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July 20, Monday.

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Jan van Noordt, 1623-1681

Susanna and the Elders, ca.1660/65, oil on canvas, 168x146.5 cm

Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig

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Plougastel, France 1890

[henk-heijmans]

Garde champêtre with his drum, France, ca. 1935 - by Nora Dumas (1890 - 1979), Hungarian

[robert-hadley]

Fertörákos quarry, Budapest, 1935.

Source: archidit

[incidentalcomics]

An aphorism

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Marie-Louise von Motesiczky

[allthingseurope]

Monopoli, Italy

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Beautiful ornate and very intricate gilt detailed book cover c1885 

Little Songs for Me to Sing - composed by Henry Leslie 

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Surprise! Scientifically described in 1898—and last spotted in 1913—the red-crested tree rat (Santamartamys rufodorsalis) was thought to be extinct for more than a century. That changed in 2011, when two observers in a Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta nature reserve in Colombia stumbled upon this critter. This long-whiskered rodent can grow up to 17 in (45.7 cm) long. It’s nocturnal and arboreal, though little is known about this species’ behavior. The red-crested tree rat is listed as Critically Endangered, due to loss of habitat. 

Photo: ProAves Colombia, CC BY-SA 2.0, flickr

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"Rapid Jottings" by Kitao Keisai Massayoshi from Siegfried Bing's Artistic Japan v.6 (1891).

Full text here.

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Standing Figure. 3rd–2nd millennium BCE. Credit line: Gift of Margaret B. Zorach, 1980 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/314162

[marnadalvalley]

Misty forest

[romegreeceart]

Morgan amber

* Etruscan fibula - a woman and a youth reclining

* c. 500 BCE

* Falconara Maritima (Ancona)

* MET museum

source:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

[lostfunzones]

Fox and Owl, By Carry Akroyd.

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heaven