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“People had been telling us for years we needed to meet, I remember makeup artists and hair people going, ‘Doesn’t she remind you of Karlie? God, she and Karlie would be best friends. They’re the same. Karlie’s such a good girl. She brings us cookies every time we do a shoot.’ ” (x)

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HORRIBLE HISTORIES - The Henry VIII Song. (Part 5) Divorced, beheaded and died. Divorced, beheaded, survived. I am Henry the 8th, I had six sorry wives. One might say I ruined their lives.

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Canadian Black Bear by weslowik

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Nikki Bella and AJ Lee on “Bra and Panties” matches.

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Viking Warriors by Jochen Kunz.

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Discipline is doing what you know needs to be done, even if you don’t want to.

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Pages from the Fencing Manual “Fior di Battaglia”, The Flower of Battle

Author: Fiore Furlano de Cividale d’Austria, delli Liberi da Premariacco

Dated: about 1410

Culture: Italian

Place of Origin: Italy

Medium: tempera colors, gold leaf, silver leaf, and ink on parchment bound between pasteboard and covered with light brown calf

Measurements: 11 x 8 1/8 in

Flower of Battle is the third-oldest European fencing manual yet discovered (after the Royal Armouries Ms. I.33 and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Ms. 3227a) as well as being the most extensive from the Medieval period.

Like people today, people of the medieval and Renaissance periods read how-to books. This manuscript by the greatest fencing-master of the late 1300s, Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco, instructs the reader in the intricacies of combat.

Lively illustrations of charging horses and armored knights accompany the text. Through words and pictures, the manuscript teaches a variety of fighting techniques including single combat on foot with sword, dagger, and ax, and also mounted combat in all its variations.

Nicolò III d’Este, ruler of Ferrara, ordered at least three copies of this text, including this one. Nicolò’s interest in such a manual was quite natural, since fighting played an important role in the education of young nobleman, and he himself was raising three sons.

Source & Copyright: 2013 © J. Paul Getty Trust

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The Three Swords Monument, Norway

This monument commemorates the Battle of Hafrsfjord in 872, after which King Harald Fair Hair united the three districts of Norway into one kingdom.The crowns on the swords represent the different districts which took part in the battle.

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Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) with probable shark bite - Apo Island, Philippines

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The Short-snouted Seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus) is a species of seahorse in the family Syngnathidae. Endemic to the Mediterranean Sea and parts of the North Atlantic, it is often found in shallow muddy waters, estuaries or seagrass beds.

Photograph: Hans Hillewaert

(via: Wikipedia)