Better than Fish

My name's Eric. I'm 21.  British/Mexican, stuck in Mexico for the meantime.  I like history, banjos, cool art, cars, literature, antiques, maps, funny stuff, planes and some other stuff. Check out my "favourite" tag to see what I'm really in to.

[lionofchaeronea]

The Course of Empire: Desolation, Thomas Cole, 1836

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[viktor-sbor]

Philippe Pavy (b.1860)-A Moroccan Soldier. Date 1885

[museum-of-artifacts]

Crossbow bolts, Central Europe, 15th century #history #museum #gun #medieval #arrow #archery

[lex-for-lexington]

“A Grumman F6F-5N Hellcat fighter over the countryside near Kakogawa, Japan, 12 September 1945, with small towns and industrial facilities also visible. Photographed from a USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) plane.”

(NHHC: 80-G-455770)

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[abandonedandurbex]

Abandoned Rail Bridge in Taiwan [960×643

[romanticism-art]

After the storm, Ivan Aivazovski

[historicaltimes]

Ottoman officers relaxing at the Palestinian Front, 1917

via reddit

[fleurdulys]

The Blue Mosque of Tauris in Persia - Jules Laurens

1872

[nemfrog]

“The sloth when invited got up with much pain/ Just groan’d ‘Ah,no!’and laid down again.” The elephant’s ball, and grand fete champetre. 1808. 

When you’re so fatigued that even an overdressed dog can’t convince you to go to a big party.

[peashooter85]

An Italian woman inspects the kilts of Pipe Major William MacConnachie, of the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers and Pipe Major William Boyd, of the 6th Gordon Highlanders, in the Colosseum of Rome, 6 June 1944, World War II.

[peashooter85]

Morion crafted by Carmolo Modrone of Milan Italy, mid 16th century.

from The Wallace Collection

[artist-morisot]

Young Woman at the Mirror, 1880, Berthe Morisot

Size: 60.3x80.4 cm Medium: oil on canvas

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Stone prism of Esarhaddon. Date: 670 B.C. Place of origin: Babylon Period/culture: Neo-Assyrian Medium: Basalt