniature Library ca. 1920. #library #miniature #shakespeare #bookish #paradiselost | Reid Moo

World’s Smallest Miniature Library ca. 1920. #library #miniature #shakespeare #bookish #paradiselost.

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Prop replica books can come in all shapes and sizes, from the mass-produced to the knocked-off to the meticulously recreated

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It’s that time of the year again.

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At Púca Printhouse we take our time to research the myths, folklore, and to collect social history. We find the locations where myths can be placed, and then create modern illustrated maps of our findings.

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Fox in a monk costume. 1530, Denmark

Satire on the clergy was well known in the Middle Ages. But the small approx. 6 cm. tall ivory figure of a fox in a monk's robe and with a r...

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Hotellens senaste tappning av souvenirbutiken

Petra Dokken om känslorna som ett föremål kan bära – och trenden bland hotellen.

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Roman glass bottle in the shape of a fish, 1st-2nd century A.D.

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An illustration depicting the game of Snakes and Ladders, North-west or Western India, early 19th century

Gouache heightened with gold and silver on paper, laid down on cloth, further laid down on later board, with inscriptions in black devanagari script accompanied by English translations in black ink below, framed.

The game of Snakes and Ladders originated in medieval India where it was known as moksha patam, part of a family of games played using dice including chaupar and pachisi. The game is seen as a representation of man’s upward course in religious life. A person can attain salvation (moksha) through performing good deeds or be reborn as lower forms of life due to bad deeds. The ladders in the game symbolise virtues and the snakes are vices. The chart in the present illustration comprises 128 squares, each labelled and numbered in Sankrit with a translation in English below. The game begins at the bottom left corner and finishes at square 124 which is occupied here by a seated figure of the Hindu deity Vishnu. The players ascend the squares through states associated with hell, to moral and spiritual states, finally arriving at the squares associated with salvation and enlightenment. The ladders connect the ‘good’ squares and accelerate the players’ ascent while the snakes connect the ‘bad’ ones reversing their progress.

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