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Stag with Herb Branch Mounted as a Ring, 1567, Art Institute of Chicago: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance

Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf Size: Diameter: 2.2 cm (13/16 in.) Medium: Gold, enamel, ruby, opals, and pearls

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/119338/

Persian ‘zodiac’ rug, probably Kerman area, south west Persia, early 20th century, 6ft. 7in. X 4ft. 4in. 2.01m. X 1.32m.

#persian #art

readysteadytrek

Triumvirate

#star trek the original series #gif

latesummermoon

Play love songs from the 50’s at night, when your bedroom window is open and you have a view of the moon

Shannon Claire

Marilyn Monroe’s and Jane Russell’s costumes in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) dir. Howard Hawks

Costume Design by William Travilla

#gentlemen prefer blondes #movies #gif

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The Quiraing, Isle of Skye / 26.08.2019

My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer; Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe, My heart’s in the Highlands, wherever I go.

#photography #robert burns #poetry

amuseoffyre

I just stumbled on Robert Burns’s response to a reviewer who criticised his ‘obscure language’. Now bear in mind a lot of Burns’s poetry was written in Scots, he took this slightly personally.

Ellisland, 1791. Dear Sir: Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice; thou cobler, botching the flimsy socks of bombast oratory; thou blacksmith, hammering the rivets of absurdity; thou butcher, embruing thy hands in the bowels of orthography; thou arch-heretic in pronunciation; thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis; thou carpenter, mortising the awkward joints of jarring sentences; thou squeaking dissonance of cadence; thou pimp of gender; thou Lyon Herald to silly etymology; thou antipode of grammar; thou executioner of construction; thou brood of the speech-distracting builders of the Tower of Babel; thou lingual confusion worse confounded; thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax; thou scavenger of mood and tense; thou murderous accoucheur of infant learning; thou ignis fatuus, misleading the steps of benighted ignorance; thou pickle-herring in the puppet-show of nonsense; thou faithful recorder of barbarous idiom; thou persecutor of syllabication; thou baleful meteor, foretelling and facilitating the rapid approach of Nox and Erebus. R.B.

#robert burns #text