The details of the lower panels of the Ara Pacis are spectacular. The scrolling patterns of the acanthus foliage first catch the eye, but animals are hidden within and the panels are framed by more floral scrollwork and an intricate meander pattern. Beautiful!
TRUNK. A nose. How fares your old trunk? does your nose still stand fast? an allusion to the proboscis or trunk of an elephant. To shove a trunk: to introduce one's self unasked into any place or company. Trunk-maker like; more noise than work.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
Looking closer at the background, I'm pretty sure those are probably #Daleks. This one on the left is definitely a #Dalek to me. The #Doctor will be nearby somewhere no doubt!
I'm not sure I'm helping here. Can someone please tell us what the #MysteryCoin is to stop my wild speculation! 😀🤣
A lot of people misunderstand the relationship between the USA and Israel. Israel is the USA's fixer in the region, taking care of the dirty work that would be unpalatable to the American voters.
“Fascism prospered from a paralysis of the state’s capacity for dispatching its key organizing functions, whether in the economy or for the larger tasks of keeping cohesion in society. At the worst points of the crisis, that paralysis encompassed the entire institutional machinery of politics, including the parliamentary and party-political frameworks of representation.”
Geoff Eley, What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?, History Workshop Journal, Volume 91, Issue 1, Spring 2021, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbab003
“Fascism prospered from a paralysis of the state’s capacity for dispatching its key organizing functions, whether in the economy or for the larger tasks of keeping cohesion in society. At the worst points of the crisis, that paralysis encompassed the entire institutional machinery of politics, including the parliamentary and party-political frameworks of representation.”
Geoff Eley, What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?, History Workshop Journal, Volume 91, Issue 1, Spring 2021, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbab003
“Fascism prospered from a paralysis of the state’s capacity for dispatching its key organizing functions, whether in the economy or for the larger tasks of keeping cohesion in society. At the worst points of the crisis, that paralysis encompassed the entire institutional machinery of politics, including the parliamentary and party-political frameworks of representation.”
Geoff Eley, What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?, History Workshop Journal, Volume 91, Issue 1, Spring 2021, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbab003
Great science, uncomfortable history: Sir Gustav Nossal and the long tail of eugenics
“Dhoombak Goobgoowana has revealed the extensive influence of Nazi apologists, racists and massacre perpetrators in the history of the university – not referring to Nossal. It outlines how eugenic ideas about white superiority denigrated First Nations people, as well as non-white immigrants.”
It’s good to be clean, but societies have taken all sorts of different routes to cleanliness over the years. From elaborate public baths to private bathrooms, from relaxing soaks to unpleasant exfoliation, let’s look at the long history of the bath.
For reserve sub-lieutenant Mr. Nikola Vlaisavljević, of the 2-VI regiment, who, based on the opinion K.No. 11.536 by the Super-Revisory Commission of the Supreme Command of this day and the order by the Chief of Staff of the Supreme Commanad L.No. 50.912 of 7th February of the current year, is sent to thirty days of medical leave to the town of Vodena.