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A messenger presents a letter to a lady (fol. 3v)


Marpesia and Lampeto (fol. 14)


Hypispyle helping Thoas to escape (fol. 19)


Orithyia and Antiope (fol. 22v)


Penthesilia (fol. 35v)


Thamyris (fol. 59)


Artemisia (fol. 69)


Berenice (fol. 86v)


Mithridates VI and Hypiscratea (fol. 91v)

larsdatter:

And a few more additions to the women in armor linkspage. Note the similarity of fols. 35 and 91v to the images in the manuscript posted earlier today.

These are from Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées (British Library 16 G V), produced in Rouen c. 1440.

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I was lucky enough to win this amazing book from Goodreads titled The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black by E.B. Hudspeth.  It is about a doctor who begins to investigate and study the anatomy of mythological and fantastical creatures.  The photos shown are Dr. Black’s notes on the Siren. 

I haven’t received the book yet, but the plot, the excerpt, and the gorgeous, detailed illustrations have heightened my anticipation.  I can’t wait to dive into this book and I hope it won’t disappoint! 

Photos courtesy of Mr. Hudspeth’s blog.

Attention Kate

Cryptozoology makes me happy. 

dontkillthedream:

S’mores Stuffed Pizza Cookies(via Handle the Heat)

Yikes, it looks like Satan worshippers in Kazakhstan are up to no good. But as ominous as this 1,200 foot pentagram appears, there's a much simpler explanation.

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Tobias Dawson crafted this fully functional toaster from silver, bronze, brass, and copper, decorating it with Norse motifs, and then he named it the Toaster of Loki. Maybe that will soften the blow when I let you know that, as confirmed by other folks involved and strongly suspected when it was announced at SDCC that Ultron would be the villain of Avengers 2, Tom Hiddleston has confirmed that Loki will not be appearing in the film. Previously in Loki

A gigantic skull has been recovered from cliffs on the edge of the river Patomac. At six-feet long and 1,000 pounds, paleontologists believe the skull once belonged to a long-extinct species of baleen whale that would have measured over 25 feet long when alive.

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Is this the first time John Oliver’s ever been on Youtube? You can find a comment like that under literally every video ever. 

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We’re in the golden age of slut-shaming

"We are now though, my friends, in the golden age of slut-shaming—a time when the culture, the media and the men demand women sexualize themselves to prove their value to society, but then punish those women if they dare to actually enjoy it."—John Fugelsang

YOU BETTER FUCKING WATCH THIS THIS IS FANTASTIC YOU GO JOHN FUGELSANG FOUR FOUR YOU

After eight terrific, groundbreaking, and unforgettable years at the helm of his nation’s government, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad officially stepped down from office Sunday.

Adding another twist to the wild rollercoaster of “My emotions!” GIFs that is the life of the Community fan, Deadline reports that Donald Glover has signed on to create and star in his own FX comedy series—a project made possible by the fact that he’s no longer a regular in Community, and that most likely that show is going to end soon. Also, everyone you love will eventually leave you, and then you too shall die. The news follows those rumors that Glover was reducing his Community role in order to concentrate entirely on Childish Gambino, thus doing his part to address America’s troubling dearth of rappers. That remains true, albeit in a slightly different way than expected: Glover did reportedly sign the FX deal because of “the network’s willingness to accommodate his music touring schedule,” but the series itself is also “set against the backdrop ...

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Nation Stunned As Man Buys Newspaper

The Pythagorean Theorem has been proved many times, and probably will be proven many more times. But only one proof was made by a United States President. Five years before James A Garfield was elected president, he came up with a proof that involves a simple sheet of paper and some scissors.

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Make Time

On Tuesday Paula Kerger, president and CEO of PBS, announced that Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff have been named co-anchors of PBS NewsHour. The veteran correspondents were also named managing editors of the weekly news program. Kerger made the announcement at the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Los Angeles.

The Butler star continues, "It shows up for me if I'm in a boardroom or situations where I'm the only woman or I'm the only African American person within a hundred mile radius. I can see in the energy of the people there, they don't sense that I should be holding one of those seats. I can sense that. But I can never tell, 'Is it racism? Is it sexism?'" When asked to comment about Deen during an interview with Extra, Winfrey laughed but declined to say anything more about the disgraced TV personality. "Oh my god! I don't have anything to do with Paula Deen," she insisted. "She is not the first white lady to use the N-word! Good lord!"

Smoke from the wildfires in southwestern Oregon is expected in the Willamette Valley this week. The National Weather Service is forecasting a wind pattern change.

