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this website lets you listen to the sounds of all different forests around the world 

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1,500 year old head of Goddess Durga excavated in Afghanistan in the 1960s [789 x 800]

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Underground church from the 15th century at a graveyard in the village of Paklenje, vicinity of Raška, Serbia. National Museum of Kraljevo

In the early period of Ottoman rule, after the fortified town of Brvenik, located only about ten kilometers from Paklenje, fell to the Ottomans in 1455. the construction of new churches was prohibited, and anyone who violated the ban faced severe punishment, and if the Ottoman authorities discovered such a church, it would be demolished.

The church in Paklenje was most likely built despite this prohibition in secret, to serve the needs of the local villagers. This region of Serbia, the Ibar Valley and Stari Ras, is known for its miniature churches. In the Ibar Valley alone, there are around twenty such churches. When the Ottoman authorities were somewhat more lenient, they occasionally allowed villagers to build a church, but only if it could be completed within a week or a single night.

[itscolossal]

In ‘Altai,’ Photographer Claire Thomas Chronicles a Time-Honored Way of Life in Mongolia

[funeral]

Joanna Frueh, Erotic Faculties

[caesarsaladinn]

“the mind of a medieval person was foreign and incomprehensible” factoid is false. the average medieval person was pretty normal. the chivalric death cult, whose members were known to literally die if prevented from riding to war, was an outlier and should not have been counted

[caesarsaladinn]

On hearing of Anjou’s death, a tailor of Orleans named Guillaume le Jupponnier, when “overcome with wine,” burst into a tirade in which can be heard the rarely recorded voice of his class. “What did he go there for, this Duke of Anjou, down there where he went? He has pillaged and robbed and carried off money to Italy in order to conquer another land. He is dead and damned, and the King St. Louis too, like the others. Filth, filth of a King and a King! We have no King but God. Do you think they got honestly what they have? They tax me and re-tax me and it hurts them that they can’t have everything we own. Why should they take from me what I earn with my needle? I would rather the King and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt in his little finger.”

[worse-than-konstantin-levin]

'Dead and damned': medieval commoners' wonderful hatred of royalty | David Forbes

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I went looking for more information on Guillarme le Jupponier, and found this article, which points to a slew of similar speeches in European and US history-- and, crucially, the fact that Guillarme le Jupponier was released after that speech, not tortured or executed, because it was acknowledged that his sentiments were extremely common.

[caesarsaladinn]

Studying nearly 1,100 rebellions in France, the Low Countries and Italy stretching back to 1200 the historian Samuel Cohn discovered that instead of hat-in-hand deference, “genuine, heartfelt hatred for a king or queen is easy to find.”

can we pause on that? 1100 rebellions?!?

[worldsandemanations]

San Cristobal, New Mexico. Laura Gilpin (1891-1979)

[body5000]

This is such an inconvenient time to be distracted by my dreams and possibilities. But of course I would never deny my dreams and possibilities

[unbiddentongue]

[funeral]

Jean Rhys, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

[thinkingimages]

mercurial and mysterious metal hand, Russia, 1960s

[whencyclopedia]

The prince Siddhartha secretly leaves the palace of his father. Not to wake the sleeping inhabitants of the palace, yakshas lift his horse on its hooves and carry it above the ground.

Gandhara region, Pakistan, 3rd / 4th century CE.

Exhibited at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland.

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San Rafael Swell Pictographs & Petroglyphs

[softsorcery]

Image from Treasures of Ancient Russia (Сокровища Древней Руси)

[smsomah]

A door within a door; these small doors are typically left unlatched during the day to accommodate a steady flow of children and family visitors. Scanned from the book The Craft Heritage of Oman; 2003; Neil Richardson & Marcia Dorr

[fabriciusitalicus]

Maxmilian Švabinský (1873-1962) Detail from the first sheet of Elysian Sonata woodcut 1917