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REMEMBER TO CHECK OUT THE MAIN BLOG AT summoning-ifrit.tumblr.com - many more photos, plus...

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The modern convention of moving the Olympic Flame via a relay system from Olympia to the Olympic...

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Kipchak steppe art. Kipchaks were a confederation of pastoralists and warriors of Turkic origin,...

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Wow, I didn't even realize this photo was also by Gustave Doré. It really is just a...

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Portrait of James II by Nicolas de Largillière, c. 1686. James: was King of England and...

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"Arbeit macht frei" (Work makes you free) The following is a detailed documentary...

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Dr. Albert Battel (1891-1952) was a German lawyer, army officer, and since 1933 a member of the...

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After Culloden - Rebel Hunting by John Seymour Lucas, 1884. The painting depicts the...

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"A German girl is overcome as she walks past the exhumed bodies of some of the 800...

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Gamayun, one of three prophetic birds of Russian folklore, alongside Alkonost and Sirin (painting by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1897). Slavic mythology

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Frog Tsarevna (Frog Princess) by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1918. "The Indo-European custom of...

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Cicero Denounces Catiline by Cesare Maccari, c. 1882-1888. The Great Marcus Tullius Cicero (106...

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Knud den Helliges drab (The Murder of Canute the Holy) by Christian Albrecht von Benzon, c....

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A portrait of Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376 or 1377-1445; poet, composer and diplomat) from the...

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Depiction of the Battle of Nicopolis by Jean Froissart. note: despite their inclusion in the...

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Iberian falcata, 4th/3rd century BC. This weapon, a scythe-shaped sword, was unique to Iberia....

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A fairly small image of the Kurkh Monolith. ...an Assyrian document that contains a description...

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A famous woodcut image of Vlad III dining amidst corpses of the impaled. Vlad III, Prince...

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Uploaded on Jan 7, 2010

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