Dionysus Riding a Panther/cheetah (Mosaic), House of Dionysus, Delos. Culture: Greek. Place of origin: Delos (Cyclades). Date: Hellenistic, 2nd century BC. Medium: Mosaic (stone tesserae). Currently on view: Archaeological Site/Museum of Delos.
I don’t think I’ve played any Miles in the past two weeks.
Come to think about it, I think I forgot to take my heart pills too, but first things first man…here’s Miles!!! 😉
-Miles Davis, Miles Ahead, 1957, (reissue)
At one point in Frankenstein you're reading the story of a Turkish girl, told to a Frenchman, overheard by the monster, who's narrating it afterwards to Victor, who's recounting it to an English sea captain, who's writing it down in a letter to his sister
Stag Hunt Mosaic, Pella — Culture: Greek (Macedonian). Place of origin: Pella. Date: c. 330–300 BC. Medium: Pebble mosaic. Collection: Archaeological Museum of Pella.
Today in AD 1066:
Harold Godwinson and the noblest men of England put up a valiant last stand against the invading army of William the Conquerer!
The Battle of Hastings heralded the end of Anglo-Saxon England, & the start of the diabolical onslaught of the Normans!
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"The institutionalization of values leads inevitably to physical pollution, social polarization, and psychological impotence: three dimensions in a process of global degradation and modernized misery."
Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society