Russian Sledges

Indian Battleaxe

• Dated: mid-late 19th century
• Measurements: overall length 77 cm

The massive steel head is chiseled overall with floral work and the Hindu god Krishna flanked by two “gopis”, all inlaid in brass within pavilions topped by brass parasols. It has a steel top spike and hardwood haft.

Sidenotes:

1. "Gopi" is a word of Sanskrit origin meaning "cow-herd girl".
2. In Hinduism specifically the name “gopi” (sometimes “gopika”) is used more commonly to refer to the group of cow herding girls famous within Vaishnava Theology for their unconditional devotion (Bhakti) to Krishna as described in the stories of Bhagavata Purana and other Puranic literatures.
3. Of this group, one gopi known as Radha (or Radhika) holds a place of particularly high reverence and importance in a number of religious traditions, especially within Gaudiya Vaishnavism.

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174,00 USD

Vintage 60er Jahre Türkis Seide Mischung Cocktail-Kleid mit Anzeige-Einstellung Runde Perlen getrimmt, Ausschnitt, kurzen Ärmeln, Prinzessin Nahtnylons Mieder, hohe Taille mit großen stationären Bogen, a-Linie Rock und hinteren Reißverschluss.

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Büste: 36-38 "
Taille: 32-33 "
Hüfte: bis zu 42 "
Länge: 41,5 "
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On Oct. 23, 1940, Hitler took a train to the Spanish border to woo Spain's Fascist dictator, Francisco Franco. But Spain was in ruins from its own Civil War in the late 1930s, and Franco didn't have much to offer. He stayed neutral, but switched Spain's clocks ahead one hour, to be in line with Nazi Germany. Ever since, even though Spain is geographically in line with Britain, Portugal and Morocco — its clocks are on the same time zone as countries as far east as Poland and Hungary. Now, more than seven decades later, the Spanish government is weighing whether to change them back.

…and no, it’s not for “most unsubstantiated Internet rumors based on a single episode of television.” No more “but will [insert actor here] really not be in it?,” “But when he said he’s involved, did he mean in the actual episode or some other part of the celebrations?,” or “Moffat says this, but he’s probably lying.” I don’t even know what to do with myself now that that’s all over.

“The Day of the Doctor” now holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest simulcast of a TV drama. We knew it would happen, but now it’s official; Steven Moffat was presented with the award at London’s Doctor Who Celebration.

Said Moffat upon accepting the award:

“For years the Doctor has been stopping everyone else from conquering the world. Now, just to show off, he’s gone and done it himself!”

The episode’s simulcast took place in 1,500 cinemas across 94 countries in six continents, which was a difficult thing (though not, I’d imagine, one lacking in financial benefit) for the  BBC to pull off. Says BBC Worldwide CEO Tim Davie:

“We knew we were attempting something unprecedented in broadcast history, not only because Doctor Who is a drama, unlike a live feed event such as a World Cup football match or a Royal Wedding, but because we had to deliver the episode in advance to the four corners of the world so that it could be dubbed and subtitled into 15 different languages. If there was any doubt that Doctor Who is one of the world’s biggest TV shows, this award should put that argument to rest – and how fitting for it to receive such an accolade in its 50th year.”

I don’t even want to think about the threats that must have been made to keep the episode from leaking. I’m guessing Daleks were involved. Or maybe Moffat promised that if anything got out before its time those responsible would be strapped into a Clockwork Orange-type contraption and forced to watch Love & Monsters until madness set in.

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Haruki Murakami's prose is filled with more than sympathetic characters and dreamy atmosphere. They’re also filled with great recipes ranging from the simple (ham spaghetti in his first work “Hear the Wind Sing”) to the involved, such as the home-prepared Japanese meal that sets the scene for love in his best-recognized work, “Norwegian Wood.” There’s so much material, in fact, that a cottage industry of sorts has developed around the author’s culinary interests.

News: architect Zaha Hadid has hit back at critics who have compared the design of her Al Wakrah stadium in Qatar to a vagina, describing the comments as "embarrassing" and "ridiculous".

Speaking to TIME magazine, Hadid said: “It’s really embarrassing that they come up with nonsense like this. What are they saying? Everything with a hole in it is a vagina? That’s ridiculous.”

She suggested that the comments would not have been made had the architect been male:  “Honestly, if a guy had done this project…"

Earlier this week Zaha Hadid Architects unveiled the design for the stadium, which is one of several new structures that will be built to host soccer matches during the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Critics immediately compared the 40,000-seater stadium, which its architects claim is based on the curving lines of an Arab dhow fishing boat, to female genitalia.

"I'm no expert, but I think those are labia," Cosmopolitan.com's sex and relationships editor Anna Breslaw told Equire.com.

"Any discerning human will be quick to recognize that the building looks exactly like an enormous vagina," wrote women's website Jezebel.com.

Comments from Dezeen readers included "One vagina in a sea of penis towers" and "It looks like a baboon's bum".

The Al Wakrah stadium has been co-designed by AECOM and features a flowing roof designed to protect spectators from the worst of Qatar's extreme heat.

"With its shiny, pinkish tinge, its labia-like side appendages and its large opening in the middle, the supposedly innocent building ("based upon the design of a traditional Qatari dhow boat") was just asking for trouble," wrote The Guardian's Holly Baxter on the ensuing furore.

It is unusual for an architectural structure to be compared to a vagina; comparisons with the male organ are far more common.

A flaccid image of Foster + Partner's Gherkin skyscraper was recently used to advertise a treatment for erectile dysfunction.

A building nearing completion in China has been compared to a "giant penis" while comparisons have been made between a Jean Nouvel tower in Doha - also in Qatar - and a dildo.

See five more buildings with unfortunate likenesses.

