Arnold Genthe. Helen Moeller And Pupils, 1921.

obsessed with the fact that Ilya Repin had his friend Vselovod Garshin model for Ivan the Younger in this painting and his reasoning was "He just looks like he's going to die a tragic death". Garshin committed suicide 3 years later.

Alexander Golovin - Costume designs for “The Firebird”, 1910

“The Firebird” is a ballet by Igor Stravinsky, part of famous Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes seasons. 

hi could u explain the etymology behind arabic geographical terms (magrheb, sham, sudan)

hi, sorry for the late reply.

al- maghreb ( المغرب ) means where the sun sets. Morocco was the furthest point where Arabs could see the sunset so this is why  morocco is named Maghreb in Arabic. But, in english and also in Arabic ( al-maghreb al- arabi), it means the north african region ( Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania). We can also say al- Machraq ( المشرق) al-arabi as opposed to al- mghreb, and it refers to the middle eastern region.

Shem / Sham ( شام) is derived from the name Sem, one of the three sons of Noah ( the believed father of semitic people). it is said that he used to live there, in the laventine. the name was altered from Sem to Shem through the years.

Sudan ( سودان ) has a persian and Arabic origin. it means black people in both languages.

Here are some gifs of Hamlet and Horatio being very friendly and heterosexual in Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) with Christopher Plummer and Michael Caine 

                            ~” y o u   t r o u b l e   m e   l i k e   w o m e n “~

                                        (lawrence\ali genderbend)

Sophia Myles in ‘Tristan & Isolde’ (2006).

Mervovignian brooch, made in copper alloy covered in gold,set with S W garnets and a sapphire, 700 A.D. [560 x 860]

Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott

Veronica Veronese - Dante Gabriel Rossetti

1872

hecate  /ˈhɛkətiː/  goddess of witchcraft, necromancy, magic and ghosts. “a ghost can be a lot of things. a memory, a daydream, a secret. but most times, a ghost is a wish.”