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January 28, 2014
A Babylonian Almanac
The Middle Babylonian Almanac above lists...
A Babylonian Almanac
The Middle Babylonian Almanac above lists the 12 months of the Babylonian calendar on black stone. Each month is followed by a list of propitious days, or days on which the outcome of activities would be favourable. At the top of this stone tablet, which is about 17cm in height, is a loop handle in the shape of a crouching lion. (Source.)
Middle Babylonian, ca. 1100-800 BCE.
Schoyen Collection, MS. 2781. Image from Schoyen Collection website.
Alphonse Mucha
"Alfons Maria Mucha (Ivančice, 24 July 1860 –...
"Alfons Maria Mucha (Ivančice, 24 July 1860 – Prague, 14 July 1939), often known in English and French as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs."
Highgate Cemetery - London’s Most Haunted
Highgate Cemetery is...
Highgate Cemetery - London’s Most Haunted
Highgate Cemetery is steeped in supernatural lore. Constructed out of need with six other cemeteries in the early 1800s, with London’s population nearing a million and the death toll rising, there was no more room to bury the dead. This cemetery is one of the most famous in the world, with many notable historic figures, such as Karl Marx, buried there.
The architecture of the cemetery is truly unique. In the heart of the grounds is an eccentric structure called the Egyptian Avenue which consists of sixteen vaults, entered via a great arch. Each vault fits twelve coffins, purchased and used by individual families. This avenue leads to the Circle of Lebanon which was built in the same style consisting of thirty six vaults. A separate gothic-styled catacomb, named the Terrace Catacombs, has an additional fifty five vaults.
But what lures most people to the cemetery are the legends and myths that include ghosts, a vampire and other unexplained phenomena. Spirits coming out of the mausoleums, a glowing woman who roams the paths in between the graves, a man in a top hat, and misty ghosts that hang around the tombs are just some of the the spirits that inhabit the cemetery. Its the account of the “Highgate Vampire” that makes the site legendary.
The first report was in 1970, when a young man reported that he had seen a dark figure resembling a vampire in the cemetery. Since then, hundreds of claims of suspected vampires continued to be reported. Helping the belief along was the fact that dead foxes, with their throats torn open, kept turning up on the grounds. Aside from ghosts and a resident vampire, Highgate Cemetery in London is a hauntingly beautiful place to visit, or spend eternity.
Edwardian Fashion, Vogue, August 1900.
Edwardian Fashion, Vogue, August 1900.
Lana Del Rey- Once upon a dream.
Wow…..
Lana Del Rey- Once upon a dream.
Wow…..
Kostya Modèle : Fabs Rousseau Costume : Atelier Les...
Kostya
Modèle : Fabs Rousseau
Costume : Atelier Les Vertugadins
Maquilleuse : Charlotte Ravet
Photo : Stéphane Casali
www.unjourdansletemps.com
Un jour dans le temps
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January 27, 2014
Robe de diner, 1902
Robe de diner, 1902
Château de Saint Ulrich, Haut-Rhin, France
From the 11th to the...
Château de Saint Ulrich, Haut-Rhin, France
From the 11th to the 16th centuries, the castle was the principal residence of the powerful lords of Ribeaupierre. There must have been another castle on the same site which belonged in 1114 to the Bishop of Basle. It was occupied militarily by Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor, who used it as a strongpoint in his war against the Eguisheims. It was then returned tpo the Bishop of Basle who restored it to the Ribeaupierres.
The castle is a very fine example of the military architecture of Alsace in the Middle Ages, including a keep erected in the 12th century and a residence with chimney, also 12th century. In the 13th century, the salle des chevaliers (knights’ hall) was decorated with nine beautiful windows in the Romanesque style which can still be seen. In the same period (1435), the chapel dedicated to Saint Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg, was built.
The Ribeaupierre family left this castle in the 16th century for a Renaissance-style mansion (the present school in Ribeauvillé). The castle was dismantled during the Thirty Years’ War.
The Château, also known as the Château de Grand-Ribeaupierre, is one of three castles (with the Girsberg and the Haut-Ribeaupierre) which dominates the commune of Ribeauvillé in the Haut-Rhin département of France.
Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria and cousin, Amalie in...
Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria and cousin, Amalie in Bayern, elñdest daughter of Karl Theodor in Bayern and his first spouse, Princess Sophie of Saxony. 1880s.
