Those Who Walk On Fire

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Vlyssis Aldrouandi patricii Bononiensis Monstrorum historia,  1642 

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Twelve Signs of the Zodiac, 15th century

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Thomas Wright, A history of caricature and grotesque in literature and art, 1875 

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Het groot natuur, en zedekundigh werelttoneel, 1743

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Het groot natuur, en zedekundigh werelttoneel, 1743 

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The constitution of Temple supreme grand lodge of the universe, 1907 

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Emblemata nova, das ist, New Bilderbuch, 1617

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Paul Rumsey (b. 1953) - Echidna, 2014

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tomyris kills cyrus, judith kills holofernes, jael kills sisera

miniatures from a speculum humanae salvationis manuscript, bavaria (?), c. 1466-68

source: Munich, BSB, Clm 18377, fol. 65v-66v

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Lesser Ury - Nocturnal encounter in Tiergartenstrasse (1919)

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Medea draining the blood of Aeson in order to rejuvenate him with her special brew, 18th century

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Publication to honor Cardinal Guidobald von Thun, newly appointed archbishop of Salzburg, 1668

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Hans Burgkmair, The Fight in the Forest, ca. 1500

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Urs Graf, Knight in the Grasp of The Devil, 1516

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Nina Foch in The Return of the Vampire | 1943 | dir. Lew Landers

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The Kiss (1882) by Eadweard Muybridge

Unearthed in 2011, this short video created by cinema pioneer Eadweard Muybridge of a kiss between two women is the first kiss ever in the history of moving image, predating Edison's "The Kiss" by over a decade.

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Ahh, Eadweard Muybridge. He may have committed a minor murder, but he also invented videos of women kissing, so it's impossible to say if he was good or not.