Perfect book
This is the perfect medieval book: it is on purple parchment, written in golden letters, and illuminated with great images. To top it, the book is fitted in an original bookbox, very few of which survive. What more could a book lover want?
Pics: London, British Library, Stowe 955 (1500-1525). More information and additional images here.
2016, The Year We Defeat out Backlist TBR Sometimes, in a well meaning way, you purchase books, or get books with every intention to read them. But then time passes. And it passes. Like, imagine a comically large amount of time. But you just don’t get around to reading that book. Then that book becomes 20, 50, 100 books on your shelf that you haven’t read yet and you’re just like dying? Well not this year! Not for us. We’ve committed ourselves to reading the following twelve books, one book a month to catch up on our ever-growing TBR. Read on to see what books we picked and if YOU want to join the challenge, then comment or tweet us with a picture of your books! Read more here: http://bit.ly/1n0sFED
Angry people want you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how powerful you are.
Chief Red Eagle (via literary-hack)
Drain all of my blood and refill my veins with only this video
I'd love to do this!
Sunita Williams (b. 1965) is an astronaut who holds the record for most spacewalk time (50 hours, 40 minutes), as well as most spacewalks (seven) by a woman. She served as a member, and later flight engineer, on four expeditions on the International Space Station.
She served in the US Navy as a Naval Test Pilot, with more than 3000 flight hours on 30 different aircraft types. Onboard the ISS in 2007, she was the first person to complete a marathon in space, running along to the Boston Marathon, which she finished in 4 hours and 24 minutes.
Oscar has been inspecting my shelves. Its hard to tell if he approves …
Dagger with Sheath
Dated: 18th century
Culture: Turkish
Medium: jade, steel, gold, copper, shagreen, gemstone
Measurements: L. with sheath 14 5/16 in. (36.4 cm); L. without sheath 13 5/16 in. (33.8 cm); W. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm); Wt. 9.1 oz. (258 g); Wt. of sheath 3.7 oz. (104.9 g)
Source: Copyright 2014 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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