cair–paravel:

Costume for the King of the Ondines from a 1974 production of Ondine at the Comédie-Française, designed by Chloé Obolensky (via).

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xissuesxd:

best-shower-thoughts:

cuteness–overload:

Now he is safe to make thing go bump in the night. (source)  

Let`s help to reach 600k notes for this cutie. And hey, give that blog a follow, it is mine :))

Awwww, bats have never been my favorite, but it got me when he rocks himself after eating

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danskjavlarna:

From Clever Clarence and Other Funny Stories and Pictures, 1855.

From exterminators to insect people to bugs in space, my collection of vintage bug imagery might give you a buzz.

Context: Weblog | Books | Videos | Music | Etsy

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coffincarpenters3:

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detroitlib:

Maria Gowen Brooks (c. 1794 – November 11, 1845)

American poet. She impressed Edgar Allan Poe and the English Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, who promoted her best-known poem Zophiël. (Wikipedia)

From our stacks: Zóphiël; or, The Bride of Seven. By Maria Del Occidente, (Maria Gowen Brooks.) Edited by Zadel Barnes Gustafson. Bosotn: Lee and Shepard, New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1879.

daniitheleo:

orinocoflowbyenya:

i’m screaming @ this finesse…. yes girl get that republican coin…….

shoutout to a real one.

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itscolossal:

4D-Printed Aquatic Plants Spring to Life in “Hydrophytes” by Nicole Hone

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lillithblackwell:

Louis Zorra

Art Nouveau Ring

c. 1900 France

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badass-bharat-deafmuslim-artista:

altnonfic:

nubbsgalore:

this atmospheric phenomenon is known as a circumhorizontal arc, which occurs when the sun is at least 58° above the horizon and the hexagonal ice crystals which form cirrus clouds become horizontally aligned.                     

photos by (click pic) bryce bradford, daniel m shihi, orne veien, brooke anderson, brian plonka, lisa gonnelli and angel villanueva near california’s vandenberg aerospace station, which actually shows refraction through a rocket trail.

see also: more circumhorizontal arcs, asperatus clouds, mammatus clouds, polar stratospheric clouds and cloud iridescence 

I’ve seen this and always wondered what it was. The sky rainbows, explained & documented

Mother Earth is gay

heaveninawildflower:

Love-in-a-Mist (United States, late 19th century ) by Sophia L. Crownfield.

Watercolour. 

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Catalog Photo
Wikimedia. 

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electripipedream:

Peter Max
Our Creations are in the First Place Ourselves
1970

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gemville:

“Stilled Life” Cicada Brooch by Wallace Chan

The “Stilled Life” Brooch Is Crafted From Imperial Jadeite, Rubies and Fancy Colored Diamonds

Cicadas Have Long Been Celebrated In Chinese Poetry As A Metaphor For Nobility Of Character

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fyeahindigenousfashion:

bracelet, Veronica Benally (Navajo)

houseofenid:

HOUSE OF ENID / URBAN PARADISE

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