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As can be heard from the broadcast, after the radio announcer’s introduction to the first scheduled work, a suite from Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Le coq d’or, Leinsdorf emerged and spoke just 53 words, his voice sounding a bit odd, as if taking care to clearly and a little unnaturally project every word. He falters slightly only once, in his second sentence. “Ladies and gentlemen, we have a press report over the wireless. We hope that it is unconfirmed, but we have to doubt it. That the president of the United States has been the victim of an assassination. We will play the funeral march from Beethoven’s Third Symphony.” Gasps and screams of shock can be heard after the statement of JFK’s death, and after the change of programme is announced there is a general panicked hubbub that takes its time to subside. Then, as the orchestra begins its funeral dirge more slowly than is usual, every note throbbing with pain, there is only a numbed quiet as the news, the awful reality, sinks in.

This box of Faber-Castell pencils costs $525.00. The manufacturer describes it as “Perfect Pencil Set”, which it should probably be, for that price. In case you don’t have $525, though, you can buy a single “perfect” pencil for only $240.00.

"He took the image by removing the lens cap and then running [into the] frame where he sat for a minute before covering up the lens again. On the back he wrote 'The first light Picture ever taken. 1839.'"

linuxwrangler writes "San Francisco Bay Area commuters awoke this morning to the news that BART, the major regional transit system which carries hundreds of thousands of daily riders, was entirely shut down due to a computer failure. Commuters stood stranded at stations and traffic backed up as residents took to the roads. The system has returned to service and BART says the outage resulted from a botched software upgrade."

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DON’T CLOSE THE TAVERNS AND BARS WHEN RED SONJA IS COMING THROUGH, DAMMIT.

Clocking in at 22 scenes in just shy of 52 minutes, it’s a lot of surrealist erotica to get through in one sitting. That’s why we’ve assembled a handy guide to the new material, complete with time stamps.

Call for Papers: “Cute Studies,” a special issue of the East Asian Journal of Popular Culture

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Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota was in the process of making custom sized clothes for her smaller-framed son when he made a small request: could some of the shirts have cats on them? Kubota explains her son was somewhat obsessed with cats and had collected a small library of adorable images found around the web.

After making a few cat shirts shirts the artist posted photos of the pieces online and unsurprisingly they quickly went viral, spurring Kubota to open an Etsy shop under the brand Go!Go!5 where she started selling the shirts at an impressive price tag of around $250-$300 apiece. But price was no object for internet cat fanatics and the shirts have been snapped up almost as quickly as Kubota embroiders them.

You can see many more shirts here. All photos courtesy the artist. (via Spoon & Tamago)

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The Library of Congress posted a photo:

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Irene Castle

[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.21168

Call Number: LC-B2- 3773-3

Google is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who with a Google Doodle game. Players can select any of the eleven Doctors to play as, and then work their way through puzzles filled with Daleks, Cybermen, and other notorious baddies. When you die, you simply regenerate as the next Doctor. The 75-minute 50th anniversary special, “The Day of the Doctor,” will premiere globally on November 23rd.

I’m not fat -- by American standards. I am considered slightly chubby for an Asian in China. I'm 5’1” and about 100 pounds, give or take five pounds depending on whether it’s New York Fashion Week or final exams week at Columbia. Everyone assumes I’m naturally petite because of my Asian genetics, but the truth is, I count my calories like Ebenezer Scrooge counts his gold coins and run and do yoga like Lululemon is paying me. The moment I “let myself go,” the weight bounces back. I try not to talk about it, though, because the moment I do, someone always says, “Shut up, you’re Asian. You have genetics on your side.” That's the problem -- Asian girls are suffering from body image issues and eating disorders because they try to hold themselves up to the expectation that Asian girls are naturally slim. In fact, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Diane von Furstenberg said, “It is great to design for Chinese women, because they have great bodies. They are slim and have tiny waists, so it's nice.”

After years of threats, Majority Leader Harry Reid finally took the “nuclear option” today and heavily limited the power of filibustering. Senators will no longer be able to filibuster votes to approve executive branch nominees and judicial nominees for lower courts, which means the president’s nominees will henceforward require only 51 votes instead of the 60 required to defeat a filibuster. Senators will still be able to filibuster Supreme Court nominations.

Austin's Lil Buco serves fine dining for the "refined tastes of children" -- things like SpaghettiOs gazpacho with rustic cracker; hot dog with ketchup reduction; and Sous vide Pop Tart with cereal infused milk.

Lil Buco (via MeFi)

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one to anonymously leave on your boss's desk without being spotted leaving it:

I had an office. Now I don’t. I’m not looking for your pity; I want your own righteous indignation. Because you, too, deserve an office. We deserve better. We all deserve offices. But it gets worse…

In the end, Jon Stewart apologized on Wednesday for slandering Chicago-style deep dish pizza as nothing more than a "casserole" and said was "very tasty."

"I may have implied that deep dish pizza tastes like a string cheese that's been baked for two hours inside Mike Ditka's ass," Stewart said.

"We accept Jon's truce and will continue to stand up for our city against any sort of uncalled-for insult, culinary or otherwise," Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's (D) communications director, Sarah Hamilton, told TPM on Thursday.

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Authorities in Germany released images of works by Munch and Toulouse-Lautrec that were among a trove found in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt.

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Oklahoma will stop processing all military spouse benefit applications at state-owned National Guard facilities rather than begin accepting the applications from same-sex spouses, Gov. Mary Fallin said Wednesday.

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The Church of England voted overwhelmingly Monday to allow women to serve as bishops. The first woman could be ordained as early as the end of this year.

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WASHINGTON—In a 45-minute video posted on Tibetan websites Thursday, Tsuglag Rinpoche, leader of the Buddhist extremist group Kammaṭṭhāna, threatened to soon inflict a wave of peace and tranquility on the West.