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Dulcimer-playing automaton, once belonging to Marie Antoinette. See it in action here.
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“Mexican votives are small paintings, usually executed on tin roof tiles or small plaques, depicting the moment of personal humility when an individual asks a saint for help and is delivered from disaster and sometimes death”…
“On 2 March 1840, Doña Gertrudis Castañeda, having set sail, was caught in a furious storm at sea and in such a terrible predicament she invoked the Virgin of Soledad of Santa Cruz and in finding safety she dedicates this retablo.”
Oil on tin, 1840. Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones/INAH
from ‘Infinitas Gracias: Mexican miracle paintings’ at wellcomecollection.org
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Stratus Clouds, Greenland
Photo: Bryan and Cherry AlexanderEight hundred miles south of the North Pole, stalactite-like stratus clouds - churned by 90-mile-an-hour winds - and the light of a bruised dawn paint an apocalyptic portrait over Inglefield Bay.
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Tea
the productive day.
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WANT
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