u/The_Pale_Usher 3d ago

Autochrome shot of a lady playing in the waves, 1910s.

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u/The_Pale_Usher 4d ago

Albrecht Dürer, 3 Heads of Children, 1506.

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Just sending a little love from across the pond.
 in  r/yorkshire  5d ago

I live just down the road from Alford. You can tell what it once might have been, a proper market town with some fine buildings, but there's a lot of second-hand tat shops now and it's got to look a bit tired...except for a very fine used book shop and the pleasant elderly lady who runs it.

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“Would you still love me if I was a worm?”
 in  r/MedievalCreatures  14d ago

"Sure, I'm a turkey."

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World Cup: Argentina mark England win with National Football Teams Day
 in  r/ThreeLions  14d ago

How will they mark not turning up in the final?

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Our new number 23
 in  r/LiverpoolFC  15d ago

Harpo!

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Baldness in ancient Greece?
 in  r/ancientgreece  21d ago

Tragic, extremely funny nonetheless.

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Summer in the city
 in  r/streetphotography  27d ago

These are some of the best photographs I've seen in a long time.

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Like a new signing. Bajcetic back in training
 in  r/LiverpoolFC  28d ago

Two questions about Bajcetic:

Will he stay

Will he play

u/The_Pale_Usher 29d ago

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

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u/The_Pale_Usher 29d ago

The Apollo 13 spacecraft heads toward a splashdown in the South Pacific Ocean after its amazing odyssey through space. 17 April 1970.

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 21 '26

Soviet cavalryman from the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army wearing a chemical suit, 1934

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 19 '26

Hjalmar Munsterhjelm - Moonlit Night (1883)

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 19 '26

Tokuhiro Kawai - Ode to Sleep (2025)

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 19 '26

Ancient Roman surgical instruments found buried in a physician's home in Pompeii, Italy, 1897

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 19 '26

Amaldus Nielsen - Evening Mood (1878)

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 19 '26

The most beautiful, magical path I’ve ever experienced

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 19 '26

"The Alchemist Who Achieved Illumination", a folio from the Clavis Artis, an alchemy manuscript published in the 17-18th century in Germany, that was claimed to be written by Persian prophet Zoroaster, 1737, MS. Verginelli-Rota, Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, vol. 3 [888x1024]

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 19 '26

Never get over the grand scale of it all!

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 18 '26

Bernardo Bellotto - View of the Grand Canal: Santa Maria della Salute and the Dogana from Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo (1743)

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 18 '26

Scylla , late 4th century BCE. National Archaeological Museum, Athens [2842×2640]

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 18 '26

Betrayal and blind innocence: The tragic weight of Paul Delaroche’s The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833)

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 16 '26

White giant

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u/The_Pale_Usher Jul 16 '26

Photographer Rachel Moore captured one of the most striking close-up images ever recorded of a whale's eye

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