The Riddle of Steel

Vae Victis

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The Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton

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“Storm at Sea off the Norwegian Coast” (details, 1837) by Andreas Achenbach

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Title: The Pipe of Freedom Artist: Thomas Stuart Smith (Scottish, 1815-1869) Date: 1869 Genre: portraiture, genre art Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 106.8 cm (42 in) high x 78.7 cm (30.9 in) wide Location: Stirling Smith Museum and Art Gallery, Stirling, Scotland, UK

Thomas Stuart Smith painted this striking portrait to celebrate the abolition of slavery in both the UK and the US. The man portrayed is enjoying a pipe at his leisure, symbolizing his freedom from enforced labor. Behind him, a yellow notice announcing a slave auction has been partially covered up by a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.

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the new dj crazytimes song … now that’s what I call music!

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Death, The Fourth Horseman. Detail from the Apocalypse Tapestry, Jean Bondol, 1377-1382

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Ship's cat Chiclet watches the harbour during her watch on the museum tanker Mary A. Whalen (1938)

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Reblog and name a music album that you turn to in hard times and saved your life, in the tags

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Drunk Skeletons by Vlad Gradobyk

[swordseer]

Fuck da odyssey long live o brother where art thou

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Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Albrecht Dürer

Museum: Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

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how is there work tomorrow i mean how is that possible

[contemptible-scoundrel]

release the pig hounds

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Bruno Liljefors (Swedish, 1860–1939), "Hawk and Black-Game" (details), 1884

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Omg

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The crypt beneath the Church of the Nativity of Our Lord, Loreta, Prague. > Photos by P. Zuchnický.