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taylormade2me: Dagger From Andre Anderson

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Dagger From Andre Anderson

"I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance."

"I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance."

- Jon Stewart (via kateoplis)

records-of-fortune: Greek. Silver Coin. Minted in Eretria (on...

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Greek. Silver Coin. Minted in Eretria (on the island of Euboea). c. 500-480 BC.

Obverse: A cow scratches its head with its hoof, while a swallow perches on its back

Reverse: An octopus in an incuse square.

British Museum.

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vinterkosmos: Sunlight And ShadowAlbert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

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Sunlight And Shadow
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

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pubhealth:

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

For 75 years, Finland's expectant mothers have been given a box by the state. It's like a starter kit of clothes, sheets and toys that can even be used as a bed. And some say it helped Finland achieve one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates.

It's a tradition that dates back to the 1930s and it's designed to give all children in Finland, no matter what background they're from, an equal start in life.

The maternity package - a gift from the government - is available to all expectant mothers.

It contains bodysuits, a sleeping bag, outdoor gear, bathing products for the baby, as well as nappies, bedding and a small mattress.

With the mattress in the bottom, the box becomes a baby's first bed. Many children, from all social backgrounds, have their first naps within the safety of the box's four cardboard walls.

Mothers have a choice between taking the box, or a cash grant, currently set at 140 euros, but 95% opt for the box as it's worth much more.

The tradition dates back to 1938. To begin with, the scheme was only available to families on low incomes, but that changed in 1949.

(From BBC)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22751415

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I would rather my tax money pay for this than drone missiles.

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vlajean: art history meme. 7/7 sculptures & other...

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art history meme. 7/7 sculptures & other media

east doors of the florence baptistery
"the gates of paradise", 1401-1421
lorenzo ghiberti

In 1401, Bartolo informed Ghiberti, who had left Florence during a brief outbreak of the plague, that the Baptistery in Florence was commissioning a second set of bronze doors. Seven finalists, including Ghiberti, worked for a year to depict in bronze the story of Abraham's call to sacrifice his son Isaac. In the end, it came down to two artists, Ghiberti and Brunelleschi. Brunelleschi's version emphasized the violence, while Ghiberti devised a calmer, more lyrical composition.

To our eyes, the Brunelleschi seems more powerful and "modern." But Brunelleschi's determination to cram as many attention-grabbing devices into one work may have seemed willful to 15th-century Florentine jurors. Certainly, Ghiberti's craftmanship was superior; unlike Brunelleschi, who soldered his panel from many separate pieces of bronze, Ghiberti cast his in just two, and he used only two-thirds as much metal—a not-inconsiderable savings. The combination of craft and parsimony would have appealed to the practical-minded men of the Calimala.

By his own account, Ghiberti won the competition outright; but Brunelleschi's first biographer says that the jury asked the two men to collaborate and Brunelleschi refused. Ghiberti took on the job. It would occupy him for the next two decades. (x)

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"All this time I drank you like the cure when maybe you were the poison."

"All this time
I drank you like the cure when maybe
you were the poison."

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Ser Loras was a year older than his sister, but they had the...

Ser Loras was a year older than his sister, but they had the same big brown eyes, the same thick brown hair falling in lazy ringlets to their shoulders, the same smooth unblemished skin.

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Montaña Mágica Lodge

Deep in southern Chile lies the Montaña Mágica Lodge (Magic Mountain Lodge). An extraordinary hotel hidden in the center of a 300,000 acre private nature reserve. The small, 13 room hotel is built in the shape of a volcano that spews water instead of lava. The exterior is covered in rainforest moss and vines and its entrance is only accessible via a suspended, swinging rope bridge. The outdoor hot tubs are carved from the trunks of giant trees. The lodge is located in Los Rios which is within the stunning Huilo-Huilo Unesco biosphere reserve, 242 square miles of lush nature, filled with wildlife.