Switzerland’s Oldest Library, Abbey Library St.Gallen (x)

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library.” -Jorge Luis Borges ♡

Time Traveler ⏳

Stained glass |  Colored light by Michel Carlué

Head of a partisan from the guard of King Henry III of France, dated 1588.

from The Worcester Art Museum

World's oldest persevered wedding cake, baked in 1898 Victorian England

After surviving six monarchs and lasting through two different millennia, the cake bears the scars of time. In 1940, during the Second World War, the town of Basingstoke was bombed. The town center, in which the bakery was located, was hit by a bomb in August of that year. This impact caused a great deal of damage, and yet the seemingly fragile wedding cake, already approaching half a century old at the time, sustained but a single crack. This crack remains the cake’s single imperfection, but for the discoloration that has come with age and sugar seeping from the rich cake into the previously white icing.

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Chrysocolla On Malachite | Star of the Congo Mine, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo