uiu

[absenteism]

https://jonathandjobnkondo.bigcartel.com/

[livaniana]

[centuriespast]

UNKNOWN MASTER, Swiss Tomb effigy of François de Sarrà c. 1400 Stone Château, La Sarraz

[transparentoctopus]

William Steig

[gifovea]

Source

[transparentoctopus]

[yama-bato]

Frank Hamrick

Project: Sometimes Rivers Flow Backwards

https://www.oxfordamerican.org/item/672-antique-process

[joeinct]

Spain, Photo by Josef Koudelka, 1971

[nemfrog]

A figure with a skeleton skull mixes drugs in a pharmacy. The Antikamnia calendar for 1900. c. 1899. Page detail. 

Wellcome Library

[cinematicwasteland]

[50watts]

Benjamin Rabier, detail from The Serpent Has Sprung, a newspaper comic I found in Gallica or a related French database 

[transparentoctopus]

Not sure why this shows up in the wrong spot on my front page but is in the intended placement when scrolling in the sidebar. A very minor Tumblr quirk, oh well.

[y6s]

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

An assortment of shiny beetles from Catalogues raisonnés de la faune entomologique du Congo t.1:fasc.1 (1909).

Full text here.

[transparentoctopus]

[dr20]

[discardingimages]

long-eared bat

Psalter, England c. 1360-1400

Bodleian Library, Exeter College MS 47, fol. 21v