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The words fascism and fajita trace back to the Latin fascis, meaning bundle
Fascism and fajitas are relatives, derived from the very same word. I am in shock. Are you?
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The Fairy's Funeral
The Fairy's Funeral. John Anster Fitzgerald, 1864
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Save This in Case of Renovations
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Saint Matthew writing his Gospel in a drawing from the late 9th or early 10th century
Mood: Saint Matthew writing his Gospel. Drawing, late 9th to early 10th century
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Excuse me, does anyone else think San Marzano tomatoes look like Artemis of Ephesus?
Art · Observations
How do you like this Klimt?
How do you like this Klimt? A fragment of the Beethoven Frieze, 1901-1902. At the centre of the composition is the dreadful giant Typhon, with Sickness, Madness and Death to his left, and Lust, Wantonness and Intemperance to his right, followed by Gnawing Grief
NB! · Art · People · Nature
The German artist Lina Clauss makes installations from rubbish found on the beaches of Bali and Hong Kong
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I still maintain that we should have gone with the name Tsarbucks
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A swarm of two-inch squat lobsters from New Zealand looks, in this photograph, like a painting by David Hockney
NB! · Art · Moscow · Nature
In the grounds of the Peredelkino Creative Retreat, Nikolai Polissky has made sculptures on the site of century-old trees that died last year from bark beetle
Art · Museums · Humour
- Why, in this painting by Pierre-Auguste Vafflard in the museum at Évreux, is it the girl who carries her beloved in her arms, and not the other way round?
- Because a real woman ought to be 70% concern for her knight and 30% beauty? - The bridegroom has died, and she is kissing his weightless ghost, but your version, too, has a right to exist