Un peu de ci, a little bit of that

Un endroit simple où trouver des choses intéressantes / A simple place to find interesting things

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It's a long read but it is worth your time. Very interesting and emotional!

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Intersections: An Ornately Carved Wood Cube Projects Shadows onto Gallery Walls

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Books are magical objects!

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Instagram Experiments by Javier Perez

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Other batch!

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Antwerp.

Samuel Prout, from Sketches by Samuel Prout, by Charles Holme, London, 1915.

(Source: archive.org)

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Absolutely beautiful tritticodelledelizie:

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Apollo e Daphne

from Ovid’s Metamorphoses

marble, 1622-25, Galleria Borghese, Roma

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New Instagram Photos of Everyday Objects Turned into Whimsical Illustrations by Javier Perez

[allthingseurope]

Sénanque Abbey, France (by franc/34)

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The impact of "Friends" on language might have been greater than I thought.

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New Tessellated Origami Masks by Joel Cooper

[whenyouworkatamuseum]

The Smithsonian Megatherium Club was a group of scientists who researched all day and partied all night. No, really: they drank beer, ate oysters, and had sack races through the Smithsonian Castle. They even lived in the Castle…until they were kicked out for flirting with the Smithsonian...

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Herewith, Benedict Cumberbatch reads John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.”

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On the afternoon of Saturday 29th June Estequilla Rosales, vice president of the heritage association Kapaq Sumaq Ayllu, heard a noise coming from the far side of the archaeological site she has been helping to protect. The Peruvian 45-hectare complex of El Paraíso is a national cultural...

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Horrible! Quite simply horrible to think some people don't care about heritage and aren't punished for destroying it!

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A view of Chicago’s historic La Salle Street train station, November 1936.Photograph by William M. Rittase, National Geographic

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St Marys Loch, Scotland (by iainmac2)

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The Tholos temple, Delphi, Greece (by Peony71)