The Riddle of Steel

Vae Victis

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The Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton

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photo credit: Daniel Shea for Atmos magazine

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Phyllis Shafer (USA b. 1958) North Lake (2022) oil on linen 45.7 x x 51 cm https://www.phyllisshafer.com

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Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos - El Brujo (The Wizard), oil on canvas, 1971

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JOHN BLANCHE

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Gold inlaid jade sword hilt, Mughal Empire, circa 1680-1700

from The Victoria and Albert Museum

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it's always two distinguished gentlemen saying precisely to each other

[portalibis]

Chants royaux du Puy Notre-Dame d'Amiens, c. 1518

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Hans Grendahl. Spikketrå, Opdal, Numedal, Norway, August 1932.

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The Sleeping Fisherwoman, Friedrich von Amerling

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[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Franz Matsch, Museum of Art History in Vienna (1891)

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Die Nornen” (“The Norns”) by Franz Stassen, 1917.

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Tomb of Amenemheb, a commander under Thutmose III. On the lintel, the deceased appears in a hunting scene. Theban necropolis (TT85), Sheikh Abd el-Qurna.

[thebeautyandthehorror]

Scenes From D-Day, Then and Now On June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers descended on the beaches of Normandy for D-Day, an operation that turned the tide of the Second World War against the Nazis, marking the beginning of the end of the conflict. Reuters photographer Chris Helgren compiled archive pictures taken during the invasion and went back to the same places to photograph them as they appear today.

[enchantedbook]

“Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon” (1832) by Utagawa Hiroshige