Alphonse Mucha, Lorenzaccio, 1896
A night attack by Soviet armor near Odessa on the 3rd Ukraine Front, April 1944
Night by Otto Lingner, 1892
Longsword
- Dated: circa 1530
- Place of Origin: probably Switzerland
- Medium: Iron or steel, leather and cord
- Measurements: Length: 101.5 cm; Width: 3.8 cm; Weight: 1.62 kg
The sword is attributed to Itelhans Thumysen (died 1566). It also features an incised mark that resembles Lyon’s bladesmith being possibly the maker’s mark.
Source: © The Wallace Collection
Sailor keeping watch on the deck of the Soviet battleship ”October Revolution” near Leningrad in 1942.
Cup-hilt Rapier
- Dated: circa 1650–75
- Culture: Italian, probably Naples
- Medium: Steel, pierced and chiseled; iron wire; wood
- Measurements: Length of quillon 11 3/4 in. ( 29.85 cm) Length of blade 40 1/8 in. ( 101.9 cm) Length overall 47 1/2 in. ( 120.65 cm) Gr. width of blade 0 11/16 in. ( 1.73 cm) Gr. thickness of blade 0 3/8 in. ( 0.94 cm) Weight 2 lb. 1 oz. ( 936 gm) Hardness of blade 60-65
There’s an inscription on both sides of ricasso. On blade in groove there’s written “xx IOHANIS x BONGEN xx” while the other side features “xx IHN xx SOLINGEN xx.”
Members of the Russian World War I women’s Battalion of Death.
The Russian-born novelist’s writing habits were famously peculiar. Beginning in 1950, he composed first drafts in pencil on ruled index cards, which he stored in long file boxes. Since, Nabokov claimed, he pictured an entire novel in complete form before he began writing it, this method allowed him to compose passages out of sequence, in whatever order he pleased; by shuffling the cards around, he could quickly rearrange paragraphs, chapters, and whole swaths of the book. (His file box also served as portable desk; he started the first draft of Lolita on a road trip across America, working nights in the backseat of his parked car — the only place in the country, he said, with no noise and no drafts.) Only after months of this labor did he finally relinquish the cards to his wife, Vera, for a typed draft, which would then undergo several more rounds of revisions.
I got lots of jealous lovers that all wish they had me back
Got a pistol for a mouth, my own mama gave me that
Making my own road out of gravel and some wine
And if I have to fall then it won’t be in your line
Everybody’s doing it so why the hell should I
Everybody’s doing it so why the hell should I
(Source: howbeautifularethedamned)
