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"I went to [Tolkien’s] public lectures. They were absolutely appalling. In those days a lecturer..."

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“"I went to [Tolkien’s] public lectures. They were absolutely appalling. In those days a lecturer could be paid for his entire course even if he lost his audience, provided he turned up for the first lecture. I think that Tolkien made quite a cynical effort to get rid of us so he could go home and finish writing Lord of the Rings.””

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"He gave his lectures in a very, very small room and didn’t address us, his audience, at all. In fact he looked the other way, with his face almost squashed up against the blackboard. He spoke in a mutter. His mind was on finishing Lord of the Rings, and he was really musing to himself about the nature of narrative. But I found this so fascinating that I came back week after week, as did one other person. I’ve always wondered what became of him, because he was obviously equally fascinated. And because we stuck there, Tolkien couldn’t go away and write Lord of the Rings! He would say the most marvelous things about the way you take a very basic plot and twitch it here and twitch it there—and it becomes a completely different plot.”

- Diana Wynne Jones, author of the Chronicles of Chrestomanci, the Dalemark quartet, Howl’s Moving Castle, on J. R. R. Tolkien’s lectures.

(via theticklishpear)

Bugün Milliyet'te yayımlanmayan yazım: Sorun ne Charlie ile başlıyor, ne de bitiyor

Bugün Milliyet'te yayımlanmayan yazım: Sorun ne Charlie ile başlıyor, ne de bitiyor

nobrashfestivity:Jacob Lawrence http://metmuseum.org

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gentlewave:

Herr Heinrich von Veldeke, Codex Palatinus Germanicus 848, fol. 30r, Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse), Zürich, ca. 1304-1340. The Codex Manesse, or Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift is a Liederhandschrift (medieval songbook), the single most comprehensive source of Middle High German Minnesang poetry, written and illustrated between 1304 and 1340, source: digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de.

kateoplis: Middle Class, But Still Feeling Insecure

Bernini, Apollo and Daphne (Detail), 1622-25

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Bernini, Apollo and Daphne (Detail), 1622-25

acidadebranca: gettyimages: The mysterious case of the piano...

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acidadebranca:

gettyimages:

The mysterious case of the piano by New York’s East River.

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 03: Mark Deliz and his son Sebastion, 3, pause at a piano underneath the Brooklyn Bridge on June 3, 2014 in New York City. A grand piano that has mysteriously landed on a sliver of beach under the iconic bridge last week has become an impromptu tourist attraction. While the Mason & Hamlin piano is badly damaged, dozens of people climb onto the beach daily to test out the keys. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images

NEW YORK CITY BRIDGES |  MANHATTAN BRIDGE

NEW YORK CITY | NEW YORK | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CITYSCAPE | URBANSCAPE | ARCHISCAPE | LANDSCAPE

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discardingimages: elephant sedan chair Compilation of the...

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discardingimages:

elephant sedan chair

Compilation of the travel writings (including Marco Polo, John Mandeville, Odoric of Pordenone, Riccoldo da Monte di Croce and others), Paris 1410-1412

BnF, Français 2810, fol. 42v

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archaicwonder:

Sumerian Lahmu Cylinder Seal, Early Dynastic, 2600-2400 BC

Carved of marble, with a contest scene of six figures, a nude hero with spiky hair holding a sword in one hand and an inverted lion in the other, Lahmu (hairy hero god) with head turned frontally, holding the same lion in one hand and grasping the hindquarters of an inverted ram in the other, the ram being mauled by a lion on the other side, its body crossed with a human-headed bull, a scorpion and recumbent quadruped in the field, the terminal with two crossed bulls with double line above.

In Sumerian mythology, Lahmu was a protective and beneficent deity, the first-born son of Apsu and Tiamat. He guarded the gates of the Abzu temple of Enki at Eridu. He and his sister Lahamu are the parents of Anshar and Kishar, the sky father and earth mother, who birthed the gods of the Mesopotamian Pantheon. Lahmu is depicted as a bearded man with a three-strand sashed waist and four to six curls on his head.

massarrah:Ancient Legal Textbook from MesopotamiaIf a woman...

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massarrah:

Ancient Legal Textbook from Mesopotamia

If a woman hates her husband and has said to him, “You are not my husband”, they will throw her in the river.

Written in cuneiform, this clay tablet records a series of legal terms, phrases, formulae, and some precepts, translated from Sumerian into Akkadian. Scribes may have used this work when learning to draft everyday legal documents, such as contracts and trial records. Although this copy comes from the library of the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, the original on which this would have been based probably dates to the second millennium BCE. Such a text may have served to help scribes draft formulaic legal documents and to promote their understanding of Sumerian, a long-dead language by this period of Mesopotamian history. (Source)

Neo-Assyrian (c. 900-600 BCE), Nineveh.

British Museum.

archaicwonder:Mesopotamian Clay Humbaba Demon Mask, Sippar, c....

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archaicwonder:

Mesopotamian Clay Humbaba Demon Mask, Sippar, c. 1800-1600 BC

This type of mask was used for divination. The mask is formed of coiled intestines represented by one continuous line. Such an omen would mean ‘revolution’. A cuneiform inscription on the back of this clay mask suggests that the intestines might be found in the shape of Humbaba’s face in this mask. Humbaba (also called Huwawa in some texts) was a monster who appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh. He was guardian of the Cedar Forest (probably referring to the Lebanon in the late version of the tale) but was defeated by Gilgamesh and Enkidu.

One method for predicting the future in ancient Mesopotamia was the study of the shape and colour of the internal organs of a sacrificed animal. Experts compiled records of these signs or omens together with the events they were believed to predict. The divination expert who made the mask is named in the inscription as Warad-Marduk. It was found at Sippar, the cult center for the sun-god Shamash, who was responsible for omens.

Sippar was an ancient city on the east bank of the Euphrates river, located at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah, Iraq.

Who were the 99% in Ancient Rome?

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historical-nonfiction:

Most of the information about Rome and Roman society comes from the 1.5% who had wealth, power, and literacy. The rest, the vast majority of citizens, we know next to nothing about. But we have their skeletons.  Most were buried anonymously outside the city, without epitaphs and often without grave goods to tell us who they were or what they did. Their skeletons are as anonymous in death as in life. There are between 10,000 and 20,000 plebeian skeletons languishing in Italian warehouses, without funding  or interest in investigating them.

Now, Kristina Killgrove, an archaeologist from Vanderbilt University, wants to tell their story by sequencing their DNA, and she is raising donations to do it. Since 2007, Killgrove has been studying 200 skeletons recovered from lower-class graves excavated outside Rome’s city walls. She looks at the chemical isotopes from their water, food and environment into their bones and teeth. Using modern science, she can reconstruct to a degree what they ate, where they came from, and much more. For instance, strontium and oxygen isotope levels revealed that a third of them had immigrated to Rome after their childhood, and thereafter lived similar lives to Roman-born people. To learn more about her research, and maybe donate to her project, check out Kristina’s blog, or her website Roman DNA Project

Ancient Egyptian Dancing

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lara-van:

Here I’m trying to draw Ancient Egyptian dancing basing on egyptian painting. I’m planning to draw a wordless (or “silent”) comics about Heb Sed festival (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed_festival ). It’s difficult, because we haven’t sufficient information about the whole process of this festival. 
Here are sketches of the separate pages only. 

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