While I was growing up an obsessive White Sox fan on the South Side of Chicago, I nursed a deep-seated suspicion of the relationship between the cross-town rival Cubs and the newspaper that covered both teams, the Chicago Tribune. Between 1981 and 2008, the Trib happened to own the Cubs, an arrangement self-evidently bizarre even to a 12-year-old. How does a major media outlet have a vested financial interest in one of the most newsworthy institutions in town? And how's a kid supposed to believe the Sox really belong on page D7 while the last-place Cubs muck up the whole Sports front... again? (This is a gross exaggeration tapping into my 20-year-old memory, but the point still stands.)

The Trib eventually sold the team (more out of financial need than civic responsibility). But something even more unnatural just happened in Boston over the weekend: John Henry, the owner of the Red Sox, bought the Boston Globe (and for a pittance). This development turns that awkward Chicago scenario into something even worse – now it is the sports team that effectively owns the media outlet.

This obviously puts the journalists who cover the Red Sox in a weird spot. Sports team owners and sports columnists are some of the great adversaries in any town (see Redskins owner Dan Snyder and every media outlet in Washington). Picture the following scenario, described by Peter May in the The New York Times, in an alternate past where John Henry already owned the Boston Globe:

The team’s stunning collapse in September 2011 was followed by a Globe investigative piece by Bob Hohler, revealing that pitchers John Lackey, Josh Beckett and Jon Lester had been eating fried chicken and drinking beer in the clubhouse during games. Hohler also wrote that management had concerns that Francona’s deteriorating marriage and his use of painkillers may have affected his performance.

In a radio interview at the time, Henry said of the article, “It’s reprehensible that it was written about in the first place.”

Readers and fans more astute than my 12-year-old self will inevitably come to wonder if the Globe can write stories like that in the future. But clubhouse drinking scandals aside, the real issue doesn't have to do with how the players are covered or how the win-loss record is couched. Sports is a huge business. Sports teams are major players in civic decisions about how public money is spent and how public space is used. Team owners are notorious for extracting concessions that cities can't afford on the theory that sports franchises are a greater economic development catalyst than evidence suggests they really are.

Northeastern University professor Dan Kennedy raised this larger issue in the Huffington Post over the weekend:

Earlier this year the Globe published a tough report on a sweetheart licensing deal the Red Sox have with the city to use the streets around Fenway Park before games -- making "tens of millions of dollars" while "paying a tiny fraction in licensing fees." (Further disclosure: Some of the Globe's reporting was done in partnership with Northeastern's Initiative for Investigative Reporting).

Sports teams arguably already wield outsized influence in many cities. What else is pretty influential? A 140-year-old newspaper.

Top image: Brian Snyder/Reuters

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Not only did they flagrantly violate the instruction, they did so in style! See how many Bills you recognize from this instance of cheeky vandalism.

This morning, SirTechnocracy proposed to his girlfriend LadyTechnocracy on reddit with two albums of images. The first was a series of image memes. That's nice, if kind of run-of-the-mill these days. But then the proposal switched to a second album of images, 21 artworks commissioned from various DeviantART members that depicted the couple in a variety of styles.

"It would be far more romantic to her than just taking her to a restaurant," SirTechnocracy wrote in response to someone criticizing his post. "Especially with all the pictures I commissioned for this (getting all those together took months and a couple thousand dollars)."

She accepted his proposal …with an advice animal. Read the whole story with links at the Daily Dot. Link

(Image credit: Amy Liu)

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LOL WHUT

Walk without rhythm, it won’t attract the worm.

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ddollley:

I just made the most inhuman noise

WHEN IT REALIZES THE PERSON IS STILL THERE AND GOES BACK TO BEING ‘DEAD’

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Brin expresses the same thoughts in a video released today from the Cultured Beef team. "There are basically three things that can happen going forward. One is we will all become vegetarian -- I don't think that is really likely," Brin says in the video. " The second is we ignore the issues, and that leads to continued environmental harm. And the third option is we do something new."

Marshall pushed for the study by Portland State University. The results show that the average age of a child prostitute is 15 in the Portland area. They’re not all drug addicts or runaways, Marshall says. Some are simply the girl next door. “It seems unfathomable, I think, to a lot of people that are hearing about this,” Marshall said. “(To think that) it could never happen to my daughter, that is really the false assumption that creates the space for this assumption to grow. “There’s a survivor we’re aware of whose father was a police officer. So it can happen to anybody.”