Katakulio

This blog isn't about anything in particular. It consists almost entirely of reblogs, mostly of photography, history, archaeology, and anything else I find interesting, entertaining, or informative. See the My Tags page for navigation. If you want anything tagged that isn't just ask. I am a legal adult in my country of residence.

[katakulio]

This blog is now dormant.

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Thank you to all those who have provided entertainment and education.

Best of luck!

[bayouette]

I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Okayokayokayokaybut "My hand will wear out but the inscription will remain" is kind of a power line BEFORE you factor in that it is, in fact, over a thousand years old.

[dduane]

It’s always good to spend a few moments, on a quiet day, looking through the Family album.

[allcatsconstitutethesamefamily]

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They’ve had many lives and many ages: cats I’ve met in my time travels.

[catsofyore]

'Take a nice photo with the kitten' they said. 'It will be sweet' they said. Ca. 1917 - 1919. Source.

[holespoles]

Since ancient times, cats have interfered with their masters' work. A cat on top of a manuscript.

[catsofyore]

White cat, film noir. 1938. Source.

[danskjavlarna]

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They’ve had many lives and many ages: cats I’ve met in my time travels.

[vintagereject]

Artist's Sketch of a Swallow, Thebes, Egypt, ca. 1479-1458 B.C.

[theosrose]

photo source (met museum) for anyone like me who wants to learn a lil bit more about it!

[bobemajses]

From the series “Remnants: the last Jews of Poland.” Photographs by Tomasz Tomaszewski, 1980 - 1985

In a five-year voyage of personal discovery, Tomasz Tomaszewski and his wife Malgorzata Niezabitowska crisscrossed Poland to document the lonely survivors of this country’s once-vibrant Jewish community. ″To most Poles, especially those born after the war, Polish Jews are as abstract and as remote in history as the mysterious Etruscan people to contemporary Romans,″ the couple wrote in an introduction to the photo exhibit, ″But Jews lived here with us for 1,000 years. Normally, when a culture disappears, it takes a millenium or more. With Polish Jews it took only 20 years. What was left on this soil from the great and luxurious Jewish civilization? Our attempt to answer this question was for us a temptation and at the same time a need to face a painful and complex problem." Between 1980 and 1985, the couple drove more than 48,000 miles in their car, interviewed more than 3,000 people, and Tomaszewski took more than 7,000 photographs.

[bobemajses]

Bukharan Jewish women from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 1940

[friendswithclay]

Lviv, Ukraine c.1934

Ph by: Arner Boyd.

[omgthatdress]

Australia!

[devinellekurtz]

I got permission from my publisher to share the very beginning of the book!!! :') I hope you enjoy this tumblr sneak peek!! And if you want to read the rest of Ember's story... "The Bakery Dragon" is on shelves today (or online here!!)

[ktempestbradford]

OMG the faces of the villagers throwing gold behind them 😂😂😂😂

This looks great.

[frenchcurious]

Le Gros Horloge de Rouen, Seine Maritime, France 📸 chcali. - source Plus belle la France.

[bgv-1967]

[northwestphotag1]

Autumn rains ☔️💦⛈️

[pollyj]

Kandahar

From Pashto کندهار (Kandahār, “Alexander, Alexandria”), evolved from "Iskandar" pronounced as "Scandar", in the local dialect version of the name Alexander. Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρεια (Alexándreia, “Alexandria Arachosia”), the city's ancient name.

[omgthatdress]

Yemen!